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Now she wanted to create a scent that could describe the new, modern woman she epitomized. But Chanel's background was troubled and complex, and it was something that seeped into her trademark fragrance.
She was the daughter of a market-stall holder and a laundry woman in rural France, but when her mother died she was sent to a Cistercian convent at Aubazine where she spent her teenage years.