Chanel coromandel

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I smelt this today and it is beautiful. However it us very ££££! Does anyone know of a cheaper alternative?

Buy it at Heathrow - £88 instead of £105ish?
I KNOW £88 is still a lot but it is worth it.
Or get a decant?

No alternative, I bought it duty free.

www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Chanel/Les-Exclusifs-de-Chanel-Coromandel-7145.html

See the fragrances Coromandel fans have also liked in the left sidebar, Tauer, Serge Lutens and Guerlains all good for heavy orientals. Would recommend Shalimar - easy to get hold of and you can get a bottle online for £40-ish. A lot of fragrance bang for your buck there.

www.fragrantica.com/perfume/Chanel/Les-Exclusifs-de-Chanel-Coromandel-7145.html

Wearing it today. You could get decant from Crystal Flacon or eBay.

Thanks for tips. I never thought about Dutch free, but am not going to fly anyway any time soon. Good to know though.

I may go and smell Shalimar again, last time I tried it didn't make much of an impression. In the meantime I will keep using Chanel Coco.

Ooh frugal, thanks for link. Can you order multiples and do you know how much postage is to the UK?

Oops, just saw title- UK based! Have you bought from them and if so were they good?

You should ask him directly - it's just individual people selling and swapping and he might have sold it already. Never bought from him but flaconers are generally lovely people and I have received fantastic decants from many of them. Payment is usually via Paypal so the stakes are not very high...

Or you might bite the bullet and buy a full bottle. I did. It will last a long time and feel very special. If you have to do mail order, this is the best place on earth to order it from. The freebies are sumptuous...

Try theperfumedcourt.com/ for decants. I've been buying from Diane for years and she provides a really good service.

Forgive my stupidity - why do people buy decants when it's much more expensive per millilitre

Is it in case you go off it and just want to wear it for a week?

Wearing one perfume for a full year would bore me to death. Often you grow tired of a perfume much before it's finished, but few manufacturers offer 10 ml or 15 ml sizes that would make sense to most people. Instead you are stuck with 30-50-100ml.

I really only started understanding perfume when I realized that I don't need to buy blind and commit to full bottles. By buying samples and decants you can also wear some of the most exclusive perfumes ever made on a shoestring budget. In an ideal swap, you price the decant by the per milliliter price of the bottle (adding a bit for a vial). So instead of an unwieldy 75 ml bottle of Coromandel you could have 7 decants - a different perfume every day, and a way to explore half of the Chanel boutique line first hand. And if you grow tired of them, you can sell or swap them.

Some manufacturers have understood this - you can buy 15 ml sizes from Hermes and Tauer for example. Ask for a travel set.

I buy decants sometimes because I want to try something I haven't been able to get hold of. It might be a perfume I can't get hold of because it is a limited edition or is vintage/discontinued. And whilst it is more expensive per ml, decants enable me to afford many more perfumes than I would otherwise be able to.

Tweet forgive me if you've mentioned it, but did you try Coromandel and Shalimar on the skin and let it warm up/get the base notes through? Shalimar in particular needs the warmth of skin to get the vanilla moving.

I didn't know you could get Chanel Les Exclusifs at Heathrow. Good to know.