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Égoïste Platinum Deodorant Stick 75ml
Despite the shared name, Chanel Égoïste Platinum Deodorant Stick 75ml carries almost nothing of the fragrance that came before it, and anyone expecting the original will be surprised. Jacques Polge composed Platinum in 1993 and built it on herbs rather than flowers. Lavender leads, clean and soapy rather than dried and dusty, with rosemary beside it, sharper and more medicinal, and petitgrain giving a bitter green citrus edge taken from the twigs and leaves rather than the fruit. The opening is brisk and almost astringent.
Clary sage and geranium hold the middle. Clary sage is herbal and faintly sweaty in a way that reads as very masculine, and geranium brings a green, slightly metallic rosiness that keeps the whole thing crisp. Amber is the only material underneath, and it is what stops the fragrance from being merely sharp, lending a low resinous warmth beneath the herbs.
Six materials and it behaves accordingly: clear, direct and without much of an arc. In a deodorant stick what you get is the clean herbal half of it, which suits the product rather well, since this is a scent that already smells like being well groomed. As with any deodorant, treat it as grooming. It controls odour and leaves a trace of the fragrance, and it does not perform the way the eau de toilette does, nor is it meant to. It goes on dry, sets quickly and travels without fuss. It is sold to men and it is an easy thing to wear all year, particularly in warm weather when the herbs read coolest.
The house began in 1910 with Gabrielle Chanel's hat shop in Paris, and its perfume and cosmetics company was established in 1924 under the perfumer Ernest Beaux.
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