Bleu de Chanel L'Exclusif Chanel 2025

7.4 / 10 457 Ratings

A new perfume by Chanel for men, released in 2025. The scent is woody-spicy.
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Woody

Spicy

Fresh

Citrus

Leathery

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Amber notes

New Caledonian sandalwood

Labdanum

Leathery notes

Perfumer

Olivier Polge

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7.4457 Ratings

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7.8392 Ratings

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7.3391 Ratings

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7.8373 Ratings

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4.7363 Ratings

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The face of the advertising campaign is the American-French actor Timothée Hal Chalamet.

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Bleu de Chanel Parfum

Bleu de Chanel Eau de Toilette

Bleu de Chanel Eau de Parfum

Oxford

Sauvage Elixir

Le Lion de Chanel

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28 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/23/2025

10Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Maxnyb
7 Reviews

Maxnyb

Top Review 7

L’Exclusif indeed

Ok ok ok, so, the price is absurd. Depends. Surely. Maybe.
The L’Exclusif of the Bleu family is pricey, BUT it is the most innovative, boldest, and richest Bleu yet. Isn’t that what we fragrance nerds want?

The sandalwood in here is incredible. The star in the fragrance for sure. Clear and creamy. Very rich.
Amber, leather, and labdanum is also very present. It makes the fragrance much darker than the Parfum which it is quite similar to in the first 10 minutes.

Overall, the L’Exclusif is, to me, the greatest Bleu de Chanel yet.
It is not however, the most versatile one.
This is very classy and maybe darker than you think if you haven’t tried it.

To me, the Parfum and L’Exclusif is different enough to have them both. But in the end, the question of money and how you spend it is up to you.

08/23/2025

3Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Omnipotato
420 Reviews

Omnipotato

Helpful Review 5

Contrived and underwhelming

Chanel trying desperately to mimic Dior’s success with Sauvage Elixir by trying to experiment with amber aromachemical overloads. The problem is, it isn’t revolutionary anymore if you’re not the first to do it.

It has a bit of the creamy citrus effect of Outlands and Bal d'Afrique Absolu de Parfum (along with their amber boosters in the base), and it combines it with aquatic/ozonic notes of its predecessor Bleu de Chanel Eau de Toilette and the amberwood of Bleu de Chanel Parfum. The effect just ends up being bland and trite. Trying to play it too safe in an era where everyone is experimenting and wants to find the next new thing.

Edit: gave this one a full wear for the first time (my review was based on a couple of sprays on the arm at a department store from a tester bottle), and it's worse than I gave it credit for. The positives from my review, namely the creamy citrus opening, don't really make an appearance in the air/scent cloud, and the amberwood appears way sooner. This could easily be mistaken for a 20 year old scent, and not in a good way. If it was released as a new fragrance line by Boss or Prada or a similar brand, and wasn't *Chanel* and *Exclusif* it would be getting universally panned like Paradigme is. Lowering my score appropriately.

09/21/2025

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

Majid114
130 Reviews

Majid114

Helpful Review 3

L'EXCLUSIF

Let's go... the classic and sophisticated very masculine opening of lavender, patchouli, vetiver and a fresh citrus accord with mint continues in this L'Exclusif version, bringing a discreet herbal touch, but different from the Parfum version where this green facet is more present. Patchouli and vetiver are more common as base notes, but here, they already appear at the top, bringing the earthy woody aspect. This departure is further complemented by warm spices and a subtly sweet woody amber accord. Those accustomed to powdery or sweet men's fragrances may find this accord old-fashioned. At the same time, I feel something like a wild floral, with a slight dirt, like a warm drop of an indole jasmine perhaps.

In the fullness of the center of this composition that is dominated by woody tones, mainly sandalwood and cedarwood. You can really feel the natural sandalwood here, the star of this version, the velvety texture of a sandalwood dry like raw wood chips, the sandalwood used here by Chanel is the New Caledonian one a variety of the Australian, it doesn't have the usual creamy milky raw facet of Indian sandalwood. And it also has a generous amount of woody cedar. This phase is mainly responsible for the classic masculine and elegant appeal of the previous Bleu de Chanel, maintained and amplified in this version in my view. Its iconic balsamic blue accord is probably present due to a touch of anise and/or licorice on the background.

Although this fragrance is very much based on ISO E Super, this makes its base elaborate around an accord of vanilla and musk, establishing an enveloping sensuality. And it is the basis of this composition, which surpasses all other Blue de Chanel fragrances in my opinion. Sure, it definitely has a lot of synthetic molecules mixed in with natural ingredients, but it smells really good, nothing chemical. It's woody, not powdery. It's hot and amber. A delicate vanilla sweetness emerges as well. At the same time, it carries echoes of the initial notes: both the lavender, patchouli and vetiver accord and the sandalwood/cedar accord. Practically imperceptible leather appears in drying. The performance is average to good; far from being too intense or bombastic.

This version in Extrait is mainly a resinous amber aromatic woody, it has lost the sweeter and more modern tones that have defined the atmosphere of the series since the classic Bleu de Chanel. The rather herbal opening, familiar at the exit of the Parfum, has been greatly weakened here. There's also nothing syrupy, sweet, or fruity. Instead, a hot sandalwood appears as the protagonist, a good novelty. In a few brief moments L'Exclusif can evoke a facet of Barber Shop, but with a high degree of refinement. Bleu de Chanel L'Exclusif captivates with its virility, depth, density and quality of ingredients. It is difficult to find men's compositions of this caliber nowadays. Still, I don't think it's worth how much is being charged for a bottle!

08/19/2025

9Scent 8Longevity 9Sillage

Misterbeane
5 Reviews

Misterbeane

4

The best version of BdC to date

It's definitely a BdC flanker, and to me, it's almost like this is a different version of the Parfum that never got made, almost as if the perfumer made a handful of renditions and this one, because it's got some smoke, leather, and a small touch of something animalic, wasn't picked as the final version. To my nose, it's worlds different on strip versus skin, as on strip it's almost in between the EDP and the Parfum and very little of those dark notes come across. On skin (mine, at least), much more of those dark notes come out, especially when smelled up close. In the air, it's very close to the Parfum, and I'd say that if you have the Parfum, this is redundant. Personally, I've always wanted a bottle of the Parfum, and now that we have this, I may actually spend the extra money and get L'Exclusif. In the end, it has all of the characteristics of the Parfum, but it's slightly deeper, more interesting, and, most importantly, it actually projects. On my skin, the biggest drawback of the Parfum was that it didn't project or have much of a sillage to speak of, after the first hour or so. With this, the performance is much, much better, and if the Parfum had this kind of projection, I would've bought a 5oz years ago and never looked back. In my opinion, this is the best version of BdC so far, and probably what the Parfum should've been in the first place.

Scent: 4.5/5
Presentation: 4.5/5
Performance 4.5/5
Overall: 4.5/5

09/07/2025

7.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

DrDre10
30 Reviews

DrDre10

3

Nice scent, poor execution

Mark my words: Chanel's disrespect toward it's masculine line of fragrances will be met with disdain. This is not to say Chanel is a poor fragrance house, because it definitely is not. This is to say that Chanel had the audacity to release a flanker to the BdC line 7 years after it's predecessor is ridiculously disrespectful. And to ask for nearly $300?!
The fragrance itself is good to my nose. Woody, slightly resinous on the dry down, green. L'exclusif was meant to be competition to Sauvage Elixir ..... but doesn't compare. Especially not 3-4 years after the release of it's competitor. If you have Bleu de Chanel Parfum , you have the best flanker in the line already. L'exclusif doesn't come close to the Parfum version which is like half to 2/3rds the cost.
Had this come out instead of the Parfum version, I think it would have been received better.
What's next, Chanel? A Bleu de Chanel L'eau? Bleu de Chanel Cologne? End the line here. You had a good run. That's it! That's all!

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Merlotsupern

3 months ago

5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

9

4

I retested L'Expensif, unfortunately downgrading the score. Chanel joins the amberwood craze by adding it to the blue DNA. That's it.

Ceesie

3 months ago

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7

4

Boring, cloyingly sweet, and then the price… where’s the innovation nowadays?

SeoulBrough

4 months ago

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6

4

Non memorable woody scent with below average sillage. Oily due to the concentration. Very pedestrian for Chanel.

CivetOnly

3 months ago

5.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

5

7

Opens with creamy, spiced lemon. Backed by metallic, ozonic blue accord. Melts into bittersweet amberwood sludge. I’d stick with BdC Parfum.

PetarMolnar

3 months ago

4.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

4

Headache inducing synthetic and way overpriced generic fragrance. What a rip off. Disappointment so say the least.

ScottMcArron

2 months ago

6Scent 7Longevity 8Sillage

3

Perfectly pleasant, perfectly boring.
Edit: the large dose of synthetic aroma chemicals trigger my allergies like crazy

Patj1994

3 months ago

8.5Scent 7Longevity 7Sillage

3

Best of the line by far, scent wise. Performance is on par with the parfum. 6-7 hours of longevity and ~2 hours of light projection.

Godfreywilde

3 months ago

5Scent

3

Woody-ambers on steroids, on cocaine. It’s warm, deeper, and far less interesting, than the already uninteresting BDCs before it.

calebm

18 days ago

1Scent

2

notes of piss, immediately washed it off

Nik604

3 months ago

2

Finally, Chanel joins the cash grabbing wagon .BDC was half synthetic and half priced,, now is full synthetic and full proced. Some people s

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Bleu de Chanel L'Exclusif

Tested it today and I would say it is my favourite of the line so far but the price is too much at the moment. Once it drops like the rest of the line done I will maybe buy a bottle but not just now.

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