Reviews of Bleu de Chanel Eau de Parfum by Chanel

6/10 it kind of works as a showergel from chanel vibe but its not full bottle worthy

In making the EDP more dense than the EDT, Chanel has (inadvertently?) sent Bleu straight into the realm of a shower gel scent. Unremarkable and not particularly easy on the nose.

Not great. In fact the frankincense gives the whole an "off"-vibe to me. You know like some people find cumin to be kinda BO-like.

But in this case the whole concoction reminds me too much of the smell of some type of blue/aquatic toilet cakes.

Is it just the incense or do Chanel sneak some civet into this as well maybe? That might be my mind playing tricks on me though.

There's like a hundred much better blue scents out there: AdG Profondo, Ralph Lauren Polo Blue, Invictus/Hawas, ...

I am a niche fragrance lover. I have over 300 bottle of fragrances. This one was about to be givwnen away because I couldn't remember why I owned it what it smelled like. I sprayed it to be sure I wanted to part with it and I could not.

This is a super fresh, spicy, citrus blast that lasts. No, it is not unique. I've smelled similar but the similarities are only with regard to some of the ingredients. For me, this lasts and it's timeless. I won't be able to part with it after all.

Sillage 8/10
Longevity 9/10
Price 8/10 - u can buy online & at discounters
Great scent
Age: 29+
Season: all
Would I buy again? Yes

I would love to know if anyone has any better frags that are similar to this one and why.

Fresh, citrusy, sophisticated but definitely not unique. I bought it last month after smelling it on a paper strip at the airport. I'm wearing this almost every other day since trying to figure out what I'm missing- this perfume has been successful for the house of Chanel so I'm trying hard to get the missing link! I have the EDP version and after the fresh summer vibe it just stays like that without a proper drydown before it fades away in a couple of hours.

First fragrance I’ve smelt that’s made me gag, not a fan of this despite give a fair chance just something about it makes me feel nauseous

Being relatively new to the fragrance game, I wanted my first sniff of a blue fragrance to be something quality, so I've started with Bleu de Chanel eu de parfum, and ... wow.

So fresh and clean, no bitterness, with a long-lasting drydown that incorporates traditionally 'masculine' notes like vetiver and pink pepper, and ultimately settles into a rich warm place with ginger, cedar, sandalwood, and amber. Quite the journey, and one I could appreciate throughout the entirety of a day. This stuff lasts, and this stuff projects.

I've been much more on the niche side lately, but Bleu de Chanel might be the one to drag me over to the designer side of things. In contrast to so many reviews here, I do find this fragrance exciting and beyond 'average'. It is in fact considered a designer masterpiece (which is why I thought I'd start my exploration of blue fragrances with it) - and it absolutely did not disappoint.

Blue: perfected. Folks are quick to dismiss Bleu de Chanel as the product of an ill-advised focus group in a shopping mall somewhere. They're missing the point entirely. The beauty is that Polge has created a fragrance so utterly well-blended that there's nary a fault to be found. Original? Nah. But neither were The Rolling Stones.

Bleu EDP opens with a crisp citrus blast that is somewhat darker than the EDT. Its lifespan encompasses three fairly distinct phases for me: the bright aldehyde/citrus opening, a heart of jasmine and ginger, and a dry down that teases a salty, metallic marine accord atop an intentionally understated sandalwood, with moments of citrus returning for an encore. The longevity and sillage are average. It'd be easy to complain about both because Bleu can be quick to cause olfactory fatigue. That's okay. It's probably a Chanel thing.

Bleu de Chanel EDP doesn't reinvent the wheel. It perfects it. It's everything Dylan Blue, Polo Sport, Polo Blue, Sauvage, and Armani Profumo can't be: nearly perfect and intentional. Big thumbs up.

A bit more tolerable than the EDT, but still pleasant in the air. A bit smoother in the drydown, but I don't think there are enough differences to warrant a purchase. I'd probably go with this or the Parfum.

By far one of the most versatile fragrances I have used. Currently my daily wear fragrance.
Though I have tried EDT, EDP and parfum. The EDP one is still my favorite in terms of scent composition and projection.
EDT tends to be more lively with its citrus notes, whilst EDP more so with amber and sandalwood notes. Parfum variants opening is slightly weak compared with EDP instead they become washed down by the strength of the woody notes. I also found that the transition from citrus to woody notes with was much cleaner and subtle whilst retaining that spicey warmness in EDP. My personal opinion is EDP is the winner however if you are someone who is unsure to go for EDT or parfum then go for EDP, which has best of both worlds.
In terms of sillage, the opening is strong but not strong enough to fill a room or draw attention. Strong enough to be noticed by someone a few feet away however this does not last long and soon switches to a skin scent with longevity around 4-6 hours dependent on environment. If you are someone who wants longer projection then opt for parfum.

Scent - 8.5
Sillage - 7 (2 ft 1st hour)
Longevity - 7
Value - 9

This is a legend that deserves it's good reputation.
I'd say its one of the most wellblended scents around the block.

Best of the best


Scent 5/5

Masculine citrus. Sour, breeze-like. Slight ocean breeze vibe. Piercing, almost bitter vetiver. Just a touch of rosy, pink pepper. Elegantly blended. The top flows into the heart effortlessly. I enjoy this!

Bits of spice and mint stand out at times. The base is smooth incense and woods. I'd enjoy this on my man. Well done!

Bleu and yellow. Sunny sea fragrance with a lot of citrus. A change for a fragrance that's intended for men. Could easily be worn by women.

A definite improvement on the edt (which was a thumbs down for me for its unwearable synthetic scratchiness).

Compared side-by-side with the edt, the edp is noticeably more smoky/incensy, but I don't find this evident when worn without the edt for comparison. The rough edges have been smoothed in the edp and it's a much more enjoyable wear.

It's clean smelling and versatile, but ultimately unexciting. I imagine people would ask you what body wash you use and not what fragrance you're wearing. There's nothing wrong with that, but nothing exceptional about it either.

Very pleasant fragrance. After wearing a few times..just not 'me'. I have taken it out of my rotation and looking for a new home for the bottle. Only wore maybe 4 times with 4 sprays each.

This is pleasant to smell, decent.
None offensive, office and every occasion wear.

Opens very fresh and citrusy.
Then goes into the woody incense stage which is ok.

Nothing ground breaking, but deffo worth a try.

Scent 7- 10
Projection 5- 10
Sillage 5 - 10

Around 5 hours on me before skin scent

A true Swiss Army knife of men's fragrances. Great for just about any occasion, though never the best at any given situation.

Ultimately, a scent that I catch myself trying to get more of as the day wears on.

Just like the original....Totally boring and uninspiring!

I said my piece on the whys and wherefores of the Bleu de Chanel (2010) line on the entry for the original eau de toilette that launched it, and despite every indication from the learned and scrupled crowd of male fragrance connoisseurs here on Basenotes pointing toward Bleu de Chanel being a vapid generalist sell-out, the overall effect of wearing the late coming Chanel entry into the aquatic genre by making a non-aquatic blue juice was actually pleasurable. Granted, an aquatic is an aquatic is an aquatic, even if it technically is not, as all the myriad children of Davidoff Cool Water (1988) have a very narrowly-defined blueprint to which they must adhere whether they have an aquatic note or not, if they wish to be recognizable for what they are to the layman, and that makes even Chanel's uncommonly sophisticated entry still a victim of the "if you're not a beer drinker" argument that states if you don't like the style, Bleu de Chanel still won't change your mind. With that having been said, taking the alternative concentrations route instead of the flankers route was a surprising move for Chanel here with Bleu de Chanel Eau de Parfum (2014), as everyone just so intently expected a sport, intense, eau fraîche, la nuit, or something other than just an eau de parfum option of the best-selling masculine. If you know anything about Chanel's practices with concentrations as per what they usually do with their feminine lines, you'll probably have already guessed that this is a slightly different composition and not just more perfume oil. Chanel had initially done this with masculines too right around the end of the 20th century, with entries like Chanel Pour Monsieur Eau de Toilette Concentrée (1989) or Égoïste Cologne Concentrée (1992), but it hasn't been since then that something like what we have here has appeared.

Four years after the release of the original mega-popular Bleu de Chanel, comes this EdP, and there still wasn't much competition then since Prada Luna Rossa (2012) didn't really light anyone's world on fire, plus we were still a year away from the launch of Dior Sauvage (2015), the biggest challenger Bleu de Chanel has in the ambroxan and norlimbanol loudness wars. The composition to the EdP therefore doesn't feel like a marked improvement or variation from the original release, much like Égoïste Cologne Concentrée wasn't much different from the original Égoïste (1990), but had a few of it's graphic equalizer sliders moved up a few notches while a few others are slid down. In practical terms, this means a similar but dialed-down opening achieved by a few top notes being moved to the heart for sustain, then more notes stuffed into the heart, which is where eau de parfums work hardest, then a shuffled-around base to make the dry down feel differently than in the eau de toilette to (attempt to) warrant a purchase. Drier and lighter notes like lemon and bergamot, join the peppermint in the top, while grapefruit, vetiver and pink pepper move downstairs to live in the middle here alongside the nutmeg, labadanum, and cedar, with jasmine and ginger also intensified a bit. The only new addition to the composition is an old-fashioned composite amber accord, which provides a vanillic sweetness that hides the scratchy harshness otherwise caused by ramped-up ambroxan and norlimbanol, which is something later perfumes in this style by other houses would seldom even try to do at all. Sillage is lower than the EdT but the burn is expectedly longer on skin, but is it really better? No, and in fact, I find this iteration of the 2010's Chanel masculine pillar to be less dynamic and therefore less interesting.

I've always sort of felt that the very nature of "blue juices" goes against them lending themselves well to being perfumes. Colognes or toilet waters in a synthetic but breezy crisp style definitely have their place and have obviously resonated with the general public for three decades now, but their lightness is actually where their appeal lies, and to take that away is to doom their effectiveness as what they're intended to be. Simply put, Bleu de Chanel Eau de Parfum is a freshie that isn't fresh, and there will never be wisps of that effervescent and bouncy top past the opening 15 minutes like there is with the original eau de toilette, just a DMV waiting room of sweet florals, spices and synthetic base notes meant to simulate the comfort of real woods and animalics like cedar or ambergris, and it's all very "Glade Plug-In" at that point once the top is neutered on their behalf. If Chanel had wanted this to work better, they should have asked Jacques Polge to just totally reinvent it as a new scent like he did with Pour Monsieur Eau de Toilette Concentrée, which is a warmer, richer, altogether different experience than the original Chanel Pour Monsieur (1955) from Henri Robert. This isn't bad, but has the olfactive effect of digitally remastering an album to be louder, squishing the dynamic range in the process, and losing both crisp highs and deep bass to clipping in favor of terrorizing you with a crackly midrange vocal track which makes even the best set of speakers sound like a muzac system in the very same DMV mentioned above. Come on Chanel, you know better. More of a "good" thing isn't always what we want.

Disappointingly thin elevator guy type scent with no sillage and short duration.

The idea is nice (aftershave), but the execution is sub par and an insult to the price tag.

One upside is that it's less synthetic smelling than the EdT.


2/5

This scent is safe. This scent is familiar and not terribly inventive.

The opening is sweet, a kind of fruity musk. There's a purple Starburst somewhere in my childhood. BDC EDP smells just like that at the onset.

Beyond that it dries into something a bit metallic, a bit generic. I detect an ambroxan that isn't listed in the notes. It fits in the same bucket as Sauvage, ADG Profumo, and Dylan Blue. I think it's near the bottom of these types of fragrance.

The EDP isn't too far from the EDT, so comparisons between the two don't carry much weight with me. This seems to be about the same in its scent profile but with a better performance.

Again, it is safe, and it works in most situations.

Wear it to work, wear it day or night, wear it socially.

This is the kind of fragrance worn by someone who only owns one fragrance.

Scent: 4/10

Longevity: 7/10

Sillage: 8/10

This is a completely different beast to the delightfully frothy and tangy EDT.
Even the opening blast is sultry giving a grudging nod to the freshness of the EDT. It then settles down into something mildly synthetic and fougerie morphing into slightly metallic then settling into pure pepper on a bed of faded petals, fortunately with the pepper mellowing over time otherwise it would have necessitated a wash off situation.
I was hoping for a more mature and meaningful version of the EDT.
Nope. Just boring and generic.

Fragrance: 2/5
Projection: 3.5/5
Longevity: 3.5/5

I really do not get on with this style of perfume. A good, interesting opening, the "blue" nicely executed in marine notes, ginger, and pepper. But after that... suffocating and uniform. Where are the Chanels that make a statement?

A true EdP version of the EdT. Thicker, fuller rounder but less sillage initially. The difference is this will linger longer and form a nice cloud around you.

I don't necessarily like it better or think it is better than the EdT, you can't go wrong with either.