A Go to to Chanel’s Most Luxurious Open Magnificence Secret With Jessie Andrews

Right this moment, we’ve determined to go to the Chanel Atelier as a result of why not? It’s the head of luxurious, and Andrews is barely in New York for just a few extra days, and, properly, neither of us has truly ever been. It’s a kind of hidden gem shops in SoHo, positioned at 120.5 Wooster Avenue. The factor concerning the Chanel magnificence retailer is that there are various things everybody can do there: from a Make-up Utility ($125) to a Pores and skin Session ($35) and a Perfume Discovery ($95). The house is oddly a democratic utopia of luxurious: Anybody can enroll on-line to guide an appointment. 

We each enter the constructing, which is the epitome of freshness, or relatively, strolling into the pistil of a flower. Our guide, greets us. She has been working on the Chanel location for 4 years because it opened. Andrews and I are proven a wall of clean lockers, every of which is known as after one thing Chanel-y–“Vendome,” “Comete,” “Tweed,” “Beige”—together with an evidence under every. 

Our guide leads us to a dimly lit, sensual room that has little slots for over 51 perfumes. She explains to us that we are going to every attempt the scents, that are unnamed however numbered, and write down the numbers that attraction to us. This course of permits the visitor to attempt these completely different scents with out bias in the direction of a scent they usually put on. Andrews and I am going by means of every of the scents, beginning with the citrusy ones. Andrews makes use of her boyfriend’s males’s Bleu de Chanel scent—oo la la, stylish! On the finish, our guide reveals that between the 2 of us, Andrews and I’ve chosen three of Chanel’s Likelihood assortment, which is the preferred of fragrances: Likelihood Eau Fraiche, Likelihood Eau Tendre, after which Likelihood of Vive. Bien sur!  

Our go to comes after vogue month, during which Andrews went to a bevy of reveals together with Bevza, Dion Lee, and Proenza Schouler. The Florida native tells me that just a few years in the past, these invitations to vogue occasions might not have occurred. After being withdrawn from highschool whereas working a job at American Attire, she entered the grownup movie business for about 4 years, a world laden with stereotypes and never intertwined within the mainstream media as it’s now.