Chamade

Chamade Guerlain (Bee bottle, edt. 2019 batch, USD55) I can't believe something this beautiful create since 1969.. It is almost unusual unreal to me. This is soft floral green amber fragrance, it is truly unique in this genre. Yes, it's age but it's not old. Chamade, open with the haze of Galbanum. I do familiar. it's quite similar to Heure Exquise by Goutal. The sandalwood in the base is kind of similar here, Soft floral bouquet heart build up, this smell like a bowl of fresh petals to my nose, very clean and floral sweetness surprisingly somehow no musk involve. Within a hour of wearing, Chamade builds the soft sandalwood in sweet beautiful amber. On my skin very fast, most of greenness in opening was gone but petals heart still linger. Resulting sweet sandalwood - floral petals and support by Amber. I really like Chamade in this rendition, I think it may because of the offering in EDT. It makes the scent light, I think I can wearing this everyday too. It is not very ambery even you notice it and lite sandalwood saves the day. This smell majestic, warm. The sunset in spring when you sitting on the bench in the park in 1970's. I think you should bidding Chamade along with few other Galbanum - Floral scent. Chamade, how can you be this light but encapsulated the beauty of amber-floral so welly done. 9/10. Extension 1 : Same day. As scent further develop into deeper base. This one recalls me another fragrance, Bois des iles by Chanel. The way of Ambery Sandalwood with mild Indolic floral. But yeah, this one still lighter than Bois des iles. Longevity 6 hours. ==== Extension 2 on December 4, 2024 After I really enjoy Chamade, I wish for slight more ambery touch (more sweet). I found 2011 version in EDP (refilable gold falcon) and it is sweeter, hotter more ambery. I really enjoy Chamade & L'huere Bleue and greeting to miss Mitsouko time to time. ==== Extension 3 on April 18, 2025 Thought on Parfum de Toilette (around 1985-1990) Declutter sales from friend. USD30 I really enjoy Chamade. This is my 3rd bottle in various concentration and year already. One thing that in each single version. It seems changed a bit. From original falcon in 1969, the leaf bottle. I am not so sure that everyone will perceive the same scent as each version of Chamade. But I believe, strongly. That Chamade encapsulate the core message of scent. It never fails to keep me happy, a walk with floral and amber nature. My bottle of Parfum de Toilette. Develop slowly. Open up each layer like a Coromandel blind open deeper to the core. Not really Luxury, Oh-so-Frenchy manner. It an easy tide of Happy Clean and Green Galbanum. The pissy scent from Casis is not Strong in here. The bowl of fresh petal isn't presented here stronger either. It kind of Santa Maria Novella, Eau de Cologne release around the same era-likeness. A floral that dust with Benzonin and clean powder amber.. so warm. It have stronger benzonin base and sweet balsam. The amount of Amber is higher compare to my bottle of Bee Bottle in 2017. Which seems end with Sandalwood. But the Amber is still provide same transparent manner. That's why I mention it is the same message after all. I am witnessing this beautiful scent so easy, like really.. I wish I cloud bring my bottle to Anyone interest in Chamade. Somehow, It gives a peaceful balcony sit but this time you found your own serenity. Bee bottle is definitely lighter. But this parfum de Toilette is definite an early golden hour. The Refillable falcon (EDP), from late 00's. Have almost highest amount of Sweetness. And wear elegantly. Deeper Golden Hour. It have strong more French Backbone than The other two.. Hey.. .. It feels like.. how can I describe..? It kind of difference feeling. When I wear this compare to Mitsouko, L'heure Bleue or Shalimar. I don't really know how you looks at Chamade compare to Nahema or Samsara. or Other Guerlain Legend. From all those scent, Chamade. is Warmth and Happiness. It's a same feeling when I will truthfully write "All the best & Happiness" on someone Facebook wall, wish they know I mean it or hang on a phone when someone need a friend. A meal with Food you love on the same table with your dad and mom and nice conversation, It those kind of warmth. Sunrise by Norah Jones album or CoCo by Colbie Caillat. You got a friend in me by Randy Newman. I got a friend when I wear Chamade. And that's all the matter. ===== Extension 4 on June 27, 2025 (PdT) It's kind of funny. I come back here to write my thought. When I wear Chamade 2nd time in last 2 months. Just to notice that most of feeling in Extension 3 still true. Then, I here just to confirm my statement. But, The Balsamic sour with sweet cushiony benzoin white powder. drench in flower jasmin. Damn. Chamade never fails to make my sanity.

This vintage classic is one of my favourite Guerlain scents. Old-fashioned in the best way (without being dusty), this surprisingly bright green floral is ageless and timeless. I have a miniature of the inimitable original 1969 bottle - it's just a pity I can't wear it more often. I have yet to try the current EDT iteration, but I suspect it will be a shadow of its former self. Of course, it is hard to tell what effect time has had on my bottle, but the golden liquid seems to have held up well. The opening is a rich, hyacinth-heavy blast of floral accords. Some slightly indolic jasmine and a hint of bergamot round it out (I'm amazed that the citrus has survived this long), along with Chanel-esque aldehydes. It is beautifully green, thanks to the galbanum, and the hyacinth is somehow freshly green and stemlike rather than overbearingly waxy. In fact, it seems to combine the aldehydes from No 5 and the green florals of No 19 with the sweet-spicy warmth of the fabled Guerlinade accord, as brokesta911 below points out. The greenness of the opening gives way to a softly spicy drydown, but the floral heart persists, making for a wonderfully ladylike scent that avoids being staid. There is a delicious tangible floral quality to the drydown, pollen-like and akin to daffodils in the spring, as well as gentle woody notes. It fades to a soft natural-smelling amber-vanilla accord that wears close to the skin. A versatile scent, this works well for day or night but is best enjoyed in spring/summer. Sillage and longevity are both moderate, but given its status as a vintage fragrance, it is unfortunately not possible to wear this too often. Otherwise, it could compete with my beloved Shalimar for signature scent status. Complex, unique and extremely well-crafted, Chamade is a green floral bouquet that is balanced beautifully with spices, woody notes and aldehydes. It manages to be both warm and fresh as well as distinctly feminine. It also is (deservingly) housed in one of my favourite perfume bottles ever. A timeless masterpiece. 5/5.

Eau de Toilette, New Formulation Many highly positive reviews of Chamade are of vintage versions, maybe leading people to believe that the more modern/’reformulated’ versions are not worthwhile. I have a new refill bottle, and I compared it to a vintage Parfum de Toilette, and let me say that the new version is very lovely and definitely worth a try—it is an instance of some small tweaks and changes, not a butchering of Chamade that leaves it unrecognizable. The opening notes are of intense-green galbanum, dusty florals (hyacinth mostly), overlaid with a bit of aldehyde. The heart notes contain a perfectly pink rose—if you have ever smelled a wild tea rose that grows in the woods you know what I mean. Understated, smooth, sweet, gorgeous. The other florals, I smell lilac and jasmine, are very quiet backup notes to the big pink rose. When it’s warm out, and my skin heats up Chamade, I can detect some resinous balsams as well. The green galbanum of Chamade never goes away, and even in the basenotes, the green notes are complimented by a bit of sandalwood and vetiver. Chamade wears for 6 to 8 hours on my skin, and has soft silage. Stupidly, I almost swapped this away because I wasn’t wearing it much—I already have the EDP that I wear in the winter, and where I live it is winter for about 9 months out of the year. But all summer I have worn Chamade in EDT—I think it works best on warmer skin for sure. The only big difference I could find between that and the PDT is in the opening—the vintage opening is stronger and more dynamic—it just seems to have more layers to it than the modern version does, and the entire perfume has a bit more orris root and sandalwood present throughout. But that is all. It doesn’t last much longer, and it doesn’t project more (except during the opening.) So! You don’t have to track down old bottles of Chamade to enjoy it. If you want it, go for it, it wasn’t ruined (unlike my beloved Shalimar Eau De Cologne, which was recently murdered...shed a tear for Shalimar

In my 20's I shared a house with an older girl from NZ. She was about 16 years older, we both worked at the same place and she was like a wounded animal, having left a toxic marriage. I was on my own, looking for the next love of my life, and so the timing was right for us to share a place almost in the centre of the city, and have some crazy wild times as one did in the '80's. She would have been close to 40 and was determined to find another husband and we certainly had a lot of fun going out looking for such a specimen for her. She was quite beautiful but with such sadness (and a touch of madness) in her eyes, and she only ever wore one fragrance, and it was Chamade. I thought it was beautiful and haunting on her, she trailed it all over the office and home, it wasn't hard to guess where she'd been just by following her scent...and that fragrance was divine albeit too "mature" for my taste at the time...it had that understated elegance now completely lost in some of the modern fragrances. We lost touch many many years ago (I found the husband...) and I had forgotten about this fragrance until I saw it on Fragrancenet. I ordered it with some trepidation, on the one hand I hoped it had changed somewhat because I didn't want to evoke her completely, but on the other hand, I wanted to experience those memories cautiously. Chamade did not disappoint. I have no doubt this has been modified, but I suspect only in a minor way. The elegance of the composition remains intact, with the essence of the Chamade of old presenting itself around 10 minutes after application. It's a glorious melange of green and floral notes with sandalwood that dries down to an exotic powdery beauty. Highly recommended for lovers of the classic fragrances. Sillage 7/10 Longevity 8/10

To me chamade is a sweet perfume. Not just in the sense that the smell is sweet, but more so in the sense that it feels cuddly and warm. I have a 2017 batch and I’ve never gotten any green notes whatsoever. My batch smells just very warm, fluffy and sweet on my skin. My first thought when I spray it, is of babies. The opening smells EXACTLY like Zwitsal baby shampoo to me. And pretty much every baby in the Netherlands smells like that. So putting on chamade to me feels like rocking a newborn in my arms and smelling the fluffy baby hairs on their head. You may guess that to me this is a very comforting scent. It’s both nostalgic and endearing. Later on the resemblance with Zwitsal fades a bit, but the association with cuddling with babies stays. The note that stands out most in the opening is hyacinth. The aldehydes and Jasmine are definitely there too. Vanilla is prominent throughout, which makes this a very cosy scent. To me this fragrance is not sexy, mostly because I associate it with babies, it does make me feel very safe and comforted though, and also beautiful, because it’s a very beauty and delicate fragrance. And so cosy. I love it, but it’s not my favourite Guerlain fragrance. It lacks the depth and complexity of mitsouko and Shalimar. It’s a stunning fragrance however and definitely a timeless classic. There’s nothing I can imagine to be offensive in this, but alas apparently this doesn’t work well on everyone’s skin, so I guess you shouldn’t buy it blind (although I did and it’s amazing). EDIT: I promise I’m not a baby sniffing weirdo.. ok maybe a little, but not like a creep.. babies are just pretty much the best smelling people in the world without even trying 😅

I have tested wrist to wrist Chamade and Grand Amour. As a premise I would say that I have been loving and using Chamade for many years, that I find it one of the best perfumes ever not only among the Guerlain's masterpieces but in the whole world. But it would be untrue denying that the present Chamade is a pale ghost of what it used to be. I hope Monsieur Wasser will come up with a better reformulation as this version does do Chamade no justice at all. Grand Amour compared to Chamade is stronger and greener in the opening. Chamade is more flowery in the opening. Grand Amour proceeds with the greenery and then develops the flowers as a second step, the flowers starting to become more and more prominent as the fragrance settles down. Chamade develops the green note after the flowers, totally contrary to Grand Amour, but the harmony is very similar. Grand Amour arrives at the drydown with the green notes still there, just a little less strong, the flowers still prominent, some soap and some powder and all the woods. All together for a grand finale. A wonderful melody from beginning to end never lacking tension, never pausing, never stopping, going on and on for long. Chamade, the current one, arrives at the drydown so exhausted that all the players seem to have abandoned their place. It's a pity as they were performing so well until they played, why have they gone? They were so good. Please come back and take your seat in the orchestra and the conductor will make you play again. Your music is too good to be dismissed in such a haste. Silence please, let's rehearse a little bit and back again on stage. We wait patiently. Yours H.

This is a review of Vintage Chamade EDT spray from about 1979. I am the original owner of this large 3 oz spray in the classic blue and white refillable cylinder. The liquid is light tan, slightly cloudy, only 1/3rd is remaining. I recently discovered a shoe box of precious fragrances that I had put away in a closet for almost 20 years. This is one of three Chamades that I found. I committed myself to a spray from this old bottle from my youth. This had been my favorite scent, along with no 19, throughout my late teens and 20's. It accompanied me from high school, to college, to graduate school, working world, marriage and motherhood. Such a mature scent for someone so young, but I loved it and the sophistication that went along with wearing it. As most of you know, the Guerlains of that era were not easy to love, but Chamade was different. The initial blast of aldehydes made me afraid that the fragrance had turned bad, but within a few minutes, the excitement had softened into the perfect mix i remembered so well. The river of yummy green aldehydes carried me back to the field of lovely hyacinths softened and supported by the powder and woods that I remembered so well. There is a bit of drama and danger and dirt thrown in, is it the galbanum and benzoin that does that? Such a beautiful composition. The overall feeling is more floral than green, sexy and deep, timeless and complex. The same as it always had been. I need another spray.

Abstract bouquet. Happy, lively spring, solid and uniform powdery flower fragrance. Both aldehydes, chypre, and Orental, chamade is a combination of many fine qualities. Bright and rich, like a rainbow. Design the perfect three-stage structure, you can hear the notes constantly between the scales of the back and forth transformation, and color turning ... From yellow, pink, to green and white. Chamade is not the greatest Guerlain work, but it is very important and inspired later famous classics including Nahema, Parure. Chamade has the shadow of Y and Givenchy III, but better and more hierarchically. Unlike Jacques Guerlain, Jacques's work always has a faint sadness, Shalimar's feelings are more delicate, intense, and classical. Jacques was born with a background and experience that influenced his perfume art. Jean-Paul Guerlain points to the modern. Chamade is the basis for all of Jean-Paul Guerlain's fragrances. He was supposed to be 32 when he created Chamade. Jean-Paul Guerlain's niece, Ms Nicolai, mentioned her uncle's Chamade, which she thought was grossly underrated. Chamade fits my aesthetic. It's not like the aroma of my mother. Sunny personality women smell like this.

a floral bouquet.. of the garden of eve..balmy ..smokey ..oily ..rich ..mesmerising ..full..sensuale..a bit woodsy ..aldehydic.. powdery ..greenish..crisp.. alive ..in its own depth..strange as it may sound ..but it reminds me of an old armani perfume.. just called armani made in 1982 but that armani wa much heavier.. i couldn't take flowery perfumes and i still can't take them in unless they are mixed and hidden in the composition .. very royale..fine.. light yet deep ..its just right.. for those who want a flowery yet aromatic and woodsy balmy composition.. is unique in its own way ..with the gurline heart and soul ..and characteristic vibe.. it pretty modern ..for its time and age.. and still classic in many ways ..its a bit french ..a bit oriental ..and a bit from those asian exotic islands like bally or the maldives ..i can sense an exotic flower.and the toulu and peru balsmas and galbanum make it so rich and the depth that amber and benzoin and sandalwood with vanilla and vetiver make it extra rich edt in the golden round refialble 93 ml spray perfume ratting 4.4 out 5 bottle ratting 4.8 out 5 my own personal liking ratting 4 out 5

Since 2020 decided to level up to grim survival mode, I’ve been living spring vicariously through fragrance turning myself into a serious bout of escapism revolving around them pretty green florals feeling like an unmagical genie trapped in several bottles, but let me tell you how I wouldn’t mind being confined into this one in particular...a green floral that dries down to an oriental while steadily remaining a green floral? What wizardry is this indeed? Yellow meadow sundered by pale green light and creamy pollens, hyacinths so pretty without their criminal inclination toward detergent and soap, and strangest of all, like other reviewers pointed out, this is warm. A warm, fresh, green floral. Yup. Florals melding into warm skin under the spring sun of an optimistic Ophelia with a happy ending painted by a pre-raphaelite artist after being saved from the river. That impossible. That beautiful. The drydown is the typical bearhug from the Guerlain boudoir style, powdery oriental-ish trying to flirt with the flower-power generation and Jean-Paul Guerlain’s famous skilled botanical hand. I definitely don’t want to be let out of this bottle

Now, bear two things in mind. 1. Chamade, though a work of perfection, is not my favourite Guerlain. (Guerlain I define as only as classic Guerlain pre-Petite Robe Noire, perhaps even pre-Insolence. Nothing produced since is even worth the time of day in my opinion.) 2. I am reviewing my c.2015 bottle which is post-reformulation but pre unforgivable debasement. The thing about most Guerlain perfumes is that I find it extremely hard to isolate individual notes. Chamade falls squarely into that category. There is something floral, something zesty, something woody, but trying to tease it apart on that level seems to be missing the point, like evaluating Beethoven by looking only at the oboe line. So many perfumes have some kind of jarring note which clamours for attention. Chamade has none. It is immensely wearable, both reliably present and unobtrusive. It is the perfume equivalent of a good friend. And until LVMH come to their senses and listen to the Guerlain fanclub, I have to ration my one remaining bottle.

A friend that I made while I lived overseas, wore Chamade. She was 24 years older than me and so a bit of a role model. She was pretty, funny, witty and very talented.... and someone I tried to emulate. Her advise to me was "Say yes to everything and no to nothing". I did eventually purchase a bottle of Chamade, in hopes of catching some of her elegance and ladylike grace. Even now when I smell it, I think of her. It is floral but powdery and a little spicy as well. The hyacinth, lilac and other sweet white flowers are there but they are tempered my the amber, balsams and cloves. I am not fond of rose in fragrance unless it is well buried by other things. In this case, the rose is not noticeable to me. I don't know if I would wear Chamade again. I am learning that sometimes it is best not to go back once a fragrance has been out of of my wardrobe for a few years. I find sandalwood a little tricky these days so I don't know. Maybe one day again.

Not at all something I'd expect to love but it's a beauty. Starts out with an aldehydic burst so sharply green that it's briefly almost too much for me and then it turns into a warm, sunny, lush field of spring flowers on a softly balsamic bed of amber and sandalwood. I can smell the pollen of early April in Chamade. Beautifully blended, with the green notes floating through the rich floral air periodically and no one flower standing out. Like a bottled impressionist painting, it smells yellow, green, lilac, white. Just magnificent. My review is of early 70s parfum and cologne. The cologne is more sharply green, and brisker than the parfum. The parfum is much richer and rounder than the cologne. It has an oily-powdery thing going on in the heart that just makes me feel like pollen is in the air. I'm continually amazed to be reminded that Guerlain's old colognes blow modern edps away in terms of strength and longevity.

Chamade is a three act play: each act is strangely different, but equally moving. The opening scene is green and sharp, an effect heightened by a blast of aldehydes. It gives you no hint as to what is coming next. Thankfully, the suspense doesn't last for long... Scene two is the juiciest, freshest rose and hyacinth accord I have ever had the pleasure to smell: so true, so bright, so intoxicating. Jasmine provides a rich "tang" to the floral bouquet. The final scene opens with amber, dancing along with the rose, hyacinth, and jasmine. The amber is so well-balanced: not too sweet, not too rich, not too powdery...just soothing, warm, and intimate. The final scene goes on for ages -- the floral bouquet ever-so-gracefully steps into the background, and you are left with a gorgeous, soft balsamic warmth (and a faint flowery memory) that lingers and lingers... I never want this play to end. Bravo!

I spent the day in a bed of velvety pink roses. I spent the day in CHAMADE. It took some time to break through, as I initially found myself reminiscing about childhood experiences with a girl who had some kind of Barbie perfume that smelled a lot like the first waft of CHAMADE. A bit dusty and nostalgic, like Hitchcock's REBECCA. With time, however, I found myself surrounded by roses, roses, and more roses, as the dust and the memories all faded away. There are some days when a bed of velvety pink roses is quite inviting to me. I'll stay home with my divine furry white feline and wear CHAMADE on those days. In fact, while I'm on the topic, and as odd as this will sound, my cat often smells like a bed of roses himself, which has always struck me as one of the world's great unsolved mysteries. Can someone please explain why/how it can be that mon cher chat smells like a bed of roses?????

This reminds me of something I smelled as a kid on someone's dresser or in an empty room. The opening of this is striking and oily. It smells of the 1960s. I panicked. After the dry down, a highly aromatic smell with jasmine, rose (but I can't pull the scent out!), galbanum and balsam, a little green and benzoic drifts off your skin. Quite unusual and distinctive. What's left at the end of a long day is vanilla and amber. I've become enchanted by this perfume, taking long breathes to smell it on myself. I was torn between Nahema and this one. Once I've finished this one (if ever!), I'm going to buy a bottle of Nahema for the rose blast. Can Guerlain stop putting their older formulations for women into generic bee bottles? The original bottle of this has to one of the most lovely bottles I've ever seen. The bottle is part of the perfume's personality.

A few days ago I found a bottle of vintage EdP in a sort of "Perfume's Remainders" little shop. It was crowded with beauties from the past and - needless to say - I went away big a full bag (and and empty wallet)! I remembered the Chamade EdP from early '90 and how opulent it was, what a symphonic masterpiece it was. The perfectly preserved bottle I've just bought has the same magic potion inside, a dream, a total dream. The flowers blooming on your skin minute by minute, the balmy and woody notes coming out and the superlative lasting power (non existent in the current formulations, alas!). After the egregious prize winning reformulation of Mitsouko I would love that Monsieur Wasser takes Chamade back to its former life. A timeless masterpiece, the best floral on Earth. Undoubtely. Definitely. Undeniably. Absolutely. Chamade, mais oui.

My first review on Fragrantica...I'm excited! For my first review--my favorite fragrance. Chamade and I have a long history together...when I was nine my mom got a sample of Chamade at a local department store and passed it along to me...I was entranced from the beginning. It started out youthful, springy, green...then it got deep and flowery and to my young mind, mysterious...it made me think of the boy I liked back then (ah, the innocence of youth!) I just rediscovered it somewhat recently, and to me it is the "man (woman) of all seasons" fragrance. It is a fragrance a woman wears but it doesn't wear her; however, though she possesses it, she does not truly 'own' it...it adds a dimension to her--a secret garden of love and delight, filled with innocence and experience. Six stars on a scale of one to five.

Chamade is probably my favourite perfume aside from Rumba; I've worn this since age 19, when I first smelled it at Eaton's in Toronto, at the magnificent Guerlain counter when they had those gigantic glass perfume dummies of all the Guerlain bottles. I tried other scents but this one has stayed with me since; I loved the metallic green top-note that I hadn't smelled ever before, then came the rose-forward, velvety yellow floral notes. There is nothing like Chamade; however, I think Parfum d'Hermes tried to copy it. I don't see the blackcurrant buds listed in the notes, though, and this was supposed to have been the first perfume to use them. Brilliant bottle. Try it in the parfum concentration to get the full bouquet, from 1970s or 1980s - divine. A Guerlain masterpiece.

Review for EDP (new bottle) Chamade does so many things that current perfumes do not--it has a strong personality, at times it can be bitter, it smells grown up, it has actual layers and depth to it--if you take a deep breath, it will smell green and rich, but under neath you can easily detect a meadow of flowers, just like when you are outside and caught in a warm crossbreeze. It has subtle changes over time, like you are wearing a different perfume on the hour. It doesn't take the easy way out--it smells like hyacinth, and rooty iris, and REAL resins, which can be surprisingly acrid--it does not smell "fresh & clean." It bears the mark of a perfumer, an artist, and not a corporation and boardroon. Chamade is the odd one out nowadays, and I hope it survives forever.