I've written before that my mother's signature fragrance is Chanel No5, my best friend's is Chanel No19, and my sister sometimes wears Coco. I have flirted with Coco, buying a bottle of it when it first launched from Harvey Nichols - out on a shopping mission in my lunch break. It was the first bottle of perfume I ever bought myself and at 21 it felt a very grown-up thing to do. I eschewed Cristalle as a younger woman as too watery, too much like the aquatics that flooded the perfume market. Now, my tastes have changed and just as I got to the point when I thought I'd not find a Chanel fragrance for me, I've tried Cristalle again because of the launch of Eau Verte and have become obsessed by it in all its three forms: the classic eau de toilette, eau de parfum and Eau Verte - I'll even have the body lotion!
