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N°5 L'Eau Chanel 2016 Eau de Toilette

7.9 / 10 598 Ratings

A popular perfume by Chanel for women, released in 2016. The scent is floral-fresh. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Floral

Fresh

Citrus

Powdery

Creamy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon

Aldehydes

Mandarin orange Orange

Orange

Heart Notes

Jasmine

Rose

Ylang-ylang

Base Notes

Musk

Vetiver

Cedar

Perfumer

Olivier Polge

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Ratings

Scent

7.9598 Ratings

Longevity

6.8519 Ratings

Sillage

6.3519 Ratings

Bottle

8.6506 Ratings

Value for money

6.9227 Ratings

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Interesting Facts

The face of the advertising campaign is model Lily-Rose Depp.

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Reviews

43 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/09/2017

K1
121 Reviews

K1

Helpful Review 4

Light aldehyde - lemony - musky

A brilliant flanker that brings classic No5 to today's generation with harmony of lemon waft and soft aldehydic edition, without brutal animalic side. Instead of civet, musk delivers a smooth and soothing soapy aerial vibe to it. Splendid young, positive, chic and posh fragrance. The dry down is out of this world.
4/5

02/14/2022

10Scent 4Longevity 3Sillage

Anamandy
108 Reviews

Anamandy

Helpful Review 3

An Effervescent Happy Scent

I really love L’eau and find it can go from day to night with ease, but I just wish it performed better than it does now. When I was running low on my first bottle, I debated whether to forgo buying it at all and just stick to Eau Premier, as I get much better silage and longevity with that. But I so love the creamy citrus vanilla combo in L’eau. It is so uplifting and makes me feel fresh and clean no matter how muggy it gets outside. For that alone it is worth it for me especially during the dog days of summer.

07/29/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

3

Even more streamlined than L'Eau Premiere (which I still prefer)

I've been wondering what the difference between Eau Premiere and the new L'Eau might be after all, Eau Premiere was launched to do exactly the same job as L'Eau, which was to update Chanel No. 5 for a younger generation. I thought that Eau Premiere had cornered that task with aplomb - it is a sparkling floral lemonade to No. 5's heavy satin. I absolutely love Eau Premiere. Like many other women of a similar age, it is MY Chanel No. 5. So how is L'Eau different?

In a way, it's even younger and more sparkly than Eau Premiere. I wouldn't have thought it possible, but L'Eau does go one step further than Eau Premiere to cast off the onerous mantle of its grandmother, No. 5. The aldehydes, although already toned down greatly in Eau Premiere, have been almost completely done away with here, leaving the bright lemon and mandarin to provide enough lift and sparkle to carry the opening.

It is a beautiful, joyful opening - clean, scintillating, with the fresh twang of freshly peeled citrus fruits. It has the same washed-and-scrubbed radiance to it as Eau Premiere (thanks to hedione, an aromachemical that gives the jasmine in scents such as Eau Suavage, Chypre 21, and Eau Premiere its green, radiant, ozonic lift). And it is not weighed down by the creamy soap of the original either. Even Eau Premiere has a tiny bit of soapy sparkle from its small portion of aldehydes.

The rest of L'Eau feels similar to Eau Premiere - it has the same creamy, abstract swirl of iris, rose, jasmine, and ylang - but being a cologne rather than a perfume, it whips past its floral heart rather quickly and doesn't linger there. The florals feel as bright and as synthetically 'plastic' as in Eau Premiere and the original No. 5, but that has always been part of No. 5's appeal to the modern girl, who wants to perhaps smell more of an expensive French perfume than of a rose in a vase. We want to attract more than bees, after all.

The base is a bit problematic for me, being mostly a white musk that lends a clean, diffuse texture. It's not bad quality. But its bland muskiness seems to swallow up the brightness of the citrus and the twang of the florals, meaning sometimes I can smell nothing at all past 45 minutes and sometimes I can smell vague traces of it in the morning after applying at night. In general, I'd venture a guess that the longevity of L'Eau might depend on individual sensitivity to white musk. Still, very nice work by Chanel on this one.

05/23/2024

8.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Ringtale
140 Reviews

Ringtale

2

A nice surpise!

I was so stupid: Yesterday I had asked for a sample of Gucci Flora Gorgeous Magnolia but I didn't know the sales assistent had added a sample of Chanel No5 L'Eau so when I took out the sample, without looking at the card that was attached to it (silly, I know :-)), I thought it was the Gucci and was very surprised because I really found it a beautyful scent.
This morning I had to take something else out of my bag and discovered the untouched sample of Gucci Flora.
So what I had been testing yesterday, was not the Gucci Floral Gorgeous Magnolia, but Chanel No 5 L'Eau!!
Maybe this was a good thing because I'm a little prejudiced towards Chanel No 5: I don't like any of the other chanel No 5 flankers I know of.
But this is so different than those! Much more kind and flowery.
Though I find this very 'clean/soapy', I did not get as many aldehydes as in other flankers, probably because it is sweetened and softened by the florals. Now I don't mind aldehydes, they are in many of my perfumes, but in Chanel No 5, I always found them too agressive and unkind (the way I find those unkind in Arpege). Not in this one though.
I am surprised by the low ratings for longevity. The scent still lingers this morning. It's funny, because I did think of Guerlain's Nahema for a brief moment, but because I thought I had been wearing Gucci, that didn't make sense (no rose in there). Here I can detect the rose, but far less prominent than in Nahema, it's more of a soapy rose (and - apart from the sweetness - very different from Nahema in all other aspects too, but the association was not that strange after all). I always find lemon very different from citrus, I perceive lemon much less 'çitrussy' and sharp, but here it does add up to the brightness and coolness of the opening I think.
Though I find this a beautyful scent, I'm not sure if I will save up for a full bottle. Not sure if I can appreciate the 'distinctness' of the scent. I like my perfumes a little more changing in the process of development and while it certainly changes from opening to drydown, it doesn't change from drydown to skinscent in my opinion.
I will use my sample more often though and it could well be that I'll change my mind on that.

Updated on 05/23/2024

01/11/2025

5Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

LastWonder
492 Reviews

LastWonder

2

Middle Age Modern Woman in the City

This is the more mature version of Coco Mademoiselle and more modern take on the regular No 5. This is Carrie Bradshaw in her 40s, still fun but not as flirty. Her shenanigans are a little less crazy and she knows how to present herself a little more seriously at work and functions. This is an aldehyde blast, giving it a very fancy soap scent right from the start. The orange and lemon add a juicy bite that keeps the aldehyde from veering into "grandma" territory. After the top notes dissipate, the scent goes into generic floral territory. After smelling Mademoiselle just the day before, I can't help but compare the two. These fragrances smell nearly identical once the you move past the top notes. This leans a little more mature and soapy, Mademoiselle is fruitier and bright. I have to say, I like the Mademoiselle version better.

This is a light fragrance, there is some aromatic qualities but mostly its soft like a skin scent. It has average longevity, about 4 hours on my skin. It gives you the opportunity to freshen up or switch to something else. There are several sizes and prices available starting at 35ml for $108, 50ml for $138, and 100ml for $172. Its a perfectly average scent that does offer some "affordable" options if you are really into this.

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