Ididn’t have “become a jasmine harvester for Chanel ” on my 2025 bingo card, yet there I was in Grasse, France, this fall, knee-deep in blooms, trying to play it cool. Me…in a field…picking the very flowers that give Chanel N°5 its unmistakable magic. The iconic scent that’s 104 years old and still one of the best-selling perfumes on the planet. The one Marilyn Monroe claimed to wear to bed . The one that has graced vanities from generation to generation and is basically woven into pop culture’s DNA.

And once I was there, it hit me just how sacred this place truly is. These 74 acres aren’t just Chanel’s fields—they’re ancestral farmland. The Mul family has been cultivating perfume plants here for five generations. In 1921, when Ernest Beaux (the perfumer who created Chanel N°5) se

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