Chanel · 2010 · Jacques Polge

Bleu de Chanel

Mid-range$$, 2 of 5

The houseFor men

Bright grapefruit and herbal aromatics over dry cedar and sandalwood, with a touch of oak moss.

Chanel says

You’ll smell grapefruit, aromatic accord, dry cedar and New Caledonian sandalwood.

More from Chanel’s description

It also mentions Citrus and Woody notes.

The house’s page

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The drawn Bleu de Chanel bottle

When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Bleu de Chanel’s scent picture, a draft: grapefruit, aromatic notes, cedar, sandalwood, oakmoss, coumarin (new-mown hay) drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Bleu de Chanel, when you spray it: Grapefruit, Aromatic notes

As it settlesheart notes

Bleu de Chanel, as it settles: Geraniol (rose)

What staysdry-down notes

Bleu de Chanel, what stays: Cedar, Sandalwood, Oakmoss, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

9 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender3 florals1 sweet1 powder1 earth & moss

7 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

Smells like it

For about the same

Dylan Blue Pour HommeVersace · Many of its own wearers say it smells like Bleu de Chanel$129 for 100 ml · about the same as Bleu de Chanel’s $142

What wearers say, set beside the price each house asks. Noses differ.

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Allure Homme Sport SuperleggeraChanel · shares grapefruit, cedar (Atlas cedar) and sandalwood$173 for 100 ml · about the same as Bleu de Chanel’s $142
Legend SpiritMontblanc · shares grapefruit, cedar (Atlas cedar) and sandalwood
Amber Oud Bleu EditionAl Haramain · shares grapefruit, cedar (Atlas cedar) and sandalwood$81.63 for 60 ml · about the same as Bleu de Chanel’s $142
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.