Miracle affiche 1912
She was not COCO, she was Gabrielle like the archangel celebrated today by the Orthodox Church - November 8.
Gabriel is a messenger to humans from God. This is why No19 smells like this, the roman translation of the concept mixed with the Egyptian theme of Resurrection. Remember what 19 AUGUST is in history avant Chanel....! Jewish mythology says that in the Garden of Eden there is a Tree of life / Tree of Souls which blossoms producing new souls, which fall into the the Treasury of Souls. Gabriel reaches into the treasury and takes out the first soul that comes into his hand. Then Lailah, the Angel of Conception, watches over the embryo until it is born.
Gabrielle Chanel believed in many things, but her talisman was Egyptian, given by a lady. She kept it in the small pocket of her beige tailleur. It is one of the few jewels left after her death. The most precious disappeared the night when she passed away, including those jewels from her purse.
According to an Egyptian legend, if you plant Sycomore trees in a circle and you stand in the middle, you hear GOD. This is the meaning of the perfume called SYCOMORE made by Ernest Beaux for Gabrielle, a creation which has nothing to do with the very beautiful scent imagined by the modern house of Chanel several years ago. I have the two pages of the original BEAUX manuscript (very short formula), and the pages still preserve a faint odor.
Gabrielle, because of her solitude and tormented childhood in a French convent found a profound way to speak. She was not the woman portrayed by the modern Chanel campaigns meant to sell perfumes and bags to millions of Asian tourists in Paris. She knew that messages go to everybody's heart with a perfume. That's why the perfumes were vital in her life and career, as you can hear in one of her video interviews. Her best friends were the books wrapped in "Cuir de Russie" leather you can see at 31 Rue Cambon.
The COCO nickname doesn't come from that stupid song, it comes from HISTORY and the solution to the "fashion enigma" is in one of those books from her collection.
The COCO nickname doesn't come from that stupid song, it comes from HISTORY and the solution to the "fashion enigma" is in one of those books from her collection.
LEOnardo Da Vinci
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