CHANEL
BEIGE EDP

2016

PERFUMER
Jacques Polge

Frangipani
Honey
Freesia
Hawthorn

Beige is the definition of a ‘yellow floral’ for me. It’s an amazing combination of a cooler freesia (I have no idea what hawthorn smells like to be honest) and a warmer frangipani.

It has a soapiness and cleaner tinge as it opens. Almost aldehydic. But it turns sweeter quickly, with honey being one of the listed notes.

It has a green herbal-ish soapiness, like a dewy, (rain)water green; reminiscent of the geosmin used in fragrances like Etat Libre D’Orange’s Hermann A Mes Cotes. But yellow, as mentioned, is the color I mostly picture when I smell Beige. It has an almost palpable crisp honeyed floral core that smells like you could bite into it. In that sense Beige reminds me of Baruti’s excellent Onder De Linde (also a honey-floral).

The frangipani doesn’t come across as tropical (whatever that may mean to you); it often has connotations towards coconut, ylang-ylang and sun-tan lotion scents for me, but heret, it’s cleaner. It does smell sunny, but not like the beach to me. It smells like clean linen in a garden in the Spring time.

Overall a very serene and calming fragrance, that I think anyone could wear, at any time or place. I personally wouldn’t mind having it in my collection one day, although I don’t think I’ll need a 75ml of it. If Chanel would sell 30ml bottles, Beige would be in the shopping cart.