Chanel No 5 Eau de Parfum Red Edition
The Red Edition reads as a darker, more wintery interpretation of the classic No.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 20 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.
- Floral75
- Rose70
- Chocolate70
- Iris
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Ylang-Ylang
- Peach
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Lily of the Valley
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readThe Red Edition reads as a darker, more wintery interpretation of the classic No. 5 structure. Peach enters the opening alongside neroli, ylang-ylang, and bergamot, adding a soft fruity warmth before the familiar white floral heart takes over: jasmine, rose, lily of the valley, and iris arranged in Chanel's characteristic abstract precision.
The base departs slightly from earlier versions: oakmoss and patchouli deepen the foundation, contributing a faintly earthy, chypre-adjacent quality that makes the composition feel more grounded. Suited to formal settings and evenings, particularly in the colder months for which this holiday edition seems designed.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
