I don’t understand the love for this.
Some call it “safe”, but it’s banal, uninspired. It has fuzzy-scratchy synthetic ingredients in spades...not my idea of “pleasant.”
The edp makes marked improvements - sort of a focus-group-in-a-bottle. I can see the appeal in the edp (have not tried the parfum). In 20 years, if you were looking for a fragrance to exemplify 2010’s perfumery, Bleu edp might serve.
But the edt? Blech. How this made it to market is beyond me. I don’t even get the usual 10 minutes of “hmmm, interesting” top notes usually loaded into designer fragrances to hook the bros at the fragrance counter. This is bad from top to bottom.
Smells to me like the fragrance equivalent of a blue plaid flannel shirt.
Classy, sophisticated, pleasantly understated with good depth. I'm curious if anyone else has experienced this, but today I walked outside briefly in very light rain and it caused the scent to come to life in a marvelous way. (I applied 4 sprays 8 hours earlier) This is also my go-to golfing frag.
Admittedly, there are worse things in this world than Bleu de Chanel, but even in 2010, it seemed more than a little uninspiring. An inoffensive, middle-of-the-road release that does nothing in particular especially well.
to me, this is the quasi-aquatic of the Allure line...has that overall vibe and semi- chemical sharp/freshness of everything I've smelled in the Allure line up...very safe...very pleasant...very fresh...absolutely inoffensive and perfect for the office...actually, one of the few scents that someone at the office actually complimented me on...more like a giant accord that just slowly hangs around...i don't find much of a change from the beginning to end..catch bits and pieces of spice and citrus in an enclosure similar to Creed's aquatics...that same fresh ozony feel...a little peppermint from time to time...nice to have around when you want to put something on but want to be nonchalant about it...
Generic, boring, safe. Fine if you're a teenager, supposing you grow out of it.
18th February, 2019 (last edited: 26th February, 2019)