Gardénia

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Absolutely lovely. Not a soliflore Gardenia, but very pretty. A bit of mystery. Would smell particularly nice on a humid day.

I recieved a bottle of this as a gift. Beautiful gardenia with a coconut, vanilla on the drydown which is my favourite part. It's not a love for me and does not last long on skin but a beautiful fragrance for someone who enjoys delicate florals.

This fragrance is very pretty, but spray it on your skin and poof, it is gone! I remember that I used to love this fragrance, but a new bottle of this juice from Chanel that I have only had for 18 months is just not sticking to my skin like I remembered. It smells vaguely of musk, gardenia, coconut and tuberose, but I am getting the musk more than anything else and it just does not project on me at all. I literally have to bury my face and nostrils onto my wrists to even smell it and it only lasts about 90 minutes on my skin, it seems. I am now trying to use it up as a home scent, since it is pleasant smelling and I want to get rid of it quickly, to make room for something that actually projects and smells more like actual gardenias. This is just not it. Or maybe my nose has matured more and I have had much more exposure to different scents along the way? It is a very safe office scent and maybe even as a scent for someone working in a hospital, since you can barely smell it! Overall, a pleasant but lackluster 6.5/10 from me for Chanel's Gatdenia.

I have to agree with others that this fragrance’s flaw is that it does not last. But Chanel Gardenia just does something to you. It’s immediately calming to the body. I smell fresh bedsheets here, a just-deep-cleaned-home. I think the scent is very Natasha from SATC adjacent.

My favourite from Chanel, this kind of smells like Ilio mixed with Do Son, powdery, floral and beautiful.

From the first spray, you’re enveloped in a creamy, radiant white floral bouquet. The gardenia here isn’t heady or overly lush. I agree with the others that it disappears just a few hours but I don’t mind spraying again. Well the magic of Chanel lies in its understated luxury. It doesn’t rely on loud sillage to be noticed. This is a scent for someone who wants to feel immaculate, feminine, and poised without trying too hard. If you’re that someone, I’m selling decants located in Toronto. Kindly message me if you’re interested!

Ugh, I wish this lasted longer. I've been contemplating getting it for a while because I love the scent, but the longevity is awful. Basically gone within 75 minutes. It reminds me of a cleaner Amarige which, while it's beast mode, is at least longer lasting and fills the white floral spot in my collection. I will keep hunting for a nice gardenia scent.

Chanel's Les Exclusifs Gardenia opens with green notes, gardenia, tuberose, jasmine, coconut and a hint of orange blossom in the opening ten minutes. It has a soft, moderate sillage. It's feminine and is a white floral with a green touch. After four hours, Gardenia has developed a little bit and you have a white floral with coconut, musk, some vanilla and some patchouli/green. After five and a half hours it begins to fade a little but it's remarkably durable - it sticks to skin and lasts forever and a day. If you like a creamy, slightly green gardenia dominated white floral, this is perfect for you.

This is for the EDT: I will agree with others this feels like a scent where the perfumer tried to create the aroma of gardenia using other white florals (tuberose, jasmine) and other synthetic notes that resemble it. It feels quite musky and raw at the base. I remember the EDP smelling quite different, brighter, smoother, bubblier. I will try them again side by side and make a comparison. It feels very womanly and elegant, I quite enjoy it!

First impression: Extremely elegant fragrance. I mostly experience jasmine and Tuberose - not a true gardenia but the scent does conjure up the image of a white gardenia flower. Narcotic, milky, smooth. Just enough verdency to keep the opening lively. I have a older EdT, Flat rectangular Flacon with Beautiful gold and white color way. Batch code is ZD1- likely late 80’s/early 90’s. Bring to mind Amouage’s Portrayal woman and Honor. Honor is sweeter and much more rounded and even more creamy. The Jasmine in Portrayal Women is almost identical to the Jasmine in Gardenia. Floats off the skin but doesn’t suffocate. Can’t wait to spend more time with her. Of all the base notes Sandalwood is more present in the mids. What a gem. If you love white florals - get a bottle. I’m curious has the current EDP compares.

Gardenia is my favorite flower. Chanel's rendition is quite far from the real thing.

This takes me back. The name speaks for itself. When you smell it, imagine your nose in a Gardenia flower. That's about it, and Chanel knows it. They rightfully named it as such, and are proud of it. My neighbor had a gardenia bush, and me and my mom would pick flowers off of it and bunch them up. This is that memory, that essence, in a fragrance. Can't help but love gardenia fragrances. Truly a shame that it's SO expensive, because this is something I'd LOVE to own. The sillage and longevity aren't the best of the best, but you really can't complain.

Got a sample to test out. Feels like a cleaner, more elegant and office safe version of Frederic Malle's Carnal Flower, which is why I prefer Gardenia over Carnal Flower for daytime wear. More jasmine than gardenia, but beautiful nonetheless. A classic. I'm happy to have the sample which is just about enough for me.

I don’t know which edp I have because this one is very lite and barely a skin scent . Not for me . The 4ml tiny bottle is cute and enough for me . I’ll try to find the old edt version and compare. Just like I didn’t believe that Coromandel edt would be more beautiful than the bottle of edp I own, it is. I absolutely love it and I was lucky to find a partial with 30ml still left, to buy for a great price . Finding an old Coromandel edt for a great price is almost impossible. I was very lucky.

A light, green gardenia. An expensive (and infinitely better - not screechy) version of ET Gardenia, which I can’t handle due to the off putting artificial lily of the valley type note. This one, its better - but I still prefer gardenias with slightly more sweetness as the natural flower has a more nectary quality.

*** gentle note *** I know Chanel fragrance might be the messiest place to put your entry but this page, i believe is for original Gardenia until late Gardenia EDT in 2016, after 2016 Fragantica open another page for Gardenia 2016 for Gardenia EDP You may relocate your review there so you can track more easy For formulation of each version of EDT, only gods may know God bless, *********************** Gardenia EDT (35 ml. Limited Edition, 90’s, usd 65) Friend of mine are kind to share late edp rendition for me (les exclusif) I got this as I haven’t had this in my collection. I think I found my little treasure here. The EDP, smell very flat. It is still beautiful but it more jasmine to my nose. The whole rendition burry heavily under Vanilla, it is smoother but.. it lacks.. lacks something, animalic / indolic I am not sure. It is non descriptive flower to my nose, cleans and soapy. The EDT, other hands smell difference, I notice the almost sweet pollen like tone, Osmanthus(?) / Angelica(?). What actually it. Is very clean, off white. It’s not indolic to my nose but it smell like real flower to me. Really don’t wanna say this. But Gardenia (edp) means nothing compare to old edt rendition. Only spring, only spring day time. ************** Update 1 on March 1st, 2024 Sorry blasting Gardenia but I think I kinda know now what is “Gardenia” interpretation in parfum. It is creamy white floral feel. Yeah, that’s all.

I had this beautiful fragrance two year ago and gave the full bottle away. One month later I find myself missing it an wanted to purchase it again. I did wait because I had so many other fragrances to purchase. For my birthday, I decided to buy it, oh man I missed this beautiful elegant gardenia fragrance. I have been a Chanel lover ever since I was in my 20's. I This gardenia fragrance is smooth an exceptional, classic, deeply elegant feminine scent, this is easy to wear, suiting both daytime and night time occasions and everyday. This could be a nice bridal choice for a spring/summer wedding or a lunch date. This fragrance is absolutely beautiful!

Chanel les exclusive Gardenia Classic green white floral ,it doesn't give love at first sniff, it doesn't mean it's not beautiful. I just smell its scent profiles many times before,carnal flower from fredericmalle and fuego lento from frassai have the same scent profiles, although it's not dupes.Still Gardenia created almost 100 years ago,amazing. My husband bought this for me,so l'm glad to have Gardenia in my collection

This was created almost 100 years ago. Just a little info for those who didn't know !

If you want to gift someone (possibly a lady) a perfume and want to make sure the recipient is unlikely to hate it, pick this one. It’s light, inoffensive, smells like flowers, and it is Chanel — what is not to like? In all seriousness, I bought a large bottle of this in an act of madness. It is good, but it is by no means outstanding. It feels like something Jo Malone could make for a lower price point. It’s just a fairytale version of gardenia. That’s it. Real gardenias have a much more complex scent that is often almost unpleasant; this gardenia takes the indolic notes out and leaves only the easy-on-the-nose bits. It also doesn’t on me last at all; I have been going through that large bottle rather quickly because I am always refreshing it. I will use it up, but will not repurchase.

Dreamy, clean, childlike.. This is how I remember my beautiful scented erasers smelling like. The ones I could never bring myself to use in elementary school.

No gardenia. I have it and I quite like it, but there is no gardenia in it.

this is more "rich, fruity white floral" than gardenia, to me. i have to wonder if the people calling this an accurate gardenia have ever smelled a real gardenia. i have a gardenia bush that's blooming right now. this is much sweeter and fruiter, less creamy, less green, and doesn't have the somewhat dull background of mushroom that a real gardenia has. also, as some have noted, and feels worth emphasizing, gardenias cannot be processed for their scent. therefore, there is no such thing as gardenia essential oil, and it has to be recreated from other flowers/+synthetics. i should note that my version is the EDT and from the mid-2010s.

Instead of the EDP from the Les Exclusifs line, my Gardénia miniature dates from the noughties. It is a refined white floral bouquet - smooth, creamy and powdery, with just the right amount of sweetness and a hint of greenery in the background. Initially created to represent the camellia - the odourless flower favoured by Coco Chanel and famously associated with the Chanel brand - gardenias were the closest substitute, despite it being impossible to extract oil directly from the flower itself. More tuberose than gardenia as a result, this is still a beautiful scent that delivers timeless elegance in typical Chanel fashion. The white floral accord that forms the crux of this scent develops from the initial spray. Clean jasmine and a hint of orange blossom are most evident at the early stages. Green notes add some dewy freshness, complementing the florals beautifully. I get a hint of violet in there too. Restrained tuberose joins the bouquet after a little while, adding a lush, powdery edge. I'm unsure if there is a gardenia note in here - it could simply be the combination of the other white floral notes rendering a gardenia-like effect. There are very few true gardenia scents that truly resemble the flower, and I am unsure if this one is aptly named. As it dries down, the white florals become increasingly powdery and a little soapy, with vanilla and coconut adding smooth creamy sweetness to the base, complementing the florals beautifully. It becomes woody and musky as it fades, drying down to become a softly sweet musky-floral skin scent. Sillage and longevity are moderate. A classic, deeply elegant feminine scent, this is easy to wear, suiting both occasions and everyday. A nice bridal choice for a spring/summer wedding. However, it is not a true "gardenia" scent, and possibly is not special enough to justify the price. Beautiful regardless. 3.5/5.

Floral, powdery, smooth....I'm testing this next to Beige and between the two, I prefer Beige, which seem lighter, more transparent, and more ethereal. Gardenia is less transparent, thicker, less ethereal, and less sparkly. Still a very high quality, smooth, natural, floral scent. A beautiful scent but just lacking that last bit of Chanel magic that Beige has. Both are too feminine for me, but glad to have them. Checking the nose, I see it's Ernest Beaux of No. 5 fame. I definitely notice some common themes in the background. Nice. Scent: 7 / Sillage: 7 / Longevity: 6

It's nice when you first spray. White floral and all, but it doesn't last long on me. too light for my liking, not worth the price tag

Gardenia by Beaux Ernest differs from the single gardenias of the Les Exclusifs collection and is an application of woody violets and aldehyde white flowers. N°5, N°22, I have captured some of Beaux Ernest's very personal matching habits from these two works. I don't know if he prefers this. Beaux Ernest will always show a kind of personal signature in the preparation of his perfume. For example, the use of ylang-ylang and jasmine. The 2000-year-old limited edition Gardenia is a 30ml rectangular bottle with flat white flowers and a formula similar to the Gardenia from Les Exclusifs, which is lackluster. The second time I smelled a bottle of Gardenia of unknown age, with the EDT label attached. My intuition is that it's a modified recipe from Jacques Polge. The first version of the old bottle, this Gardenia, was made around 1960 and no later than 1980, according to the seller's clues about the time of purchase. Gardenias cannot be extracted, and perfumers can use any technique to create the gardenia they imagine. This 60's (probably?) EDT is a creamy, creamy tuberose that is silky and ripe. Its structure is not so tight, and the creamy tuberose looks rich and elegant against the fresh and bright orange blossom, powdery ylang-ylang and jasmine aromas. EDT is light, flavorful vanilla and patchouli to pull back some weight and stabilize Gardenia. The other part, the involvement of synthetic raw materials... Beaux Ernest is a known pioneer in the use of synthetic raw materials, so I can be sure that Gardenia, if it is Beaux Ernest's version, with chemical aromas harmonizing nature, must be very good. The overall scent of Gardenia is linear, and the performance is not bad. I noticed a hint of green in the background. One blogger described it as "a string of bronzed pearls." So true! Compared to the original, Gardenia by Jacques Polge is a sweet and plump gardenia, gorgeous and dense. The traces of the 80s are clearly audible, and this is raucous Gardenia. I have tried three versions in total. The new formula may be reorganized with raw materials that have not yet been discovered in the Beaux Ernest era. It is completely different. The two versions of Les Exclusifs and Jacques Polge and Beaux Ernest are almost all different fragrances. Although Gardenia is not faithful to the original. I have heard that the Jacques Polge edition still bears a resemblance to Beaux Ernest's Gardenia.

This smells heavenly. If I want to boost my confidence, I will wear this perfume with my blazer on and I feel empowered with this. My favorite fragrance and it hurt because it's so expensive.

I have an almost full bottle of this that I will swap for COROMANDEL if anyone is interested.