Chanel No 5 l'Eau Red Edition
A red-bottled flanker built around the bones of No 5 L'Eau, this 2018 limited edition opens on a wide citrus shelf — neroli, lime, lemon, bergamot, orange — that reads more aperitif than aldehyde.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 3 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.
- Rose65
- Iris60
- Vanilla25
The note pyramid
- Neroli
- Lime
- Orange
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Ylang-Ylang
By the editors · 2 min readA red-bottled flanker built around the bones of No 5 L'Eau, this 2018 limited edition opens on a wide citrus shelf — neroli, lime, lemon, bergamot, orange — that reads more aperitif than aldehyde. The classic No 5 floral spine is still there, but lifted: jasmine and ylang-ylang sit underneath rather than on top, and May rose threads through the heart without taking it over.
The drydown is the giveaway that this is still a No 5 — orris turns the florals slightly powdery, and white musk with a trace of vanilla and cedar gives the close that familiar laundered-skin softness. It's the most outdoor-summer interpretation of the house's most famous accord, made for daytime and warm weather rather than the formal evenings the original was written for.
Scent twins
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