02/19/2015
ColinM
516 Reviews
ColinM
2
Champagne de meh.
Champagne de Bois opens with neither champagne nor woods, rather a “muskissime”, soapy, and extremely powerful blend which is overall quite similar to the smell of Marseille soap. Just a bit drier, if that wasn’t dry enough. There’s also sandalwood, warm and creamy here, but most of all musky soap – by soap I mean nothing “bubbly” or sweet like bath soap, but rather a “purely soapy” note, so really dry and almost metallic. As minutes pass the woods emerge, with also something camphorous-aldehydic bringing Champagne de Bois vaguely close, in fact, to some vintage Chanel’s, but just to some extent (musks-aldehydes-woods): to me it’s still basically a really dry woody-soapy greyish galore with woody accents – and nothing really animalic by the way, just something halfway onions and sweat after a while. My two cents: really powerful, a bit tacky, too suffocating and linear not to be boring soon.
5,5/10
5,5/10
