what's going on everyone! today a continuation of the series here on the channel called GIMME 5
where i go over one of my favorite top brands in the fragrance world and give you guys my five
favorite choices from that particular brand. This series started a few years ago i want to say
maybe five years ago and i started with Chanel but the original men's line, in this particular
video today we're talking about CHANEL but the LES EXCLUSIFS, if you want to know my favorite
five last exclusives that you should get your nose on stick around i'm doing it right now ;)
Welcome back to another video ladies and gents today of course Les Exclusifs by Chanel which
you guys know very well, it's one of the most iconic and known brands, it's like
the coca-cola of drinks or the rolex of watches, you talk about Chanel n5
everybody knows and associate it with Marilyn Monroe. A little briefing here on Chanel: Chanel started
into the fashion industry in the 1910s by Coco Chanel as she was so affectionately called by her
close friends, Coco Gabrielle Chanel started in the fashion industry about 1910 and
right about in the 1920s she started to dab into the perfume world and right around 1921 Chanel n5
was introduced in the market the rest as they say is history because that fragrance is
such an iconic fragrance so revolutionary that to this day in 2021 it is one of the most sold
fragrances worldwide. Today we're talking about the Les Exclusifs collection which i do love,
there are a ton of great fragrances in this house, it's really hard to pick just five but I
find myself always reaching out to these five so it's safe to say these are the five that are my
favorites and i think this is gonna be a little bit on a countdown style, i'll go from
number five all the way to number one which is the one that i reach out for the most and of course
the one that i'm mostly enchanted with, so without any further blabber let's get into my top
five favorite Les Exclusifs of all time. Number five spot here is going to go to this particular
fragrance which is going to be a lavender base scent, a lot of people call this a neo fougere or
a new style of fougere and i would agree with that, this is going to be CHANEL BOY, it's
going to be a semi powdery fragrance, the lavender here is quite predominant, i love the scent,
I find myself wearing this for dressier occasions perhaps kind of like what i'm wearing today when i
really want to smell elegant and sophisticated i think the two key words here are going to be
elegant and sophisticated even though it's a lavender "neo fougere" type of a scent
i think a lady could pull this off perfectly it is very well balanced with some floral components but
it's going to be a little bit powdery and again the lavender is going to be the star player here,
I love this stuff and what i particularly love about BOY from Chanel is that it has some really cool
nuances that i love here which is going to be the heliotrope which adds this nice almondy kind
of a facet to the fragrance, there's definitely some moss here which contributes to some green
nuances, as well as coumarin or you if you want to call it tonka you can, which will add a little bit of
a sweetness touch to the fragrance, everything is very well balanced, very well put together,
very elegant and very sophisticated, Chanel Boy in my fifth position of most favorite Chanel Les exclusifs in this
countdown today. I'm going to try this guys please don't crucify me i'm not a french-speaking person,
or 31 RUE CAMBON, this particular fragrance here is a great floral green and very aromatic scent and
by the way all the fragrances here on this list are going to be the edt formulation, I was lucky
enough to be able to get these fragrances when they were released so these are all older bottles
in the edt concentration which i think is far better than the current edp, which
are still good but they're not going to be as pungent as strong as these older edt, but anyway,
conversation for a different video, so 31 RUE CAMBON is going to be this great very aromatic
green notes, black pepper, some rose, iris, ylang-ylang, patchouli and sistus flower here, what i love
about sistus flower is that it has this very pungent musky animalistic undertone which is
almost like a fougere style type of a scent, I would describe this as a green fougere meets
floral like ylang ylang, rose, all the floral components, the iris here is very beautiful
one word to describe this is a stunning beautiful or very enigmatic type
of a fragrance, very pragmatic i love this stuff and i think that this here is great for men and
women, it's going to smell very sophisticated, very elegant, very well put together, it's going to be
long lasting, very powerful, it's something that you don't need more than two to three sprays and you're
gonna project, you're gonna radiate this beautiful melange of green, floral, almost
musky kind of undertone, i love this stuff, definitely one of my favorites hence
the fact it's number four spot in the best of what the Les Exclusifs has to offer in my humble opinion,
at the third spot this particular one you guys know how much i love my leather so i have to
have a leather here Les Exclusifs has a great skanky, animalistic, pungent, strong, powerful leather
fragrance for you guys, if you love leather this is one that you have to try, you must not dismiss this
fragrance guys, and it's going to be CUIR DE RUSSIE from Chanel, translated it's called Russian Leather, this fragrance has been
around for quite a while, this one here in particular is the edt from 2007 that was
introduced here in the Les exclusifs collection, it's a very dark juice, I would consider this a
leathery animalistic kind of a fragrance, it is leathery but it is very very pungent
oh it's nice, I love this stuff, it's very powerful, very strong, long lasting, what i like to call this
fragrance is one of those scents that's a ceo boss type of a fragrance, you wear this fragrance you
walk into a room they're going to know you mean business, it's one of those scents not for everyone,
not for the faint of heart, you need to really love skanky, leathery, pungent dark, unapologetic
kind of scents to appreciate this one, it's got mandarin orange, jasmine, rose, ylang-ylang and birch wood,
and of course the animalistic leather, i think there's some civet in here as
well along with that beautiful dark leather accord it's just an outstanding fragrance, stunning, one of the
best leather fragrances of all time, I go as far as saying that this is going to sit at my top five
favorite leathers, you now what? strike that, reverse, this is one of my top three
favorite leathers of all time guys, CUIR DE RUSSIE from Chanel, incredible. I was hard-pressed guys to
choose these five and these last two were very very tough to choose, they're easily interchangeable, they're
definitely my favorite too, in fact, one of those i'm actually on my second bottle, that's how much
i love it, but I have to tell you guys, some of these Les Exclusifs could be very expensive,
especially if you want to try to find some of the older edt formulations, you're talking $500 plus so
what i would suggest and recommend you guys before you cough up the dough, go to perfuum.com which is
the partner of the channel here, and you can try any of the top five choices that i'm sharing
with you today and of course dozens of others Les Exclusifs that you want to try for a very cheap
and affordable price, and the cool thing is it comes in a little pouch like this
from perfuum.com and you can choose any size you want to try and live with that scent to
make sure you actually love it, if it agrees with your body chemistry and you're satisfied with
the scent altogether before committing to a full and expensive bottle for yourself, so
perfuum.com, details are below, there's a code going on right now which is max10, which you grant you guys
10% off at checkout. So let's go with my top two choices here and you also know that Chanel cannot
be found at discount websites so you can either purchase retail or get a decant to try
it before you buy it. Second choice is interchangeable here with the
first choice, it could have easily been number one, you guys know how much i love vetiver when you talk
vetiver there's only one fragrance that comes to mind when it comes to Chanel and it is of course
SYCAMORE, this is fire guys, this could have easily been my number one choice,
this is my second bottle, I had an edp 200ml which i completely destroyed and went
through it, and i was lucky enough to find an edt first formulation of Sycamore so I jumped on it,
i wear this very gingerly because whatever is out today the juice is not going to be as dark and
it's not going to be as long-lasting of a vetiver scent, as smoky almost boozy which is what i get
with Sycamore, it's a great boozy vetiver that's spicy and smoky. Here's the deal guys, if you know
of course Olivier Pouge, the in-house perfumer got together with Christopher Sheldrake which
happens to be the perfumer who was responsible for some of the masterpieces of this world from
Serge Luteins, so they got together and they made this fragrance which is also a masterpiece from
Chanel. We're talking spices, aldehydes, pink peppers, sandalwood, tobacco which is like a blonde
floral tobacco that you get here, violet leaf, vetiver and of course green cypress, this
is an outstanding fragrance. Again, it's not going to be one for everyone but if you want, it's almost
boozy, there's like this almost rum accord that i get here with the blonde tobacco and the violet leaf,
it's a gorgeous vetiver guys, smokey, very powerful, very pungent, another ceo boss type
of scent, it's definitely in my top three favorite vetiver fragrances of all time, Sycamore Les
Les Exclusifs Chanel is a must grab. Now the first choice, here the number one my favorite Les exclusifs was
released right around the same time as Sycamore surprisingly and the perfumers here were also
hristopher Schuldrake along with Olivier Polge, so nothing more than a masterpiece guys,
this is one of my favorite fragrances of all time. I did a "10 for life video" and this was
definitely on there, if you like patchouli, creamy sandalwood and white chocolate by now you should
know i'm talking about none other than COROMANDEL from Chanel, this is the edt formulation
i'm sad my bottle is almost gone but this is an absolutely stunning masterpiece juice with spices,
creamy sandalwood, gorgeous earthy patchouli, white chocolate accord, this is just supple, it's
elegant, sensual, it's one of those fragrances guys that if you're looking for one fragrance
to definitely stand out in the crowd and just smell heavenly, look no further guy, this is your
juice right here, COROMANDEL from Chanel, this stuff is absolutely a masterpiece, there's also
a little floral vibe here that you're going to get with iris, rose and jasmine, but all in all it's
a fantastic fragrance guys, all five fragrances are amazing for a gentleman or a lady to pull off,
you're gonna smell incredible, these are incredible quality, incredible performance,
amazing smelling from the first spray all the way to the dry down. So let me know in the comments
what is your favorite Les exclusifs of all time, your top three, top five, whatever you want
to share with me, let me know if you like my choices, did I miss something that
should have definitely been in this top five? let me know your thoughts
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