Bleu de CHANEL Eau de Parfum

Andrei Lensky, Fragrantica

On December 23, 2025, Andrei Lensky says he turns to the Eau de Parfum in his moments of melancholy, which he regards as a state of lucidity rather than an ailment. He finds the popularity of Bleu de Chanel paradoxical: rather than the masculinity expected of a “blue” fragrance, he finds a restrained, stately character, marked by distance, that carries him toward cold winds and high places and brings Wagner’s music to mind.

He smells a dense citrus accord accented by mint and ginger, a classic fougère structure built around lavender and geranium, and a base of tonka bean and amber woods. A discreet accord of jasmine and ylang-ylang gives it, in his view, all its refinement; a mild, humid winter reveals it best.

Igor Masyukov, Fragrantica

On June 28, 2026, Igor Masyukov likens the perfumer to the interpreter of classical music, bound not by the score but by the market. He takes the Eau de Parfum as his example: one of the best-selling masculine fougères, a navy-blue square bottle, sold everywhere, to the point of calling it the Four Seasons of perfumery.

Yet he hears a rare detail in it, a bouquet of white flowers led by jasmine, woven into a familiar fougère structure. Like the lute in a recording of The Four Seasons, this nuance gives the fragrance, in his view, an unsuspected refinement, without taking away the accessibility that makes millions of people love it.