Coco Chanel’s Dreams 90 × 90 cm (36 × 36 inches) 2018 year

In the silence of the artist’s studio, she listened not to sounds –
but to the shadows of scents.
Her dreams were as transparent as the morning air over Paris,
and in that air already floated the perfumes of the future.
She did not blend essences –
she gathered memories:
the whisper of silk, the velvet of iris petals, the coolness of marble staircases,
the freshness of morning on the coastline, and the gold of Notre-Dame’s stained glass.
And somewhere between a drop of jasmine and the breath of aldehydes
was born not just a composition –
but a character.
A woman who will enter a room
and leave behind an invisible light.
Perhaps this is how Coco Chanel dreamed –
of perfumes that would not be mere adornments,
but an extension of the soul.