Reviews of Allure Eau de Toilette (1996)
by Chanel

I own this fragrance, but have not been wearing it as of late. It is a nice, pleasnat floral that I can wear and smell good in, but not distinctive.

I really like this fragrance.It's classy, but not too heavy.It has this nice combination of flowers...mostly roses and jasmin on me,combined with a spicy note.The drydown gets a littlebit less sweet and turns more woody.One of my favourite Chanels:)

My favorite scent. Totally warm and comforting. It's great for any time of day and throughout the whole week. Definitely has something "alluring" about it.

Something about the particular Chanel fragrance alchemy sometimes makes things seem what they aren't, and this very much applies to Allure in my experience. As with Cristalle, the first thing that springs to mind when I consider Allure is leather - in this case, a lightweight glove leather as opposed to Cristalle's tangy, just-taken-off-a-horse saddle leather. (Where it comes from, I know not; I'd say vetiver, which gives Allure its warm depth and velvetiness, but Cristalle doesn't have any.) I find Allure - in any strength, from eau fraiche to EDP, though it's the EDT I've worn the most consistently - to be a very rich fragrance, one that can easily overpower. A touch is fine, but more than that can be overkill. And I don't at all find it to be sweet or oriental in nature; I think rather that Chanel came up with it as a really quite brilliant transitional fragrance to span the gap between the very Eighties-ish Coco and the newer generation "21st century" scents like Coco Mademoiselle (which has a lineup of notes strikingly similar to Allure, with the patchouli in the Coco Mad mix being the dealbreaker) and Chance. Allure's a great fragrance in its own right, I feel, and one I really enjoy wearing, yet not quite distinctive enough to join the pantheon of GCCs (Great Chanel classics) like Cristalle, Number 5 or Number 19.

Allure is one of the sexiest, most beautiful scents in the world. It has perfect vetiver-vanilla warmth, with just enough feminine powdery notes to make it good for day or night wear, elegant wear, or casual wear.