Chanel No.18 (edt) by Chanel, in its Les Exclusifs de Chanel range, is not the typical floral fruity perfume you’d find in a shopping mall these days, despite that it is marked as floral fruity. On the right person, it might be a great grown-up fruity-woody-musk perfume. Just like Mure et Musc by L’Artisan.
The opening is like dry woods mixed with some kind of bizarre (yet kind of addictively intriguing) blueberry type of smell, served fresh, no sugar; weird enough, there is this peculiar sweetness ( somewhat along the line of patchouli) surfaces around from time to time.
The opening is like dry woods mixed with some kind of bizarre (yet kind of addictively intriguing) blueberry type of smell, served fresh, no sugar; weird enough, there is this peculiar sweetness ( somewhat along the line of patchouli) surfaces around from time to time.
As the middle notes start to surface, I find No.18 is extremely similar to Mure et Musc, there is this type of muskiness which I find hard to pull off—it is definitely musky, but more on the dirty, animalistic end. Somewhat I find it too sharp and the thoughts of dark 18th centery workshop and caged animals live civet cats just haunts my mind; especially with the oddly blueberry skin type of sour fruitiness added in.
After this stage, No. 18 goes pretty linear and the muskiness is getting more and more tolerable.
After this stage, No. 18 goes pretty linear and the muskiness is getting more and more tolerable.
If you love Mure et Musc, you might have a high chance to love No.18. However, if weird musky fruity floral is not your thing, skip No. 18, you won’t miss out much.
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