Description
The legendary Chanel No 5, which was created by Ernest Beaux in 1921 for Coco Chanel, was originally launched in three concentrations: Parfum, Eau de Toilette and Eau de Cologne. Chanel No. 5 perfume edition in perfume extract concentration, available in bottles of 7.5 ml.
Chanel N°5 is the first perfume in the floral-aldehyde group and the first by the quantity of aldehydes in its composition (another legend says that the Ernest Beaux‘s assistant overdosed the aldehydes in the composition by mistake). The top notes are composed of aldehydes, bergamot, lemon, neroli and ylang-ylang, the heart of jasmine, rose, lily of the valley and iris, while the base is created of vetiver, sandalwood, vanilla, amber and patchouli.
Igortron – :
What can I say about this parfum that hasn’t been said? It is iconic. I prefer the Parfum version with the dabber as it smells most like vintage to me. Minus the now illegal nitromusks of course, this Parfum still holds her own. I have a vintage 7mL parfum extrait and a current formulation 7mL extrait. In comparison, the vintage is muskier. Longevity is equal and they both become skin scents on me within 2 to 3 hours. They still remain ever present throughout the day. Having experienced a vintage, I prefer the current formulation. It is every bit as beautiful as its former self. It is a matter of preference of course. For those questioning whether to try this version in its current formulation, just do it. It is in every way as gorgeous as it once was. That’s what makes it legendary.
navov – :
I am a grandma and this was popular when I was a child. I never liked it . I still dislike it , even the updated and softened flankers.
To me it has a harsh Joan Crawford kind of feminity . It is also blah . It burned the hairs in my nose as a girl .
The women in my family wore the typical southern lady classic, Youth Dew . Youth Dew is sophisticated as well as feminine and has warmth. I was glad my grandmother , who raised me , did not wear #5 . This fragrance seems so unforgettable to me and I think it would have never lasted if it was anything but a Chanel.
I will add that overall I am a chanel lover and my two loves are Allure and Coco ( EDP ) . They are stunning compositions .
Елия – :
Dana valor in the bath water, and Chanel 5 extract on the skin make for a nice combination. It’s the ylang ylang that makes it really nice.
familyguy – :
Sometimes I just wanna be a goddamn classy lady, so I spray a bit of this on and…
Well…I smell like a classy lady… X
cononencoj – :
I have worn Chanel no.5 on and off for 20 years. I just recently purchased a 30ml parfum in Canada after using up my last extrait that was purchased 8 years ago.
I honestly thought I purchased a fake parfum from a reputable department store for over $ 400 CAD after tax.
There are no roses, jasmine, or lily of the valley. I’m not even sure what I am smelling, maybe some sweat, musk, and vanilla.
Too bad I cannot return this after it has been opened because honestly, the new parfum is NOT Chanel no.5.
Dzhurilo – :
There is something that needs to be said about the vintage 1950s formulation vs the present day formulation. I’m just going to write it, and please take it as you will. I just had the opportunity to buy an authentic Chanel Perfume from the 1950s. It was at an estate sale and the reason I’m fairly certain it’s from the 50s is that it belonged to a woman who passed who was a fragrance collector… her daughter told me he woman’s age and it seemed to line up with this bottle being from the 50s. If I can figure out how to post a photo and get opinions on its age that would be helpful to me but I’m going to guesstimate 50s.
This older formulation was stored in a cool dark place. It seems well preserved. I own this bottle and a bottle of the present day formulation. I had to smell them both side by side. Couldn’t resist! This is my opinion: the older formula is something I could wear. The florals were more authentic and the aldehydes were very well balanced with the basenotes. In comparison, the present day formulation of this perfume has a sharp medicinal note on my skin and it just makes it unwearable. I don’t get pleasant aldehylic lightness and florals balanced with a sexy musk like I do with the original. The present day formulation is bitter on my skin and I never really get any floral or clear musk note, it’s all overwhelmed by medicinal bitterness.
So this is what I really want to write to any perfume makers that may come across this:
You can do better. I understand there are limitations and regulations on ingredients for health reasons. But I know there have to be talented brilliant people out there who can make this better and more authentic! Or at least, more balanced like the original was?
I apologize to anyone who may not agree with me or who may think I’m being annoying. But I’m trying to make a very important point: if someone could make this present day formulation closer to the original with ingredients that are currently allowed, I really think you would reach a whole new generation and sell a lot more of this.
Plus, don’t you think a fragrance icon like this deserves to be done justice in its representation of the original?
Just something to consider.
djouker – :
people are confusing the original parfum, eau de perfume and eau de toilette version of Chanel Number 5.
This section is for the extrait parfum version the original parfum from 1920s that comes in a dab on bottle. If you are talking about spritzing, spraying or trying it at Macy’s, this is not the right section. thank you.
carpinteyrolkr – :
Well, that was a turn for the books, I always thought Aldehydes gave me a headache. I tried Chanel 5 several years back but failed to appreciate it. One can hardly accuse me of being simplistic in taste owing and enjoying at the time scents like Youth Dew, Paloma Picasso, or anything with a hefty dose of florals,fruits and animalics (like Tabu and a million of Orientals) so it was a matter of time that Chanel 5 would come back for good. And this time was back in March while having tea with a friend. There I was sitting when I got the most delicious aroma coming my way. I asked which perfume she wore and she replied that she had sprayed “Sure”(the deodorant) over her jacket to cover the horse smell(she owns stables). But I wasn’t getting “Sure”, to be sure. I smelt red roses wrapped in vintage, soft silk.
I knew that whatever I could smell was something vintage or legendary, either sensing it in the composition or having retained some olfactory memory from years back. So at first opportunity I tried it and there it was again, the red roses wrapped in vintage silk and Nicole sitting all graceful sipping herbal tea.
So much has been said and written about this timeless perfume which is in a league of its own. It has adorned the wrists ( or other body parts) of famous actresses and Femme Fatales alike. To my nose it is a very well composed gem. At first spritz the aldehydes are bombastically released creating a bubbly, effervescent cloud of powdery roses. The roses here are strong, just the way I like them and together with the Ylang they lend throughout the creamy, soft, vintagy texture that this beauty is known for. Once the aldehydes have exhausted their course a combination of florals and Civet take over giving the rose note a sultry and seductive touch which lasts a long long time. At some point the composition turns slightly spicy/woody before the earthy vanilla heralds the dry down of a magnificent and long lasting journey.
Chanel 5 is a well composed, beautiful and memorable scent that manages to retain its vintage roots but also remain totally relevant today to every woman who wants to feel special. Above all, Chanel 5 is unapologetically a ‘perfumy” scent, one that will make the wearer feel special even if they are in modest gear which, in my opinion, is the secret of its success through time. Roses wrapped in vintage silk; yesterday, today, tomorrow and forever.
bck249elipseskism – :
This proclaimed old girl makes me feel young and beautiful like nothing else. The complex intermingling of the notes makes it magical. I can smell the best rose I ever smelled. It comes and goes replacing the soft powder. When I wake up in the middle of the night sometimes I walk up to my dresser and take a sniff. Its ultimate assurance that everything is in place .
kovlov – :
Today, I tried Chanel No.5 EDP, EDT & L’eau. This one grasps me.
I had Coco Chanel before, the first perfume I bought for myself in 1989 with my first pay check. I thought I would still be a Coco Chanel girl, I love Coco, but didn’t have the resources to own one since those carefree days.
So today, I craved a bit of luxury, I smelt Chanel No.5 on a client yesterday, she said she uses No.5 edp, edt, hair mist and body lotion. She smells Class.
Once, many months ago, during a visit, she sprayed some of that hair mist on me and I was charmed and transported from a dreary working girl to a rich socialite in an instant.
So today, I tried all 3…..I like edt but it doesn’t hold, 2 hrs and gone with the wind, edp is a lot richer and last longer on me….
One day, one day, I will own one……
Every woman, no matter how working class, needs a little self love and luxury in life, There’s only so much chocolate a girl can eat to feel better, but chocolate and Chanel No. 5, now, that goes a loooong way…..
Dreams are free….
DIMMON63 – :
I always have a bottle in my collection, mostly out of nostalgia. My mom had the perfume and would let me dab a little when I was a kid. I loved the perfumed powder and would use it often….but as far as Chanel goes I’m a 22 girl always and forever!
By accident I layered No. 5 with Guerlain L’Instant and WOW. L’Instant usually stays with me throughout the day but yesterday it was fading a bit. Spritzed a bit on and then a few minutes later, without thinking I added No. 5 and it was gorgeous. I don’t normally combine fragrances but will wear these together again. Just though I’d share.
Artom – :
It’s taken me two years – but now it moves from ‘like’ to ‘love’
An acquired taste. I remember, back in the day, the first taste of wine, wondering what the fuss?
Give this one time. Occasionally put it aside for a while, and then come back to it.
One spray for the day. Period.
ABAHROM84 – :
When I was a girl, my father returned from Paris and gifted me Chanel No.5 Parfum. I became instantly smitten with the heady, punchy-yet-smooth, animalic-yet-soft liquor that resided in that delicate crystal flacon. That original bottle saw me through to my 20’s and was solely responsible for my life-long obsession with scent. I own incantations of Chanel No.5 – Eau Premiere, and L’eau for day-to-day wear, but really, for me, there will only ever be one.
The one.
unsusaJeshive – :
A temperamental enchantress.
Some days, No. 5 is sharp, devoid of warmth and powdery; on others, it is a sumptuously rich, warm bouquet of ylang, rose and jasmine with the signature clean, soapy aldehydes heralding the intensive floral heart. The drydown is irresistible– warm, vanillic sandalwood with the signature soapiness that lingers for hours.
DraxAddehyday – :
This is for the vintage late 70’s parfum I have of gorgeous No. 5. Of all the concentrations I’ve collected of No. 5, the parfum has such a depth of richness that the other’s can’t compare. I do love the EDP, EDT, Eau Premiere, L’eau…everything about No. 5!
That’s what makes it so unique; each concentration has its own take on the original composition.
To experience the whole thing, however, I highly recommend trying the vintage parfum. It has the brightness and soapy spiciness of the EDT, but also the rich foundation of creamy ylang ylang and deep woods and amber. It smells more smooth, rounded, and full. The real civet, which is not used today, adds a slight animalic aroma, which gives it a slightly dirty but sexy vibe.
If you have the classic splash bottle of the parfum, I recommend decanting it into a small spray vial, as I found it heightens the sillage a bit!
wentUndireBew – :
I have avoided reviewing No 5 EDP for ages because… well… because it’s Chanel No. 5! What do you say that hasn’t already been said (and probably been said better. lol) But because this is now one of my favorite fragrances, I feel I need to.
Like others, It took me many years to appreciate No. 5 in any form. I have tested it dozens of times between 1998-2016. I never even understood it, let alone liked it. I recall at least two of my earlier testings where I actually scrubbed it off! I’m telling you, I have talked so much trash about No. 5 that it’s the last fragrance I ever thought I’d have a change of heart with. But a couple years ago I tried the EDP and after a few minutes I just felt so serene. A calm, confidence & feminine strength swept over me and I couldn’t stop smelling my wrist. Now, this would have been after the 2015 reformulation that everyone is complaining about. So perhaps I actually prefer the reformulation. Or maybe my chemistry has changed.
Whatever happened, Chanel No 5 stepped into my life and it has literally rendered dozens of other fragrances in my collection completely irrelevant. I wear No. 5 so often that I haven’t touched some of my previous favorites in over a year and they are now going up for sale. It waltzed into my wardrobe and flipped the perfume game completely upside down. Now every fragrance I encounter has to measure up to No. 5. It’s utter madness.
On me Chanel No. 5 is mostly a creamy, smooth blend of Aldehyde, ylang ylang, Jasmine, Sandalwood and other non-descript light woods (perhaps vetiver or oak moss) I don’t actually pick out any of the other notes. Probably because it’s so expertly blended. It is clean smelling but to me, it’s also a bit dirty. I know that probably makes no sense, but it has a very “unwashed human skin scent” underlying all the contradictory cleanliness. It’s perfect! It is deserving of its status and I totally get why it has stood the test of time. It is not a powerhouse and I don’t recall it ever having been… at least not since I began trying it in the late 90’s. The silage is fairly close and the lasting power of this formulation is quite good. I don’t understand the complaints. It goes about 8 hours and my skin typically eats fragrance much quicker than other people. But yes, it is pretty much a skin scent the last 3 or 4 hours.
I sometimes wonder if those shouting “GRANNY” from the rooftops have ever even tried it on skin and allowed it to drydown. Because even back when I didn’t care for it I never thought it smelled old. I just thought it smelled like soap. I have had people say, “You smell fantastic!” When I tell them it’s No.5 they’re almost always surprised. One of my sons girlfriends even said, “Really?! Gosh, I’ve heard so much about it but I guess I always thought it was for much older women! It’s beautiful.” (I am regarded as the cool mom in the group btw lol) The most famous fragrance, a name everyone knows, but it would seem not many actually know what it smells like. I’ve yet to have anyone compliment it who wasn’t utterly shocked to hear it was Chanel No 5. As if it didn’t fit their preconceived notions. I’m telling you, a sniff from the bottle or a test strip is not going to tell you anything about this one. It demands skin, patience, and a intimate romp with your individual chemistry before she tells her secrets.
Uchchilka – :
What add more about number five? A legend.
Just this. Yesterday I was wearing the edp version and I have to say only one minute after the boost of aldehydes, I’ve immediately noticed a loud jasmine-monoi-tiare presence. I’ve never noticed that before. So I think the reason is that usually I wear edt of n° 5, where is more present the side aldehydes ylang orris powder musk.
The edp it is more “tropical” in some way.
Even if the eau de toilette (and expecially the eau de cologne) it is more typical n5, the real shape of this legendary scent, I like a lot also this eau de parfum version. More sunny, joyfull, less animal.
kazerog – :
When people say that it’s smells like granny’s I don’t care it’s a really sentimental perfume for me it brings back memories of my child hood I like it alot
DenyAccutane – :
Divine. I find the Parfum Chanel No 5 stunning.
This is my favorite version.
So refined and beautiful.
Elegant
And the dry down is Gorgeous.
St1sh – :
The first time I tried it was in a winter. I put it on the sleeve of a beige whool pullover. And in the car, heading home, this clean scent would make me come back for it. And i Love using it after a hard day of work. It’s just clean. It’s not old lady. Not sexy. Not overpowering. It’s clean. All the notes abandomn their identities to become, together, the unique scent of number five.
ulahan – :
I got my first ever bottle of No.5 two years ago. The lady at the store asked me if I was buying it for my mom to which I said no it was for me. She then looked at me and paused for a bit as if it was baffling that a 20 year old guy looked for a Chanel No.5. I still bought it anyway, but never really had the guts to wear it outside because of the “feminine older lady” impression that most people have on the perfume.
Then one time I went on a vacation to New Zealand and for some reason forgot to bring my usual fragrances with me; this was (ironically) the only perfume I had in my bag. Now I’m the kind of person who would get really uncomfortable (weird, I know) if I go out without wearing fragrances. So I wore it and hit the clubs at night with a few new friends that I’d met in a hostel. After a few hours when I was on the dance floor my friends and I got closer to each other and to my surprise everyone (all in their 20s) started whispering to me that “I smell great” and proceeded to sniff my neck a few more times. Just goes to show that it doesn’t take any “mature” noses to appreciate this perfume and anyone can wear any fragrance they like regardless of gender and age.
Needless to say now I walk outside with my No.5 like a boss a** b*tch and it’s also helped me discover that musk is the most dominant and intriguing scent on my skin.
InDisguiseVPN – :
A perfume full of magic notes. An absolute delight to wear and smell.10/10 for this beauty.
rrreeet – :
I love how the aldehydes oscillates between citrus and powder. The jasmine is a very welcome addition to this duality… it’s a fantasy floral (not an actual flower smacking you in the face). This fragrance is sharp, as in witty and punctual. It’s intelligent and delightful. It’s like sitting at a sunny breakfast table across from Jessica Chastian. The dry down brings out the citrussy even more which is highly unusual, and almost gourmand and reminiscent of the best lemon meringue pie your mother ever made.
ApesqueFesk – :
This is a review of Chanel No. 5, but I want to tell a funny story of something that happened to me in a Chanel shop.
I love Chanel No. 5, No 19 and Coco. Mostly because they were my mom’s fragrances and she passed away 28 years ago. Wearing one of these frags makes me feel she is somehow near by. As a matter of fact, even if I am not wearing one of these and they are stored safely in their dark cool perfume “vault”, every once in awhile I catch a fleeting whiff of one and say, “Hey mom!”.
Here is my funny story…A friend from Spain desperately wanted to go to Vegas in the middle of Summer, because she was visiting and had never been. She didnt want to take a cab or drive down the strip, she wanted us to walk pushing our littles in strollers in 1,000 degree heat. I indulged her. We FINALLY went into a mall on the strip that was air conditioned and filled with very fancy smancy stores. She and I looked like a couple of wrung out dishrags when we came to the window of Chanel. My mannequins feet were showing off the weirdest shoes we had ever seen…stilleto pumps with built in knee socks. I said to my friend, Oh, I’ve got to go in there and try on a pair of that weirdness. Remember, we both look like we`ve been put through the ringer. We walk in. The whole sales staff are dress in Black Suits, both men and women, looking like Secret Service. We had to walk through the jewelry department where the sales people glared at us suspiciously. Then through clothing where we recived more glares and not one person asked if they could hep us. Then on to the shoe department where I asked one sales person, “How much are those sock shoes in the window?” This is how the rest of the exchange went: “We don’t have your size!”…”That’s not what i’m asking”…”They’re all sold out!”…” Again, that’s not what i’m asking”…”$2,500 a pair”…”Coco Chanel must be rolling in her grave, lol”…”MS. CHANEL WAS A VERY FASHION FORWARD PERSON!!!!!!”
I’ll stick to buying my chanel fragrances in discount stores, online and at duty free shops in Airports.
What a bunch of snobs. I could have won $100,000 in one of the casinos and felt like going on a shopping spree, lol!!!!!
SERG240161 – :
I tested the modern EdP a couple of times, and I don’t get the reviews. Creamy? Powdery? To me it’s very fresh, clean, citrusy, soapy. A very nice scent which lasts really long and makes me feel like I’ve just stepped out of the shower, I’m thinking about getting a bottle. But it seems like a pretty universal daytime perfume suitable even for the very young, unisex. Not at all what I expected.
fwo871Unlogrere – :
I had this in 1990, tiny bottle. I remember getting heavy floral and creamy scent, absolutely divine. Accidentally spilt some in my handbag. Ahhh beautiful. If I want to get a no5, I would only search for this version .
ziban – :
Floral – animalic – powdery
Color impression: ginger orange
Eight years ago when I first tried Chanel No5 EdP it was a sunny day after a monstrous snow the night before, and I had this perfume on my wrist which was too severe to my nose but I was enjoying holding my hand up to my nose. I wonder how Beaux worked over a century ago that still today this rush of orange-like aldehyde, jasmine and civet smells sensual, mature and classy.
Chanel No5 has a notable animalic nuance charged in powdery floral base, for that, it is warm like a thick feather blanket and comfy skin to skin sleep while outside is snowing like there’s no tomorrow. Oomph!
★★★★★
paxa220 – :
I agree with the reviewers below: This is superior to any other version (Eau Premiere is lovely, too, but nothing really comes close). It is my christmas / festive season perfume, but it deserves to be worn every day. the spray works better for me than the splash bottle, and it’s refillable. the refill sprays can be found less expensive online.
RED800 – :
Oh boy.. As long as I remember myself, I’ve always LOVED perfume! 1st time I sniffed this perfume(I believe I was 10 y.o)- hated it, it smelled like an old lady! But now I LOVE it(ill be 20 soon), I don’t wear it every day, I wear it only on special days, and I do get compliments. On me it smells like vanilla(cozy), little bit of a baby powder, some type of flowers(deff not a rose), really light scent but sooo cozy, I only wear it during fall and winter, for summer its just too much, haven’t tried during spring time.
raisubreste – :
I have never liked the EDP or EDT version of No 5. Smelling the pure parfum version was a revelation…… I’m able to enjoy the composition behind the aldehydes. The rose & jasmine are wonderful, the rose captures the smell of my spring blooming roses in my garden. During the gray gloom of an midwest winter it smells like living things (last January we literally did not have a single sunny day). With the EDP & EDT my nose can not find anything besides the aldehydes, not even in the dry down.
This is my bedtime scent. I understand why Marilyn Monroe wore it to bed. I find it like the olfactory version of crisp line dried sheets (childhood memory ♥️). Applying the same scent at bedtime & only wearing it at bedtime is a tool to signal your “animal brain “ that it is time to sleep.
петья – :
Chanel No. 5 Parfum is art in a bottle. The initial spray is bright and fresh. A few minutes later it becomes powdery and spicy. Once it’s settled into your skin, it smells absolutely luxurious. I smell like I bathed in a jacuzzi at a luxury hotel. It’s hands down better than the other Chanel no. 5 versions out there.
uux390speagoessenda – :
I like it, I enjoy the strictly ” perfume” smell…purposely made not to be food like, or floral or even spicy or resinous. This is a woman who is modern, bold and does not hesitate to go for what she wants. This IS Ms Chanel. Im surprised so many dislike this but I guess a lot of people prefer sweet, candyfloss sugarbombs, or weaker aquatic florals these days. I think luxury and successful female when I smell this scent. Doesn’t gave to be worn on ones self to be admired.
Cirummavurf – :
It took 20 years to understand the reason of its success, but now that I am 38 I finally understood why this is the emblem of a woman’s perfume.
Not a girl, neither a matron, not a leather-dressed tiger one, not a pink sugar-sweet doll; not “a version”, it catches and keeps in itself the abstract, universal concept of what a woman is.
I think every perfumes-lover should test it and retest through the years; sometimes understanding a meaning, what someone wanted to tell us, it’s just a matter of life-experience.
Eternal.
serg255 – :
This is my favorite perfume of all. I mean I know it’s many people’s but I think that speaks to its quality. In the early 90s my mom found a bottle in an estate sale and gave it to me. It smelled wonderful, and unlike any perfume I had had before, it lasted and changed and made me love the smell of my own skin. I remember the first days of wearing that bottle. I kept sniffing my wrist over and over. I still do that with Chanel No 5. It will always be my favorite perfume. That said, I’d love to find more that suit me as well so I can change it up now and then. Tonight I tried on Coco and loved it, so that will probably be next.
Oh and one more thing about this perfume – it smells best on skin. I have other perfumes that smell wonderful on clothes. Funny how that is.
minick – :
Clean, but not chilly. Powdery, but not dusty. A perfect skin scent (imagine Romy Schneider’s gorgeous bare back in Boccaccio ’70). This is a perfume for the modernists. An abstract art in a bottle.
No.5 never shows the identity. She is mysterious. That is why No.5 has always been the best selling perfume of the world. The scent let people want to know….”who is she?” and can’t stop thinking about her.
If you tend to enjoy detecting favorite materials in your fragrances like “Where’s Wally”, I don’t recommend blind-buy.
Sharley56 – :
I write my review based on my mother’s parfum bottle. My mother has the vintage 1982 EDP Bottle, so the formula is not like the current EDP (which was created in 1986), it’s the same formula as the original Parfum, that’s why I’m posting my review here.
I really wished I liked Chanel No. 5. I can see the mastery behind it, the talent to choose and coordinate each of its notes… To me, it’s a scent that plays with our senses, sometimes you think it’s floral but when you smell it again it becomes animalic, then it becomes woody, then it’s powdery.. I can find each of these notes in the perfume, and I praise Ernest Beaux for creating such a beautiful, intelligent and complex fragrance as Chanel No. 5.
I believe it’s complex because each person smells and processes it in a different way, to some it’s a mainly floral perfume, to others it’s more animalic or powdery and so it goes…
Yes, I can acknowledge it’s a complex, beautifully constructed perfume, but I definitely do not like it. It doesn’t captivate me. Though I can smell all its complexity – I can find the rose, the musk, the vanilla, the amber, the violet, iris, lemon and sandal in it – in the end all I really smell is baby powder. The base notes are disappointing – it’s cheap, pure baby powder, it’s a classic “old lady” smell that to me it doesn’t evoke anything romantic, magical or ethereal… It’s mundane, concrete, almost pedantic in a way. I usually like perfumes that with their scent transport me to another world or an imaginary reality, but Chanel No. 5 only transports me to a cheap Coty perfume bottle that you can find at a drug store.
Though it’s considered unique by many, it doesn’t smell “unique” to me. Not because I have smelled anything like it, because no perfume is like Chanel No. 5, but in a very odd it smells generic… Plain, concrete, serious, square, old-fashioned… Not my kind of perfume at all.
mac9 – :
Soap Marseille, clean and fresh. There was a documentary at the tv suggesting that the bottle has a higher cost price then the actual perfume. Oh dear.
Папаня – :
No 5 even after many reformulations is a gem.To me is the smell of beauty,intimacy,class,jazz music,arts and New York City(as an arts center).If you take marketing out, as a smell the EdP version is 100%unisex.The smell is cosy and devine.On my skin I get mainly the iris,subtle hints of white flowers and a citrus-musk dry down which is reminiscent of clean warm skin. Stays close to the skin but when the body heats up, there it is again more present than ever. It all started with No5.May this beauty live forever and ever.
staf4uk – :
Chanel no. 5 is a unisex fragrance that succumbs both men and women due to its fame. Starts off with kumquats’ aldehydes, then jasmine, then white flowers, some lilac, more delicate rare notes, then last sandalwood trace with amber, vanilla, and musk. Oerfect for moms and guys age 26+
UnuncCigBic – :
No.5: Where do I start? So many memories attached to it, so many different incarnations of it and so much mystery surrounding it. The No. 5 that I’ve smelt in the past, present and future will be entirely different to what the other people smell.
The Eau de Cologne: A not so lightweight cologne, it’s quite aldehydic and quite animalic. Seems less citrusy, but has much more in common with No. 5 than the Eau de Toilette seems to.
The Eau de Toilette: The sparkly, youthful original one. You wear it and feel classy and elegant. Super pretty, but lasts very little time. Less than 2 hours.
The Eau de Parfum: The golden one, the one that everyone should try in order to get to know the ‘modern’ No. 5s. It’s strange in the top and middle notes, but the dry down is where this one shines. Very musky and creamy, extremely sensual and long lasting. 13+ hours.
The Parfum: The platinum one, the goddess. It’s the one where it all started. The one that created something that women, and now men, could aspire to own as their own personal signature. So well known that it became synonymous with both the twenties and the twentieth century itself. Creamy ylang ylang, white florals, civet musk and aldehydes. Impossible to describe, impossible to decipher. 9+ hours, sits close to the skin. You feel beautiful in the rain
L’Eau & Eau Premiere: As far as flankers go, these two were masterfully done. Eau Premiere simply feels like a lighter version, which isn’t bad. Suits the young ones. L’Eau is something different. It’s long lasting, and the initial opening is so different from the originals but still remains beautiful. It dries down to No. 5 but has an opening more akin to 1932. Cannot praise Chanel higher for the quality of those reforms.
Go out, try it if you haven’t already. You won’t regret it.
kupviagru – :
I originally only bought this perfume because it was such an iconic piece that I had to have in my collection. I didn’t like nor wear it very much at first, but I kept putting in on every once in a while because it made me feel so posh. And boy it grew on me!
It is now one of my favorite perfumes to wear, sometimes even in the summer. Even though I’m only 24, I can definitely pull it off. I was afraid I would be smelling like an old woman’s closet, but I’ve gotten so many compliments, with someone even telling me it smells citrusy on me.
And it’s such a nice surprise when I shower after a long day and the smell is apparently gone, but immediately after the hot water hits my body that lovely smell comes back.
It was also the only perfume I brought with me when I visited London, and now whenever I wear it I feel like I’m back there.
poizon111 – :
One of the very first high end (of my budget) perfumes I bought was Chanel no 5 (EDP version). It was also a blind buy (no regrets), but I couldn’t understand why it was so popular. Bottle wise, it was simple yet very elegantly designed. It felt heavy and luxurious & I pictured Mademoiselle Chanel herself holding a big heavy set decanter of whiskey or perhaps red wine pouring it into fine glasses, maybe even taking a swig or two out of it. Scent wise, I’d have to say I agreed with a lot of reviews, that it smelled like something my grandmother would wear. And yes, I did just that, I would douse my grand