When talking about Chanel, we often refer to tradition in the finest sense of the term. This tradition gives importance, creates timeless icons, and magically keeps up with the times. I have always wondered how a beauty brand could manage to be like this: timeless, remembering its roots while simultaneously creating new icons, drawing from the past to constantly design new products and evoke emotions.
Chanel, to me, always succeeds in this and is one of those few beauty brands that manages to maintain its recognizable allure while giving each step a sense of innovation and modernity.
To me, this is exactly what happened with the new exclusive edition N°5 L’EAU: a drop of perfume, just like its new shape, an unprecedented drop.
More and more, Chanel achieves the unexpected: for the first time in Maison’s history, N°5 L’EAU leaves its historic bottle (for this limited edition). A second skin in glass, encapsulating the secret alchemy between solidity and delicacy, which is necessary to capture the passage of time and let it flow before it vanishes.
And who, more than the famous CHANEL N°5, is in everyone’s imagination the union of all that we have discussed so far, in its most modern essence? Everyone has a memory, an emotion that ties them to this perfume, which manages to send their minds to a smile, a journey, a distant love, a moment of friendship: beauty is recalled.
Once again, Chanel transcends time and immortalizes in its trail the lightness of the possible. With this new interpretation, a floral freshness with an unprecedented vibration is discovered. Everything here calls for lightness: the transparent glass, the energy it exudes, a lighter scent on our skin. However, it is not a lightness that allows for escaping or being forgotten: this new edition is so extraordinary that it manages to be profound and anchors itself in the present to be remembered in the future.
Rounded and ethereal, the bottle resembles a pebble smoothed by water, a ray of light captured in its simplest form. A bottle designed to root itself in everyone’s life, to be an object and a sensation to carry with you, a breath of light and glass that transports you to another dimension.
Even its olfactory attire is unique: the citrus notes are exalted by aldehydes, followed by a floral whirlwind of jasmine, rose, ylang-ylang, and finally, the vibration of vetiver and cedar.
A floral fragrance that meets the needs of the moment, capable of evoking the necessary emotion to fully live the moment, in just a few seconds and at the right time.
Thus, we are faced with a small work of art to hold in the palm of our hand: an object to always have with us, becoming part of our lives, a drop that follows our every move, not only on our skin, a reflection of light that reveals a secret we want to share with everyone.
From hand to hand, from one life to another, in an electrifying, bold, and free dance.
We all need a drop, a drop of N°5 L’EAU.
