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Mistersiri
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The one that started all... Upgraded.
Hi everybody! This is my first review on this site, I am not even an english native speaker and I am kind of a newbie in the fragrance world, so please keep that in mind before judging me.
I started thinking about fragrances with a little bit more awareness in the last month, after I was searching a gift for a friend: since then, I had some very basic perfumes in my collection that my relatives gave me in the past ten years. My collection is nothing exceptional with very popular designer fragrances, but there has always been one that stood up amongst the others and that was my go-to when I had a very special occasion like a date or a job interview.
When I was 18 years old, I asked my parents a perfume as my birthday gift. I went to a local shop and smelled for the first time Bleu de Chanel EDT: it was 2013, so it was the only concentration available. I immediately fell in love with that: it was fresh yet elegant, and I was captured by the citrusy notes in the opening and the scent I had on my skin after about half an hour.
However, I think that in the beginning I was too young to truly appreciate it, and I noticed that it wasn't my most complimented fragrance because my peers liked more fragrances like One Million and Eros: however, I wore it very often because it reminded me of my 18th birthday, and I ended up finishing the bottle.
As soon as I discovered that I would have liked to go more in depth in the frag game, I knew that I had to get another bottle of Bleu de Chanel, because it was the first "real" quality fragrance I had and I felt ready to consider it my daily driver now that I am not a young student and that I like wearing fragrances in my workplace.
I considered every concentration of BdC, and ended up with the Eau de Parfum. I had noticed doing some researches that many reviewers consider it the best version in a quality-price ratio, and after testing all of them in a local store I can totally agree.
It has a slightly different opening from the EDT, because to me it's less citrusy and fresh and a little bit more enveloping and richer, because I could smell slightly more notes than in the EDP. But as soon as I waited for the fragrance to dry down, I discovered a bigger difference: for instance, the EDP lasted longer on my skin (about 8 hours) and had better projection (my brother noticed it after 4 hours), and the woody notes (especially the sandalwood) and the incense were way more prominent and interesting than the experience I had with the EDT.
I also tried the Parfum, but the opening seemed too much woody to me and I thought it was less versatile than the EDP.
As you might have already understood, I love the scent of Bleau de Chanel Eau de Parfum. It smells very natural, fresh and elegant, and I worship the woody scent of the dry down.
As far as the performance and the compliment factor, I need to test it over time but as of now I am totally happy: it lasts well on my skin as I wrote earlier, and the girl I went out with last week told me I smelled great. The bottle is amazing because it feels elegant and expensive with its dark blue color, its shape and its packing; I think that the magnetic cap a great addition, and I can't find many better bottles from designers.
I don't know about US, Australia or other european countries, but in Italy you can have some discounts even on Chanel fragrances if you wait for the right offer: I found a 100 ml bottle at 88 euros on Marionnaud, and I think that it is a very fair price considering the whole package. I know that without the discount it might seem expensive and very close to niche fragrances, but considering that it wasn't very hard for me to find a 25% discount (and I read that sometimes you can even get 30%) I think that the value might considered very good.
I don't know if my newly discovered passion for fragrances will last long, but I am pretty confident that this EDP version of Bleu de Chanel will forever be one of my favorites.
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