I doubt that one is a cocktail party favourite! Im happy to host the split. Coco Mademoiselle though :-\, I do not own a single perfume of which I would need 11 sprays. And if I have to fall for a mass-market scent, Im glad its the sophisticated perfumeyness of Chanel! It sounds like a terrific scent on you. Cn5 is like the worst scent ever! It sounds like you and I arent part of the teeming masses who made Coco Mlle so popular. Woods and spice would be ideal. Septorhinoplasty is a surgical procedure used to correct a deviated septum. Then, once you know for sure you wont tire of it quickly, youll feel confident buying a bottle. That said, I do love me regular Coco, which I think I dismissed back then as being too old lady, especially as I used to have an elderly neighbor who bathed in it. I dont like it, but Im in your age group, I suspect, and our formative Chanel years were probably defined by Carol Bouquet and Esther whats her name with the big lips for No. All I get is the sharp topnotes and a bug spray dry down! September 2022 On certain days, a perfume can smell like a holy grail, and on other days, it can be meh. I have fan belt issues at the time, so its on my mind. YES!!! Ive probably flipped past it a dozen times. 5 ads, and Ines de la Fressange and Vanessa Paradis for Coco. It has to have been used before. It must be genetic though as my toddler can already involuntarily raise just one of hers. More useful to make my toddler laugh rather than affect indignation on the masses. I catch a hint of peach in it, too. But people around me dont agree with me so much on that. I am one of the C Mlle wearing horde. Her voice also drops into a whisper. When Chance came out all I thought was it was a lighter vesion of Coco M. Thats good information, that Coco Mlle EdP changes over time. Although Coco Mademoiselle is marketed to younger women women who might identify with those chosen to front the perfume, including Kate Moss (see above) and Keira Knightley Coco Mademoiselle has a sophisticated "perfumeyness" about it. Coco Mlle and D&G Light Blue are honestly the two things I smell EVERYWHERE here in Vancouver, on every darn elevator and at every crowded cocktail party. I just smelled it on a test strip and it smells like playtex tampons and febreeze. A close one. I often smell it on young women, I often smell it on professional women, and I often smell it way too well. Hadnt worn it in awhile, then one day decided to spritz. I agree with bring back Catherine! She says sexy and intelligent in a way I find timeless and ageless. When possible, avoid people who have colds or the flu. I have fond memories of Chanel #5 because it was given to me by my first boyfriend when I was a mere child really, and it was MUCH too sophisticated for me. I mean, NOOOO!!! You may have narrow nasal passages for several reasons, including genetics, aging, injury, or a medical condition. My first Chanel scent! And congratulations on your wedding. Thats an idea. LMAO! Im approaching the hating this stuff level with Coco Mademoiselle. If you have a bacterial infection, you may be given antibiotics to speed up the healing process. I know, insanely wishful thinking, but in a perfect world . though the musky-patchy drydown is less than ideal. (By comparison, Angel, which I am wearing today VERY lightly!! The parfum of CM reminds me A LOT of the Badgley Mischka fragrance, minus all the dried fruit and fruit fruit accords that zing up BM. I hear your plea! 4 February ~ winter reading poll. In certain cases, its a sign of a more serious underlying issue. CM will probably always remind me of nights out but these days I wear 31 Rue Cambon while also wishing for Cuir De Russie and Sycomore. Mayo Clinic Staff. I recall one day last summer when I made it all the way to the grocery store before realizing I had no perfume on!! Some cases of impaired smell may be permanent. A big gold necklace, a mohawkyes, I can see it! *scrubs monitor and keyboard clean*, I loathe Coco Mademoiselle on meits very harsh & masculine. HongKongI agree with Rapple, try a sample and see what it is like on you. I wear it quite frequentlybut that one dayit just wasnt cutting it. Youre one of the lucky ones. I gave it to my best friend (same one I got the LE sampler for). Im so glad you love it! Filed Under: perfume talk Tagged With: chanel, flanker, jacques polge. I used to hop on public transit every day and while the usual odor of mild annoyance is an appropriate enough backdrop, a woman who had a particularly affectionate view of Coco Mademoiselle sat beside me. Pour some sugar on me.. When I was a little girl, I remember seeing bottles of Emeraude, Imari, Chanel No. It really does have a split personality. Another candidate had just entered the room. There is that musky-patchouli base to consider, thoughwith the right swagger in my step, who knows? Hey there! They say its too herbal. Coco Mademoiselle Parfum by Chanel is a Amber Floral fragrance for women. the longer i get into marketing the more it seems that this magically attractive 20 30 gap is all about immaturity and loving all the wrong things. If thats the case, you probably wont like No. I inherited none of the ability at all. I got an identical dry down from Chance and Coco Mademoiselle. Maybe you should have a bottle. All rights reserved. Angela: Im sure I have a vial of this somewhere, but I dont think Ill be scrambling to find it any time soon. That's o.k. Thanks, Angela, for addressing the subject of marketing in your post. I guess they had something good going with Coco Mlle, why not try a little of it in Chance? Im grateful for NST (and other wonderful blogs) for helping me learn more about whats out thereso thank you and all the other contributors for your terrific articles! That could be good AND bad! I have to confess. (This was in 2002, ohdear.) They sell it in Marshalls 1.7oz for $25. Video LOL! So my husband approach her husband to say, your wife just passed by and her fragrance was outstanding. Certainly Coco Mad isnt a gourmand, but to me its too fruity, too patchy, and yes, like you say perfumey (which I just attribute to Chanel everything seems perfumey from them, and I say that in the best way it actually smells like perfume, rather than the candy, fruity messes that pervade the shelves disguised as perfume!). My sister wears Coco Mlle very nicely. It sounds like you and Coco Mlle are a great match. There is something about it that makes me want to re-visit on a more frequent basis: I think its because my shnooze became overly sensitve to all these mass-produced fruity/gourmand scents that girls wear these days. Sounds like you need to wear them side by side for a day and see what you think. Another instance of Coco Mademoiselle abuse occurred during a commute to work. But after having it on for a while, it would make me actually feel queasy and I never fell queasy. In a traditional tarot card deck of 78 cards, we find romance, love and intimacy sprinkled throughout many of the cards. Absolutely! Maybe Ill snag a sample and try it out. I am in that gap and I started from Mitsouko not arrived to it after all sweet-florals confections. Does Having Narrower than Typical Nasal Passages Pose Health Risks? T made me snort coffee up my nose.:). We had a commenter above who found it too masculine! I think it is genetic but possibly not dominanteveryone in my family can do it, but no one in the CEOs family.my daughter is very disappointed to not have any Spock-eyebrow abilities. I still keep my bottle though, because thats what I wore when OH and I started dating and its still the perfume that he seems to like best. Again, not bad, just no longer me. Autumn would be a nice season for Coco Mlle. At the same time, try Coco, too, if you like classic orientals. Nice one, Graham. And too my detriment, like the more girly scents, so that makes it hard to find a Chanel. I do plan to give my sister-in-law Penhaligons Elizabethan Rose. Can a Loss of Taste and Smell Be a Symptom of COVID-19? Funny how these things work. In my younger, but not necessarily that much younger, perhaps just a little poorer days I wore Chanel Chance. i like it, but could never wear it. I honestly dont like to smell like food,even desert. I was in my early 20s and it was my first Chanel. and she put some on in the airport duty free a couple of weeks ago and it jus went vile I said do NOT get that, I made her try Miss Dior Cherie because its similar to Coco Mlle and Id hate for her to have a bottle of Coco Mlle and then try Miss Cherie and like it more. Thats a sort of milestone in itselfyour first scrubber! Im in luck theremines in a rollerball. I dont remember ever giving CM a sniff, but I will, just as part of my fragrance education. Im in the Deep South and it seems everyone under a certain age here wears pink perfumes, if you know what I mean. It would have been a heartbreaker to have invested in, then loathed, that one. no need to go on a travelling circusi have one right here and my third preteen has joined the ranks with his older sibling of cracking up/be highly embarressed of me!!! I might have to research my honeymoon locale and see if they have a perfume store there. I was actually worried it wouldnt be enough.. Anyway, this is what I meant to say Absolutely! 5 bottle. well, I never get what other people get from fragrances.Im weird, I guess. (I can only do the right). Impaired smell can be temporary or permanent. ok guys, will do that They can also help determine if an abnormal growth or tumor in the brain is altering your sense of smell. I had a hard time describing how I felt about CM, because I definitely dont like it on me, and yet I really do like smelling it in passing on others. And a fair amount of Prada and Flowerbomb. Nice analogy! I suppose its a great marketing strategy and gives people the chance to buy into Chanel at a lower price and more mass-market scent, then climb up the ladder as income and taste improves. To me Gaultier 2 is much sweeter and that is an unisex scent. Angela nice theme on the Chanels. Now, I feel like you, Angela still quite like to smell it in passing on others but wouldnt wear it myself. .). and on me it dries down quite masculine !!! I hadnt worn it in years until I decided to revisit it last week. I just hate smelling it from a hundred feet away. For my part, although I enjoy catching whiffs of it on others, I'd be happy never to wear it again. I think Id have ended up hating most of my favorites if I had to spend an hour in a company of somebody abusing it. I think that alone broadened its appeal. Its nice to wake up in the morning and reach for a perfume you really love to wear. Hey, if you get bored with your life now, you could go on the road with the circus! I like it just fine, but easy on the trigger. On the other hand, I sniffed Coco for the first time at a friends house LOVE IT! Despite its potency, there are still people who think Coco Mademoiselle needs to be sprayed more than twice. I am not crazy about this either but you would be surprised how many women I know in their fifties and older who wear this very happily, in ignorance of its intended demographic. I guess Chanel tried Nicole Kidman for No. hey, Kalynna I can send you samples of both with your split of HV, and Im hoping to get the HV in the mail really soon (or Im going to go nuts from waiting!). For some reason, Coco Mademoiselle is a particularly potent fragrance. I love the stuff, its my general daily go to fragrance right now. (ya gotta let these SAs know where they stand), guys..i can do the spock eyebrow with the left..the whole three leaf clover tongue thingy and..i can move my ears without anything else on my face!!! It can describe a complete inability to smell, or the partial inability to smell. Bois des Iles is a good onecould be your Chanel. I just like fragrances for the joy they provide. Giving us the interesting face of Audrey Tatou for the new No. unfortunately, most weeks, Kroger is as good as it is going to get. Oh, Good God, Angela. I still have a few mls of Coco Mlle to retest down the road. Second try: it smelled like a Yankee Candle shop or generic potpourri refresher oil. But for most days I spend several minutes getting bottles out and sniffing to see which flicks that ahhh button in my brain for the day. I dont wanna shell out $115.000 for it and I grow tired of it. What more do you need to say? Cheap thrills Ill have to try them side by side. why, oh why cant I get any of that out of CM? I admire CoCo for the perfume she must be on other people, but it all depends on skin chemistry, I guessat least I have my CoCo Mademoiselle! Our website services, content, and products are for informational purposes only. Ill be happy to split this three ways, certainly makes it more economical Ill email you both. In the end, I got the call telling me the company went with someone more experienced with print advertising as opposed to what I do and I went on my merry way. Im not young at 49, but Ive never minded an age appropriate perfume. I think youre going *with* the flow, really. I was browsing at Ulta before a date once and gave myself a hearty spritz.as soon as I got to the car I knew I had made a mistake. Keeping a humidifier in your home can loosen mucus and help relieve congestion. I also think that being an oily skinned brunette somehow makes it easier for me to pull off a lot of the more masculine scents that I wear. But not without remembering how the tiny interview room reeked of Coco Mademoiselle or the three creative directors who were fanning their noses when I walked in on them. (go figure!). I had a sample of the edp that I put on a rainy day, and never looked back. My grandma was queen of Spock eyebrow and had brilliant, piercing blue eyes to boot scary! I think its one of the most feminine and sexy fragrances for women out there. I can do both my eyebrows if I want. I think if you love Cuir de Russie, you should go for it. I hope that refund comes soon, then! ), Left eyebrow only. another chance and love it? Don't subscribe
There! Especially if they live in Vancouver. Is my perfume too strong?, I make that weird pained/wince face that some people make when theyre about to deliver bad news and theyre afraid some giant disembodied hand is going to fly out of the sky and slap them. Coco Mlle smells like sharp, screechy florals Allure, too, it seems. (another cool thing for your resume) because this is EXACTLY how I feel about CM. My Chanels No. lolI embrace my own element of weirdness but sometimes I do get wildly different results from perfume. Its not my cup of tea but I think shell really like it. Great review Angela. It sounds like we see it the same way! It deffinitely is unique though, because I can always tell when someones wearing Chance. Im so glad Coco Mlle is great on you! Top notes are Orange, Mandarin Orange, Bergamot and Orange Blossom; middle notes are Turkish Rose, Jasmine, Mimosa and Ylang-Ylang; base notes are Patchouli, White Musk, Vanilla, Vetiver, Tonka Bean and Opoponax. Losing your sense of smell, known as anosmia, can make, The decreased or altered sense of smell, called olfactory dysfunction, was originally thought to be due to damage of the olfactory nerves. That spot in the store didnt stop smelling like Coco Mademoiselle until 48 hours had passed. The fact that youre here, reading about perfume and presumably sampling it to come up with your own conclusions, says a lot. See, I dont actually hate Coco Mademoiselle. This perfume is really good fresh, with a new bottle.. but after some time the EDP is too strong for me. =(. I personally love CM as a fragrance. Its nice to have the Coco Mlle around, though, to remind you what you used to love. Then another day a month or two later, I wore it again, and didnt have the same reaction. Theres lots of Coco Mlle here, too. 100 Fragrances Every Perfumista Should Try, Chanel Le Lion de Chanel ~ fragrance review, Rgime des Fleurs Chlo Sevigny Little Flower, 100 fragrances every perfumista should try, And 25 more fragrances every perfumista should smell, 50 masculine fragrances every perfumista should try, 26 vintage fragrances every perfumista should try, 25 rose fragrances every perfumista should try, How to make fragrance last through the day, Fragrance concentrations: sorting it all out, On reformulations, or why your favorite perfume doesnt smell like it used to. I have to switch between scents frequently since my mood ( body chemistry?) Love the review though, and you described the effect of screechy perfumes perfectly with the fan belt analogy. CM will probably always remind me of nights out but these days Im wear to 31 Rue Cambon while also wishing for Cuir De Russie and Sycomore. It reminds me of wearing floral perfume while snuggling on the couch a hot guy. First try, I fell in lovedelicious fresh orange, some aldehydes, spicy lily, apricot. I dont think CM is horrible, but I dont think Ill wear it either. I love that about the universe. I wonder if advertisers figure that the mature audience already buys perfume, so why advertise to them? This will help to restore smell. Decongestants and OTC antihistamines can help relieve nasal congestion caused by allergies. It sounds like it suits you, though. For some reason, Coco Mademoiselle is a particularly potent fragrance. I always thought that Chance smelled like it could be a flanker for CM. Oh, and calling Luca Mr. I hope you get your decant! and some real beauties (right there with you on 31 Rue Cambon and Bois des Iles). My mum, for instance, never evolved past them. Bad memory: getting drunk in the streets. Have you tried the masculines? Yikes! I already know better than, when Im low, to try something new I might like. Jacques Polge really does have his hands full, I guess. . Who knows, maybe one day Ill give the Mlle. Shes a light applier like I am, which may be why its appealing on her. She was up first, I wished her luck. It screeches in a way that is fine for a few seconds, but profoundly irritating any longer than that. It relieves stress, is fun, and has allowed me to learn so much about fragrances and the perfume industry since I started this blog. The fragrance just doesnt like playing nice, I guess. Perfumista tip series Wash your hands after touching public areas. All rights reserved. Thats just the way it is.and thats one thing that makes perfume so interesting. . It is not that sweet. Loss of smell (anosmia). What a great gift! Maybe neither of them is right for you. but she hates Miss Dior Cherie (edp) so I dont have to worry about that lol. Normally, I like musk just fine. However, in Women's Wear Daily 1 before Coco Mademoiselle launched, Chanel's "Vice President of fragrance and internet marketing" 2 said Coco Mademoiselle could double Coco's business. Doing either would certainly be nice. In fact, the aldehydes are a signature of Chanel scents. If you have an impaired sense of smell, call your doctor before using over-the-counter (OTC) treatment products. Theres not much nicer than finding you really like a scent you already have. Good idea, Angela! Here's our privacy policy, and a handy emoticon chart. 5 parfum that stunned me so with its beauty. In Perfumes: the A-Z Guide, Luca Turin writes that Chanel Coco Mademoiselle was a quickly assembled flanker, and its success surprised Chanel. I loved those old ads with Ines de la Fressange. Email me at krnszn@gmail.com and lets chat! But those random whiffslovely. I love the way you describe it. Of course anyone is free to comment. Cool beans. 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