“Once you find an idea that you feel is meaningful—and this is the part I like—you have to create a fantasy, and in the case of Comète it was quite visual,” [Olivier Polge] says. The perfumer began thinking about stardust, equating the light traced by cosmic particles across the night sky to the olfactory trail left hanging in the air by a fragrance. That gave him the idea to create a perfume that was simultaneously powdery and luminous—two types of scent often considered mutually exclusive in the world of fragrance.

— Read more in Chanel Looks to the Cosmos With Its New Perfume, Comète at Harper's Bazaar.