{"id":139786,"date":"2025-10-23T05:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139786\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T05:00:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T05:00:11","slug":"my-visit-to-chanel-n5s-jasmine-fields-the-combination-of-sights-and-smells-is-at-once-serene-and-overwhelming-ive-never-been-anywhere-this-beautiful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/139786\/","title":{"rendered":"My visit to Chanel N\u00b05\u2019s jasmine fields: \u2018The combination of sights and smells is at once serene and overwhelming; I\u2019ve never been anywhere this beautiful\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nInvited to explore the birthplace of Chanel N\u00b0 5 on the Mul jasmine farm in France, Orla Dempsey meets operations manager Fabrice Bianchi and head perfumer at Les Parfums Chanel Olivier Polge to discover the rich history and craftsmanship of the coveted scent\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Journalist Orla Dempsey walks through the jasmine fields on the Mul farm in Grasse. Photo: Courtesy of Chanel\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/e91c90eb-1177-4bb7-a05a-fb691964aa72.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Journalist Orla Dempsey walks through the jasmine fields on the Mul farm in Grasse. Photo: Courtesy of Chanel<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Nestled in scenic Grasse, not far from Cannes on the French Riviera, lies the Mul family\u2019s perfume fields. Since 1840, five generations of the family have farmed more than 30 hectares of land to produce fragrant jasmine flowers for use in perfume. The family has an exclusive deal to supply jasmine to Chanel \u2013 a happy partnership built on a mutual value for heritage and care for craft.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">It\u2019s as a guest of Chanel Beauty I find myself pulling up at the Mul fields at the height of the jasmine harvest, which runs from August to October each year. At dawn each morning, pickers come with wicker baskets in hand to gently pluck the white flowers. It\u2019s later in the morning when our small group of invited journalists arrives in Grasse. Laid out in front of us are sprawling green fields dotted with white. As the car door opens outside the gate to the fields, I am instantly hit by the scent of jasmine, sweet yet with a hint of musk. There\u2019s an air of quiet calm, broken only by the rustling of the pickers and a gentle breeze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Invited to explore the birthplace of Chanel N\u00b0 5 on the Mul jasmine farm in France, Orla Dempsey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[18,19,17,4746,76326,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-139786","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-life-magazine","12":"tag-orla-dempsey","13":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115421723029246266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}