Beige Eau de Parfum fragrance notes
- Honey, Hawthorn, Freesia, Frangipani
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Latest Reviews of Beige Eau de Parfum

Honied, slightly tropical, and buttressed by a hint of indolic earthiness, Beige is extremely wearable, broadcasting an easygoing chic that, yes, pushes the limits of upper crusty, but in a way that is aspirational rather than off-putting.
Too bad it’s an Exclusif, which means if you don’t have access to a Saks or Neimans, etc., or the means by which to gamble a blind buy, then you’re out of luck—even the slew of decant sites that are popping up all over the internet don't offer Chanel. If it were easier to test this stuff, I bet the ladies who lunch crowd would be choosing Beige as their daily driver rather than the rapidly-becoming-ubiquitous Baccarat Rouge.

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“I take refuge in beige because it’s natural,” said Coco Chanel about her beloved colour. Sandy beige, honey beige, clay beige, whitish beige…Gabrielle Chanel loved the infinite variations of this natural, elegant colour with which she surrounded herself, taking refuge from the chaos of life.
So it sets a scene for this fragrance hardly more fanciful than many perfume descriptions. I did have expectations of a ‘beige’ fragrance, sort of intimations of an office perfume, but with a Chanel sheen. I think it is that.
It does a good job of delivering a controlled, put together, tasteful palette of neutrality. You will win the office jackpot for having the most tastefully accessorized of fragrances.
It has a neutral opening which slowly shifts to a subtle floral honey. It's very pleasing on the skin.
It meets others in the middle - Beige is well-judged, tasteful, non-histrionic, urbane, and chic. I like it.

This frag remains rather linear, stays the same, for quite awhile.
Honey notes linger on, as well as the gentle floral smell.

The listed notes are quite different from the edt, which were aldehydes, hawthorn, freesia, and frangipani.
After being surprisingly different from the edt in the opening, as the edp develops, it does seem to largely merge with the essence of what the edt had been.