Pour Monsieur Chanel for men

Pour Monsieur Fragrance Reviews

Jose Marcos

I've got the new Chanel pour Monsieur EDP 75ml. And it's not easy to convey how it smells in words.

This is the first time I encounter a perfume that does "CHANGE" when time goes by.

So, here comes the story.

Couple of weeks ago I ran into Chanel Pour Monsieur in a department store. I loved the smell instantly, when lemon verbena and some soft limes came into my face directly.

Few hours later I smelled cardamom and ginger, and a very specific scent that I catch in Capucci pour homme, too.

At that time I thought, "oh, so Chanel Pour Monsieur is a masculine chypre, just like Luca Turin said in his book", and I totally agree with this evaluation, putting this perfume under the category of masculine chypre.

But for a very weird idiosyncrasy, I only collect "miniature perfumes" (of course there are exceptions). Anyway, I managed to buy a miniature of Chanel Pour Monsieur from a perfume lover I know from the internet.

This miniature I bought was perhaps made before 2009, though no clear data can be found, but since that perfume lover bought two miniatures in 2009, and sold one bottle to me 2 weeks ago, then I'm sure it was made before the year of 2009.

But this miniature smells VERY DIFFERENT from what I experienced in the department store!

Yes, some notes are still there, but they turn into something else.

The lemon verbena is hardly there, while lemon, Sicilian peony and petitgrain are so strong that I think I've smelled two totally different perfumes. (If I must describe the changing, I would say it gets deeper and much mature, if the scent I experienced in the department store is for spring/summer, then the scent from the miniature I bought should be wore during fall/winter)

In the middle notes what I get most clearly are basil, coriander and cardamom, and that chypre and powdery scent I used to smelled in Capucci pour homme is gone, too.

(This time what I get from the base is a scent that's close to aromatic woody, with some leather notes lingering in the background, which I know is very strange because there's no such thing as leather note in this perfume)

In this case, I will not put Chanel Pour Monsieur under the category of Masculine Chypre, but maybe masculine aromatic.

I'm sure the perfume was in good condition,and still smells GREAT, but just DIFFERENT.

So, all I can say is that, some perfumes will CHANGE when time goes by, which is an interesting situation.

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