Chanel No 19 Parfum
No.19 opens with galbanum — that sharp, intensely green, almost metallic vegetable-leaf note — alongside neroli's delicate bitter-orange blossom.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 15 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Mossy75
- Iris65
- Earthy65
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Galbanum
- Orris
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
- Narcissus
- May Rose
By the editors · 2 min readNo.19 opens with galbanum — that sharp, intensely green, almost metallic vegetable-leaf note — alongside neroli's delicate bitter-orange blossom. Together they create one of perfumery's great openings: green as cut grass, cold as morning. The heart is a full-register floral: orris chalky and powdered, jasmine warm and indolic, ylang-ylang creamy and tropical, narcissus darkly honeyed, May rose providing classical warmth. Oakmoss, vetiver, and cedar in the base complete the chypre structure — dry, earthy, cool. One of the finest green florals ever made: complex, serious, built for a woman of complete self-possession.
Scent twins
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