Chanel
No.5 Eau Première
Aldehydic Powdery · 2008 · Jacques Polge
Longevity
Moderate
Sillage
Intimate
Occasion
Romantic/Evening
Seasonality
Summer
The transparent aldehydic floral in an even softer, skin-close reading, ylang and jasmine over gentle powder. Neroli lifts the top and vanilla warms the base, all of it hushed and intimate.
Taste Profile
The Purist
The Cool Sweet
Cool on the surface. Quietly sweet beneath.
Not where you'd expect to find it. It crept in and stayed. Some softness arrives that way.
See your own Taste Map →How No.5 Eau Première smells, measured
On Zenyra's five taste axes, No.5 Eau Première stays close to the skin, worn for the wearer first, and is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure.
No.5 Eau Première reads cool and open, nearer to citrus and air than to skin. That is 13th percentile for warmth across 5,322 scored fragrances.
No.5 Eau Première stays close to the skin, worn for the wearer first. That is among the lowest in the catalogue for projection across 5,322 scored fragrances.
No.5 Eau Première is broadly easy to wear, familiar in its structure. That is 7th percentile for risk across 5,322 scored fragrances.
No.5 Eau Première sits mid-range on texture, which for a fragrance with thin wear data reflects an absence of reports rather than a measured middle. That is 18th percentile for texture across 5,322 scored fragrances.
No.5 Eau Première carries sweetness without letting it define the scent.
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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