//// Chanel Coromandel, are you mine?
Posted on | October 13, 2009 | 5 Comments
I found recently an excellent web shop. Perfumed Court sells perfume samples and small decanted amounts of scents — and what a selection! International postals are under $8 — and the shipping was lightning fast (under a week from US to Scandinavia). A perfect find for a person in search of the signature scent.
I ordered the Elegant Amber sampler — and found instantly a very promising one: Chanel Coromandel.
I really don’t know fragrances too well, so my descriptions are very amateurish. But what is really beautiful in this scent — it seems to me that I love it from the first notes to the drydown. It reminds me of my beloved Le Feu in that sense that many people describe these both scents quite strong — but on my skin both of them tone down to very pleasant level.
It does not remind me a bit of Chanel mainstream scents — but I do get a weak resemblance to Tom Ford Black Orchid. Coromandel has the similar, naughty and dirty base note going on, for me it is present the whole lifeline of the scent — but it is definitely not overwhelmingly strong component in this. While Black Orchid goes rather sour and almost headache inducing on my skin, Coromandel has delightful lightness and elegance, from the start to the final drydown. For me this scent is too complex to analyze and I definitely don’t recognize all the notes, but after the head notes I do get some bitter chocolate mixed to wood and spice. The woodsy aromas are actually present all the time. Despite of the chocolate aroma I would never categorize this to so called gourmand scent.
It is almost funny how the drydown scent is structured, from distance I get a clean, warm but dryish amber, but when I stick my nose to the skin I definitely can get the dirt note very pleasantly mixed to some wood aromas and light touch of not too sweet vanilla. The skin scent is almost intoxicating, very sensual and quite unusual.
I also love the classic and stylish Chanel bottle. Sorry Marc Jacobs, even if I loved your newest creation Lola I could not purchase it just because of the garish bottle…
The con is that the price is $200 for a bottle — OK a huge 200 ml bottle, but that is steep. Still I will definitely give this one a chance, a good option would be to get a small decanted amount from Perfumed Court to get the final verdict for this in the actual use.
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October 13th, 2009 @ 2:00 pm
A BIG thanks for this link! I’ve been trying to find my new scent (atm Boss: Femme) for a while now..seems just so hard as I get all dizzy in the perfume section of department stores. Will definately order a bottle, or two, from this place!
October 13th, 2009 @ 5:10 pm
And you say you don’t know that much about perfumes? _My_ knowledge is limited to “candy”, “floral”, “masculine”
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October 14th, 2009 @ 4:48 pm
Fakta: you’re welcome! I was so delighted to find this that it would have been a crime not to share it.
May… …that’s not far from that, actually… …but I had to at least try — can’t really blame anyone else of the decision to write about the scent selection process…
October 15th, 2009 @ 12:14 am
I gave you this recognition in my blog, it´s as sweet and icky as that Marc Jacobs bottle over there, haha.
October 15th, 2009 @ 3:31 pm
Hahaha! Thanks, Jalouse… …will get back to that soon!