N°19 Chanel 1971 Eau de Toilette

8.4 / 10 291 Ratings

N°19 (Eau de Toilette) is a popular perfume by Chanel for women and was released in 1971. The scent is green-floral. It is still in production.
Pronunciation

Main accords

Green

Floral

Fresh

Chypre

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Galbanum

Hyacinth

Bergamot

Neroli

Heart Notes

Iris

Jasmine

Lily of the valley

Narcissus

Rose

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Cedarwood

Leather

Musk

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Henri Robert

Ratings

Scent

8.4291 Ratings

Longevity

7.5236 Ratings

Sillage

7.0236 Ratings

Bottle

7.8225 Ratings

Value for money

7.765 Ratings

Submitted by Gonsada, last update on 09.04.2024.

Variant of the fragrance concentration

This is a variant of the perfume N°19 (Parfum) by Chanel, which differs in concentration.

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8 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/02/2019

9
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Can777
121 Reviews

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Can777

Top Review 76

There comes a day

There comes a day when you have to show greatness and attitude, although you feel too weak in the deepest heart and in this moment. You're fragile right now and too vulnerable. You crave something to support you. Something that gives you posture and stability like an imaginary, stable corset. The path you have to take today is not an easy one for you. But you'll go with him. Like so many times in your life. And who will take you by the hand?

There comes a day when you have to show elegance and style because it is required of you. You look into your mirror image, which is not very pleasant for you today. So you start getting ready. For the morning, for the day or for the evening. You get dressed. You dress up and know exactly there will be many looks resting on you today. And again you look in the mirror. You look perfect on the outside. But you are not satisfied with yourself. Grace and subtlety would be good companions. Now and at this moment of self-doubt. No doubt!

There comes a day when you crave simplicity. The day when everything is too much for you. Too much! You want to disappear inside yourself. In your understatement of the soul created especially for you. It becomes quiet in you and infinitely quiet. You want to be able to hear and understand yourself again. You need purity, crystal clear thoughts and light in you and also around you. But who will help you to find this?

There comes a day when you will fall in love. In someone,in something wonderful,in something special. Into a soul that touches your heart. It is the most beautiful feeling now and in this moment for you and a felt eternity in the watch glass of time. A gentle feeling of weightlessness overcomes you. It's light as air and it makes you fly. And maybe someone else with you? It's love. It's the way it is. Because you are who you are. And because they love you as you are!

For all these days N°19. And still for many days more!
Sublime smoky-soft oak moss symbolizes posture and style and fuses with delicate daffodils and hyacinths. Galbanum set in simplicity and elegance with airy green blossoms and fine glass leather notes. A mossy cocoon of understatement and sublimity. CHANEL N°19 is not only a number, but an attitude to the essential!

CHANEL N°19

01/01/2021

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Salva
71 Reviews

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Salva

Top Review 49

The new year is off to such a wonderful start...

The new year is here,
with Chanel No.19 so wonderful.
Hopefully I look into the future,
may Corona soon be over if possible.

The new year is still a small child,
it doesn't know who we are.
I have resolutions and wishes, too but as is often the case with many, it won't be.

The new year begins with Chanel,
it smells so beautiful and personal.
It's 2021 and you are my first fragrance,
got me with full force.

The new year promises so many things,
and that's why I'm only doing good things.
Whether something better comes who knows,
but other scents are also very hot.
[...]

Between Christmas and New Year's Eve arrived several fragrance packages with various classics - including from the ladies department - with me. One of these bottlings has been a 5ml miniature of Chanel No.19 EdT.

It's been a long time since I've been blown away by a fragrance right from the first sniff, in a positive sense (I've been blown away lately, but in a negative sense). That this Chanel would appeal to me was honestly obvious. After all, the fragrance pyramid as well as the basic direction are both already my territory. But I am so happy that it has become more than a "like me".
[...]

Right from the start, I had a smile on my face. This fragrance puts me mentally in the spring and just makes a good mood.

Initially, a full can of slightly resinous galbanum flows into the nose, but which is underpinned with a fresh citrus and subtly sweet background. Here you have in the combi with the hyacinth immediately an intense aroma, which gives you the feeling of being in a garden full of flowers.

Once you look around a little further in this garden, you realize that this is a green dream of different flowers. That's because the resinous galbanum is joined by several plants, such as jasmine flowers, daffodils, sweet lily of the valley and ylang ylang. This opulent floral bouquet plays namely now the main role, which is surrounded at the same time by a minimal powdery accord.

Towards the base, it gets its earthy-woody character, for which in particular the oak moss is responsible. This then takes over the helm and swings one into drier realms.
[...]

When I tested this fragrance for the first time, I had immediately the spring before my eyes. Due to its composition, I think it is made for this season. Although he can also be worn throughout the year without any problems.
With about 6-7h he holds on my skin very neatly and shows at least in the first 2h his power, before he gradually withdraws.
Conclusion:
For me personally, this Chanel No.19 EdT radiates spring like hardly any other fragrance. The first rays of sunshine in the sky, the first birds chirping, the first airier clothes...
All this I associate with this treasure.

I thank the Parfuma Ninber many times, that I got to know this wonderfully pretty fragrance through her. Because this green-floral-woody diamond has done it to me.

A fragrance for elves and fairies... Even as a child I found these nature spirits fascinating...
[...]

To each and every one, I wish you a happy and most importantly, a healthy new year!

Thank you for reading!

04/01/2020

8
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 6
Longevity 10
Scent

Fengaraki
2 Reviews

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Fengaraki

Top Review 38

Vive la révolution!

For a long time now, eyewear shops have no longer distinguished between ladies' (left wall) and men's models (right wall). Women wear a grey single-breasted suit just as confidently as men wear a pink sweater. The more renowned manufacturers of niche and exclusive fragrances now only use one bottle shape for all fragrances - where there used to be an optical distinction (for example, in Parfums de Nicolaï), it was eventually abolished.

The perfume mass market seems to be one of the last bastions of the old gender thinking that is in decline. Whenever a women's fragrance has been launched in the last twenty years, the only question has been which sweet fruit embedded in sweet blossoms would be the focus this time. Violations of the dictates of taste were punished immediately: When in 2011 the dusty, bitter Shalimar Parfum Initial was praised, which did not want to fit into the pseudo-girlish pattern, but, slightly old and young, oscillated somewhere between bad breath and brothel visits, I thought: "Well, Guerlain has guts!" - the perfume, together with its only despairing flanker, disappeared from the shelves faster than you could moan "L'Eau"
Let's come to No. 19. No, it is not a chypre scent, because an echo of the characteristic hesperidic-mossy chord is certainly present, but, unlike with actual green chypre perfumes (cf. Alliage), it remains in the background. But where does that bitter freshness come from that immediately makes you think of a chypre? It is, besides the large dose of galbanum (cf. (again) Aliage), probably above all the quality of the raw materials of the floral centre. Yes, No. 19 is a floral fragrance - but everything sweet, soft, flattering is foreign to this composition. Instead, the merciless emphasis on the sharp-green-bitter-fresh aspect of all the flowers ensures that No. 19 shines with no sweetness whatsoever. This impression is most obvious in the eau de toilette, the most extreme; so anyone who is not available for half measures should go for this one.

No. 19 is not a fragrance of the heart, but of the mind; it does not seduce, but makes clear announcements. It mocks the primitive image of women in the whole fancy beauty department. If Chanel, as the leading house on the market (instead of the in every respect unbelievably mediocre Gabrielle) had launched this 1971 fragrance today as an interpretation of a contemporary female ideal, it would have been tantamount to a much-needed revolution.

05/18/2018

10
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Stanze
101 Reviews

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Stanze

Top Review 29

The spirits of the past

She says (let's call her Q): "I still have something from the old days. It's a Chanel with a number. I used to use this all the time before... was born." Punktpunktpunkt was born in 1990. I (Parfumo spoiled me): "How did you store it?" Q: "I stored it in the dark." So we go to a wooden cupboard. She looks for something and then pulls out an ancient cardboard box. From before the time of the barcode. (Barcode was introduced in Europe in 1976. Chanel introduced barcodes in 1990.) I get all excited. I didn't even know there was N°19 before. I open the slightly yellowed package, which says "Refillable atomizer" on the back. A noble matt silver plastic cover with a golden ribbon in the middle. The matt silver cover with the logo can be pulled upwards. You can press on both sides of the golden part under the spray head. Then you can pull up the golden part. In the lower plastic case there is a clear bottle with green liquid. "Recharge Refill Eau de Toilette N°19 Chanel Paris 50ml-80% vol" it says.

I reverently put everything back together again, grab Q's right forearm and spray him with the hint that she would now travel backwards in time. She didn't expect it, she thought I'd spray myself. Q: "But maybe I don't want that at all" (traveling in time). She's got to go through this. There's no going back. You also have to make sacrifices for science.
The top note is a galbanum bomb. I don't like this at all. It smells medical. Then there'll be lots of little sweet flowers. A few minutes later, countless old-fashioned bikers in leather outfits spread out on the meadow with the small flowers. So much leather and little flowers. "I have to smell it again in an hour," I said. Q: "I'll wash it off". I'm like, "You can't wash that off." And Q pulls away from thenen.

After a few minutes of contemplation I succumbed to temptation and sprayed my own right forearm. In the top note, N°19 has the same medical smell as Q, but it's not as unpleasant as her. With much benevolence, I can call it green resinous. The top note lasts much longer than Q. It could have gone faster for me. Where are the little flowers? My friend thinks it smells like older drugstore salesgirls. I think he means positively. He always makes nice remarks about my test series and should actually be registered here instead of me.
A century later the fragrance becomes at least sweeter. But I can't make out individual flowers. It's a very undefined sweetness. Then the leather comes back. And my friend says the smell's getting stronger. With Q it became weaker, with me it becomes allegedly more intensive as soon as the leather fetishists arrive. But galbanum stays there.
Half an hour later the individual scents melt together again. The cute drugstore saleswomen hug the bikers in a forest full of moss, cedars and sandalwood trees and suddenly it smells totally great. Everybody smiles at each other. A fragrance of well-being.
This is not suitable for everyday use. Who can wait an hour and a half for the perfume to take on a nice smell?
Afterwards the sweetness passes slowly and only moss and woods remain behind. An empty forest. My friend says it still smells exactly the same. Either I have become insensitive due to sensory overload or he suffers from Stockholm syndrome. (Because I was sitting right next to him the whole time.)

Of course, it is possible that the perfume has suffered a bit in the wood cabinet during all this time. It was dark in the closet but not cool. This is a terribly warm area in summer.

Of course I will photograph the bottle. Morning. Morning.

04/01/2015

7.5
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 9
Scent

MasterLi
375 Reviews

MasterLi

Top Review 10

Eau de Toilette Review

No. 19 is a strange one... A lot of people label this as a cold, heartless, "ice queen/boardroom bitch", kind of fragrance. I don't get that at all. To me it smells like a bunch of freshly cut morning spring flowers being newly placed in a vase.

I find this to be very soft, slightly powdery, and sensual. I don't find it "unemotional" or whatever. To me I think Chanel Cristalle fulfils all of those previous labels, that is one that I see as more masculine (and one which as a man I happily wear). No. 19 EDT opens a little like the Cristalle EDT does (hyacinth and bergamot) but the galbanum really gives it an amazing quality (warm and sensual). The powdery iris is really beautiful here. It's clean and fresh and sexy at the same time. I do get Oak moss and Vetiver and I think the earthiness of the Iris (orris root) and the dryness of the Vetiver compliment each other beautifully.

It's true that this fragrance is the opposite of "girly", as it definitely gives off a grown up vibe, but I wouldn't say it's a "cold-hearted bitch" kind of perfume. To me it's quite alive and soft. The kind of person I would see wearing this would be an intellectual, kind hearted young woman, the kind of girl who is really attractive with a sweater and glasses who always has her head in a book, but doesn't know just how beautiful she is kind of thing. Alternatively any woman who wears a suit to work or academic but deep down is still really kind and loving to those around her.

With reference to the unisex quality often attributed to this, I find Chanel Cristalle (also by Henri Robert) more masculine than this, but something like "Dior Homme" (also an iris leathery fragrance) more feminine than this, it being sweeter and more gourmand than No. 19. Coincidentally... I know that my grandfather sometimes wears on occasion so I think it certainly wouldn't be out of place being worn on a man.

As mentioned before, this was Gabrielle Chanel's signature scent. It was originally private and exclusive to her, before being released publicly just before she died. However, that being said... I'm now starting to get a pattern in late Chanel perfumer, Henri Robert's creations: Chanel Pour Monsieur (1955) is a green Chypre, No. 19 (1971) is a green floral, and Cristalle (1974) is floral Chypre. All have Citrus notes, all have Oak moss, and all have Vetiver. But what sets No. 19 apart is the beautiful, sublime Iris note. Powdery, soft, warm and somehow elegantly clean... it undoubtedly makes No. 19 the plushest, most sensual, and most feminine of the trio. It really is a masterfully blended perfume.

I don't see Chanel No. 19 as a cold, "unemotional" fragrance, to me (a man's opinion) it's like meeting a very attractive yet quiet, shy, intellectual type of girl with a kind, warm, loving heart who you just want to cuddle up with on the sofa by the fire. This is just one gorgeously grown-up, well- balanced fragrance!

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