Once asked by a reporter what she wore in bed, the late actress Marilyn Monroe was said to have replied, "Why, Chanel No. 5, of course."
Last week a bottle of Chanel perfume believed to have been owned by Hollywood's famous blonde bombshell was found during repair work in the basement of Tokyo's Imperial Hotel.
The perfume, along with numerous other items, was found during reinforcement work in the housekeeping section, when a worker broke through a false wall, revealing a rattan chest believed left behind after the demolition of the old Imperial in 1968. That building, designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, had opened on Sept. 1, 1923, the day the Great Kanto Earthquake struck.