Coco Mademoiselle Hair Perfume 35ml
Chanel Coco Mademoiselle Hair Perfume 35ml takes the five materials at the core of the scent and puts them where they will be noticed at close range rather than across a room.
Those five are orange, rose, jasmine, vetiver and patchouli, held here as one group rather than split into stages, and in a hair product that is more or less how they behave. Orange gives the sweet, round citrus lift. Rose and jasmine sit together as the floral centre, one structured and slightly tart, the other heady and warm. Vetiver and patchouli do the grounding, the vetiver dry and rooted, the patchouli earthy and dark, and between them they are the reason the scent reads as this scent and not as a generic floral.
Hair is a good carrier. It holds fragrance without the warmth of skin pushing it off quickly, and it releases it in small bursts as you move, which gives a softer and more intermittent effect than a spray on the wrist. It is also useful for anyone whose skin reacts badly to fragrance, since nothing goes near the wrists or the crooks of the elbows where alcohol sprays do most of their damage. In a centrally heated room it holds up better than a wrist does, because hair does not warm the composition and push it off within the hour.
The 35ml bottle is modest because the application is modest: a mist over the lengths, once, is enough. It works on its own for a lighter day and it layers under the eau de parfum when you want the scent to last into the evening.
The house grew out of a hat shop that Gabrielle Chanel opened at 21 rue Cambon in Paris in 1910. Perfume arrived in 1921 and a dedicated perfume and cosmetics company was founded in 1924, its first in house perfumer being Ernest Beaux.
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