5 Drops

A daily fragrance puzzle. Same target for everyone, refreshes at 00:00 UTC. Six tries to identify the bottle from a palette and progressively revealed clues.

In a 1960 Marie Claire recording, Marilyn Monroe was asked what she wore to bed and replied: just a few drops of Chanel No. 5. Five drops became shorthand for the daily ritual of a single perfume on bare skin. The name nods to that ritual; the game gives you one more drop than she did.

Type any fragrance name into the search. Each guess returns comparison chips: brand match, year direction (↑ later, ↓ earlier), olfactory family match. After each miss, a new clue note is unsealed. Solve in six or fewer.

Visual shows the palette and unseals the editorial clue notes one per attempt. Expert hides both. Just the autocomplete and the comparison chips, the way a long-time fraghead would prefer it. The post-game reveal works in both.

Olfactory families. Chypre: oakmoss, labdanum, bergamot. The Mitsouko lineage. Oriental: amber, vanilla, resin. Deep and warm. Fougère: lavender, coumarin, oakmoss. The foundation of most modern masculines. Gourmand: edible and sweet, invented by Mugler's Angel in 1992.

Each entry has its provenance cited at the bottom of the dossier: Wikipedia primarily, Fragrantica for olfactory pyramids, brand-official and reviewer sources for the rest. We omit a fact rather than guess at one.

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