Nobody has Chanel available where I live. I had never even smelled the stuff, until i went perfume shopping on vacation last week. Bleu de Chanel EDP was the 1st purchase I made. Its funny being in the fragrance hobby, but having these huge holes in my scent experiences because of the difficulties finding testers when you live far from civilization. I own several great blue frags, and have sampled dozens more, but never the OG. Ive heard all the reviews, read the note list, and had a pretty good idea of what to expect. Bleu De Chanel lived up to the hype. It wasn't exactly how I imagined it. It was slightly more soapy and slightly less woodsy than I pictured, but i was definitely close. The 2 biggest surprises I had was that the longevity was much better than i hoped, and the price was much lower than i feared. I dont need to tell the Brotherhood what this smells like, or share a note a breakdown with you. Its not just a blue. Its THE blue! Its a fresh, clean, crowd pleasing, and versatile scent... and its absolutely flawless! A perfect 10/10 masterpiece! Maybe i should have blind bought this years ago, but im glad I didnt. I don't believe I would have appreciated just how well crafted this is back then. Its not really "the best" at any one thing, but its pretty darn good at everything! A jack of all trades. Any occasion, any weather, any outfit you can grab Bleu De Chanel and know its going to work for you. For me, Bleu is the new black. It goes with everything. Its a must have fragrance for any perfume enthusiast's collection. Im glad its finally part of mine.

I ordered directly off PDM’s website and they gave me overnight delivery, came in yesterday afternoon so wore last night and then again today to have a solid couple wearing before reporting. I listened to a few others reviews and I’m not getting the same vibe as what they did. First, this is one of the best blind buy success of the year for me. I love PDM style scents and only really have one that I don’t care for and even that one isn’t a total miss. To me, this isn’t really reminiscent of anything in the PDM lineup, and I own all of them. If I were to compare it to a PDM, just the initial spray has a burst of pepper and bergamot that slightly resembles Castely but is fleeting. Like barely worth mentioning the opening. This is a mid and base heavy fragrance on my skin. I also would not classify this as only a fall winter fragrance at all. I think you could pull this off all year, it’s in the 90’s today and I went outside to grill wings for my lunch and it wasn’t coying at all, not saying this would be my top pick for a hot summer day but I’ve predominantly been indoors and it works if your in and out in summertime just as well as I’d assume in fall winter. How it smells: The main vibe I get is creamy, resinous not overly sweet but, the sweetness does comes through with vanilla and tonka and ever so slightly and I mean slightly smoky. Not like a tobacco Smokey, somewhere between smelling someone toast almonds to a fancy wood chips that you’d put on a smoker but don’t buy this thinking it has a heavy Smokey quality, it just gives the wearer a slight bit of mystery. I think it leans masculine but a confident woman could pull this off. It’s not overly loud but lasts quite awhile and gives me a nice scent bubble. The closest thing I have in my collection to compare is something like Channel Allure home Sport Extreme , but it doesn’t smell like that, just has a similar feeling. Where CAHSE takes the creamy texture and adds freshness, this takes a similar creamy texture and goes in a deeper, darker direction.