Today I am wearing Boy the new perfume from the Chanel Les
Exclusifs range.
It’s another perfume, another jigsaw piece, in the aromatic
story of the life of Coco Chanel portrayed by each of the individual scents in
the Les Exclusifs range.
It is inspired by Arthur ‘Boy’ Capel, English polo player
and supposed lover of Coco Chanel who played an important part in her life. Although said to be a man’s fragrance that
can be worn by a woman, the perfume is for anyone and the gender is defined by
the person wearing it. It is likened to
a woman putting on a man’s shirt- too big, but instantly effortlessly sexy and
comfortable.
Overall it is light and cologne-y and the predominant initial
notes are lavender and citrus. The citrus
soon fades into florals of rose, rose geranium and orange blossom but it is the
wonderful heliotrope vein running through the perfume that gives it a soft
vanilla thread that never disappears. As
the perfume dries down I’m left with vanilla, sandalwood and musk lingering on
my skin.
I’m very happy to be wearing Boy. If it is a fusion of genders then it
works. Even my husband chose to wear it
on Saturday night and it usually takes an awful lot of persuasion to move him
on from Blue de Chanel – and even that he only wears on ‘special’ occasions.
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