Allure Sensuelle Parfum

I think I am in love. I wish someone would see my review and let me know what is closer to the parfum edition (not available anymore), EDP or EDT? I am 99% sure I need a bottle in my collection! One smell and an immediate travel back to time and 90's has started. Warm hearted people, dressy vibes, cleaner skies, Chanel's aristocracy. A smell that it looks like a natural skin scent or to my eyes this is how people used to smell when perfumed theirselves. I still can't understand how patchouli became from a total hate to absolute love (the fine line between love & hate, you know). To be honest, almost all perfumes of that decade smell the same, patchouli/labdanum/vetiver/vanilla were a must. Time transforms them to more specific ones and skin chemistry plays a big role. Nowadays, or the last 2 decades, musk replaced this 'soapy clean' mixture of the base notes mentioned above and sugarbombs look like they ruled the market. OK, I am not going to mention about how ingredients changed, quality, discontinuations and restrictions, reformulations. What I can assure you is that Allure Sensuelle Parfum and perfumes like it are not the one you wear for fun or fitness like we do now. It's ideal to feel like home, to date, to impress on a formal day/night. I can smell notes of the EDP hidden under the oriental vibes of Parfum like pink pepper, sandalwood, lavender. Maybe fragrantica was a bit more lazy back then to mention all these notes and used the 'oriental notes' (see the notes on the page). All in all, I get the sensuality I was expecting for and will always respect Chanel's perfumerie. Bourbon vanilla in a floral/spicy hug that hypnotizes body & soul...

I have owned a few bottles of this rich scent and recently purchased a new one Feb 2020 . THe first day I wore it I was elated. It came out of the bottle as a rich intense scent and stayed on my clothing all day with three spritzes . Two days later the scent seems to have lost a significant amount of intensity ! Now the perfume does not last more than a few hours on my clothing and seems to have lost 50 % of its intensity . I have had recent disappointments with Coco and Allure , which I wore for over twenty years . Buying this Allure Sensuelle was a calculated risk since the quality of the house has declined so much . You might question my ability to interpret this scent and its strength. That would be logical . Sadly a friend also purchased a bottle a few weeks after I did and she is having the same experience ! This is absolutely my last Chanel purchase . Their perfumes are too expensive to perform so poorly . I hope you learn from my experience and I hope the quality at Chanel can someday be revived .

Chanel Allure Sensuelle Edp is simply a great scent, very attractive, feminine and different. A timeless classic. I think it is a niche scent rather than a designer scent. Its longevity is very high and its spread is also very good. I can smell Allure every time I take my coat out of the closet in the winter. I feel very integrated with this scent, I can say it is my signature scent for winter nights.

This is a fantastic Chanel experience. As you have combined the best of Allure,Coco Mademoiselle and Chanel n5 perfume.Beautiful flower combination like Allure, modern and "coquet" like Coco Mademoiselle and creamy and warm like Chanel n5. And so sensual. Very rich and strong too. Very good quality.

Gorgeous, rich, potent, passionate, sensual, divine!!!! It's fabulous!!!! Beautiful spicy oriental, with the wonderful rose and jasmine giving it a beautiful extra rich, sweet lift. And sweet vanilla, dark and exotic. A deeply sensual woman's perfume. I loooove it.

It's a good one, but no surprise there! A deep, rich elegant fragrance! I can't say much about notes, because such deep and rich perfumes confuse my nose, but I sense it as woody, warm and spicy. It is indeed alluring and it also is sensual. Much more sensual than the Allure EDP. I think it's really worth a try, even if you're not into old-fashioned scents, you still might like this one. Timeless, elegant and luxurious!

It starts out like something very different to the EdP, very sensual and beautiful. Sexual, truly alluring. Develops this creamy and vanillary mood, with no real pyramid structure and then suddenly (and disappointingly) in turns straight into the EdP scent wise. Now, I like the EdP, but it has a harshness to it which I don't love. I'm astounded by how something that starts out so beautiful and different can end up so screechy and pissy. Very disappointed - with @kapted

This is lovely but terribly disappointing in terms of projection and longevity. Parfum??? I'm not sure I believe it. It seems like they just put some edt in the parfum bottle. My allure edt is insanely powerful compared to this.

Having made a big purchase from another perfume addict, they threw in a mini of this parfum. It's so potent I can see easily getting 20 applications out of a 1.5ml adorable mini bottle. Now, I don't fancy myself a Chanel girl. Generally their base of patch/vetiver gets very sharp on me and, despite occasionally falling in love with the opening accords of Chanel scents, only the Parfum of Cuir de Russie's ever captured me enough to buy. Having said that, this is a beauty! It opens with a rich, thick spiced sweetness, high class jasmine w/ a touch of rose, & what I'd swear it Chanel's smooth opening of patchouli. Also something very characteristically fresh, like all Chanel's I know of. I'd think the sweet warm spices were mixed equally with sandalwood, & I like that this is a tad sweeter than other Chanel's though so obviously built upon their backbone (I doubt this note pyramid is complete.) It gives great sillage on me, though the drydown does bring the characteristic Chanel patch/vetiver that I find too sharp to be 'nuzzleable', a characteristic I really need in my fragrances. (I seem to go anosmic to it quickly, I soon can't smell it. Maybe I should actually apply less, I think it's probably quite strong still!) The wafts are beautiful though, I will keep my mini parfum and ask others if they can still smell it on me. P.S. never smelled the original version [2.9.15]

Karl Lagerfeld was alive when this perfume was released, so I guess he might have had an input on this. To me the pure parfum is an homage to vintage obsession edp by Calvin Klein with a good dose of powdery old spice cologne. Definitely leaning masculine, and I do prefer the edp over this.

A very rich and an exclusive scent! Chanel is luxury and this one comes with spiciness, strong and dark one. But it has very low projection and longevity, wouldn't recommend it for summers!

I have a 35 ml tester bottle (no cap, no box) that I am willing to part with. I got it in 2017/2018. Feel free to send me a message!

@Vicky90 I've sent you a DM. :)