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Isn´t all chanel´s line, said masculine, a little too sweet compared to other houses..???

post #1 of 20
6/3/12 at 2:29pm
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I bought many fragances from Chanel.
They have a very good quality and are very well made.
The only ones I could say that are masculine are : Sycomore and Coromandel.
The others , in their base notes keep a leaning to the femininity.
Or Am I wrong....???
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post #2 of 20
6/3/12 at 2:36pm
I doubt I'd fancy a woman wearing Antaeus.

I cant imagine Pour Monsieur, Egoiste or Egoiste Platinum being worn by women either. Cant imagine anyone wanting to wear Bleu.

I think Coromandel was supposed to be feminine, but I wear it all the time.
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post #3 of 20
6/3/12 at 2:46pm
As an average value, I would rather gravitate towards saying: no. Even if other male scents may be sweeter, taken/seen/ perceived as a whole, the house of Chanel is radically yet stylishly "made masculine" by creations like Antaeus or Chanel PM Concentree.
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post #4 of 20
6/3/12 at 2:46pm
I wouldn't call them all sweet exactly, but there seems to be a powdery undercurrent that I find difficult, in many Chanel perfumes.
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post #5 of 20
6/3/12 at 3:08pm
I would call them any sweeter than ones found in the Dior or Ysl men's offerings.
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post #6 of 20
6/3/12 at 3:10pm
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Originally Posted by hednic View Post

I would call them any sweeter than ones found in the Dior or Ysl men's offerings.

I agree.
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post #7 of 20
6/3/12 at 3:45pm
You may be picking up a combination of factors that you associate with feminine fragrances: sweet, powdery and soft (as opposed to sharp or dry). Certainly Antaeus, Platinum Egoiste and perhaps others would be exceptions. But Chanel Pour Monsieur Concentree actually strikes me as matronly feminine.
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post #8 of 20
6/3/12 at 3:53pm
Regarding the regular line, I'd say that the sweet attitude started with Allure Homme. I had a girl telling me Allure Homme Sport smelled like "something" she used as a teenager. I had no problems envisioning that.
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post #9 of 20
6/3/12 at 4:17pm
I don't care if they smell feminine. A good perfume is a good perfume. Cristalle and Chanel 19 smell great on me as do 28 La Pausa and 31 Rue de Cambon. Live a little guys.
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post #10 of 20
6/3/12 at 5:19pm
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Originally Posted by JDBIII View Post

I don't care if they smell feminine. A good perfume is a good perfume. Cristalle and Chanel 19 smell great on me as do 28 La Pausa and 31 Rue de Cambon. Live a little guys.


I also think Cristalle (and Cristalle Eau Vert ), No.18, No.19, No.22, La Pausa, 31 Rue Cambon and Bois des Iles and Cuir de Russie are all extremely unisex and easily worn by men (though I think the Les Exclusifs range are largely marketed as unisex anyway). In fact Chanel's women's perfumes were always accused of being too masculine by many contemporaries, I suppose that fits with the style of Coco herself who was instrumental in getting women out of stays and into pants and men's tailoring.

Chanel's men's releases are broadly speaking some of the most distinctively masculine fragrances I can think of. They're not all coffee, oud, cocoa and tonka (the perfume equivalent of sticky toffee pudding all too often) like so many current men's perfumes are, but they take another route to masculinity; the crystalline sharp, razor neat, genetically well turned out, and effortlessly manly route.

Though I admit the Allure Homme range is somewhat less XY than the rest.
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post #11 of 20
6/3/12 at 7:14pm
Are you talking about the Chanel Les Collection? If so i agree. of course Chanel makes other masculines.
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post #12 of 20
6/3/12 at 7:39pm
I disagree. Also wouldnt pick Coromandel as exclusively masculine, to my nose this seems more feminin (not that I care about such things, and I dislike it anyway)
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post #13 of 20
6/3/12 at 7:58pm
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I disagree. Also wouldnt pick Coromandel as exclusively masculine, to my nose this seems more feminin (not that I care about such things, and I dislike it anyway)

+1 Coromandel leans on the feminine to me, but I love it!

Seems after Egoiste they went with more sweet colognes for men. The whole Allure line is pretty sweet, and Bleu smells like skittles to me.
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post #14 of 20
6/3/12 at 9:24pm
Are you serious ?

Antaueus feminine ?!?
Pour Monsieur feminine ?!?
Egoiste feminine ?!?
Platinum feminine ?!?
Bleu feminine ?!?
Allure Homme Sport feminine ?!?

Only ones with a feminine vibe are Allure Homme, Allure Eau Extreme, Editions Blanche & Pour Monsieur Concentrée, but they aren't even that unisex to be honest........

Fail post IMHO
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post #15 of 20
6/4/12 at 9:31am
I think you may be generalizing based solely on the particular Chanel scents you've tried. Chanel has a lot of scents out there. I wouldn't say, as a house, Chanel's scents are any "sweeter" or "more feminine" than any other house.
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post #16 of 20
6/4/12 at 9:59am
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Originally Posted by barclaydetolly View Post

I think you may be generalizing based solely on the particular Chanel scents you've tried. Chanel has a lot of scents out there. I wouldn't say, as a house, Chanel's scents are any "sweeter" or "more feminine" than any other house.

This.

But again, I suspect that people have different definitions of "masculine" and "feminine" with regard to scent (and I stick to my position that it's nothing but personal association and marketing, with very few exceptions). I wear Egoiste and have never had anyone hassle me about smelling masculine.
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post #17 of 20
6/4/12 at 10:03am
I disagree with the OP. Just because a fragrance is sweet does not make it feminine. There are other notes and factors that come into play. As well, I find the vast majority of mens fragrances to be sweet anyways.

Either way, it doesn't matter. I would hate to have to wear supposedly "very" masculine fragrances. That would be torture.
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post #18 of 20
6/4/12 at 10:20am
I agree that, overall, Chanels tend to be a little sweeter, or at least smoother and more polished, than most other houses.

More feminine? No. But smooth and glossily sweet, yes. In fact I would argue that is their calling card here on BN.

The big exception here is Platinum Egoiste, a dry and harsh fougere.
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post #19 of 20
6/4/12 at 10:40am
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Originally Posted by CHSeifert View Post

Are you serious ?

Antaueus feminine ?!?
Pour Monsieur feminine ?!?
Egoiste feminine ?!?
Platinum feminine ?!?
Bleu feminine ?!?
Allure Homme Sport feminine ?!?

Only ones with a feminine vibe are Allure Homme, Allure Eau Extreme, Editions Blanche & Pour Monsieur Concentrée, but they aren't even that unisex to be honest........

Fail post IMHO

Totally igree. Pour monsieur, antaeus, egoiste are gorgeous and masculine. No sweetness at all. Chanel has a lack of woody notes but scents are rather animalic and herbal on basenotes.
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post #20 of 20
6/4/12 at 10:49am
I actually agree, except for Antaeus, Chanel's masculines are a bit sweeter and smoother, and less ballsy/manly than other houses' average midpoint.
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