Bleu de Chanel Parfum Chanel 2018

8.3 / 10 1800 Ratings

Bleu de Chanel Parfum is a popular perfume by Chanel for men and was released in 2018. The scent is woody-fresh. It is still in production.
Pronunciation

Layers well with Molecule 01

Main accords

Woody

Fresh

Citrus

Spicy

Aquatic

Fragrance Notes

New Caledonian sandalwood

Cedar

Perfumer

Olivier Polge

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Ratings

Scent

8.31800 Ratings

Longevity

7.51703 Ratings

Sillage

7.11702 Ratings

Bottle

8.21689 Ratings

Value for money

7.11228 Ratings

Submitted by ExUser, last update on 22.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The french actor Gaspard Ulliel was the first muse of Bleu de Chanel and remained the face of the perfume for twelve years, until his death in January 2022. The actor Timothée Chalamet succeeded him in May 2023.

Reviews

55 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/20/2018

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Ajlen
45 Reviews

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Ajlen

Top Review 37

Pseudo-exclusivity

As has already been explained in detail elsewhere, I am not someone who condemns the perfume industry for wanting to make a profit. The `C´in Chanel certainly does not stand for Caritas, and that is also absolutely okay. Supply and demand. It's not a vital good - so it'll settle on its own.

Nevertheless, for once I can't help but focus on the topic of price/performance in a commentary. Never before has it fitted so perfectly for me, because never before has there been so little to say about the scent itself as here. In principle you could copy & paste all comments to the EDP here. I have now tested the two against each other twice in parallel and both times I come to the same result: The differences are so marginal that they wouldn't even be sufficient for a discussion about different batches in Aventus.

Now one can certainly argue whether it would not be desirable for a "perfume" to smell just like an EDT or EDP, which by definition only differ in concentration. It is certainly not always the case that (as with many flanks) EDT and EDP often do not have more in common than the same name. D´accord, objection accepted. Only then one should be able to expect at least this one, i.e. a stronger intensity. But also in this respect there is no sign of this. Worse still, the perfume remains even closer to the skin than the EDP. I summarize: minimal deviations in the fragrance, negative deviations in the performance and again minimal deviations in the bottle. Okay, admittedly, it's fancy.

So what's left of this Bleu de Chanel in the perfume version? He's not bad, despite everything. But who on earth needs less power at a higher price? Is the pretence of false facts, outrageous or simply a good marketing to maximize profits? My opinion: the only relevant difference between EDP and perfume is not in the product but in the target group. There are certainly more than enough buyers who are prepared to dig deeper into their pockets for the appearance of higher exclusivity. For all the others who, like me, are only interested in fragrance, this Bleu de Chanel perfume is easy to describe: unnecessary

02/27/2019

9
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Bakerscookie
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Bakerscookie

Top Review 47

The best version of "Bleu" yet.

First of all: The wheel is probably not reinvented with a fragrance like Bleu de Chanel. Accordingly, I find the wave of criticism that Bleu's 2018 version of "Parfum" is also being criticized here understandable. Whether it is justified, however, that is the question...

In my opinion, even a house like Chanel with a mainstream fragrance like Bleu should not be forbidden to adapt its releases to the current time. So I don't think it's a bad thing that a "revised" version will be released in 2018, regardless of the fragrance. I am now in possession of all three concentrations and I think they have managed quite well.

I first got to know the original "Bleu DNA" when I was 18, when I started to deal with scents for the first time. At that time, I only knew one Hilfiger aftershave, which I had received as a gift once, and just One Million, which turned out to be an instant mistake. But well, fragrances like Bleu or Terre d'Hermès seemed more exclusive and "more bang for my buck" to me, as you can understand. Unfortunately, I didn't have the "buck" part at that time, which is why it stayed with the turquoises during an occasional encounter.

From today's point of view, the EdT smells like a toilet block to me at first. So much hot citrus in the opening, is that bergamot? Whew! I'll have to deal with that first. Fortunately, this ebbs away and leaves behind the typical "blue" scent, which has so often been copied by different houses. But to be honest, one of the better ones right from the start, probably because the citric freshness remains a little longer and relatively quickly for me at that time indefinable woody notes are added. The EdP, on the other hand, goes directly with a very sweet and hardly spicy lemon into the solid. And she's really very cute and it stays that way for a while. Almost like dextrose. What were they thinking? A little sandalwood in the drydown nestles imperceptibly to the lemon and supports it in its lemoniness and with increasing duration the Eau de Parfum for me goes almost in an oriental direction.

Actually already a quite chic alternative to the youthfully fresh Eau de Toilette. But to be honest, I already wanted more wood from the first smell of the EdP version. I don't like things like Invictus Aqua or Hawas. Especially not this new "Y Eau de Parfum" from YSL, a completely superfluous fragrance that can hardly be surpassed in sweetness.

And that brings us to the Bleu de Chanel perfume. As if someone had answered my prayers at Chanel, the original Bleu DNA is present in the perfume version, but with much more sandalwood and less citrus. I find it interesting that the appearance here seems to be reversed: first the wood comes, then later the fruits. As a result, the fragrance appears to me darker, more mature, more adult and also rounder, because the exhausting beginning is missing. The fragrance is also much denser, more complex than the other two. The sandalwood is a very light one. But was also to be expected at Chanel. All in all, I think it is a very good composition and a worthy update - I doubt that the youngest ones will take advantage of the perfume concentration, and that's why it fits quite well, or not?

I can't complain about shelf life and Sillage, by the way. I experience it more often that Extrait is tighter on the skin than EdT or EdP, and as long as I get enough of it (which is quite the case here), I'm not complaining. Because I wear scents mainly for myself, not for others.

06/05/2020

8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

Hypnoscent
6 Reviews

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Hypnoscent

Top Review 23

Beautiful from the top note to the base, BUT.

The fragrance has possibly one of the best top notes ever, it starts with a mixture of sweet lemon and the warm, creamy sandalwood, you get absolutely addicted to it. After c.a. 40-60 min. the lemon fades away and a very nice smelling woody note remains, which then stays close to the skin. Personally I would wish for a slightly better performance, because this smell is simply terrific. After about 5-6 hours the scent is very faint or not noticeable at all and you have to re-spray. The price is rather in the upper segment, which is a pity because you pay a lot for the name. I hope there will be another BDC "Extreme" with the same scent but with a better H/S, then the scent would be a 10/10. Nevertheless I can recommend the scent to everyone warmest to at least try it.

12/15/2019

7
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

FabianO
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FabianO

Top Review 24

Better than the bleude rest

Yes, I had the very first 'Bleu' at the time of its appearance and belonged to the group of my bottles that never emptied because it was over me after about half. First fixed by the cool night-blue-black container, then soon by the but for Chanel relations (and they are really monolithic for me thanks to 'Antaeus', 'Egoiste' and 'Monsieur'!) mauerlich - synthetic-clinking content turned off.

This was now a sample in the newest 'time' and in the comparison I determine, the still quite young 'perfume' is probably the best of the stupid Bleus.

More redundant, without the standing grapefruit, somehow more harmonious. Cool, slightly mineral, also somewhat synthetic, but at the same time unobtrusive, somewhat woody with shower gel-cleaning coating. Quite like his ancestors somewhat cyber-like, cm end also miles behind my above mentioned favorites, but still pleasantly casual compared to the current Dior-Hass object of my life, the 'Sauvage' which is penetratingly broken everywhere

06/01/2020

8
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 8.5
Scent

DonJuanDeCat
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DonJuanDeCat

Top Review 19

Man(s) is blue again?!

Hey hey and have a good evening, perfume-loving noses.
Soo... today comes a fragrance I haven't sniffed in a long time, "Bleu de Chanel". The scent, no matter if EDT or EDP, had left a very good impression on me, but I found it a pity that it didn't last for a long time and I also found the sillage very low. Maybe my perception back then was a bit different than today, I don't know, but because I saw the new fragrance here, the perfume variant, a little while ago in the city, I really wanted to try it again and I found it quite wonderful. Of course I had to make a comment, you know me, but I just didn't get around to it. What had happened?

The thing is that after my first test the bottle or the tester had disappeared in the shop there. Yes, that's right! Disappeared!! Not sprayed empty or anything, but the whole bottle was gone. Which means that some crook probably stole it... or somehow a guy with two left hands dropped the bottle with a rattling sound (yeah, that's probably the worse reason for most perfumes, isn't it?)... somehow both reasons are bad, no wonder that there are less and less testers in the shops of some fragrances... *sigh* :D
And before you ask, I didn't see the bottle in other shops for a while... so that the fragrance was eventually forgotten and I only tested women's scents (no no, the last one was a joke, I only test women's scents because the samples I get from some of my favourite perfumers are almost all women's scents!) But through a nice perfuma I got a sample of this scent, and so I could finally test it properly.

Of course I have to tell you about it now, you know me! As I said, I am writing many (long) commissies here, whether you like it or not, ätsch. Hey hey, well then let's go!

The smell:

Hmm... interesting. Although the fragrance is listed as the twin of the other two Bleu de Chanels (i.e. EDT and EDP), there are only two fragrances listed here in the fragrance list. You can smell much more than the two fragrances.
The fragrance starts for me with lavender, lemons, soft sandalwood and a pinch of synthetics, which is common for this kind of mainstream fragrances. That's okay, because the synthetics are not cheap like in some other fragrances and therefore are absolutely not disturbing or even repulsive. In the background the scent seems to me to be slightly fruity, but somehow in a thick liquid way, hm... it's difficult to describe, I would say that you could possibly be reminded of multivitamin juice, but you hardly notice this in the scent cloud, you have to sniff the sprayed area in a really concentrated way. In addition, the scent also comes across warmer, which is very appropriate to the generally gentle aura of the scent.
In the heart note, not much seems to change and the fragrance remains as before. All right, this multi-vitamin note fades away slightly and becomes a mix of fruity and citrus scents, the sweetness now also reminds a bit of amber, otherwise it remains soft and woody (although you now start to smell the cedar out of the woods).
Towards the end the fragrance becomes increasingly woody, which together with the lavender also smells quite nice. It is still sweet and warm, but also synthetic. But as already mentioned, the synthetic doesn't bother at all. Therefore I find this Bleu de Chanel quite successful. A very nice scent.

The Sillage and the durability:

Soo... okay so not much seems to have changed at the Sillage. The scent still weakens quite a bit for me soon after spraying it on. Well, I think this one has turned out a little more intense and long-lasting than the EDP and EDT, but it could have been a bit stronger. So, if you are not necessarily standing near the scent carrier, you will hardly notice the scent...
This also makes the shelf life seem rather shorter, even if you should smell it for six to eight hours.

The bottle! The bottle has not changed at all. The fragrance is still filled in a rectangular, dark-blue bottle with the fragrance's name printed on the front. The difference is that the writing is in gold, and the blue color of the bottle seems to have been darkened a bit. The cap is black and cylindrical as before, and that's about it. In principle, the bottle is actually very simple, but the fact that it's dark and not just colorlessly transparent makes it look more elegant. Yes, I like the bottle.

Conclusion:

Well... Granted,... I don't remember Bleu de Chanel in general that well. Sure, I used to spray the scent on a test strip every now and then when I was out and about, but I'm not sure right now how strong the similarities or differences are with the other Bleus here. But anyway, there is no comparison for now. Anyway, mainstream or not, no matter if chemical, synthetic or anything else, ... as long as a fragrance smells good, there shouldn't be anything wrong with it, right? And I think you can say the same about this scent, because despite the obvious synthetics, I found the scent quite good.

Of course, I am aware that Bleu de Chanel is certainly one of those fragrances that some people like, and some don't (like Aventus, except that here, with Chanel, people go a lot less crazy :D). Some people will probably associate the scent with a certain Mr. J (no, as a comic fan I don't mean the Joker for once!), because he considers the scent here (or Bleu de Chanel in general) to be one of the best men's scents and would recommend it to everyone and the gentleman here seems to get on the nerves of some people. I don't really care about him, because I don't read much about him or watch videos, but one thing you have to agree with him: The smell here or Bleu de Chanel scents are really not bad. For me not the very best scents at all, but still very nice scents and always worth a test.

However, if you haven't been able to do anything with Bleu de Chanel so far, you will certainly not like this fragrance either, and that's okay. It's the same with scents like Dior Sauvage, Gaultier perfumes, Aventus (yeah, there are people who really don't like Aventus. No, I'm not one of them, even though I wouldn't necessarily praise Aventus to the skies and make fun of it :D) It's all a matter of taste. But as I said, I would highly recommend to test this scent here! Especially because it is very good to use as an allrounder. But even if you don't know what to use, you can always spray this scent on yourself, it always works. Only for going out, I would not recommend it very much, because it is very weak and short-lived, but maybe some people are lucky and the scent will last longer?

Anyway, that's it from me again! Have a nice evening and see you later :)

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