Chanel Nº 5 is a women's perfume that the French fashion designer Coco Chanel launched in Paris in 1921, the original Nº5 Parfum is an abstract blend of floral notes, including hints of May rose and jasmine from Grasse. Chanel Nº5 1 Creation and Launch In 1921, French couturier Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel introduced CHANEL Nº5…In contrast to the perfumes popular in the fin de siècle era, Chanel No. 5 does not consist of the scent of a single flower, but is a complex composition of originally exactly 31 perfume raw materials (bases not itemised), even though Chanel itself and the literature repeatedly report over 80 or even 250 ingredients.