Les Exclusifs de Chanel Beige Chanel for women

Warm yellow florals. Starts off a bit soapy with a characteristic Chanel fragrance note. Predominantly floral scent but there is a hint of honey to make it round. I'm not a floral person but this is good stuff!

Chanel Beige started off very soapy on me and seemed to disappear quickly, but I'm so glad I didn't cover it up with another scent or scrub it. The classic thumbprint of a Chanel scent is on this one, but it's very light and pretty. After several hours, I could smell the freesia which is a personal favorite flower. I do catch the sweetness of freesia here but not its peppery quality. Lovely fragrance and light, but enduring. I will wear my sample some more to see if this will go on the want list. I think this will make a great summer fragrance.

This range is so successful that we would tend to put each one on the podium. Unfortunately it's the weakest link,...we keep Mahora (Guerlain)

Cette gamme est tellement réussie qu'on aurait tendance à tous les mettre sur le podium. Malheureusement vous êtes le maillon faible, on garde Mahora (Guerlain)

I was looking for a white floral perfume since a long time. But 99% of them have those citrus-bergamote-etc. top notes, and the same amber-patchouli-musk at the base. I was soooo fed up with that! I was exactly looking for something different.
So. The composition opens with frangipani which catches your attention immediately, then suddenly it gives way to the so light and innocent hawtorn, then you start to feel freesia....... and then vice versa!! The 4 notes are playing with each other as well as with your nose. It`s a fabulous sweet game, because outside under the sun one note is dominant, then when you enter an air-conditioned room - another notes start their play.
It`s a perfume of good mood. Don`t expect too much complexity from it, it`s pure joy of being a happy lady!

this smells like chanel coco a tad bit fresher with soap...it turns really soapy...err i don't like this one either..such a shame but if you like fresh soap with citrus and the chanel signature notes you will love this

Let me start my saying that I really do like this. It is pretty, sweet, and clean- qualities that I tend to look for in a fragrance. Chanel is quickly becoming my favorite perfume house. I would wear this and feel that it is inoffensive and would suit any occasion. However, after the opening it reminds me very much of Palmolive liquid dish soap ( original green). It is not on my "want list" for this reason. I like the scent of Palmolive but it made me feel that this one was not worth the cost.

This is the "girliest" of the Les Exclusifs line that I have tried so far. Beige is a clean, honey-sweet floral with a hint of soft powder.

This is not a heady floral, but bright and fresh due to the freesia note. I wish I could speak to the fragrance of hawthorne, but unfortunately, I am not familiar with its scent. I can only imagine (from the description on Fragrantica) that it lends an additional level of sweetness to this perfume. Base notes (with the exception of honey) seem almost non-existent. The dry down is relatively linear.

All in all, Beige is a pretty Spring floral, but it is almost too sweetly-floral for my taste. It reminds me a bit of Penhaligon's Ellenisia, but I think I prefer Ellenisia as it has more overall richness and complexity.

A bitter mixture of Gardenia Chanel, Lobogal Pour Elle and Ralph Lauren Glamorous with a hint of honey sweet flower dust. Very nice and subtle.

Reflected in the prism of the descending mirrors like a painting by Marcel Duchamp, Mademoiselle Coco Chanel sat on the stairs in a beige boucle box suite with black trim. She narrowed her eyes dropped her head slightly to peer from under the brim of her hat to the bottom of the steps. She could just see the shoes and shins of the first three people seated in the first row. Hundreds more were out of sight beyond the curve of the staircase awaiting this; her return into the world of fashion.

“Why did I return? One night at dinner Christian Dior said a woman could never be a couturier.” Ah yes, that quip to some American reporter was now being repeated all across Paris as the entire city and in fact the world waited to see if she still had it in her to be modern and innovative. In fact, if she was still No.1.

She could smell the freesias at the top of the stairs where the models were assembled waiting to walk down upon her command. There was also a hint of frangipani and hawthorn flowers which permeated the air like a golden honey and took her for a fleeting moment back to Chateau de Royallieu and Boy Capel. Her new line, even the beige suit she wore was really the result of, a refection really of his style. If it hadn’t been for Boy: She stopped herself. It was time.

She looked up to the models. They were ready. No time left for nerves now, time to be courageous. She nodded to the first one, Marie and watched as the young woman passed her in the navy suit that would in only a few moments signify her signature look for the rest of her life and beyond. She could let herself smile just a little now as the model in black dress passed by, then the white, and then the beige, her favorite color these days.

She would prove Dior wrong, on this February day in 1954. She would show the world that she, Gabriel “Coco” Chanel was back to stay, indeed that she, a woman was a great couturier.

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Beige is the new Black. It is what Bill Blass’ Basic Black wishes it could be. From Les Exclusifs collection by Chanel the very chic and smart Beige makes its entrance with the smooth glide of legendary fashion model form the 1950’s. Suzy Parker is who I see as the perfect woman in Beige.

Jacques Polge took the idea of one of Chanel’s favorite colors (the others being black, white and navy) and turned it into a beauty of a perfume. This is what honey should smell like when done right. Not heavy or sticky and sickening but smooth and mellow with just touch of queen bee to add a bit of a sting. There is freesia here that is bright and a bit spicy adding the perfect complement to the wild honey. These two notes introduce the premier model of the show which is one of my favorite scents from years ago, frangipani. This wonderful flower also known in Hawaii as Plumeria, the most popular flower for the Hawaiian lei is invigorated with a sultry tropical beauty that gives this perfume sensuality and fullness. Underneath the feminine curves of the honey, freesia, and frangipani is a straight forward masculine hawthorn. It really ties the four notes together and presents them with a seriously chic sophistication. Yes just four notes in Beige, simple yet elegant.

This is a perfume that stands up beautifully throughout the day. Impressive longevity but never in your face, no, this is a perfume that is great without having to be flashy or loud. It is self-contained, confident that it will always be the right choice for a woman of any age who possesses perfect taste and impeccable style. The best part is that Beige goes with everything.

FIVE GOLD STARS *****

I'm wearing this today and for some reason, it is reminding me of Versace Crystal Noir. Which I find bizarre since they have seemingly no overlapping notes.
Anyway, I like this a lot. I think I will get a decant and see where it goes from there. It is a bit sharp when I put it on, and that bugs me a bit, so I want more time with it. But I like how feminine and long lasting it is with just perfect sillage.
Edit: I was just over at PC to check into getting a decant, and they list Gardenia as one of the notes. Now I have a better sense of why it was reminding me of Crystal Noir! So to those who have strong feelings about that particular note, it's in there.

Lovely Hawthorn/Rowan blossom and plenty of frangipanni. Could not find the honey or fressia notes at all, no sweetness in this to my nose. Then again, freesias seem to have had all the fragrance bred out of them recently, so I might be missing the point. All I know is my wedding bouquet was mostly freesias and was a fragrance bomb. I wouldn't buy freesias now. A liberal shaking of powder, like hawthorn blossom being blown about in a damp English spring wind. Yes, it's a damp perfume, not dry at all, certainly not fusty. Hawthorn and rowan blossom always remind me of almonds, so I'm getting some almond here too. Not one for young girlies, this is another of those mature perfumes for confident ladies who are above advertsing or explaining themselves. All in all, glad I made the effort to try it.

Beige intrigues me. Every time I smell it, something takes me back. Childhood memories. Keeping close to my mother, and my grandmother. It doesn't smell of old lady powder, or anything close to that. It is floral, stand-off, dusty, but also warm and somehow comforting. Beige seems older than her 2008 release. Beige is wiser than the rest.

I didn't expect Beige to contain such a good evocation of frangipani...but it does, and the honey and hawthorne work surprisingly well too. With notes like these, "Beige" seems a strange, meaningless name, suggested by an overly cautious marketing team.

Of the les Exclusifs, I've enjoyed Beige for its simple femininity, and Sycomore for its oddness. Beige is more wearable, at least for a woman.

Today I smelled Beige for the first time. It didn´t remained me color beige at all. Maybe white. But it doesn´t mean that I didn´t like. Actually I love it and now after certain time I can´t stop sniffing my hand. It´s very classy, elegant and adult smell - something like perfectly tailored little white dress. Honey and frangipani creates beautiful harmony which evokes balance between classical and modern. I will definitely buy it.

If I wanted to smell like the colour 'beige' I imagine maybe something more like 'Idole' or even 'The One', something warm, slightly sweet and comfortable. This is entirely boring for the ridiculous price and is not worthy of being in the exclusifs line. I would go for No 5 Eau Premiere, if I were you instead.

a real symphony of a fragrance. I grew up on a street lined with hawthornes--and this is hawthorne.
I think this is one of Chanel's best.

smells like nothing. very light. unusual for chanel

Very lovely and unusual floral. The honey is sweet but it is balanced by the hawthorn, which smells almost lemony and the freesia adds a bit of sharp note, too, in contrast to the very intensive frangipani. All the notes are clean and beautiful and natural smelling. I quite like this. Luca Turin described Beige as boring. He is wrong. This is a changing and lively fragrance, unlike any I have tried before. I will definitely enjoy my nice decant.

Beige is above all a simple but powerful fragrance. It goes on strong, has good tenacity, and gives a presence. It stately radiates versus having a capricious personality.

It goes in with a big sweet rush of frangipani, with a few green notes beneath it, as if you are smelling the whole flower. As it wears down it morphs into a sweet floral freesia dripping with aromatic green tea and honey. And that's pretty much it. Beige is pretty linear but it never gets annoying or overbearing.

It's simple but it has a quality of being the best frangipani/freesia/honey scent you've ever encountered. I have to be in the mood for something sweet in order to wear this. It can also be a bit strong for work or close quarters if you apply more than 1 spray. Given that, you will smell like the classiest woman around.

A few sprays will do, it can have good sillage depending on how you wear it, and it lasts all day.

I got a bottle of chanel beige today. I've always wanted a bottle since it lunched but I never came around to do so. Actually I couldn't get over the price. However each time I visited a Chanel store, upon spraying generous amount unto my clothing, I got a feeling of content. All is well, I am calm, I am at peace and all I see is white which is my best colour. Honestly if you are think of getting a signature scent try Les Exclusifs range. They come in 75ml and 200ml. That's all you need.

My first Chanel Exclusifs to try and I have to say I am well impressed! In fact, I am so impressed I now WANT a full bottle of this....if only I could get my hands on it!
This is a thick frangipani honey, almost like a full blown frangipani flower had been dunked in a pot of golden honey. It is heavy enough for a cold day or a night out, but not too overpowering, amazing longevity and silage. I want to keep sniffing my wrist all the time. Received lot of compliments while wearing this....now I will just have to start saving up SIGH!

All of them have tried and most of all liked Sycomore and Beige. With this fragrance once an association theater, long dress to the floor, elegance, restraint and femininity.

On my tenth bottle, which may provide a hint that I like--make that love--it. Beige seems to me like a perfume from a hundred years ago, made with modern-day aromachemicals. Part of its appeal for me is a changeable quality. It doesn't smell the same every day. Sometimes one note seems predominent, sometimes another, and you never know which impressions will come to the fore. Even after so many bottles I feel it's hard to grasp what it smells like and I think it's that quality of elusiveness (along with being in my favourite aldehydic floral category) that keeps me coming back for more.

oh whow...the creamiest, loveliest and the most feminine scent i've tried in a loong while. Frangipani and honey together create an amazingly non-cloying scent (due to high quality ingredients unlike some of the other scents with the same ingredient, I'm sure). It stays realy close to skin and just begs to be sniffed..Very cosy and warm. Love it. If it weren't for the price tag I'd definitely wear it to bed like many of you suggest;)

Bought this today and find it so elegant and soft and warm. I love Chanel fragrances but often they are too strong (except for the gorgeous Chanel 5 eau premiere, which I adore) and now there is this beauty. It's the kind of fragrance that you could spray your bed sheets with and just be lulled to sleep in its enveloping scent.

I tried this in the Beverly Hills store recently and thought it was really lovely but my boyfriend thought it "smelled like all the others" - nothing special. Still I kept sniffing my wrist and enjoyed the soft powdery "summerness."

It is very much what it's name implies: beige in name, beige in nature. It's soft, quiet, inoffensive and without any ruffles.It's very much an "office scent" not too dissimilar to Cartier Baise Voile - although I think Beige has the edge. It has a daytime sensibility and versatility to it. It's pretty, but unfortunately doesn't seem long-lasting, it disappeared on me after an hour leaving me with nothing to work with. So I conclude that the sillage and lasting power is a bit weak.

I was given a sample of this today and I just love it.
Did not give me a headache, light floral scent especially for Spring and Summer months.

I recently got a sample of this and have worn it a few times. I have already told my boyfriend that I want this for Christmas. The smell is divine and very long lasting on me. Definitely the fresh signature scent I have been looking for.

Very classy; I'm in love. Great for Summer!

Beige is the most peculiar perfume I have ever come across. Not the actual fragrance, no. Although that is quite peculiar, too, as many Chanel fragrances are: in this case, a bunch of wild flowers, that were put in the sun for a few hours, then stuck under somebody's sweaty arm for a while, then taken out and sprinkled generously with honey. No, not the smell. But the way it sits on the skin. So close and tight and secretive. It becomes a part of your skin, and you never know Beige is there. You won't be able to smell it on yourself. Nor anyone else around you. I always get comments on my perfume from friends but on this one - not once. The only person who will be able to smell this on you will have to touch his nose to your skin. If you allow him to do that. That's why I think it's called Beige. It's so unassuming, so neutral. But only on the surface. Until you get very close. Pure sensual magic.

I bought this as a blind buy and received it today and I absolutely LOVE IT!!! Such a nice soft floral for Spring and Summer, think it will be one of my favorites.

Sprayed this at my friend's who adores it. Being called beige, i expected something light, smooth, flawless...but the heavy opening tone of freesia (i guess it was freesia) just totally killed it for me... :-(

A huge opening of white florals as its head notes.

It then warms up to keep a very traditional floral oriental approach in its middle notes, tempering the floral bouquet with a certain sweetness brought in by the honey, but something else as well . Don’t know how to express the way it “travelled” on my skin and the depth of the fragrance other than to say it reminds me of other Chanel perfumes. As silly as it sounds, it’s like Allure, but with different notes.

Finally it took on a – lovely, I grant you – soapy nature before dying down into powdery base notes a few hours in. This lasted for many more hours, occasionally allowing whiffs of its middle notes again.

All in all beautiful, feminine. No modern gourmand quality, no unexpected mysterious notes here. It’s a very well rounded perfume which behaves as is expected of it, except maybe in its longevity, in which it surpasses my expectations. It’s the type of perfume you want left behind on the scarf you pull up over your nose when it’s freezing outside.

I recently got a sample of this from the perfumed court. I was surprised out how much it reminds me of a Yankee Candle scent that is now discontinued; to me it's almost a direct dupe of their long lost Magnolia candle. I do like it, very nice for spring/summer.

Sweet, happy, uplifting. Honey & Frangipani.

It is a bit soapy on my skin, which is great because I love soapy scents.

I find it more of a winter scent due to the sweetness.

I went looking for Beige. When tested, this EDT had an edge over other Les Exclusifs because I was not looking for leather. From beginning to end, Beige is warm, cheerful,loyal and very up-lifting. So far, I like it as a winter fragrance. It rises above a cold, gray day and makes me happy! The Honey and Frangipani are lovely. Lasts 4-5 hours with a delicate sillage that I back into. Dry down is a soft and delicious cloud of special beauty. It does remind me of Marc Jacob's Daisy,a bit, but "B" has so much more depth. "B" allows me to wear it rather than it wears me. I am very pleased with this EDT.

nice elegant florals but not original (at least not memorable for me), not for such a price. I smelled it somewhere else. Maybe Kenzo amour florale because of the same prominent frangipani note.

Beige is probably the only composition in the Les Exclusifs range that I dislike. It opens with a suffocating aldehydes and floral combo that's at the same time loud and cheap to then evolve into an overly sweet, clean floral drydown that's anything but exclusive.

Overall Beige coul be ok but next to masterpieces such as 31 Rue Cambon, 28 La Pausa, Bois Des Iles, No.22, Cuir De Russie and Sycomore it results weak, uninspired and unremarkable.

Rating: 5/10

yesterday i was finally able to try beige, which was on my wishlist for some time now. at first it is quite pleasant, but after a while it turned into something very synthetic. suddenly, it dawned on me that it reminded me of a smell from my childhood: downeys's fabric softener! i could not believe it. i showed it to my mother to get a second opinion and she agreed, albeit it is a softer, enhanced version of that laundry product...but seriously, how could something so high-end as a les exclusifs chanel smell so cheap? mind you, i adored the smell of downey's fabric softener, but would i shell out big bucks to scent my sheets? no way. perhaps those who never smelled the fabric softener will like beige, as it is pretty - although absolutely different to the wonderfully natural flowers of guerlain's flora nymphea, which i saw it compared to above - but i would not invest in a perfume so industrial. truly unexpected from chanel.

I got this as a sample from the Chanel Boutique in San Francisco. When I first smelled it, I thought it was uninteresting and a little sharp, perhaps a bit like hairspray. I went through the entire sample over the summer anyway and it has totally won me over. I am in love. I am obsessed. I want more. The next time I come across a Chanel Boutique (which will require a bit of travelling, but hey...you'd do that for Chanel, wouldn't you?), it is definitely on my buy-list.

I should love this, i really should. The notes just seemed so right for me. but then i don't. Don't get me wrong though, i don't hate it, i don't even dislike it! It's just so... blah. Nothing stands out, it's so well polished, so well balanced, so well blended, so... perfectly boring. Maybe i just don't get its understated elegance, but it seems so cold to me! I find there is absolutly nothing to remmember about Beige. And at this price point, well that's a problem.

I love this. It is is a warm, soft, and sweet scent. Almost, but not quite, gourmand. It has none of the harsh notes most florals have on me. In fact, I would never have guessed by the smell that it was a white floral, as I don't get those notes at all. On me, it is definitely a scent for cooler weather and would become cloying in heat. It is very strong, so a little goes a long way. Staying power is average; a few hours at most on me.

Chanel Exclusifs Beige eau de toilette is a sophisticated & classic white floral featuring Gardenia, hawthorne, frangipani, freesia & honey.
Soft,elegant and feminine.

Who could have ever thought that a white floral could be that soft.

Clean, powdery, but with a real signature.

At first there is some sort of vintage quality (maybe the hawthorn à la Après L'Ondée) mixed with the oh so transparent freesia of the 1990s. The honey is so refined in here, very far from the "pipi" honey in Serge Lutens' Miel de Bois. A bright touch of tropical/solar frangipani but without the suntanning note. On a bed of face cream-like powdery vanilla musk.

Without wanting to sound pejorative, Beige smells very American in a way... First we know how americans love their white florals, but there is also that very clean transparency you find in countless american fragrances.

I have a sample from The Perfumecourt, but I also sprayed it at a Chanel boutique. And there is a huge difference in projection whether you dab it or spray it. I got way more sillage (than intended) when I sampled it a the Chanel boutique.

Beige could be worn at any time, it's easier to carry during daytime than say 31 Cambon or Coromandel, which are more wintery or nocturnal.

Chic. Elegant. Refined. Noble.

A good alternative to Beige, but this time with a casablanca lily theme going on, would be the new Baiser Volé by Cartier.

Beige, my best loved perfume ever. i have loved many and tested a frightening many. Left with one perfume for life (God forbid!), I will choose Beige with no hesitation. Beige is very well-behaved until pepper comes in. Just the right amount to signal that you are actually not that nice one may think. Beige may be worn equally morning and night, furs and jeans and nothing on, with heels and flip-flops. The only issue is that it is an Exclusive and therefore sells either by bottles big enough to last for decades or by 75mls, which are nkt widely available. Anyway, Beige is worth testing and investing in. And it lasts, lasts and lasts even on my skin, which is quite unusual for me

Nice creation, quality is there !
Very straightdownward white florals all the way, tempered just a little (too little ^^ ) bit down by some softer notes (I guess it is honey ..??).

But, as much as I can admit this is quality Chanel work, this fragrance did not make me like white florals, which I can not stand.

Being part of the "Les Exclusifs" line, I think this perfume is available in the Chanel boutiques only .... and must be really expensive.
Anyway, for someone who likes/loves white florals, this is a must-try amongst Chanel's creations.

This is a sophisticated floral, demure, inoffensive, and with impeccable manners. It is beige in name and personality, being neutral but classy. It is very elegant, but quite light compared to other Chanels, more of a skin scent. But all the notes are there, it is immaculately well blended. Warmed by the honey note, the sweetness tempered by the slight woodiness of the hawthorn, with two of the most beautiful flowers. I understand reviews that call this a cold beauty. It seems like something worn by a woman who seems untouchable. I would love this as an everyday fragrance, but the price of this is rather much for that. But finally I have found a Chanel to love.

Truly beautiful and sexy. Not in a bodice-ripper kinda way but in a real stockings and good lingerie kinda way. And a girl's gotta have both right?

Sophisticated in it's simplicity.
For a long time I have been searching for a scent that features frangipani but it not screaming
T-R-O-P-I-C-A-L !!!
This is a feminine, elegant and expensive smelling floral that also hints at mimosa (or Australian wattle)although this note is not listed. The honey gives this perfume warmth and does not serve to make this overly sickly sweet.
I do like this offering by Chanel and would recommend it to anyone who is searching for a pretty floral.
Thanks to my dear friend scorpiosheep for the opportunity to try.

I found this to be disappointingly bland, for a Chanel, and particularly for one of the Les Exclusifs range. It is a pleasant enough floral, but nothing to proudly pronounce "Chanel!" I own Coromandel, and tiny bottles of 31 Rue Cambon and Cuir de Russie, and these ones really do grab your attention and make a REAL statement. Beige is just not special enough.

Classy. Warm but very fresh, flowery but not too much so, ambery, but just a hint of it, a very well balanced perfume. Beige is a real lady and you can tell it's made from high quality ingredients.
Note: I only tried it once, as I RAN past the Chanel boutique at Heathrow on my way to board a plane.
But. It is lovely! I am truely greatful to the lady in the shop who shouted "Beige" across the room as she saw me approaching the perfumes, I would never have tested a perfume with that name otherwise... I had a very enjoyable flight, sniffing the air around me, and my wrist, with pleasure. Can't wait to try it again (but it's sadly not available in Sweden).

Beige smells clean and soapy, It smells very light and fresh too. It reminds me of Prada Infusion d'Iris and Gucci Guilty. Beige also smell opulent and luxurious.

Jacques Polge created another nice fragrance. My only regret is the Very weak sillage.

This one reminds me of Tuscani per Donna, as someone mentioned here.But while TpD has something sintetic, Beige is full of flowers with the honey sweetening it all very softly.The beginning can be a little bit invasive but after a while it dries into a comfortable clean scent very close to the skin.At this point it reminds me of Prada iris infusion (not the smell, the feeling).It changes during the day and you get different traces of it as you move.It is youthful too, compared with the other Chanels in this collection(think Bois des lles, for example)and more lively.It makes me happy.
There are three perfumes in this collection that got my attention straight away:Beige,Bois des lles,and n22.

What a great fragrance!
This will be my present for my mom's birthday this year. I picked Gardenia and Beige for her to choose from and she went for Beige right away. She sniffed the card for days, haha!
Will get her the 200ml, so she can enjoy it for a long time...

10/10

The first thing that strikes me when I smell it is CLASS. If I could embody class in a perfume I'd choose Beige. It's the aristocracy of perfumes, away from flashy nouveau rich celebrities. A simple elegant black dress whose inner collar label writes Chanel. Flowery and powdery. Discrete and unassuming.

Smells like a powdery version of Polka Dot Skirt Spray...

Elegant. Sophisticated. Discrete. Expensive. Poised and very classy; a smart tap with a velvet glove - not a sledgehammer, like some of the Les Exclusif scents. You wear Beige, it doesn't wear you.

The first time I smell it, I only know this is a sweet smell, and I know this is a favorite among all Les Exclusif collection. The salesgirl told me that Gardenia and Beige is the most sold compared to the other Les Exclusif. Then I decided to buy one for me, not because I like it, but because I know many people looking for it even in online auction.
I bought it online for value of USD 159.90, yes, cheaper than a new one. It is a used, but previous user just use a very little amount, maybe about 2-3 ml only from a 200ml bottle. I was lucky!!! The perfume arrive at my home and I sprayed it on my wrist.
Heaven!!! Sweet, classy and make me hungry... That weird!! It smell like a barbeque chiken soy sauce, which popular in my country. Maybe because of the honey.
I didn't get much notes from this. After half an hour, the most I smell is frangipani, could be the heart of the perfume. Then I start feeling spooky. Frangipani is a plant which can be found easily in any cemetery in my country, Malaysia. We plant it in cemetery and the flower we will put in on a grave. Usually, we dont plant any frangipani in our yard because the flower remind us of cemetery, ghost and death. Don't beleive it?? Just come to my country and you'll know the truth.
Because Beige is using lots of frangipani, I decided not to wear it at night, especially with white dress. People might running away when they saw in in dark place, even cab driver may leave his taxi after I get in because he think i make him drove to the cemetery. Seriously, I will not wear it at night. Day, yes, but will definitely will wear it with other perfume. However, it very long lasting and very good sillage, another bad news for taxi driver at night, LOL...
Sorry Chanel, a quality goods but not preferably here.

Beige is floral powdery scent. My first asociattion was "elegant". Seems simple, but isn't. In opening smell jasmin and fresia in combination with lots of aldehydes and pleasant amber note, while honey note isn't so noticeable.
Reminds me on old classic scent, maybe on Arpege or some older Guerlain.

I love BEIGE by channel. It's my real favourite and i am very fussy about what i wear. people stop me in the street to ask about what i am wearing. I have two other faves also, sisley and sung by alfred sung but BEIGE always comes out top for me. It makes me feel young,sexy and glamourous. If I were to wear nothing else I will always wear BEIGE XX

Beige, supposedly was Coco Chanel's favourite colour in which she used as her theme to decorate her apartments. This fragrance was created to reflect her style and elegance.

Like the colour, Chanel's Beige is simplistic yet classy. This fragrance is quite possibly the least offensive in the Exclusifs series.

I liked this fragrance straight away. It struck me as a pleasantly sweetened floral with a slight shampoo-type quality. It smelt expensive yet it wasn't particularly unique.

On my skin, Beige became me. It suited my chemistry well and the honey note really had its chance to shine. The frangipani note is what gives this fragrance that clean and slightly tropical smell, however the freesia and honey balances the scent out nicely.

The scent lasted on my skin right up until the wee hours of the morning, which was very impressive and certainly complimentary to the rather high price tag. While I certainly enjoyed wearing Beige I couldn't help feeling as if it was too subdued for my tastes.

Beige has an intimate feel, with the sillage being rather weak despite its lasting strength. This fragrance screams 'inoffensive office scent'. Seeming that I don't work in an office or a crowded environment, louder fragrance are more to my taste.

All in all, Chanel's Beige compliments the skin. It almost seeps into the pores creating a very natural, very 'you' type smell. Despite its basic nature, Beige is an extremely pretty and sophisticated fragrance.

Sweet candy floral with tart edges and a soft faintly powdery base that must be the hawthorne. Pretty and very nice, but the price is a little high for me unless I'm mad for it, which I'm not. Pretty and nice.

Chanel BEIGE is really an oriental floral, as in vanilla-amber-musk-saturated petals. Very sweet and strongly reminiscent of TRESOR, TUSCANY PER DONNA and LALIQUE.

The sweetness of BEIGE cannot be accounted for by the honey note alone, for the actual smell of honey is not that marked, as in other honeyed-florals familiar to me. No, the sweetness here appears to be imparted by vanilla as well, or perhaps a combination of vanilla and juicy fruits.

In any case, BEIGE is not at all what I was expecting, for while pleasant, it is not very original. Those who appreciate sweet oriental florals will certainly like BEIGE, but there's nothing really new in this composition, so I won't be adding it to my arsenal, already amply equipped with a battery of sweet oriental florals...

Beige starts fresh, and sweet, but not in a overly commercial girly fresh way. I can detect some fressia scent with some soft floral. Somehow it gives me nice association of spa, and relaxed holidays. It prejects the impression that Beige will be really easy to wear.

Soon it gets a little bit sweeter and earthier with a tiny bit of powdery feeling, and honey undertone.

Then about two hours later, it becomes really close to the skin, really pleasant to wear. It feels sitting in the middle of a nicely and carefully maintained garden, and having a cup of flower tea that's sweetened by honey.

Even though Beige is pleasant, I am quite disappointed because it does not have any of the iconic Chanel-y edge. Good quality, nice honey touch, and pleasant enough to wear, but somehow I feel Beige really has a 'beige' personality, and kinda faceless in comparison with other Chanel perfume. Well, it may be a good choice when you want some 'low-profile' from a luxary brand.
However, it's not my cup of tea.

Meh.
Pleasant enough, but I could hardly wait for this to wear off to try something more beautiful, more interesting. Nice and flowery, not too sweet, wearable, but very very beige. I don't think I would recognize it on another person, it's not unique. As an expensive "exclusif" it's just another Chanel fragrance that is pleasant on the skin, but leaving some kind of hunger for something more.

I got mine from Saks Fifth Avenue too!! It is a soft honeyed floral on me and very different to what i normally wear. The sales lady was lovely and indulged me with a sample of Bois des Illes. My next purchase........??

Beige is my new favorite scent. This smells like really expensive shampoo on me. It reminds me of something a snobbing housewife would wear. I have to have me a bottle of this soon. Love how the floral is fizzy and fresh! Great lasting power too.. Could smell it all day! My favorite Chanel by far

I was expecting a little more after all the hype Chanel Beige got in 2008. Finally got my hands on a sample, and it's nice, but I'm a bit disappointed. Beige is very simple and linear on my skin. Honeyed floral from start to finish. Yes, it smells lovely and classy and feminine. Yes, it lasts hours. It's a perfectly well-done floral fragrance that seems suitable for any age and any occasion.

Beige is worth a try if you're looking for an expensive modern floral. I guess it's just not quite what I'm looking for and not what I was expecting from Chanel in the 21st century.

The Les Excluisifs collection was challenging curiosity for me, so when I first had the chance to sniff at the scents at an luxury shopping place in Dublin, I had the time of the day :-)

Beige, along with 2 more scents - Sycomore and Cuir de Russie DID IMPRESS ME. It does not possess the "typical" Chanel trail of ancient luxury, the mystery of the Femme Fatale lingering in the air, it's simpler, still feminine, tender,the essence of the woman of the 21st century - tender and confident at the same time.
It is a different sensation of floral, mixing with the sweetness of honey, yet discreetly giving way to the rather indiscernible blend of the freesia and hawthorne.
It is my next Chanel-MUST-buy

Chanel Beige! My initial thought on this was another identifiable floral basic by Chanel. When I think of beige, I think blase, boring, blah! This fragrance is none of those. It's beautiful! Perhaps, beige in French is perceived as elegant, as this perfume certainly is. The intensity of freesia takes the lead with it's crisp, flowery coolness. The enlightenment of Hawthorne extends the cool floral feel and it feels as if you have entered a spring floral mecca. The franginpani adds the tropical essence and the honey warms ups the entire experience. To be as accurate and precise in my review, I've given it the "full monty" test and can confirm that it performs extremely well with an everlasting life of 10 hours plus. It's remarkable! This winning combination of tasteful notes is none other then a timeless Chanel triumph! It's everything a French perfume should be. With Cuir de Russie being my favorite, this is definitely a front runner! I like it! I really, really like it!

I got this fragrance at Saks Fifth Avenue in NYC. I ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT!!! It is so elegant and has such beautiful notes...of all the Chanel fragrances I own (the new No. 5, Allure Sensuelle, #19, Chance, and Coco Madamoiselle), this is my favorite! Nordstrom informs me they will have it in their store by April, but not sure if it will just be at the Nordstroms with the Chanel boutiques or not.