Review of Coco Mademoiselle Eau de Parfum Intense by aad de gids

Chanel's Coco Mademoiselle is a fabulous perfume. the Edt, the Eau Privé, the Edp and now this Edp Intense. I just veered along with all Éditions. it starts juicy, while I am bad at singling out specific Fruits. perhaps the Bergamot and Lemon make the opening Hesperidic. this in a charming and chic Chanel way. the opening doesn't fade away so quickly. yet already I can smell the Roses and Jasmin, the typical Chanel duo. then an Enigma arrives. I am old enough to have experienced the real Patchouli Oils of the 1960s (my teens) and 1977 (my twenties, if that is a correct expression). I think I have always liked them but can't really remember what sort of scent it had. apparently Earthy, with a vague Minty, Tart smell conjoining. (from the Labiateae Family like the Mints and Majoran and Nettles ... ) I have no problem at all with Patchouli. but some people can differentiate so well between the Patchouli in different sorts, fases and the grade of dryness or freshness or just murkiness. this last quality I love. the best Patchouli I smelled I gave to my straight twinbrother. Farmacia Annunciata Patchouli Indonesiano. that was perfume and it was smashing. sadly they discontinued it. but I try to isolate the Patchouli scent here and suddenly I thought: what you smell now is Patchouli, with the Hesperidic opening (still going on) and the Exquisitely balanced and blended Florals de La Rose de Chanel and La Jasmine de Chanel en Paternariat avec Communautés Aroma Agrestiques de Grasse (I fantasise but it is true). so three pillars: Patchouli (always supportive to) Roses and Jasmine. a Heady Bouquet. Musk, Tonka Been, Vanilla, Labdanum ensure a soft landing kind of Hypnotic. the Champagne fizziness of Coco Mademoiselle isn't lost in the Edp Intense. this is a Chic, Sophisticated perfume while it wears long and in its Sillage is Présentiste, Époustoufflante, Exquise et avec Super Chanelissime. (new) the first Notes that invade my Nose are Patchouli & Roses. where I am a Rose- Susceptible person i.e. easily Affected by all Roses this isn't a surprise. meanwhile I have learned to recognize the Patchouli ironically where I have the age to have smelled this Plant, Herb, precisely in the 1960s and 1970s. I had to however re-remember it as how it smelled then and out of which scent profile the versatile aroma of Patchouli was used. Earthy, Herbal, Peety, slightly Minty or just ideosyncratic: a scent all in its own league. here the Patchouli defined the Coco Mademoiselle I knew from 2001 (I had the Edt & Edp) not entirely anew but used the Grounding and Humus Character of Patchouli in an enforced way to instill in the Edp Intense an interesting countering toward the Champagne-like Fizz of a Full Hesperidic Arrangement (Sicilian Orange, Calabrian Bargamot, Lemon plus 'Fruity Notes') all at once, which to my surprise I could all smell. (if this is a new thing or, a fact that I can actually smell Citruses in Creed, Chanel & Versace!) there is a clear Fizzy Acidulity and Juiciness defining the Champagne Character of Coco Mademoiselle already since 2001 and here with a more (gradually) supported and longitudinal effect. this appears in the form of the Roses and Jasmine, slowly dawning into a Chique Junglist Voluptuosity with Madagascar Vanilla, Tonka Bean, White Musk and Labdanum all lending a quasi- Tropicality with help in each fase from the Exquise yet at the same time Brutalist use of a Curated Patchouli. Olivier Polge knew how to maintain the signature of Chanel in this (then new) rendition of Coco Mademoiselle Edp Intense. it still is this High Class and Ladylike perfume to be swathed at ones' own risk.