Chanel
Chanel No.5
Floral Aldehydic · 1921 · Ernest Beaux
Notes checked against a published listing.
- Reported longevity
- Long
- Reported sillage
- Moderate
- Typical occasion
- Office/Daily
- Typical season
- Spring
These describe how the fragrance is generally reported to behave. Skin chemistry, weather and how much you apply all change it, so your own experience may differ.
Modelled profile
The abstract heart of aldehydes, jasmine and rose over sandalwood, cool and clean in this reading. Powdery and elegant, it stays crisp and never overtly sweet.
Taste Profile
The Purist
The Signature
Unmistakable. Always has been.
You arrived with a signature and you've never needed to explain it. Consistency is its own kind of confidence. Some things become part of the room before you do.
How Chanel No.5 smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, Chanel No.5 is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure, and keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere.
Modelled profile. This profile is derived from the evidence currently available and may be refined over time.
Chanel No.5 reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin. That is 21st percentile for warmth across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Chanel No.5 sits mid-range on projection, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 34th percentile for projection across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Chanel No.5 is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 7th percentile for risk across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Chanel No.5 carries body without weight, present without filling a room. That is 57th percentile for texture across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Chanel No.5 keeps the sweetness pared back, dry and austere. That is 24th percentile for sweetness across 5,320 scored fragrances.
Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.
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