Diamant by Fragonard
Diamant starts with the typical Coco Mademoiselle type of watery patchouli and muted mandarin combo, which actually does resemble Coco Mademoiselle a lot, just a bit heavier on the watered patchouli and less the nearly 'sports' perfume kind of 'fresh' aquatic smell. Minutes later, Diamant start to diverge a little bit from the Coco Mademoiselle core. Diamant, on top of the watery-patchouli-muted-mandarin-combo, has a swirl of cooling sensation added in, which is similar to the cooling feeling baby powder gives off, but he, there's no baby powder smell.
On my skin, within 2 hours, Diamant has reached a prematured death/dry down, which is quite nice, but unfortunately it h as zero sillage at this stage. It is totally transformed, no more Coco Mademoiselle type of patchouli or sports-perfume-y smell, what is left is just dry vanilla with a hint of dry woody sweetness, and a ghostly thin yet beautiful and not-in-your-face jasmine (like the one you can smell from Dior Pure Poison) lingers around every now and then for the coming hour.
The final dry down is the dry sweet woody vanilla lingering, some what it has a shy Chanel Les Exclusif-Coromandel-ish charm, which I find rather elegant than merely foody or woody vanilla.
Final verdict? I find that Diamant is a nice cocktail of Chanel Mademoiselle and growing up into the Les Exclusif Coromandel. Not bad as a perfume, but since Chanel is more available and more determined to express one personality, I'd say, make up your mind, Diamant, and I would much prefer to go for either one of the safer (eh-hum, I mean stable) Chanel perfume.
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