Misia Chanel 2015 Eau de Toilette

7.5 / 10 223 Ratings

A perfume by Chanel for women, released in 2015. The scent is powdery-floral. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Powdery

Floral

Sweet

Fresh

Fruity

Fragrance Notes

Violet

Powdery notes

Orris root Iris

Iris

Grasse rose

Siam benzoin

Tonka bean

Turkish rose

Perfumer

Olivier Polge

Ratings

Scent

7.5223 Ratings

Longevity

6.9175 Ratings

Sillage

6.1178 Ratings

Bottle

8.1180 Ratings

Value for money

6.522 Ratings

Submitted by WRoth, last update on 11/04/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance was part of the collection Les Exclusifs de Chanel.

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Pourpre d'Automne (2017)

Reviews

13 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/17/2015

10Scent

ScentFan
336 Reviews

ScentFan

Top Review 12

Return of the Belle Eqoque

Chanel's just-released Misia is a new take on old ideas. Right away I smell the aldehydes that characterize Chanel No. 5 and, in that perfume, prevent me from wearing it. I smell a bit of the green from No. 19. The violet, iris and rose create a lipstick accord with the powder and vanilla notes. When I first smelled it at the perfume counter, I was surprised. Twice I came back to it as I browsed. I couldn't decide if it was beautiful and, if so, was it original or an imitation of something else I'd smelled. Then I realized the designer did this deliberately. Misia was a celebrated woman of the belle epoque (1871-1914) a wealthy appreciator and patroness of the arts. Multiply married, she hung out with Diaghilev and financed the Ballet Russes (and many artists). Great painters painted her, great composers dedicated their music to her. Per FROM THE LAND OF SHADOWS by Clive James, "Her taste was original, penetrating and in most cases definitive...For most of her life she was too rich to be a true bohemian, and too passionate about art to be a true representative of high society." She also knew Colette, the author who first inspired me. More importantly for us, she was a great influence on and friend of Coco Chanel (they were rumored to be lovers). This crowd lived life, much like the cutting edge creative elite and their patrons/admirers still do--fully, joyfully and (to conventional society) scandalously. Good for them (with one or two exceptions, perhaps). Ultimately I fell in love with this perfume. It's a modern version of your great great grandmother's scent if she could afford it--richly feminine but not flowery or ordinary. Since the age of 11, I've wished I was alive during the belle epoque and lived in Paris. Barring that, I'll look up a biography of Misia and read it while wearing this.

Full Disclosure: Hubby sniffed it and said it has a note that reminds him of garages where they work on old cars. He prefers London to Paris, so I ignored that. However, just in case, best test before a buy.

May 20, 2015
This has become one of my favorites. Think of the best tube of lipstick you've ever smelled. Add inspired floral notes. That's Misia.

11/01/2016

10Scent 10Longevity 7Sillage

AveParfum
7 Reviews

AveParfum

Helpful Review 5

I think this is my favorite lipstick & powder compact perfume

Heavy violet, a touch of rose, and a little musk. Very feminine and playful. Smells like violette pastilles mixed with waxy lipstick. Wonderful!

The first burst of fragrance, which is short-lived, is a beautiful, sweet, realistic blend of raspberry, peach and lychee. Smells like candies for a second or two.

I love lychees, and I don't care if they are fresh or canned. If I see them, I gobble them. Every single time I come across a perfume that claims to have a lychee note, it is not realistic at all. Misia is the first time I ever smelled lychee that was 100% accurate. While the other fruit notes fade away, the scent of lychee remains on my skin the entire time. It blends effortlessly with the scent of violet. I am amazed at the genius of that pairing. On my skin, and to my excitement, lychee is one of the strongest notes. I LOVE that and will probably buy a bottle just for the lychee!

It absolutely belongs in the Chanel lineup. It is a finely crafted perfume and seems destined to become a classic.

07/31/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Very nice fruity-powdery lipstick scent but not especially emotive

Misia had established its lipstick credentials early on, so by the time I got around to smelling it I was in no particular hurry. I was fully expecting the pretty. And I did get the pretty. But I hadn't been expecting the rather serious, somber orris root that tumbled out with the sweet, fruity violets and powdery rose. In truth, the iris note in Misia owes more to the sinister, root-vegetable iris in Iris Silver Mist than to the powdery face-powder of Lipstick Rose.

It was a surprise at first, but then I came to realize that Chanel would never put out a scent in the Les Exclusifs range that was all fluff and no brains - the grey-toned, rooty iris was put here to bestow gravitas. I mean, if you wanted all pink, girly fun, well, you can go to Frederic Malle (Lipstick Rose) or L'Artisan Parfumeur (Drole de Rose). This is Chanel, darling. Severe good taste must always win out over fun and fripperies.

Technically, Misia is beautiful. But it leaves me cold. I think it's because in trying to breach the gap between the kitchy, self-indulgent fun of a proper lipstick scent and the grown-up, impeccable good taste of the Chanel iris, Misia kind of forgets to establish a clear identity of its own. For me, it makes up part of that 10ml club I've got going in a box in my study - basically a box full of decants that will never make it to full bottle status. I spray Misia on, I like it, and then I completely forget about it. This is strange because I experience an emotional reaction to many of the Les Exclusifs, and I love both iris and violet. But I have to go with my gut here: Misia is good but not great. And in the pool of existing Les Exclusifs, this one is swimming in the shallow end.

03/21/2015

5Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Turandot
840 Reviews

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Turandot

Top Review 53

Knitted with a hot needle?

When a new fragrance from one of my favorite labels is announced, my curiosity is naturally piqued. Especially when it’s part of an Exclusif series, for which I have a specific thread, an aura, a certain idea in my mind. This is the case for the Privè scents from Dior, for Guerlain, at least for the older perfumes, and of course also for Chanel.

So far, there hasn’t been a scent from the house that I dislike. While N°19 and Cristalle will always be considered my basic staples from Chanel, I particularly love the Exclusif perfumes, which, with the exception of Jersey and Beige, which are too light for me, will occasionally accompany me. Even though Chance or Coco Mademoiselle don’t align with my preferences, I would certainly wear them if I received them as a gift. N°5 occupies a special place anyway.

The idea of a Chanel scent always begins for me with a strong yet clean and transparent top note. Would that be the case with Misia as well?
But that’s already the first surprise. I don’t smell the silky powdery top note I expected, and I don’t feel transported to a theater dressing room; instead, my experience with Misia is somewhat akin to Teint de Neige by Villoresi: I feel as if I’ve blown too hard into a laundry detergent box. The scent makes me want to sneeze, and I can feel it on my tongue. It’s as if Misia activates my trigeminal nerve rather than my sense of smell. It doesn’t smell; it stings, just as I perceive spicy food not as flavor but as pain. I feel similarly about various Iso-E-Super scents. They take my breath away.

I have to endure for quite a while before I can recognize the theme of Misia. Then a very powdery, feminine, slightly nostalgic scent reveals itself to me. The charmingly old-fashioned violet also rises from the initial glaring cloud of dust, and while this is not my preferred direction, I don’t want to deny Misia its beauty at this stage.

But that’s about it. Nothing more happens on my skin, and that’s the second surprise. I lack refinement, I lack volume, I lack any kind of progression, and I lack the feeling of having a Chanel scent in front of me. I keep thinking that something must still come, but there’s nothing. There’s no harmoniously concluding base that rounds off the fragrance.

I can’t complain about the longevity. Applied in the evening before going to sleep, a fine, floral-powdery veil remains on my skin in the morning. Mind you, on the skin, because the sillage, aside from the explosion in the opening, is hardly worth mentioning.

Perhaps I am biased, but just as I feel with Guerlain, I also have the impression that with this fragrance, the change of perfumer reveals a different handwriting. This may be a figment of my imagination, but it influences my perception and thus my evaluation. Misia Sert was probably a very interesting and creative woman; the theme should have certainly turned out to be more dramatic, at least more expressive. Therefore, it doesn’t bother me so much that I don’t like the scent. I also accept that Chanel is addressing a completely different clientele with Misia. One doesn’t always have to put old wine into new bottles. It’s not a bad thing that the Coromandel, Sycomore, or Gardenia lovers are not being catered to. Rather, I find it disappointing that more wasn’t made of the intriguing theme. Great top note and disappointing progression; we’ve seen that before with Coco Noir.

03/20/2015

7Scent 5Longevity 2.5Sillage

ParfumAholic
257 Reviews

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ParfumAholic

Top Review 40

The Magic of a Moment or the Brief 100%-Moment

Shortly after registering here at Parfumo, I became aware of the “Les Exclusif - Fragrances” from the house of Chanel. Many tests and numerous moments of confusion followed before the proverbial knot was eventually untied.

Since then, “Coromandel” has definitely become one of my absolute favorite fragrances. With other representatives from the series (“28 La Pausa”, “Bois des Îles”, “Eau de Cologne”, “Sycomore”), I have something like on-off relationships, as I generally like them quite a bit, but they still don’t warrant full bottles.

What they all have in common, in my view, is an extraordinarily high quality, a very distinct recognizability, and the wonderful bottles with the great magnetic closures. In terms of price, they are still in the affordable range compared to other Chanel products (and in comparison to the competitor Dior).

In this regard, the announcement of the new fragrance “Misia” [named after Misia Sert, who was known in the first half of the 20th century as a muse, friend, and patron of numerous artists in Paris (Source: Wikipedia)] naturally made me extremely curious.

Needless to say, the sample didn’t have to wait long to be put to use ;-)

Right after spraying, I perceive one of the most beautiful top notes I have ever encountered: iris and the powdery notes. A truly dreamy duo that instantly transports me to the wardrobe of an old revue theater. The room is dark and only illuminated by the lamps at the makeup tables and mirrors. The revue dancers sit in front of them, preparing for the show. It smells very distinctly of lipstick and makeup. The powder puffs are tirelessly at work, distributing their fine powder with that typical scent throughout the room. And yet, the smell is not dry-dusty, but rather pleasantly “moist” dusty. The olfactory impression is very hard to put into words; anyone who tests the fragrance will understand what I mean.

This moment is, for me, the magical 100%-moment, because just as “Misia” is now, it would be worth the highest rating to me, and I would immediately run out to get a large bottle.

And of course, this grand opening now awakens great hope and expectation in me that there must be an enhancement, as the fragrance is still at the very beginning of its development.

But hardly have these thoughts crossed my mind when this magic simply disappears. Gone. Without a word. Without explanation. Just gone.

I have the impression that the scented skin area smells of nothing anymore. But that can't be, mustn't be, or can it?

Then, rather unexpectedly, “Misia” timidly and quietly returns. A very close mix of violet, benzoin, and tonka bean begins to support or even carry the remnants of the top notes.
But that seems to be a hopeless endeavor. The show has been canceled, and the dancers have long since removed their makeup. At best, a hint of “iris powder” lingers in the air.

Please don’t misunderstand; the base is not bad despite everything, but I am probably just getting in my own way with my expectations, fueled by these gigantic top notes, to appreciate and value it accordingly.

However, even the next attempts leave me with this one realization: “Misia” is a fragrance whose top notes are worth 100% to me, whereas I struggle significantly with the rest of the fragrance development.

“Misia” is certainly an elegant fragrance, feminine in the positive sense (still wearable by men), which starts grandly and promisingly but then falls significantly short of its potential.
I have the impression that a lot of thought was put into the top notes, but the work was then somewhat carelessly completed or the famous red thread was lost. What a pity.

I also find the longevity personally too short. After a generous 4 hours, “Misia” has completely vanished on me. And I expect much more from a Les Exclusif fragrance.

What remains? The realization that light (top notes) and shadow (the rest of “Misia”) are closely intertwined at Chanel, and unfortunately, “Misia” will not find a place in my fragrance cabinet.

Pardon!

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