Fragrance Reviews by seven007

Every word, Jon_Remy said, is truth. Chanel made all their fragrances cheap in the last years.
In the seventies I used for a good time Chanel pour monsieur. The version "concentree" was at this time "behind the clouds".
So what, the original Chanel p.m. was a revelation. The colour in the bottle was dark and telled your eyes "I´m heavy". The flacon (atomizers wasn´t in the Seventies en vogue) was plomped with an alu-plomb marked with the double-C. It was a wonderfull scent, deep and changefull, a little sweet. Every drop was worth to wear the name Chanel. Only a little from this fine scent went with you the whole day. In short words, it was a lovely Chanel-fragrance for the real gentleman. But this scent today is a mini-shadow from the original. It smells so watery and shorttime life, no real developement. Today "Tiffany for men" is very close to Chanel p.m. from the past. Interesting is, that the nose from Chanel Mons. R. Polge created "Tiffany for men."

The same bad change goes with "egoiste". In 1990, when egoiste startet, it was a very potent scent. The dry sandalwood-smell lingered from the beginning manfull on your skin. Today/2006 "egoiste" smells like a bitter medicine, cause many chemical ingredients are in it. They have changed natural oils to cheaper chemical ingredients and so this fragrance today also has become a himpl-pimpl-scent, shame of the name chanel.

A very nice scent, also the bottle. Extraordinaire. A very charming woody an warm stuff. Not for youngsters but for a really man. Try it, well done!

Juergen said it all. Vetiver and also Habit Rouge are no longer exclusive scents. They made them cheap.

Habit Rouge is no longer what it was in the beginning. Since Guerlain is in the hands of LVHM, they made it cheap. The ingredients are no longer exclusive.