Chanel · Jacques Polge

Bleu de Chanel

VersionEau de Parfum

Chanel says

You’ll smell ambery notes, musky notes, cedar notes, woody notes and New Caledonian sandalwood.

More from Chanel’s description

It also mentions citrus notes, cedar, tonka bean and vanilla.

The house’s page

The drawn Bleu de Chanel bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Bleu de Chanel’s scent picture, a draft: musky notes, cedar, sandalwood, tonka, vanilla, bergamot drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Bleu de Chanel, top notes: Bergamot, Lemon, Lavender, Sweet orange, Bitter orange, Geranium, mint

Heartthe first hours

Bleu de Chanel, heart: Musky notes, Jasmine, Rose

Dry-downhours later

Bleu de Chanel, dry-down: Cedar, Sandalwood, Tonka, Vanilla, virginia-cedar, Patchouli, Oakmoss, Iso E Super

On the label

What’s inside it

31 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

5 citrus7 herbs & lavender9 florals5 woods2 sweet1 spices1 powder1 earth & moss

Citrus5

LimoneneBergamot oilLemon oilBitter orange oilCitral

Herbs & lavender7

Lavender oilPeppermint oilMentholCamphorLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals9

Neroli oilGeranium oilJasmineRose oilCitronellolGeranyl acetateGeraniolRose ketonesFarnesol

Woods5

Cedarwood oilPatchouli oilSantalolSandalwood oilIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)

Spices1

Anethole

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Earth & moss1

Oakmoss absolute

Not in Ingredients yet7

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetTrimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha-terpinene, not in Ingredients yetHexadecanolactone, not in Ingredients yetCarvone, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcoholViolet 2Yellow 6Yellow 5

Named by Chanel, never on a label

Musky notes, not in Ingredients yetTonka beanVanilla

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

Our match of the labels

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Counted from the printed lists: 31 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.