N°5 is the eau de parfum that Jacques Polge composed in 1986 for Chanel from Ernest Beaux's 1921 perfume, the first ever created for Gabrielle Chanel. An aldehydic floral bouquet built around rose and jasmine, citrus at the top, soft vanilla in the base, according to the house; Victoria Frolova hears in it the most assertive version of N°5. Square bottle with a faceted stopper, from 35 to 200 ml.
Square bottle with clean edges, white label, faceted stopper proportioned after Place Vendôme, entered the MoMA collection in 1959; from 35 to 200 ml.
Chanel calls it radical: for her first perfume, Gabrielle Chanel chose a bottle adorned with a white label and topped with a faceted stopper. The blog Cultures et Histoires de Mode describes a rectangular line, stripped down, with clean angles, and a stopper cut like an emerald, the opposite of the exuberance of the Roaring Twenties.
Numéro relays the legend of a design by Grand Duke Dimitri Pavlovich, inspired by an imperial guard's vodka flask, and of an octagonal stopper echoing Place Vendôme; Chanel, on its high jewelry page, considers the geometry of the stopper the finest expression of the square, chamfered corners included.
The gros grain paper box trimmed in black, a cubist collage according to this blog, accompanies the bottle; the packaging entered the permanent collections of the MoMA in New York in 1959. Runway Magazine dates the filing of the design and packaging with the INPI to July 6, 1923.
The eau de parfum is sold in 35, 50, 100 and 200 ml, with a refillable purse spray; the eau de toilette has its own bottle, rounded in 1924, rectangular since 2007, redesigned in 2026 with a magnetic cap, report Paris Select and Fresh Mag Paris.