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Answer for the clue "Big name in perfumery ", 6 letters:
chanel

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Word definitions for chanel in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Paris fashion house, founded by Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel (1883-1971), French fashion designer and perfumier, who opened her first shop in 1909. The perfume Chanel No. 5 debuted in 1921.

Usage examples of chanel.

Looking around the office where she waited for Cheryl, Grace was particularly glad she had worn the little Chanel knockoff.

In addition to the Chanel she was wearing a white silk dress and that quizzical, half-amused smile that made most of the other officers turn mental cartwheels and handsprings but served only to irritate me.

Susannah could point to the page on which it was modelled, and she could explain that all the accessories were identical too, from the classic impractical two-tone sling-back Chanel shoes, to the double strand of real matched pearls.

Prior received in a gracious Chanel gown of ashes-of-roses with a draped skirt, its bodice ornamented with discreet seed pearls.

There was the shade of lipstick, the rouge he carefully put on her cheeks, the mascara on the eyelashes and the perfume, Chanel No.

She floated away down the corridor, leaving a faint delicious whiff of Chanel Number 5 on the air.

Three floors down, a pair of middle-aged women filled the car with Chanel No.

I was in awe of Callista because she was an artist, and was consulted like a man, and strode around and shook hands like one as well, and smoked cigarettes in a short black holder, and knew about Coco Chanel.

Chanel suit, which I personally knew to have been designed by Coco herself-many years ago.

The Countess was wearing an afternoon frock from the atelier of the new Parisian designer, Coco Chanel.

She squirmed in and out of cocktail dresses at Bonwit's fancy frocks department and then she had a long consultation at the Chanel counter, gravely discussing her options and ultimately agreeing to give their foundation one more chance, but in a darker shade.

Lei indossava un completo blu mare e sandali Chanel, in tinta, coi tacchi alti.

If he pressed, she would snap open her Chanel purse and pull out a clean bill of health from her gynecologist and a package of foil-wrapped party favors.

Women wore high powdered wigs, bonnets, dirndls, floor-length robes, a pink Chanel suit, a T-shirt advertising the rap group Black-Eyed Peas.

Scott taking off her Chanel suit, her trifocals, her diamond-encrusted designer crucifix, then embracing her beach boy.