Les Exclusifs de Chanel

N°22 Chanel 2016 Eau de Parfum

8.1 / 10 128 Ratings

N°22 (Eau de Parfum) is a popular perfume by Chanel for women and men and was released in 2016. The scent is floral-powdery. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production. Pronunciation

Main accords

Floral

Powdery

Creamy

Fresh

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Aldehydes

Lily of the valley

Neroli

Heart Notes

Rose

Ylang-ylang

Jasmine

Base Notes

Vanilla

Vetiver

Perfumer

Jacques Polge

Ratings

Scent

8.1128 Ratings

Longevity

8.1113 Ratings

Sillage

7.6107 Ratings

Bottle

8.7104 Ratings

Value for money

6.536 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 11.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the "Les Exclusifs de Chanel" collection.

Variant of the fragrance concentration

This is a variant of the perfume N°22 (Eau de Toilette) by Chanel, which differs in concentration.

Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/29/2021

8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Violett
39 Reviews

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Violett

Top Review 28

The imperfect beauty

Once upon a time there was number 5. And once upon a time there was an extremely popular , alleged nude sleeper. The sweet, curvy
Norma-Jean, alias Marylin, crush of many men, icon, legend...which breathed advertising-effectively, that she would like to take nothing but this number 5 with her in her bed..
Well, this number 5 never quite got me.... with its particular dark aldehydes at the beginning.... Unlike the number 22, the according to Chanel gentler successor fragrance and close relative of Chanel No 5.
The 22 snowed me by chance in the house It was a thoroughly surprising love at first sniff. The fragrance begins with soapy aldehydes. Fresh, floral-tart luxury soap, which scares some, but with me awakens the spirits...one smells a hint of lily of the valley, neroli, vetiver.... Gradually, the fragrance becomes calmer, gently creamy combine light orange neroli , fruity with a bit of rose and ylang ylang. Jasmine contributes a light, happy sweetness and vetiver provides nice, light astringency and keeps the scent from drifting into sweetness and cuteness. At this moment, the 22 is a gentle, good-humored, androgynous scent. Never powdery. But creamy.
Like commenter Pinkdawn before me, I had to think of "the perfect woman"
but in the sense of truly perfect. Not a cold businesswoman. Rather one who is perfectly just imperfect enough that you can't help but like her. Maybe just as beautiful as Marylin once was.With charming smile,humor,perfect,white skin...But this one may stand by the fact that she has what in her head.
But also just for not too scarce with flaws afflicted normal women like me, it is well wearable. Together with Madame Perfect from the flacon I get through the day well.
For me, a fine Chanel with character and edge. If you do not overdose him ,you smell with it wonderfully noble-fresh-groomed. I think even more I would love the Extrait. This has in the base in addition to (unsweet) vanilla and vetiver still incense...I would also like that here with the EdP. Also, it probably smells a little softer and rounder...Well. Maybe I get the again under the nose. Until then, I'm happy with this one...
Thanks to Eve Mist for the sample from a year ago..

03/12/2021

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 9
Longevity 8
Scent

Chanelle
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Chanelle

Top Review 23

Overdosed

As my name suggests, I am quite fond of the products from the house of Chanel.
It's my second favorite fragrance manufacturer. (I wouldn't push the bags and other accessories off the edge of my bed either, in case someone wants to give me some as a gift.)
Chanel fragrances rarely go out on a limb, or rather you rarely have to open the same when it comes to Chanel fragrances. (Well, the Lion is a bit unusual, but still not whacky or unwearable.)
The other day, I acquired at a bargain price, a burst of the EdP of No.22, thanks to a generous Parfumo. This purchase allowed me to delve deeply into the fragrance, which first appeared nearly 100 years ago.
So I sprayed generously on it.
After only milliseconds, I smelled the 5th scent. (Where were the other 17, you might now interject. Well, they didn't come.)
The 5 really, truly and immensely made itself aldehydic, underlaid with a bit of draggy vanilla. After constant re-sniffing, I also detected a bit of ylang-ylang, but it was only laboriously detectable, obscured by a massive cloud of powder.
And anyway:
Powder! Cream!
If No. 5 and Nivea had a child, and this could be compressed by reduction or otherwise, condensed as it were, then No. 22 would come out of it.
I can't make out any flowers otherwise. My nose is too powdered. And too soapy.
If I previously thought White Linen, the dream of all washerwomen, was the cleanest, I am now taught better: No. 22 - the best Persil ever.

10/18/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Pinkdawn
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Pinkdawn

Top Review 16

A fragrance for queens and business ladies

There I sit with my shopping bags on the Christian-Broda-Platz in Vienna-Mariahilf, not far from my apartment. The autumn wind blows the tender, feathered leaves of the robinias that live there down on me. They are so bright yellow that I feel like I am in a golden rain. I wear Chanel N°22 and try to make contact with this fragrance, which is new to me, to see if it suits me and how I feel about it.

The Les Exclusifs de Chanel series now includes several - as the name suggests - exclusive and all very well-known perfumes. I count myself more to the Guerlain Group. That's why I recently tested a fragrance from this series, N°22, as I mentioned earlier. Incidentally, it owes its name to the year of its birth, 1922, although it has been reformulated. My comment refers to the eau de parfum released in 2016.
N°22 has always been considered the flanker of the legendary N°5 from 1921, and although this fragrance may be iconic and have its fans, I still can't do anything with it. It simply does not suit me.

How do I fare now with N°22?

It is said to be more "feminine" than N°5, "caressing", milder and powdery. That's not bad for someone for whom N°5 was always too "brisk" and strong.

Gladly awaited, I treat myself to a dose of N°22 and admit that the scent immediately impresses me. It is flowery, but not sweet, but soapy from the start. These are the aldehydes that are not too weakly represented here, I know. N°22 has an intense scent of white flowers, but it is not very sweet, it is rather elegant, noble, exclusive and ladylike. The EdP is expensive and smells the same: precious and noble. It manages the balancing act between intense and subtle. The discreetness creates something distant, cool. This aura of the unapproachable reminds me of the attractive, "cool" blondes from the Hitchcock films of the 1950s.

N°22 is described as floral-powdery. I like powdery. I'd like more of that here. But the scent is rather soapy. It gives you the feeling of being well-groomed, which is almost too perfect for me. I'm thinking of the famous retro soaps from the old days. They were available everywhere, in every drugstore, Lux, Camay and whatever else they were called, those soaps with the perfume scent, but they were marketed as luxury.

N°22 has something similar to vintage. It does not change much either. In the top note the aldehydes are very present. They give the fragrance that clean image of fresh out of the bath. Lily of the valley, which I love, and neroli I don't notice much. More so from the flowers of the heart note: jasmine, rose, tuberose and ylang-ylang. Jasmine and ylang-ylang dominate here.

Amber and vanilla in the base note could have given the fragrance feminine softness and sweetness. But they can't compete with the masculine vetiver. That's probably deliberate
I know the scheme of N°5, which is the same in structure. Both have a concise aldehyde note and close with a mercilessly strong vetiver. I like vetiver, but not when it is so intense that it takes away all sweetness from the floral scents and turns the fragrance into a chypre that is as if it were elegant.

N°22 is indeed considered feminine, sensual and seductive according to the description of the manufacturer Chanel. But I cannot confirm this. The fragrance has too little warmth and softness for that. For me it rather radiates the soulless crystalline perfection of a lady who wants to appear almost inhumanly perfect herself. The fragrance has an almost frightening hardness. I can imagine it on proud queens and self-confident business ladies in elegant clothes. In my opinion it does not suit sensitive women.

I too feel "disguised". N°22 and I are not compatible. The perfume is too perfect for me. It's not me. I don't want to be either. I think of all the wonderful flowers that have come together here, along with such deliciously sweet aromas as vanilla and amber: Jasmine, ylang ylang, neroli, roses, lily of the valley, tuberose... And I wonder how one can make a perfume with such a masculine attitude from such lovely scents. Soapy aldehydes and masculine vetiver reign supreme.

I imagine the woman who wears N°22 to be powerful, maybe a little bit know-it-all, very mature, serious and strict. And reserved. She always has herself and her feelings under control and knows exactly what she wants and how to achieve it
The flowers are already there, but frighteningly abstract. That's how I feel about them, anyway. Passion and liveliness, emotions like tenderness, devotion, joy, playfulness, flirtation and smiling are not present in my opinion.

No question, the fragrance not only has a solid durability, it is also good and has class. And size. I see it as a perfume for festive, maybe even official occasions, a kind of status symbol.

I like the soap, but it's too strong for me. Too much. Too much. Probably I am too weak or too sensitive for this classic fragrance for women who (want) to radiate power. I am neither a queen nor a business lady and I don't want to be.

With thanks to Leons for the rehearsal

05/07/2019

7
Pricing 9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Flynn92
9 Reviews

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Flynn92

Top Review 8

Clean man/woman

Maybe one or the other may be surprised that a young man writes a comment to such a fragrance, but I am certainly no stranger when it comes to classic "women's fragrances". Chanel is my "home" anyway (together with Guerlain) and I like to wear Egoiste and Antaeus as much as I like No 22 or Misia.

Now for the fragrance. For me No 22 is what you probably imagined in the 20s under "clean". Nowadays the ladies are rather citric, the men " shower gel-aquatic". It was powdery then. The fragrance starts aldehydic-buttery and then migrates to vanilla-powdery. The flowers are just to underline the whole thing, I wouldn't call No 22 a flowery scent. This is Sister No 5, where you can clearly smell jasmine and ylang ylang. That's why I really like no 5 only as a piece soap. I have the privilege to own a bottling of the EdT and a Vintage Eau de Cologne (from America). It is clear that the EdP is a higher concentration and it is understandable that the fragrance has been used in lower concentrations for decades. The scent can be too much and too dense for many people, I can take it fortunately. What I find really unfortunate is that no 22 has stolen the incense. Today's version has lost complexity. Nevertheless, anyone who likes aldehyde scents should give No. 22 a chance, it is a great feeling to feel clean in this special way!

03/15/2024

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Lischka
3 Reviews

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Lischka

Another word for perfume? Twenty-two

Thanks to a dear perfumer, I recently acquired a small bottle of No22. I could fall in love with the bottle just visually, because it looks downright cute next to a 200 ml bottle and it fits so nicely in your hand that you just want to touch it all the time (which of course applies to all 75 ml Les Exclusifes due to the same production form). What's more, the liquid is such a beautiful color.... So visually a jewel.

In general, I have found that some of the Les Exclusifes sometimes take a little longer to develop. With No22, I initially only sprayed it on my wrist and thought: Hm, let's see what's to come. The next morning, I sprayed the perfume generously over my décolleté and initially found a little similarity to No5. However, I didn't find the fragrance as soapy as No5, but a little cooler. After a while, a wonderful floral bouquet unfolded, which was accompanied by the finest powderiness and which occasionally rose to the nose during the day. What a feeling!

Although 22 is advertised by Chanel as more caressing and feminine than 5, which in my opinion is true, it is not a pure floral fragrance. It is what you imagine when you say the word "perfume". Just as it was probably meant in the classical sense in the past. Neither flowers nor fruits nor woods nor other ingredients stand out here. Everything is finely and harmoniously interwoven. Only the initial aldehydes could be perceived as a little more dominant, if you like. But I don't find them distracting. They lift the overall composition into an airy frame.

I have to be careful not to gush too much here, because fortunately, as always, tastes differ. But as far as my perception is concerned, I can only say: for me, No22 is a masterpiece of fragrance creation and Chanel has mastered it!!!

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