Chanel launched Coromandel in 2007 in Les Exclusifs, as a tribute to the Chinese lacquer screens that lined Gabrielle Chanel’s apartment. Jacques Polge and Christopher Sheldrake built an intense amber around patchouli, frankincense and benzoin. Victoria, of Bois de Jasmin, finds a dark, gourmand patchouli, elegant right down to its trail.
Chanel describes an intense amber built on patchouli, frankincense and benzoin, which it likens to a soft, voluptuous embrace. Its older descriptions spoke of an amber vibrato, the dry notes of frankincense and benzoin, and woody notes giving the trail its depth.
The ambergris sometimes attributed to the base appears in no description by the house, which speaks of an amber accord, not of the animal material.
What the label declares
The list published by Chanel is short: after alcohol, fragrance and water, it names only allergens that must be declared, limonene, linalool, coumarin, citronellol, geraniol, citral, benzyl benzoate, farnesol, eugenol, benzyl alcohol and benzyl salicylate.
It carries neither ultraviolet filter nor colorant. Coumarin, with its scent of hay and tonka bean, appears right after linalool, a sign of its place in the formula.
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