Le Grand Numero de Chanel

 

Le Grand Numero de Chanel at Grand Palais Ephemere is pretty darn fabulous🎉 A Big Merci💋 to Daina for alerting me to get a ticket last month. 

It’s a complicated circus show to experience and share with you but so exciting and inspiring. 

Behind each giant Chanel perfume bottle (5) are rooms of roulette, ballet🩰, sniffing rooms (what else to call them?)

The first room you enter on your left gives background history on Chanel

With a exquisite light show on the ceiling,

Famous related art works like the Warhol bottles, my favorites for their color washes 

An art gallery with Dalis, Cocteau, etc. Yes that’s a gas pump with a neon sign on the left, full of Chanel No.5. Yes, I would like one of those.

Enter 4 capsules and inhale perfume with accompanying music. The guide in the white lab coat explains how the flower petals are gathered in Grasse and the process of perfume-making.

Watch how each bottle of Chanel is hand-labeled, ribbons tied.

Get your wrist tested with Chanel and given the tester.

Immerse yourself in more Coco Chanel photo history on the walls.

Watch fabulous past Chanel videos like Egoist and Red Riding Hood or Le Loup and Marion. 

Or Chance.

When I left the first set of rooms behind bottle #1, I thought…pretty fabulous..but is that it? They said it would take 1hour and 30 minutes (it did). 

In fact 4 other rooms were waiting to be explored. Stylishly Chanel-dressed guides everywhere. I coveted their T-shirt (not for sale in the boutique 🙁). Some guides were dancing. 

I got lip gloss #722 applied in the make-up room. Pas mal.

In the gaming room you were given chips to play roulette. 

I thought of keeping mine but there were no Chanel signature double Cs so I played roulette. Everyone wins. You exchange your winning chips for a petit cadeau 🎁 

You end up with quite a few cadeaux 🎁 by the time you leave - a poster, post cards, lots of perfume touches, etc. but I’m skipping ahead. 

There was plenty of dancing 🩰in the show 😊 

And Chanel Tutus!

Dance & ballet are IN in Paris dear PBers. Star dancer of l’Opera National de Paris, Dorothée Gilbert graces the cover of Elle and inside. Watch the video…she is adorable.

The show’s boutique is fun, full of charming €€€€ biblots

Everyone was having fun at the perfume testing counters. 

I just finished painting bonus Chanel No.5 bottles waiting to be personalized it you subscribe to Paris letters on Etsy.

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