I love the Eau de Toilette beyond measure! So far, I have not encountered a more beautiful, radiant lemon in the top note of a fragrance. Then, a carefully woven spicy heart note follows. Everything transitions wonderfully into one another. No awkward shifts. Finally, there is a very skin-close warm and slightly creamy chypre base.
No wonder this fragrance has survived to this day. If you want to make the transition from boy to man in terms of perfume, you should ultimately end up with this masterpiece.
I just got a new 100 ml bottle. The scorching summer can thus be stylishly endured. What I have noticed, however, is a slightly changed color of the liquid. My last 50 ml were a true grass green, now the content is green-yellow with a tendency towards yellow. Am I mistaken? Is it due to the different sizes? Was there a small revision? The scent seems even more natural to me at the moment.
This also leads me to the Eau de Parfum!
Is it a new fragrance? Is it just a new name for the "Eau de Toilette Concentrée"? Even the specialists at parfumo seem unsure, especially since Chanel is stingy with information.
So I had a bottle of the Eau de Parfum sent to me.
Since I do not know the Eau de Toilette Concentrée, I am now only comparing the current Eau de Toilette with the new Eau de Parfum.
In direct comparison, I find the same scent progression in both! The Eau de Toilette feels brighter, lighter, and more cheerful to me. The Eau de Parfum gives me a more dramatic, deeper, and melancholic impression. The lemon does not last as long in the Eau de Parfum, although it is clearly present. However, it reminds me more of the top note of Yves Saint Laurent's "Pour Homme (Eau de Toilette Haute Concentration)." There, too, I was fascinated by this slightly "dirty" lemon.
The Eau de Toilette could be compared to a beautiful summer day with a light breeze, captured on film with pastel Agfacolor. The Eau de Parfum represents the same summer day in black and white. Here, too, you can almost feel the sun, but black and white also dramatizes light and shadow.
Two wonderful fragrances for spring and summer, and for those who do not confuse style and elegance with ostentation.
Inger 10 years ago
