I’m a little enamored with Chanel perfume these days. It took me forever to appreciate No. 5, and now I’m all the way down the rabbit hole.
So I dug out my sample of Chanel Venise that a perfume friend sent me a while ago. I did 1 conservative spray on my sleeve (thinking that I could change my shirt if I didn’t like it) and then went back to spray on my skin, and found myself putting my wrist to nose throughout the day.
The next day, I went for a cloud of it so that I could enjoy it the whole day, and now my little sample is almost empty.
This has the longest citrus opening of any fragrance I’ve tried and I think it’s worth buying just for that. But though it’s a fresh soapy number, it settles down to being ambery in the dry down and I find that to be so appealing. It’s basically a skin scent on me. I can’t smell it throughout the day, even if I’m wearing it in my hair, and as much as I don’t want a Chanel skin scent, I kind of love it and do want it? I’ll have to see if I miss it when I finish my sample… but Venise is lovely.
