Allure Homme is an Eau de Toilette by Chanel created by Jacques Polge and released in 1999, a few years after the feminine Allure. The house describes it as a fresh, spicy, woody fragrance, where bergamot, Madagascar black pepper, vetiver, tonka bean and labdanum meet. It gave rise to an entire masculine family, from Allure Homme Sport to Allure Homme Édition Blanche.
For Kevin, of Now Smell This, Allure Homme opens on a sharp, acidic start that quickly fades, before a woody, vanillic, earthy base, well blended, more timid than bold.
What critics say
A sharp opening
Kevin devoted a review on Now Smell This to Allure Homme on March 20, 2008, alongside one for Allure Homme Sport. The opening strikes him as acidic and heavily alcoholic, sharp and sour, but it fades within about ten minutes.
A discreet base
The base, a woody, vanillic, earthy blend, seems to him well blended but blurry. The critic judges it timid rather than bold: vetiver, pepper, patchouli and labdanum appear only faintly.
Kevin ranks Allure Homme as average in quality, complexity and price, and hears it drift toward a light amber musk, common to many mainstream masculine fragrances.
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