Chanel Cristalle Review – Henri Robert; 1974

It was time to delve into the past again for my latest episode of Love At First Scent and to feature a scent that a very large number of you asked me to talk about: Chanel Cristalle. In this instalment (which OF COURSE had to come with a technical hitch, albeit of a mercifully brief variety) we discussed the original 1974 edt (composed by Henri Robert and, according to some accounts, Edmond Roudnitska) as well as the 1993 edp and the 2009 Eau Verte iteration (both by Jacques Polge). To watch the video, please click on this link: Chanel Cristalle review.

I always say my viewers come up with some of the most astute descriptions of the scents I review, but this time, they really outdid themselves. Here’s a comment left on the video by someone whose tag is ‘D J’: “Cristalle is like the final-frontier expression of radiance, but it’s a brittle, unstable form of radiance, as though it will self-annihilate in a light show. I’ve always called it a prismatic chypre.”

I can’t possibly come up with anything more apposite than ‘prismatic chypre’, so I shall just go away, spray some more of the edt and picture a sun in some distant galaxy, perishing beneath an explosion of luminosity.

Persolaise

[Chanel Cristalle edt, edp and Eau Verte reviews based on samples from my personal collection.]

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