N°5 1986 Eau de Parfum

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8.6 / 10 289 Ratings
N°5 (Eau de Parfum) is a popular perfume by Chanel for women and was released in 1986. The scent is floral-powdery. The longevity is above-average. It is still available to purchase.

Main accords

Floral
Powdery
Woody
Chypre
Synthetic

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
AldehydesAldehydes LemonLemon NeroliNeroli BergamotBergamot
Heart Notes Heart Notes
IrisIris JasmineJasmine Lily of the valleyLily of the valley RoseRose
Base Notes Base Notes
VetiverVetiver SandalwoodSandalwood AmberAmber VanillaVanilla

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8.6289 Ratings
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8.3252 Ratings
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7.9250 Ratings
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8.6253 Ratings
Value for money
7.882 Ratings
Submitted by Estate, last update on 06.06.2023.
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SchatzSucher
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SchatzSucher
Top Review 46  
The cool beauty with the warm heart
I could slap myself that I have not gotten to know this wonderful scent before. I've never met Chanel No. 5 anywhere My mother never liked him and there is no one in my circle of acquaintances who wears or ever wore Chanel No 5. I began to wonder if this scent might be so aloof that no one would dare to approach it.
Now he is recently with me as a test specimen in the eau de parfum version and I am raptured
I know it does not correspond exactly to the original No. 5 of 1921, but is considered a new interpretation created in the 1980s by Jacques Polge. But I consider this new interpretation to be outstandingly successful.
And I am relieved to discover that Chanel No 5 is not an aloof and unattainable fragrance.
I have been working on the fragrance for quite a while now and would like to say a few sentences about it.

First of all I notice this cool, slightly candle waxy note, with an almost metallic touch. In addition one can guess delicate citrus notes, which lighten up this waxy-metallic cool note.
Soon a bouquet of bright white flowers appears, so pure white that I am almost blinded by its beauty and brilliance. The cool impression is still there, together with the candle wax-like background.
The radiant bouquet lasts a long time and waves with its cool elegance.
There is something diva-like about it, whereby Chanel No 5 never seems bitchy and alluring in my nose. The overall impression is altogether a very friendly one, even if a bit distanced.
But we divas like to allow a little distance
You have to wait a long time for the base, because here a very skillful turn takes place.
The splendid bouquet of flowers has made its entrance, recedes somewhat into the background and leaves the stage to the notes, which provide a reversal from cool to warm. Amber and vanilla are the most obvious, sandalwood may be present in small traces, I don't smell vetiver.
I have already encountered this reversal from cool to warm with other fragrances, but here with Chanel No 5 I notice it particularly clearly.
And this fine note of candle wax still resonates, I would even like to say that the candle has just been blown out and the hint of warm wax and this fine smoke gives the fragrance an even more refined underline.
Who of us hasn't already consciously perceived this fine smell of a freshly extinguished candle and enjoyed it?
After many hours, the fragrance bids farewell quietly, gently floral and delicately vanilla, like the last glow of a candle until it is completely extinguished.

My conclusion:

Chanel No 5 is a fragrance that should be performed, that needs a great performance and audience. A big gala, a party with evening dress and beautiful jewellery. For the everyday life almost too bad.
This aldehyde candle wax note may certainly put some people off and may also seem old-fashioned (I have often read "Alte Hütte" in aldehyde-laden scents, I find it fitting and delicious), but I prefer to replace the term "old-fashioned" with "timeless".

On the subject of durability, I can only say that many a modern water, whether for ladies or gentlemen, can cut a very thick slice off this EdP. There are easily nine hours in there. At the beginning you are also very well noticed
One of the really great fragrances and in my opinion rightly a wonderful classic and one of the most famous and best-selling fragrances. No matter what the concentration of the fragrance, each one will have its advantages and its lovers.
And it is not for nothing that this composition is the inspiration for so many other fragrances that float along in the aldehyde fairway and some of which can and could hold their own just as well.
I am thinking of Tosca, as well as the original No 5 published in 1921, or Nonchalance from 1960, where there are many similarities
I thank you, dear Santalwalti, very much for making it possible for me to get to know and love this treasure!
I also felt like getting to know the other scent concentrations.

I can only advise everyone to try it. Even if you decide against No. 5.
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MsGina
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Top Review 32  
The beginning of a great love.
In the summer of 2 years ago I decided on a hot Saturday that a new perfume had to be found. After three stays in hospital and several operations I had the desire for a new fragrance to start another chapter in my life.
Soon I decided rather half-heartedly for a fresh, fruity scent and tested only out of curiosity the No. 5 on the other arm
"What a stinker! " So my first thought was. With my new acquisition, I left the store, strolled back to my parking lot and smelled on both wrists alternately.
Unfortunately, my new acquisition in the summer heat developed into a sweet and sticky mixture. The 'Stinker' however became more and more pleasant. Gentle, serious, but friendly, bright, soft and pleasant. Present but not intrusive.
Less than half an hour later I realized that I had completely misjudged this great scent and that I absolutely had to have it.
In another branch of the perfumery I was lucky enough to return my bad purchase and at the same time happily take the No. 5 with me. From that day on, my great love, although I now prefer the pure perfume.
The smell makes me feel safe. A perfume which I wear mainly for me
For me Chanel Nr 5 EdP smells like security, peace, serenity and style.
I think the fragrance is suitable for all ages, but it is a very mature fragrance, it does not play.

With me it lasts 6 to 8 hours, but stays close to the body.
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Top Review 35  
I finally understand
My first impression was similar to many others unfortunately not as positive as I would have liked it in view of the significant history. One smells this perfume just the long history and that was something with which my understanding was somewhat overwhelmed. The composition of fierce aldehydes, proud florals, citrus and warm sandalwood finish with vanilla and amber was zero playfulness but very serious from start to finish and, I thought at the time, old without negative judgement but completely non-judgmental. It didn't suit me, as much as I wanted to like it.

I was in my early 20s and I still felt somewhere between adolescence and adulthood all the time at the time of the test. Didn't really feel grown up yet and was sometimes very surprised that others saw me that way. A few years later, I'm sitting here, the worst of it with Covid is hopefully over, and I'm getting married and moving in a few weeks and I'll be ending a big chapter to start a new one. A lot has happened. The sample of Chanel No 5 came back to me by accident and I just sprayed it on my wrist again. And then on my neck. And then on the other wrist. I could hardly stop and my eyes sparkled. I finally got it and a new world of fragrance revealed itself to me, mature and sophisticated. This perfume exudes elegance and class and somehow always goes.

I don't know if it's because I've become a bit more mature myself in the meantime, or if my nose has become more refined through all the testing, but I might not want to question it. The bottle is on order and I can't wait to start using it regularly. I'm ready for this perfume now.
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Parfümlein
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Top Review 25  
Chanel Nr 5 - the fragrance for natural authority
This fragrance is and remains the true one, if you want to radiate something like natural authority, especially if you don't have it spontaneously available, because you forgot it in the car, for example, or in the bathroom or between the newspaper. That's how I felt today:
For some time now I have been thinking about how I could make a fool of myself again. I didn't have to wait long and the situation arose. I messed up one thing. That is to say, my colleague and I actually messed them up together, but I did a bit more, because you had to be powerful to really mess up Italian, which unfortunately my colleague is not, but I am. I really hit it. Shortly after that I was invited to the boss, and while I was still thinking about whether I was really an idiot enough with this messed up thing, a second messed up thing came unexpectedly, so that the invitation was at least really worthwhile. What a beautiful day!, I thought to myself in the morning and pondered: Which perfume suits this wonderful day best?
Chanel No. 5, of course. It's the fragrance that best gets you through these days. No matter how stupid you look - with the No. 5 you always appear somehow competent and authoritarian. You grow by at least 20 centimetres, which enables you to communicate at least at eye level. These are of course the aldehydes. At the beginning they march up with such military rigour that the whole environment, depending on the situation, comes to a standstill or at least goes mugging. What a wonderful smell! What strength in the first moments! The aldehydes cover every sensitive area like a protective film. It is possible that Siegfried did not bathe in dragon's blood at all, but in Chanel No. 5 - who knows for sure even today. This perfume gives strength to anyone who needs it, it never lets anyone down. Maybe that's why it has so many lovers and so many enemies. Similar to some beers, I suppose you have to pass a maturity test first. You have to go through the enormous aldehyde wave and get used to it, and then discover a wonderfully warm, spicy, floral note at its core, which becomes more feminine by the hour, and finally, after the struggle you have survived for which you put on this fragrance, lulls you into delicious relaxation. When you get to the woody base, you're already relaxed and happy enough to pat yourself on the back and say, "You did good! And tomorrow we'll do it again!
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Chanelle

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Happy 100th Birthday, dear Number Five!
Not the EdP, but "The fragrance" is 100 years old today, on Cinco de Mayo, the 5th in the 5th. Time that I also give my 50 cents to it:
The most famous fragrance of all time; the perfume Marilyn Monroe wore to bed (and nothing else, as she erotically implied), the legend that is in seemingly eternal competition with another Guerlain fragrance I hold in high esteem, Shalimar, even though the two bear little resemblance, but both are sold virtually by the minute somewhere in the world, the forerunner of all aldehyde-heavy women's waters, which despite a few minor reformulations is still the same, has an anniversary. Has a limited edition been spotted anywhere - despite permanent lockdown and the like - to mark the anniversary or some form of tribute? At least not from me...
I took but today on the occasion of this special day my old EdP to take it again in detail under the magnifying glass / nose and in view of the fact that the fragrance is quite officially absolutely timeless to illuminate.
What makes it so chic, so ageless, so perpetually wearable?
I'll tell you: I have no idea.
When it was chosen by Gabrielle-Coco on 5.5.1921 to be bottled and offered for sale, it was still shockingly new and different for that time. Aldehyde overdose! Madame Chanel was not rather fond of the shocking, she had the screaming (shocking) pink bags, which her competitor Elsa Schiaparelli from around the corner in Paris in her trademark color gave to customers, replaced by Coco's own, discreet, should someone who carried one with him, Chanel decided to buy, it is said.
But Coco was simply ahead of her time in many ways. The No. 5 clones soon flooded the market, and some still hold up: Arpege, Tosca, Sortilege...
The soapy opener is at least neither Emeraude, nor Shalimar, both of which tend towards the oriental. In the 80s, a new variant was born, the EdP, which is designed slightly differently, but still very clean in its opening:
Sauberfrau and Fräulein Rührmichnichtan, both in the beige Twinset, can put it on reassuringly without leaning too far out or being mistaken for audacious.
The 80s No. 5 in the EdP version is THE daytime wear go-to signature scent for me.
Aldehydes are clearly soapy there from the start, but become faded and powdery. The development gains warmer notes, amber and soft sandalwood add radiance, it becomes rosier with time but still powdery creamy. The sweetness is kept in check, not gourmand, but floral-vanilla.
The shelf life is enormous, especially for this price (which is relative, because in the 90s I once saw a report about the margins in the fragrance business, explained by the example of No.5: manufacturing costs about 1.90 DM, VK about 80 DM. But the name costs extra), compared with the Chanel Exclusives a Pappenstiel.
It is simply so: When in doubt, wear No. 5.
You just can't go wrong with it.
On the next 100 years!
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TetrodotoxTetrodotox 4 years ago
This is the bourgeois middled age woman's fragrance par excellence. It's a rich bitch slap in ur face, & you turn the other cheek for more!
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