For the Chanel Haute Couture show, the famous guests & celebs have received as a gift a box with Chanel Exclusives, that has recently been seen on e-bay. One of the perfumes (and the biggest surprise) was Sycomore but few were maybe aware of this rare and precious perfume. I did not smell yet this Chanel but I will review the old one (In the past years I saw a very small number of bottles).
Sycomore is a woody perfume with a distinct tobacco-violet note and all the other elements (few) are built to enhance this idea.
The tobacco is not the honey-sweet note of Tabac Blond, but rather the dusty-cigar (almost masculine) note that can be smelled in the natural extract of the leaves.
The violet is a here mainly a woody note that we could call violet wood, that has all the elements that would enhance the woodyness of the synthetic molecules adding either a mossy touch either an exotic (sandalwood) preciousness. Ionones/Methyl ionones/Irones have many facets like floral, woody, orris, fruity, etc. But Sycomore is a precious wood with a floral garland.
The flowers that float around this imaginary wood are the classic Chanel bouquet rose-jasmin-ylang. Like in other vintage Chanel it seems that everything is diluted in jasmin extrait, an impressive amount I would say, but you are not aware. The jasmin is here to calm all the roughness of woods.
On the drydown you have all the animalic notes that gives a human touch to the wood. To my surprise, I was not able at that time to detect any aldehyde. Maybe there is none.
Top - very light (almost inexistent): bergamot, neroli
Heart - floral: ylang-rose-jasmin-honeysuckle
Bottom - woody tobacco: cedar, violet (+methyl ionones), tobacco, sandalwood, musk
Very curious to smell the new one! Any idea when it will come in shops? (I have no PR connections).
Sycomore is a woody perfume with a distinct tobacco-violet note and all the other elements (few) are built to enhance this idea.
The tobacco is not the honey-sweet note of Tabac Blond, but rather the dusty-cigar (almost masculine) note that can be smelled in the natural extract of the leaves.
The violet is a here mainly a woody note that we could call violet wood, that has all the elements that would enhance the woodyness of the synthetic molecules adding either a mossy touch either an exotic (sandalwood) preciousness. Ionones/Methyl ionones/Irones have many facets like floral, woody, orris, fruity, etc. But Sycomore is a precious wood with a floral garland.
The flowers that float around this imaginary wood are the classic Chanel bouquet rose-jasmin-ylang. Like in other vintage Chanel it seems that everything is diluted in jasmin extrait, an impressive amount I would say, but you are not aware. The jasmin is here to calm all the roughness of woods.
On the drydown you have all the animalic notes that gives a human touch to the wood. To my surprise, I was not able at that time to detect any aldehyde. Maybe there is none.
Top - very light (almost inexistent): bergamot, neroli
Heart - floral: ylang-rose-jasmin-honeysuckle
Bottom - woody tobacco: cedar, violet (+methyl ionones), tobacco, sandalwood, musk
Very curious to smell the new one! Any idea when it will come in shops? (I have no PR connections).
Photo: Sycomore new from aromat
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