Fragrances by Ernest Beaux

Ernest Beaux (1881-1961) was a French perfumer of Russian origin, most famous for creating Chanel No. 5, which is widely regarded as the world's most iconic fragrance. Beaux was born in Moscow to Edouard Hyppolite Beaux and Augustine Wilgemina Misfeld. His grandmother, Jeanne-Cléophée Beaux, had emigrated to Russia in the 1840s. Beaux's half-brother, Edouard Francois Beaux, worked for Alphonse Rallet & Co., the leading Russian perfume house and supplier to the Imperial courts. In 1898, A. Rallet and Company was sold to the French perfume house Chiris, and Beaux completed his apprenticeship in the soap works of Rallet before studying perfumery under the technical director, A. Lemercier. In 1912, Beaux created th...