Allure Homme Édition Blanche Deodorant Stick 75ml

Five materials and a stick: Chanel Allure Homme Édition Blanche Deodorant Stick 75ml is about as simple as a grooming product from this house gets, and the simplicity is the appeal. The scent is built around sandalwood, which appears twice in the structure and is the dominant impression throughout. On skin it reads creamy, dry and milky at the same time, with none of the sharpness of other woods, and it is the reason this product feels soft rather than brisk. Pink pepper gives the only lift, a dry rosy prickle that fades within minutes of application. Amber adds a warm resinous glow, tonka bean a quiet, powdery sweetness, and musk the clean skin smell that holds it all down. As a deodorant it works through a day and leaves a light, warm, slightly sweet trace on the skin. It does not and should not behave like a fragrance, so judge it on comfort and on how well it sits under a shirt. Used with the eau de parfum of the same name it extends the scent a little.

The composition is credited to Jacques Polge and the Édition Blanche scent dates from 2008. A 75ml stick is several months of ordinary use, and it is a sensible thing to add to an order if you already wear the fragrance.

Chanel began in 1910 with a hat shop at 21 rue Cambon in Paris, opened by Gabrielle Chanel. Its first perfume, N°5, was created in 1921 with Ernest Beaux, and the perfume and cosmetics company was set up in 1924 with Beaux as the first perfumer working inside the house. N°22, Cuir de Russie and Bois des Iles are from the same early years, and the Chanel suit and little black dress are as much part of the name as the bottles.