SOME of you may have completed your gift-buying weeks ago, but Debenhams has revealed a rise in sales of Chanel No.5 represents the start of men’s Christmas shopping for the year.

"It’s like a starting pistol going off," Debenhams spokesperson Ruth Attridge told The Daily Mail. “As soon as we see sales of Chanel No. 5 rising, we know that men have begun the race to get their Christmas shopping done. Men just want to get into store, pick up the items they want as quickly as possible - and leave”.