plotting and scheming powers already activated! but Coco Mademoiselle has youth and fruitiness. Especially if they live in Vancouver. YES!!! I just hate smelling it from a hundred feet away. Hm, then maybe it *is* dominant. The curse of Coco!! It must be like rolling your tongue. If you have a bacterial infection, you may be given antibiotics to speed up the healing process. Taste in fragrance really does seem to evolve over the years. This and Chance Eau Fraiche are the only Chanel scents I like, and Im really considering getting this. Im in luck theremines in a rollerball. Coco Mademoiselle was introduced as eau de parfum in 2001, as well as eau de . I felt pretty nauseous after finishing the interview in the room swimming in Coco Mademoiselle. I particularly liked the phrase high-pitched floral SMACK! and also have to agree with the screechiness and profoundly irritating and considering the popularity (big $$) of this one , I thought I was just missing it somehowin spite of an SA assuring me that it was just wonderful .its times like that, that make me glad for my Spock-eyebrow ability. I mean, NOOOO!!! LMAO! I wear it quite frequentlybut that one dayit just wasnt cutting it. Go figure! Well, I think a man could wear it. (This was in 2002, ohdear.) I often smell it on young women, I often smell it on professional women, and I often smell it way too well. I am so glad I am not the only one that doesnt care for Mlle. I like it just fine, but easy on the trigger. I really need to sample 31 Rue Cambon and Bois des Iles, they sound lovely! (go figure!). Oh, I dont mean that youre weird, but I havent smelled it, and anything called Brigitte. Whenever I see white musk listed, I want to run for the hills. the 20 minute trip home was almost more than I could take. I just prefer it meatier. I am wondering, and leaning on your expertise if maybe you could help me? Angela, thank you for the complementary reviews for this and Coco. I hope theyll give you a sample first so you can wear it a few days. ok..so the moral is..keep all our perfumes for ever just in caseoh boy i am so doomed!! Its like you can just feel the gears shifting through all its phases needs a clutch replacement, lol. I like CM once in a while (and Im 41!) Here's our privacy policy, and a handy emoticon chart. I dont find it old-lady-ish at all. I agree that over 40s might be likely to have found their favorites, although I grew up in a home largely devoid of perfume and spent many years surrounding by the scent-sensitive, so I have some catching up to do. Ugh. Trying to raise the right is like trying to write with my left hand. , I went crazy on the sprayer with a bottle of Eau de Fleurs de Cedrat. Cn5 is like the worst scent ever! Ill be sticking with original Coco, which is one of my all-time faves, anyway. It sounds like we see it the same way! Not even Bronze Goddess applied all over my body somewhere on Hawaiian vacation. I hope you're right, Mr. T. That said, sales figures show I'm in the minority. What do you think of Beige, No. I can see why people wouldnt like CM, and I can imagine prolonged exposure (ie. I like musk in general, but the last couple of years' new releases have taught me I don't like, at all, the bug spray-like musk infesting such fragrances as Lanvin Rumeur, Dolce Gabbana The One, and even Guerlain Idylle. However, this happened much more frequently in patients, A loss of smell and taste can occur suddenly in some people with COVID-19 and is often a symptom that develops early, sometimes before other. I admit it. However, in Women's Wear Daily1 before Coco Mademoiselle launched, Chanel's "Vice President of fragrance and internet marketing"2 said Coco Mademoiselle could double Coco's business. Mayo Clinic Staff. I am basically a floral woody-musk girl. At the same time though, Coco Mademoiselle is too weak for my liking. It deffinitely is unique though, because I can always tell when someones wearing Chance. Chanel is interestingsuch a bifurcated line. Coco Mademoiselle comes in a full range of perfume (including Eau de Toilette, Eau de Parfum and Parfum) and body products. You have a lucky mother. Luckily I had a decant of 31 Rue Cambon in my purse so I grabbed it and gave myself a quick spritzkeeping in mind that 31RC is one of my HGsI thought it was going to kill me in the Krogers!!! I sniffed Coco Mlle in Sephora recently on paper and thought it was nice so I got a sample (love those Sephora spray samples!). Can you do either eyebrow? 22 is in the top 10. I have no idea what happened. Other conditions that can cause impaired smell include: dementia (memory loss), such as Alzheimer's. neurological disorders like Parkinson's disease or Huntington's disease. Pour some sugar on me.. I dont think CM is horrible, but I dont think Ill wear it either. (And we wont even talk about Chance Eau Fraiche) They arent bad, they just arent Chanel to me. 5 ads, and Ines de la Fressange and Vanessa Paradis for Coco. Theres not much nicer than finding you really like a scent you already have. Luca Turin concludes his (four star, by the way) review of Coco Mademoiselle saying, "Mercifully, this style is on its way out." Im going to put on some Bois des Iles right now! My mum, for instance, never evolved past them. Its nice to have the Coco Mlle around, though, to remind you what you used to love. Fortnum and Mason might be more its speed. Then youll be one of the people I walk by and enjoy smelling! In fact, the aldehydes are a signature of Chanel scents. The impairment is usually a distorted sense of smell rather than a complete inability to smell. but I perfur parfums over colongne any day! I like Coco Mlle on other people, but it just doesnt smell good on me. Impaired smell can be temporary or permanent. The nose behind this fragrance is Jacques Polge. but I still want to smell them all). It smells so good on me my sister bought some, she lives a few states away but thats still too close so now I dont want to wear it. another chance and love it? Giving us the interesting face of Audrey Tatou for the new No. Must be the juice. Ive never revisited the fragrance and I really should now that its much more appropriate for me. I wonder if advertisers figure that the mature audience already buys perfume, so why advertise to them? Have you tried the masculines? Love the review though, and you described the effect of screechy perfumes perfectly with the fan belt analogy. In the same article, "industry insiders" guessed Coco Mademoiselle . But she IS a hugger and yesterday after one such friendly hug, her Coco Mlle mixed with my LUSH Breath of God, and for an hour afterward I felt wretchedly nauseous. Coco Mlle and D&G Light Blue are honestly the two things I smell EVERYWHERE here in Vancouver, on every darn elevator and at every crowded cocktail party. Second try: it smelled like a Yankee Candle shop or generic potpourri refresher oil. Or maybe that will be the way Coromandel smells to your nosewont know for sure until you test it. When Chance came out all I thought was it was a lighter vesion of Coco M. Thats good information, that Coco Mlle EdP changes over time. 5 campaigns certainly moves that line as far away from old lady as it possibly could without relegating it to, in my opinion, the almost juvenile associations I make with the blank prettiness of Kiera Knightly. The complete tag index, 4 January ~ damage poll Somehow I feel that I should be able to wear one of the Chanels, but so far (with the exception of Coco, which I have reached for a few times this winter) CM seems the closest to something I would actually want to wear on a regular basis. This makes it difficult to choose a scent in the morning! For me, the real curse of Coco Mademoiselle is the musk in its base. Why does that happen? Wow, great! I am not crazy about this either but you would be surprised how many women I know in their fifties and older who wear this very happily, in ignorance of its intended demographic. Nice analogy! today, i finally sampled coco..edp on left hand and extrait on right..but then.the shisheido counter fINALLY had MKK soi sprayed that all around my neck and heck, i cannot smell any notes of coco..just a whole lot of musc and skank and am enjoying that, I just threw that split desire out into the universe and look what happened! Keira Knightley is Eating This Perfume Bottle. ooooI bet nobody messed with your gramma! When I was a little girl, I remember seeing bottles of Emeraude, Imari, Chanel No. Great job, Chanel! I dont think shes ever had the same fragrance twice!! Hey there Perfumegeek and Karin lets go for it! Don't subscribe Nice! I might have to research my honeymoon locale and see if they have a perfume store there. I think it would be a very nice masculine. Nicole Leigh Aaronson, MD, MBA, CPE, FACS, FAAP, Septorhinoplasty: Everything You Need to Know. I am always amused (and somewhat baffled) by the fact that nobody in the industry seems to be marketing fragrances to people who are actually over 40! I love perfume, and for me, it is something fun to write about. On certain days, a perfume can smell like a holy grail, and on other days, it can be meh. It was incredibly amazing and I wondered why I didnt wear it more often. Such a grown up scent. 2022-2023 Well it made amusing reading anyway. But that musk. could hardly wait to get home and wash it off. I respect Coco Mlle, but Im with youCoco is more my speed. What if the scent fails to impress me like it did on its last go-round? In passing, it's pretty and interesting. It helps that my brows are naturally arched I can get that left one wayyyy up there.the higher it is , the more scathing my response. Herbal sounds good to me! I catch a hint of peach in it, too. mayoclinic.com/health/loss-of-smell/MY00408, This Is What Its Like to Live Without Your Sense of Smell, Here's Why COVID-19 Impacts Your Ability to Smell, Loss of Smell Associated with Milder COVID-19 Cases. And a fair amount of Prada and Flowerbomb. August 2022, Celebrity perfumes And if I have to fall for a mass-market scent, Im glad its the sophisticated perfumeyness of Chanel! Video I dont see the similarities between CM and Chance that others mentionedfor me (and on me) theres a huge difference between the bergamot and the screeching lemon in their openings. In some cases, your doctor may need to take a sample of cells from within the nose to make a diagnosis. It would have been a heartbreaker to have invested in, then loathed, that one. The first time I smelled it on someone I was blown away , and now when I catch whiffs of it its all I can do not to close my eyes and inhale deeply. I live in Vancouver and *hand on heart* I solemnly swear not to give anyone any Coco Mlle for Christmas. Its nice to wake up in the morning and reach for a perfume you really love to wear. I hope that refund comes soon, then! I think I need to wait a bit on Cuir de Russiebut maybe only until I get my tax refund! Perfumegeek you can reach me @ vdp1956 @ yahoo dot com. I still need to try Cuir de Russie and Sycomore.sigh, so many frags so little time. But not without remembering how the tiny interview room reeked of Coco Mademoiselle or the three creative directors who were fanning their noses when I walked in on them. Whenever I go out, its AngelAngelAngel. 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