Article: ANNA CAPTURES THE BASE NOTES; How do you bottle sexily deshabille beauty and a husky French accent? Well, Karl Lagerfeld managed it. Josephine Fairley meets actress Anna Mouglalis, Chanel's latest muse and the face - and voice - of its alluring new fragrance.

Byline: JOSEPHINE FAIRLEY

As the 'face' of Chanel's Allure perfume - and now of the smouldering, sexily turbocharged Allure Sensuelle - Anna Mouglalis's looks are familiar (from glossy magazines, posters and, yes, bus stops). Cat's eyes, bee-stung lips, tumbling brunette bed-hair. But nothing quite prepares you for the voice of Chanel designer Karl Lagerfeld's current 'muse': deep, husky, like syrup poured over gravel, or of someone who's been smoking 40 a day since an early age.

Having been born (in Nantes in the northwest of France) to parents who were practitioners of complementary therapy (her mother is a shiatsu masseur, her father an ...

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