Chanel No 5 Eau de Parfum Red Edition Chanel perfume – a fragrance for women 2018
It must be difficult to be a classic which has not passed through many many flankers (making a silly comparision with another beauty such as Shalimar, with flankers every couple of months). People will expect a lot. And that is what Chanel thought us to.
This fragrance is not a face lifting. This is not an injection of Hyaluronic Acid in the lips of N5.
It is the stripped version of it, but it carries its soul and, of course, the weight of its reputation.
Olivier Polge plays here with the most ethereal concepts of what N5 is. The cleanness of aldehydes, the beautiful citruses, the flowers and a little of the sandalwood in the background.
He unmade it and counstructed it again, beautifully, keeping in mind a market, again, saturated with orientals and ouds and vanillas. It could be N5 l elixir de la jeunesse, couldnt it? It is simply l eau.
This could defintely be sold under the LES EXCLUSIFS as a genderless fragrance called LE BOY N5. It lost the opulence to become a clean scent, a musky scent, just like if chanel is dressing you up with the scent of skin, but better. We should pay a little more attention to the whole concept of things and the world when judging a perfume.
This was a beautiful move and when I smell it in someone it makes me happy. As I said In my Gabrielle Review, CHANEL started it all to make things simple, to free woman, to make them move. Her spirit is alive in these new creations.
The ads could be better, for sure, with more diversity of woman walking around Paris in jeans and white tee, but ok, fine, we can deal with the Depp girl.