Chanel Noir

Sounds like it might be promising but I hate grapefruit smell in any perfume. And why would Venice smell like grapefruit, pray tell? Hmmm. I'll pass on this one and let the rest of you guys review it :-)

I can't wait to test this but I already get the feeling that I will be disappointed,who tested it is now reporting that coco noir is nothing special: there is such a big fuss for the launch here in Italy it had better be good

Had a sniff of this today on the Chanel sales assistant as the Chanel rep had been to my local store. Firsly to my nose it didn't resemble Coco Mademoiselle which I detest, nor did it resemble Coco which I love. It smelt heavy of patchouli, it reminded me of Cristelle which I like but much heavier, more of an evening scent. I'm not going to run out and buy it on 17th August.
Its just ok.

For all...I have tested, extensively, C.Noir and it is very similar to C.Madame...You can definitely tell it packs more of a "punch"...also I can confirm that it will launch August 17th...Nordstrom near me in Tysons Virgina is having a launch event...I have 2 pre-ordered!

tested this a few days ago thinking I would order it pre-launch...not impressed. I'm a HUGE fan of anything Chanel and absolutely love Coco Mademoiselle but this one fell totally flat for me. It smelled ok at first but the scent was almost immediately imperceptible on my skin, in spite of me having sprayed quite a bit on just 10 minutes earlier. I won't be buying this one and hope maybe someone else has a better experience with it, especially with the $98-$130 price tag. There are a lot of other great fragrances out there at this price point or below.

Oh my...a Bergamot Chanel similar to Mad. but with "noir" attached to the end...crap, my husband's wallet is gonna cry this holiday season...MUST HAVE!!! (PS am I the only one who is commenting so they can keep tabs in their profile??) So insane...

I got to smell it but you know? I have a bottle of coco mad which is what I smelled more of.

I'll have to extensively test and wear it around I think, but at first sniff (we weren't allowed to spray on skin) its too similar to what I already have. That bottle of coco mad will last me a lifetime, so I think I'll just wait, until they allow spraying on skin, or hell, just buy a bottle of coco (which I did like tbh)

The bottle is hot though. They did a great job on that at least.

Im not a fan of coco but this sounds very interesting, a perfect mix of all my favourite notes...hope it delivers!

Nordstrom said the 15th.

I love Coco Noir because I love the orange, geranuium, sandalwood and incense. Its a beautiful perfume.

If you are expecting a certain experience based on Coco OR C.Mademoiselle, then you'll be confused. Just keep an open mind and allow this perfume to become herself over time. Remember the first days of Bleu de Chanel.

We need to be respectful of the career and sucessful history of a perfumer such as Jacques Polge. Do you really believe his team would release an inferior perfume? No. Chanel would not do that.

It is artful and balanced and observant of a specific vision - and we have yet to hear the story of this perfume. Just be patient!

To me Noir communicates many nuances that Coco could not. For me one spray lasted on a card for four days and on my skin for six hours.

i heard this is like coco mademos. ....we shall see..: CHECK OUT OTHER REVIEWS ON THIS SITE..ON THE MAIN BOTTLE PAGE...SOME PPL SAYING..ITS..MEH! OK...

I went by neiman's today and asked if they heard of any changes. They say not, their dates hold as they've told pretty much everyone. I guess they haven't gotten the memo yet.

So am I gettin this right? Chanel has pushed back the date on the release of the Coco Noir to a date in September?? What gives? Where did the August 17 date originate?? Does anyone have any insight into this? I contacted Nordstrom's to pre-order thinking it was going to be released 8-17. If I have to wait till September, I'll certainly live with it-but it will be a major disappoint! Please, somebody tell me what's going on!

GOSH, THE EXCITEMENT! Learned about it through an email from the Chanel website. Hope this will live up to the original Coco, but I'm sure that it will not be as dark, sultry, strong, elegant and bold as the original. That's just how modern perfumes are today in order to sell. The original Coco makes my head swim in delight.

Based on the notes, I do suspect that it will smell like the rose infused heart of Coco on the Coromandel base--GETTING MYSELF EXCITED!

I will stand proudly at the Chanel counter/boutique to get myself a bottle no matter what it smells like!

smcandsmc, I HEAR YOU! Nothing like a mob of "Chanel whores" in a rustle of elbows! LOL!

Someone quoted Coco Chanel was a fascist, arrogant old lady on this page, now it's gone. Fascist, perhaps--she was a perfectionist after all. Arrogant, in a way--back then, women weren't allowed to be successful and influential, much less empowering women to be able to LITERALLY wear pants, a big hand-to-mouth thing in those days.

I want this now!!!

Interesting. I do love Coco Chanel so I can´t wait to try this. I´ll be keeping my eye opened. Not long to go now ladies.

OMG! Just the glass container is sooooo! SOFISTICATE :D i truly am curious to have this one my collection!! OK ! NO... Let me rephrase this... I TRULY *** WANT.. to ADD this COCO noir in my collection
i screeem loouuuuud!! I WANT A BOTTLE OF THIS COCO NOIR :D XXOXO LUV EVERYONE

cant wait to try this either, think this will be my Birthday request !!

Coco for me is as good as it gets - so to hear about Coco Noir is like a dream come true...I only hope the first sniff is as divine as the anticipation...

If what's inside the bottle is as good as the bottle itself it will be divine darlings!!

Oh dear me, I simply can not wait! What news to wake up to on a Friday ;O)

This bottle looks soooo conservative, austere, and unbelieavably gorgeous. Wow... it's one of the first times I can't wait to test a new fragrance, really.

(I guess the location of the add will be... Venezia? :))

شنل بیش از 90 سال است که یکی از یکه تازان عرصه عطر است. اینکار هم با ترکیبی که عنوان شده بسیار عالی خواهد بود

Ah! So many of my favorite notes: grapefruit, bergamot, pepper, tonka, patchouli, geranium, cedar... I'm just absolutely clawing at the local Macy's counter waiting to try this. Bright with a warm woody base... I think this might fit perfectly in my wardrobe!

Chanel knows something... something that how to catch people's hearts....
Combination gold with black...
Simple but very elegant, very intensive bottle-even it have same shape of chanel's original bottle...

@APassionateJourney I believe they "had" to, probably because Chanel wanted it to be a secret-surprise.As a chanel website subscriber- i received an email last night informing me about a new womens launch.They wouldnt reveal neither the bottle nor the name.Yet i already knew from fragrantica first and other websites that Coco noir IS the new womens fragrance. ;)I guess that makes sense...The bottle is gorgeous.I just hope this is male friendly!thumbs up

I can't wait, either!!!!

cant wait to have it..new studies show that grapefrute smells make ladies more appealing and ten years younger to men..also it helps in weight loss and adding vitality .

I have pitched my tent on Maiden Lane outside the Chanel Boutique in San Francisco just to be able to smell it.

@jeca I'll be going by Neimans tomorrow considering I was going to order when they got their tester in.

Could be they changed the dates there too. Will certainly update when I know.

I just called one of the local Chanel shops and they told me the pre launch is August 14? I hope they got their dates right. I have to say although I'm not the biggest Chanel fan, I am looking forward to see what this is like!! Yay!!

i guess the rumors became reality i'm so excited! lol can't wait to get it.

I was told by the rep that its going to be out in about a week and a half, if not less.

I got this info from Chanel USA, and according to them the launch is in September... I am now really confused about what Neiman Marcus saying...

I had figured as much @ jeca, some companies don't like having their product launches 'spoiled' so to speak. But VERY surprised to hear it won't be out until September considering Neimans chanel counter was saying August 17 or 19th.

I just wonder what thats going to do about people that have preordered at the counter thinking it would be arriving this month?

It smells like it should be a flanker or reformulation of Guerlain's Shalimar; bergamot + citrus, rose,jasmine, vanilla, patchouli, musk, frankincense, tonka. bean. Of course people will say its different, its a Chanel, its fabulous, but I'm here to here to tell you what you want to hear. Rather, id like to tell you what's real. Price tag; 100ml is $152 Canadian, 50ml is $112 Canadian.

We didn’t get any press embargo notice before we published the news about Chanel Noir, last week. The information about the fragrance was freely available on the Internet and, since Fragrantica has over 3 million monthly readers - and among them all major industry insiders and retailers - I may just imagine how phones, emails and faxes started to ring in Chanel offices and all over their distributer network, asking them for a fragrance they did not ship yet. There are several approaches to marketing... when Gizmodo broke the news about the iPhone, then Apple Corporation used that momentum to build it into the most expected product launch in the history. In this case PR guys just hit the panic button and asked people around the web to shut the story down. That is also OK – at the end, this anecdote about the fragrance launch has nothing to do with the fragrance.
I haven’t had a pleasure to try it out yet, but I hope that Chanel will surprise us one more time with another amazing fragrance. This whole story will be irrelevant, very soon, and we’ll all (I hope so) love the new scent and recognize its trail on the people we meet, as it becomes the part of our mind map.

I want it but the problem is that I want it NOW. I can't possibly, humanely wait until SEPTEMBER!!??? (I know I have a problem...)

To show you how sad my city is, none of the ladies at the perfume counter even KNOW that there is a new Chanel coming out next month. They were like "the new no.19 something... the green bottle stuff thingie??" I was like, no.19 Poudre??? What the.

UGH.

What did we say to upset Chanel? Anyway still sounds fab - can't wait to try it.

The previous post about Chanel Coco Noir was deleted on the request from Chanel.

Why was this deleted and also the fragrance in the archives was deleted?

geez, I'm such a sucker for this kind of spiel. I will probably be throwing elbows with the other Chanel whores to grab a bottle.