Les Exclusifs de Chanel Jersey

Smells like someone expensive. Someone steeped in expensive soap and freshly laundered sheets who floats around Europe in hotels half the year. Put more simply it smells like slightly sweetened lavender soap, maybe a touch of carnation, the teensiest hint of violet? It's lovely. Classy and simple. I like it.

All time favorite! I’ve used numerous big and small bottles since I was introduced to this scent and I adore it ❤️🔥 And yes, I do prefer the one from 2011. The following one, 2016/17, I don’t remember the exact year when the formula was updated, I do not really like as much as the former one. The scent from 2011 was more lavendery and powdery, leathery too. It made me feel relaxed, but was sophisticated and was projecting the quality of the scent so well. The newer version offered less lavender and instead more signature Chanel smell… Still beautiful though. But it lost something subtle and so charming of its formula indeed!

Based on the reviews, this fragrance is much more polarizing than I would have expected. I tried this on a test strip and was unimpressed. I could barely smell it. Then I tried it on my skin and fell in love. To me, this is an iris, soft musk (not ambrette; just a really lovely synthetic “white musk”) and lavender. It’s a soft, powdery, feminine, youthful, clean and (I thought, but by the reviews, clearly not) universally pleasing scent. It doesn’t closely remind me of any other fragrance I’ve smelled, but if I had to make a correlation, I would say that if you like Talco by New Notes, you’ll probably like this. I’ll be getting a FB later today.

The lavender here is not the sweet Provençal postcard version—this is Lavandula angustifolia in all its glory. Sharp and silvery, with its naturally camphoraceous bite smoothed only slightly by a heavy pour of vanillic powder, the duel begins: clean vs. warm, sterile vs. sensual. Think vintage linen pressed under the hot sigh of an iron, edged with lace and dusted in sun-bleached lavender buds that crumble under your fingers like secrets forgotten. Mmmm. At first whiff, you’re greeted with that almost medicinal bristle—Chanel's aldehydes flirting with coumarin-like echoes—but then, then, it sighs into that familiar powder room haze, the kind that settles over your skin like a translucent veil. A vanillin-heavy musk halo, vaguely rosy, vaguely… plush. But again, never soft. As a review below mentions, there's something undeniably reminiscent of Rimbaud by Celine, that same fuzzy-lavender-irised puff of nostalgia. Womanly florals like an afterimage here, cool and cosmetic, whispering from beneath the lavender musk’s clean veil. Delicate yet commanding. Restrained but not cold. Very clean, yet a like no doubt. Final impression: a powdered kiss on crisp collarbones. A hotel robe soaked in talc-speckled light. A ghost of old perfumed love letters in starch-white envelopes. Something that doesn’t try to seduce, and therefore does. Occasion? When you want to smell like a very clean, very expensive secret, when you crave the whisper-soft intimacy of ivory.

My second favorite chanel

Soft, fluid, and airy, this is a beautiful lavender fragrance. It’s calm, relaxing, and very subtle. A real pleasure to wear. It’s a lot like Celine Rimbaud but a little greener and maybe harsher. After about an hour, it dries down to something more powdery and floral, and that’s when the Chanel DNA starts to show. It’s a pretty scent, though I already own and prefer Rimbaud.

To me it dries powdery and the dry down smells like you are in need of a shower. Sticky, like the rest of L’exclusifs. I worked for Chanel and smelled them all daily. They are sweet, cloying, old fashioned, sickening and overrated. The most sales were made by Coromandel. That one and Jersey are the two I least hated. If I smelled them on someone, my nose would be offended. Maybe a candle, yes, but nah.

I guess the "wildflowers" have taken over the scent, and apparently, lavender, musk and vanilla have left the building (smells like a coup d'état to me, maybe Reuters should look into it). It's just sour, not synthetic but weirdly detergenic (is this even a word?) "wildflowers". Where is my lavender, still on the field, waiting to be picked? And what happened to my vanilla, is it being poured down in desserts in a patisserie in Paris? I've always proved myself that I'm not a Chanel person time after time, and with Jersey I've just given up trying. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to soak myself up in some Nicolai, Guerlain and Memo to recover from this.

Jersey immediately brings to mind Caron's Un Homme de Caron, but with a touch of vanilla to warm it up, making this lavender and white musk fragrance more high end hotel products and less barbershop. The Chanel aldehydes are definitely there, but their presence is light and masterfully blended. Jersey is an inoffensive, clean but overpriced perfume.

Lightweight composition with a cooling profile. Beautiful realistic lavender with bright fresh citruses and a touch of comforting vanillic sweetness in the base. It’s clean, it’s simple, it’s chic! Follow me on IG: scent.guide

I really like this perfume. It reminds me of a fragranced talcum powder you would get at a fancy hotel, or the smell of a scent sachet you might put in your drawers. Oddly specific, but that's just what I find it reminiscent of. Very pleasant, not overbearing, easy to wear soft fragrance.

A smooth lavender twist to the musk-violet-iris of classic French perfumery also with the Chanel flair, the aliphatic aldehydes. Make no mistake, reviewers who'd recall Prada - Candy & Infusion d'Iris or Lancome - Iris Dragees, Massimo Dutti - Souffle Marais, Emporio Armani - Lei, Guerlain - L'instant Magic etc. etc. would be all correct in doing so. Jersey is best of both worlds. The timeless accord of white musk (probably Ethylene brassylate also known as Musk T) topped up with the ionones giving violet/iris powdery floralcy with a woody backbone, supported by jasmine (most likely the transparent Hedione) and rose making up the powdery, lotion-y backbone. It's undeniably classy, elegant, low-key beautiful. As a guy, that is my absolute favorite thing to smell on the opposite sex. But I often like to use masculine violet fragrances too and the lavender enables exactly that in Jersey thanks to top-heart blanket of lavender. I'd even argue that this is French lavender absolute as opposed to the essential oil due to smelling like a top-heart note that is floral-creamy and smooth as opposed to fresh-floral and terpenic. Once lavender starts to fade off, fragrance tuns into the similar musk-violet DNA of some other Chanel Les Exclusifs such as Misia, Bel Respiro and La Pausa. Surely when smelled side-by-side they would reveal clear contrasts, it's just on memory they feel very connected at the core. Overall, amazing fragrance, price point as usual is something to debate.

Jersey Chanel eau de toilette is a soft and sweet fragrance with prodigious lavender accents. If its output is somewhat sweet, it could be due to a tonka that is already powerful at the beginning, and yes, as one user said, its sweetness emulates licorice. It is not a strange smell but the combination of tonka with lavender and musks could be excessive, but here Chanel takes control of the situation to be able to make a refined perfume that is inclined to the feminine side and with a lot of originality. It has a bold smell always because it is quite linear and does not take strange turns, relaxing lavender with a spark of sweetness that gives it energy and uniqueness, and at the same time causes a state of comfort and serenity that I look for very often at any time of the year. One of the best sweet lavender perfumes I've ever smelled. The eau de toilette is softer and more refined than the eau de parfum, the edp hits hard and is more daring. The durability is very good and its sillage is moderate.

Not sure why this reminds me of Prada Candy. So so much. It's like Prada Candy without the caramel, adding the lavander. I'm obsessed with this unexpected similarity. But, yes, I like Jersey better. It smells like memories, fresh lipstick, mother's bathroom. Very elegant.

The nicest scent, the most comforting and aromatic sweet cereal fragrance, slightly musky and oh well a bit warm with that herbaceous vanilla. Very much like Caron but more contemporary. Jersey is a grassy almond and clean scent.

Not sure whether I ought to be reviewing this or the EDP but I disagree with below. The lavender smells like lavender essential oil to me, I can really smell the lavender and vanilla for awhile wafting about me in a way that’s quite pleasing and relaxing. When I hold my nose to my wrist I get the white flowers, and overall a a lovely aldehylic musky Chanel vibe. This is a nice fragrance and I would buy it if I could afford it.

The notes were promising to me, but this was an awful blend of screechy, synthetic lavender and an entirely separate note of vanilla. Two separate, distinct notes, no harmony, and no finesse. Got none of the ?grass or rose or jasmine. Very, very unpleasantly herbal (and synthetically so!). Scrubber.

Descendant of Caron, with an 80's past and a clean feminine sweetness, welcoming for romantics. Composed.

A mostly stock floral-lavender with a vanilla-coumarin backing to support it. I never really like these scents, truth be told, they feel incomplete or merely accords needing further elements, so, for me, it's a no, but it is INDEED pleasant to smell. Quite nice, actually...

The opening is really interesting, all the recognizable Chanel undertones when first sprayed. Distinct fresh lavender and..bubbles? Nostalgic too. I recognize the bubble smell but cannot put my finger on it. Personally, I love when that happens. On my skin, however, that goes away after about 20 minutes. The dry down is near identical to N°5 l'eau, with some bubbliness that prevailed intensely in the opening, but you need to look for it. As someone who sold their l'eau 50 ml and sees their stark similarities (honestly I'm shocked it's not listed in the "this perfume reminds me of" section), I'd say don't splurge. This is beautiful and I'll definitely get my use out of it. But a more 'budget friendly' Chanel will do you just fine for those who are curious about this particular les exclusif.

I was so pleasantly surprised with the opening. It smelled just like the perfume oil I used to make as a teenager by mixing vanilla and lavender essential oils. So good! Sadly, though, after just a couple of minutes the lavender somehow turned into violet and it smells like a grandma. Sad!

I prefer Boy (also a Lavander fragrance from Chanel). I bought Jersey without knowing that Boy was also an option. I suggest trying both before buying either!

یه عطر استاد ساز مشکی لوندری یونیسکس که به مرور اندکی گلی میشه و به سمت زنانگی میره یونیک، جذاب و بسیار با کیفیت ----------- Scent & Quality: 10/10 Longevity: 7/10 Sillage: 6/10 Creativity & Uniqueness: 8/10 Affordability: 3/10 ----------- Overall: 6.8/10

Wow. First spray: crazy strong herbal unisex, leaning masc on me (not that I care or buy into any of that, but I want to be as helpful as possible in my review). After a few minutes: violet candy, but not as sweet as the candies and not as powdery as other violet scents. Then, it's just an amazing cashmere sweater with light lavender COLOR (some lav flower, sure, but it smells lavender), pretty strong tonka, barely-there vanilla, and a sexy Chanel musk.

Zara MSK 004/NTL is a fabulous dupe for this fragrance.

My least favorite of the le exclusiv line. I don’t like the smell at all. With Chanel I either love it or hate it. This one is a hard pass for me

I used to be obsessed with this fragrance. I only had a couple samples because it's very overpriced (IMO). I wore the samples to death in the winter. It left behind a soft trail of vanilla and lavender that was both intoxicating yet innocent. I have since bought a dupe from Arabian Perfume Oil that's pretty good but doesn't give me that same feeling Jersey does.

Horrible, it’s the worst of the line. It hurts my nose to smell is, it’s so awful. My sample is going straight in the garbage.

I tried a few samples from Les exclusifs line (Coromandel, 22, Beige) and Jersey is the one I liked the least. It's the most unusual of them. It starts off very spicy and aromatic but it's also sweet at the same time. To me, at its very base, it shares some of that candy-like sweet balsamic vanilla that I smell in Prady Candy. I would like that, however, Jersey is a completely different fragrance because on top of that sits lavender and what must be the smell of other wildflowers. There's something in this mix of notes that just doesn't work with my body chemistry, especially in warm weather. It then warms up, and without that loud spiciness and aromatic sweetness it becomes a very calming and serene scent. I can only smell two notes in the end, a distinct lavender-vanilla combo that is, at that point, so pretty and feminine. If it smelled like this from the beginning, I would love it. As is, this is not for me.

With some more or fewer tones, Jersey shares some of the same DNA as Coromandel, the flowers are the first notes that come up upon application, making this a more feminine type of fragrance. It is certainly less old school than Coromandel, but it still shares that feature, although it is more floral, the tones of multiple flowers such as lavender, wildflowers, and roses create a fragrance that resembles a bouquet, a fine, perfectly smelling arrangement of flowers. The grass notes are there creating in the mind the beautiful image of a field of flowers with grassy areas. The vanilla and Tonka bean give the fragrance a sweet tone but not overpowering, the combination of musk and grass give this fragrance a bit of that old school, for mature people vibe. The opening is sparkly, clean, sharp, strong but pleasant, after 5 minutes, the initial blast subsides and it becomes a more powdery scent that still projects well and feels enjoyable. The fragrance is well suited for females, perhaps not so much for males, especially at the opening, the dry-down still maintains that feminine nature but it is not as strong as the opening. Men could possibly wear this but it could be a bit challenging. After some 10 minutes the fragrance has reached its full dry-down, yet projecting well and with well-defined notes. Jersey has a solid projection and longevity without being best-mode. Category: Aromatic Batch reviewed: 2020 Wow Rating: 9/10. The fragrance is very pleasant; after all, the main notes are flowers. Dislike Rating: 1/10. The combination of musk and grass gives its fragrance its old school vibe, which may not be well received by the young. Uniqueness: 6/10. There are many fragrances in the market that use flowers as the main signature. This is one of them although here the quality is above the crowds. Mass Appeal: 8/10. Very high for the feminine audience, probably very low for masculine candidates. Projection: 6/10: Very good. It projects 6 feet around the wearer. Sillage: 6/10. Very good. About 6 feet behind the wearer. Application: 4 atomizations will do, it is not beast-mode. Longevity: 5/10. About 5 hours. Seasons: All seasons. Occasions: Casual and formal, no sports. Versatility: 8/10. Highly versatile, a very adaptable, elegant, romantic and pleasant fragrance. Gender: Feminine. Men could wear this one but it will be a bit challenging given the high proportion of floral tones in the fragrance. Ages: 30 and above. This is a fragrance ideal for females 30 and above. It is more of a mature fragrance. Recommendation: A must for females, not so much for males. Blind-Buy: Females 30 and above are very likely to enjoy this fragrance. Others should test it first. Similar: It shares the same DNA as Coromandel, with more flowers, and less patchouli. Summary: Exquisite, flowery, romantic, fresh, mature, feminine, versatile, Le Exclusifs de Chanel is a very good fragrance.