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POST EDIT: N°1 de Chanel skincare’s magic lies in the red camellia flower – the sustainable luxury line uses every bit of Coco Chanel’s favourite bloom

We go behind the scenes at Chanel to learn of the development that went into skincare line N°1 de Chanel, which harnesses the properties of the camellia flower

The sustainable line is ‘about anti-ageing but in a way that people can relate to’, we learn, and about prevention, correction and keeping skin healthy

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Chanel Beauty has harnessed the anti-ageing power of the red camellia in N°1 de Chanel, a skincare range.

Published: 6:15pm, 5 Aug 2022

The camellia is one of Chanel’s most recognisable symbols. The flower was Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s favourite.

She used it to embellish the label’s iconic tweed jackets and even recreated it as a piece of jewellery. Today, Chanel’s shopping bags come with a dainty paper camellia attached to them.

Chanel’s skincare range has been using the camellia as an ingredient for its products since 1998. While the connection with the history of the brand and that of its founder is obvious, the application of the flower in skincare is based on years of research and development in Chanel’s state-of-the art laboratories, as Armelle Souraud and Nicola Fuzzati explained in a recent interview in Paris.

Souraud is the international scientific communication director of Chanel Beauty and Fuzzati the director of innovation and development for cosmetic ingredients.

Chanel’s skincare has been using the camellia as an ingredient for its products since 1998.

They spoke on the opening day of Jardins, Jardin – a pop-up space in the French capital’s Tuileries Garden to showcase the plants and flowers behind the development of N°1 de Chanel, a line of products that harness properties of the red camellia and which took almost five years to develop.