Les Exclusifs de Chanel

Eau de Cologne Chanel 2007

8.1 / 10 238 Ratings

Eau de Cologne is a popular perfume by Chanel for women and men and was released in 2007. The scent is citrusy-fresh. It is still in production.

Main accords

Citrus

Fresh

Green

Spicy

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lemon

Citrus fruits

Bergamot

Green notes

Heart Notes

Petitgrain

Neroli

Spices

Base Notes

Musk

Tonka bean

Perfumer

Jacques Polge

Ratings

Scent

8.1238 Ratings

Longevity

5.4190 Ratings

Sillage

4.9193 Ratings

Bottle

8.5190 Ratings

Value for money

5.738 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 11.03.2024.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the "Les Exclusifs de Chanel" collection.

Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

04/24/2018

9
Bottle 5
Sillage 6
Longevity 9
Scent

Sweetsmell75
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Sweetsmell75

Top Review 33

Midsummer & the perfect companion :)

Summer nostalgia... yes, it's always there... winter is not my season. Never has been ...probably never will be! All the more beautiful when the first days of spring start already summery :)
I'm a sucker for summer, sunshine and hot days... ...so the Edelcologne of the Exclusif series by Chanel came to my mind again ... i was really enthusiastic about it last summer, I didn't buy it.
Yesterday, on the spur of the moment... to the Chanel side... free shipping and handling ... i just couldn't help it ... bang ... your order is being processed.
Cheer and rejoice! :)
Now he can come... the summer of 2018... and my perfect companion when the 27 degree mark is exceeded ;)

To the fragrance:
The Eau de Cologne starts with citrus fruits, bergamot and green tones. Citrus-green cool freshness flows from my wrist.
Neroli is not long in coming and fits perfectly into the fragrance.
Petigrain and spices (which unfortunately I can only sniff out as a spicy whiff) give the cologne a green-spicy-woody tone.
Into the base we go with a fluffy musk and tonka mix. Not too sweet and cotton-soft! Green speckles flash up again and again. *wonderful*
The durability unfortunately leaves something to be desired. Nearly 5 - maximum 6 hours then I have to press the nose to my wrist to perceive a tiny whiff of the fragrance. The Sillage is quite quiet ... but who likes a killer sillage when the thermometer climbs to 30 - 35 degrees? Exactly! ;)
Oh, yeah... why it should only be for us women remains a mystery to me. Absolutely unisex! The bottle ... beautiful and typical of the Exclusif range by Chanel.
The freshness kick to spray at very warm temperatures ... The Chanel-Edelcologne is cool-elegant and very harmonious. Nothing sticks in your nose. Well done Chanel!

Conclusion:
Midsummer & the perfect companion :)
Citrus-fresh with spicy sounds.
Wonderful musk-tonka base.
Edelcologne-yes that's what you get ;)

Psssst ... Summer test recommendation for all those who are not so familiar with the typical colognes (I am one of them!) ... this has nothing to do with 4711 ... this is a Chanel ;)

05/02/2020

5
Sillage 4
Longevity 8
Scent

FvSpee
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FvSpee

Top Review 27

Colonia instead of Corona. No. 6: Reformation Day.

So now I bought and read the "A-Z Guide" by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez from 2008/2009 (ok, not every single perfume review). I liked it a lot, but I was a bit disappointed. The general introduction was quite short and contained little that I didn't know anyway after three years of perfume membership. And the individual reviews seemed a bit confused and unsystematically selected to me, more oriented towards the American market and now already at the level of over ten years ago (well, you can't blame them for the last two things).

I was sometimes quite irritated by the content of the individual reviews and the evaluation. Some scents that I personally like very much, but which I also consider to be "objectively" important and very well made (like Opium pour homme, Obsession for Men or Annick Goutal's Ambre Fétiche) are dismissed as trash with underground reviews, and vice versa, there are some scents that I find really bad, but which are rated with at least four stars. With the few "fives" of the two star authors, there is quite a lot of agreement with my own insignificant opinion about "excellent scents", with Caldey Island Lavender and with Caron's Troisième Homme even up to the reasoning. However, I notice here that the Pope and his Co-Popeess (why do I always have to think of "Christo and Jeanne-Claude"?), unlike me, like difficult scents. At Breath of God and Sécretions Magnifique (fragrance Olympus at T/S) I have to throw up
Well, since I'm in the process of exploring and mapping the world of Könischwasser, I took a look at what "Die Zwei" have to say on the subject. In general, they are not big cologne fans, it's a bit simple for them, but if they are, then Chanel Eau de Cologne 2007, the best cologne in the world, that's for sure. Ok, I thought I remembered having tested it and found it ok, and actually, I discovered an older statement of mine with 8 points. So I ordered another 5 ml sample and tested it again. Here the result:

According to the high price and valency of the fragrance I didn't spray but sprayed it, but I sprayed it very abundantly: about 3 ml on neck and arms. After a few seconds of alcoholic-medical prelude (tuning of the instruments) we encounter a beautifully balanced mountain atrium. I used to think it was a lemon, but today I would say it is exactly half lemon and half bergamot. The rest is a citric accompaniment for fine-tuning, balancing and stabilising, there may be neroli, oranges and perhaps minimal floral and green stuff. But at the core: bergamot. And despite the high dosage, it is delicate, but zero creamy, but absolutely crystal clear. Crystalline citric. But still not sharply piercing or sharply cutting, but balanced and in balance. Very beautiful. I like it very much. But somehow it doesn't inspire me to storms of enthusiasm. I miss that "certain something". For me, it's just a very beautifully successful classic cologne, but nothing more. The woman from Spee who was consulted at this point said: "Yes, quite good". On my remark that this fragrance is the best cologne in the world according to the encyclical "De Coloniis" of the perfume pope, she merely put on a pitiful expression, which I would translate with "then I will become Lutheran".

I wondered with this crystallinity, which already makes you think of snow chains, where now moscha and tonkus remain from the base note, especially since the scent seemed to have disappeared after about 15 minutes. But in fact, from minute 15 on until about four or five hours after application, an extremely tight-fitting residue remains on the skin, which then rather reminds of a nice sweet lemon cream or even a lemon pudding. This is a nice gimmick. However, you can only smell it if you press your nose really deep into your forearm, which is annoying in the long run. Or you leave it to your partner during lovemaking, but lemon pudding may not be the ultimate in this situation. So what really counts are the 15 minutes of freshness.

But for that the 140 Euro for 75 ml are too expensive for me. Not because I would expect a cologne (and here it's a classic light cologne like 4711, not a titular cologne like Colonia by AdP) to have a long shelf life, no. But because for a very nice, balanced, refreshing short citric, there are products that offer almost the same quality for a fraction of the price, like Maravilla for 2.99 Euro per 50 ml. So it would also be very good to justify giving 8.5 points for this very valuable and noble looking fragrance (but that's all, because it doesn't really captivate me), but because of the clearly exaggerated price I stick to the 8 points I gave on the occasion of the statement. Here I stand and can't help it.

And there is also a gimmick from me, namely again a reference to a Cologne that has already been commented on and is therefore no longer suitable for series production:

6 a) "Cologne Grand Siècle" by Pierre Guillaume from the PG-with number series: An atypical cologne with long-lasting citric and at the same time strict, dangerous-looking accompanying notes. Freshness with predator. Not really my thing, but very interesting isses already; 8 points generously awarded at that time: https://www.parfumo.de/Parfums/Pierre_Guillaume/Cologne_Grand_Siecle_No_7

06/15/2018

10
Bottle 2
Sillage 4
Longevity 10
Scent

Duftsucht
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Duftsucht

Top Review 23

About Pattex and other adhesives..

.... it seems to me that here on Parfumo the subject of "shelf life" is often complained about - especially with colognes, which naturally contain fewer fragrances and are therefore always more volatile. Alternatively, a certain synthetic note is sometimes criticised, especially in citric summer fragrances that last a long time. Many of us are just looking for the transparent-light-eternal-holdable fragrance for the summer - I count myself there explicitly!
Be that as it may, since I've been using Chanel's ethereally floating Eau de Cologne, I've known one thing. Hermessence "Osmanthe Yunnan, Rose Ikebana, and Myrrh Eglantine, which I have recently lamented for their volatility, are Pattex! Yes, not somehow Eagle Owl or Tesa or anything else where there is a chance to remove it from children's hair or with children's fingers glued together. No: Pattex! The comparison makes me sure!
Chanels Eau de Cologne refreshes me at the first spray with a delicate, sour, fresh lemon. Who doesn't believe me that there is our acid lemon, not bitter lemon, which nevertheless smells like lemon, should definitely test it for yourself! And then there's Neroli, but an extremely noble, dimmed species and 4711 as far away as the next inhabited planet from Earth and just below something green. Nothing bitter or bitter, most likely like basil mixed with freshly cut grass on a not too hot day. The citrus note fades away quickly and fresh green remains, into which an equally delicate green-spicy vanilla is increasingly inserted. The fragrance does not become sweet in the base, although one smells vanilla and musk clearly, but remains light green. Quite, quite great cinema, but of the quiet, withdrawn kind. Maybe a French film, black and white of course, not tragic or deeply sad, but a trace distanced and distinguished beyond all measure and noble!
And now we come to the price for which this translucent fragility has been bought: I could spray it practically every half hour, because although the scent can still be smelled on the skin after hours, it is so close to the body that I get strange glances because I stick with my nose to my forearm!
Oh dear, I'm in love! And I'm grateful to Chanel's Eau de Cologne, because it confirmed something I already suspected: There will be more fragrances in the souk, I want a much smaller selection of fragrances - and they will be mainly of the feather-light variety, supplemented by some that will give a real fragrance statement on certain occasions. Merci, Chanel!

05/08/2020

9
Bottle 5
Sillage 7
Longevity 9
Scent

Atanarjuat
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Atanarjuat

Top Review 25

Perfume Tours

Yeah, I did. You prophesied it! At some point during your fragrance journey, you take new hurdles, climb undiscovered mountains, sometimes go through misunderstood valleys. And step into clearings. Clearings like this one: Chanel's Eau de Cologne You'll have to reckon with the fact that many others from your collection will fall victim to this very same thing on your perfume journey anyway. That's where I'm critical and where I'm consistent. If a more beautiful fragrance comes to me, one in the same category or track, then, yes, the old placeholder has to go. Competitions, inner struggles - you may know that. And you feel sorry when a long loved fragrance has to go - unless of course it is one with memories, because memories are invincible!
Back to the EdC: Profane the first time you test it on paper, maybe even the first time on your skin - until it knocks you down, because of its valence, fineness and all the other -heat of this world. But this can take a while. Even repeated testing over several days! And then I get behind it: One must simply acknowledge the overall composition. As an Eau de Cologne, this Chanel radiates an uncanny freshness, green speckles, yellow rays and silvery wafting light at the beginning. It remains cool, 0° to spray on, amorphous, intimate, exquisite. The base is divine, a homely touch of sweetness surrounds cliffs full of orange blossoms, green notes and a little spice. Glorious and brilliant!

It always remains clear, fine, obviously simple and amazingly perceptible - even over time. Up close and personal, it is capable of getting through a day. At least on my skin: remarkable. But I don't think it's a great silage - but which Eau de Cologne wants something like that? Basically, I'm asking myself more and more frequently to what extent durability and silage should be quality criteria? For me they are not, per se. It always depends, of course, on what the perfume, its artist, wants to represent. If I apply an Eau de Cologne in the morning, I'm happy to wear something different in the evening. I think that's a good thing
I sincerely hope that Chanel's Eau de Cologne will be a fragrance from one of my memories. Because then it will survive here and accompany me for a long time on my perfume journey!

10/05/2020

9
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Aglianico
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Aglianico

Top Review 15

Fleeting elegance

It is sprayed, once, twice, three times, and after the alcohol mist has evaporated in the wide room, the velvety lemon enters the stage. Powdered, molecularized peel, oil atomized in cloud form. Its speciality is the paradox of extroverted silence. It is "blurred", blurred, out of focus, blurred. Olfactory watercolour art. Yet anything but blurred. Simply blurred. Robbed of its lace and acidic sting in favor of a pleasantly softness. Beautiful! At the same time, the unobtrusive presence of a little green-spicy-harsh creates a counterweight to the citric liveliness, as if it wanted to prove that harmony does not exclude a certain complementarity. Delicate veils of perfectly balanced ingredients are in the air, enveloping, floating, breathing around the wearer, whether in the early morning, when the cities are still in the pale light, or in the evening after a hot day. Tenderly, so tenderly, the ingredients whisper in your ear, tenderly we want to embrace you. And you ask yourself: Is this perfection? Understatement in gentle embrace with elegance and style. Filled into a slim, inconspicuously beautiful flacon, with a name on it that hints at history and costs, if desired. Or you have fallen into disrepair and can no longer resist. A fragrance that is little, wants to be little, small and yet big in its own way. A fragrance that carries the quick escape in its hereditary material. A fragrance like a passing phenomenon that wants to teach us about finiteness and the elegance of the ephemeral. Not a rock, but a long moment. One can think about that. Or sniff it out.

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