It's amazing how our senses have the amazing ability to take us back in time to a place locked away deep inside our memory. Taste, touch and smell are what gives all of us a unique, distinct life experience in the world we live.

(Please click on the picture for the Independent's article.)To this day whenever I smell the scent of Chanel No 5, I think of my mom. I would enjoy watching her get ready, in our small little blue tiled bathroom, with the small, mirrored medicine chest and blue crochet curtains on Maple Street. Don't judge the curtains, it was the late 70's. She would take the rollers she set out of her long blue black hair, put on her a Avon eye shadow, black liquid eye liner, some powder blush, reddish lipstick, slip on her hose, her outfit of choice and end the whole regimen with a spritz of what was then and  still to this day a perfume classic, Coco Chanel's No 5.

Chanel's master perfumer Jacques Polge, gives The Independent a view from inside the labels olfactory division, explaining why Chanel No 5 is one of the most successful scents of all time and the Eau Première of the first new concentration of the scent to be released in over 20 years. 

I wonder how this new concentration of the classic in going to smell. Will it remain just like I remember it? I hope so.

Is there a perfume or scent that you think is a classic like Chanel No 5, one that brings you back somewhere in time? Please post your comments below.