It’s only the third Chanel perfume for men that I’ve reviewed so far (or should I say the second, as one was Allure Homme Sport and the other one was its close fresher cousin Allure Homme Edition Blanche), but I think I’m starting to see a pattern: they’re all similar to stuff that you may have smelt before, but with a sort of Chanel-ness in them, which makes them classier and with better quality. Rather than fresh, Chanel Bleu [...] Read more »
OK so I decided – in this initial phase of my perfume smelling apprenticeship – to adopt this simple principle: the main purpose of a fragrance is to smell good and not to smell different from anything else. This is why – when it comes to designer perfumes – I normally disagree with criticisms like “it’s good, but it so smells like such and such,” especially when the comparison is made with super-ultra niche fragrances. Frankly, it always gives [...] Read more »
The opening of Allure Chanel for men is fresh and warm, at the same time (or maybe should I say sensual?). There are the same citrus notes of the original Allure: lemon, bergamot and mandarin, but even fresher and more informal, as it also includes grapefruit. The initial phase lasts about half an hour and Read more »
If you read a couple of reviews of this Chance by Chanel perfume (created by Jacques Polge, Chanel’s in-house perfumer), you will soon notice this is not deemed as the best of Chanel fragrances: too artificial, too strong, too citrus lemon, too formulaic and uninspired, too sweet, too fresh-flowery and all-the-same… and on and on. In other words, Yet Another Floral Fragrance. But I like this one, you know, like those quirky school-mates or colleagues that no one [...] Read more »
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