In fact, the suite that she used to live in at the Ritz Hotel has been renamed "the Coco Chanel suite", and the Chanel fragrance Coco is named in her honor.

Coco invented the little black dress, perfected a trademark scent-Chanel No. 5-and became famous for her tweed suits and quilted handbags.

Mazzeo calls her book an "unauthorized biography of a scent," but in fact it is a biography of Coco Chanel as seen through the prism of her famous square flacon.