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Allure Homme Édition Blanche
Of all the flankers in this family, Chanel Allure Homme Édition Blanche Eau de Parfum is the most pared back, built from five materials where the original uses more than twenty, and it is the better fragrance for it.
Pink pepper is the whole opening, dry and rosy and faintly sparkling, and it is over inside a few minutes. What remains is sandalwood, listed in both the heart and the base, and it is the fragrance. Good sandalwood smells creamy and dry at once, a little milky, with a soft sweetness that never tips into dessert, and here it is given the room to be the only thing worth noticing for hours at a time.
Underneath it, three materials hold the shape. Amber brings a warm resinous sweetness, tonka bean a soft and slightly nutty powderiness, and musk the clean, skin close warmth that makes the whole thing sit against the body rather than above it. There is no development to follow and no twist at the end, and with a composition this short that is a design decision rather than a shortcoming.
Jacques Polge composed it and this version appeared in 2014. In eau de parfum form it is long lasting and surprisingly discreet, projecting modestly and staying near the skin, which makes it one of the easier Chanel men's fragrances to wear in close company. It is aimed at men, it is comfortable all year round, and it suits work, travel and daytime better than a night out.
The house opened in Paris in 1910 as a hat shop at 21 rue Cambon, run by Gabrielle Chanel. N°5 followed in 1921, created with the perfumer Ernest Beaux, and the perfume and cosmetics company was formed in 1924 with Beaux employed as its first in house perfumer, and Bois des Iles, Cuir de Russie and N°22 all belong to the same early stretch.
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