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Chene
Eau de Parfum
by Serge Lutens

The Scoop
If you thought the oak, beeswax and rum notes would take you in Uncle Serge’s secret Western-style den – the one with the polished heirloom furniture where he trades mint tea for a tipple – you’d be very much mistaken… Chêne is quintessentially Lutens: dried fruit, spices and wood.

In Chêne (French for oak), each note seems to mesh with the others to create a flammable mixture drenched in woody saps and resins… The fruity booziness of the oak, rum and immortelle segues, through the latter’s tobacco and honey notes, into the beeswax and tonka bean. The smokiness of the tonka bean echoes that of the birch tar and oak. The bone-dry, pencil-shavings cedar is suffused with the aromatic camphor of the black thyme and the underlying bitterness of the oak tannins is nestled in an “undergrowth note” which chypre aficionados will recognize as… oak moss.

In fact, Chêne is probably the closest Serge Lutens and Christopher Sheldrake have come to composing an aromatic leather chypre, in their trademark oriental-style.

Chene Notes
cedar crystals, wood sap, black thyme, oak, immortelle, beeswax, silver birch, rum absolute and tonka bean

Perfumer
Christopher Sheldrake
Other fragrances by: Christopher Sheldrake

		$140		50ml

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I have samples of a dozen SL perfumes and most of them smell so masculine on me. Maybe it's all the cedar and wood? I haven't quite figured it out. I love how complex they are, but there is always a note that I can't stand. With Chene it's the top note. It smells way too sweet but then it gives way to lots of spice and cedar, but mostly it just smells like an oriental/spice on me. I like it, but it's not something I would regularly reach for in the morning.

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Anonymous - from New Orleans

I think this is a subtle sweet fragrance. I'm not sure, though, because it lasts for about 5 seconds on my skin then disappears completely!

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Val - from London

this smelled like cotton candy in the bottle and smells like cotton candy on me. one of the only lutens which i've used thus far that i immediately want off of my body.

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caleb -novice perfumer from portland, or

At first I thought this was too sharp, woody, and almost sour, with a lot of cedar. As time went on, I realized it was more interesting than I had thought. It becomes kind of silvery and.....ashy? But in a good way. Something ethereal about this scent. Very light in throw but it's one of those subtle scents that is persistent even though it's light. I appreciate what people like in this but I'm not likely to hunt down a larger amount for myself.

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Tom -registrar from Cincinnati

I agree with the reviewer who said that this is quite possibly the most beautiful fragrance in the world. I don't care if it cost $1000.00 / bottle I would find a way. this is the kind of scent that lingers on clothes and smells amazing. the kind of scent you want to be "in". I WILl own a bottle of this. So far, I think i am in love with Serge Lutens. This fragrance is unbelievable. Please try a sample and you will see. I get NO masculinity at all, but I think that a man wearing it would smell ...I have no words for how he would smell. I love this, is the only thing I can say. I am giving it ONE HUNDRED STARS!!!!!

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Anonymous -Mommy from Somewhere in new England

i get a sweet woody fragrance not masculine at all.... this line is very rich and interesting i have 4 now

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louise -agent from st pete

Funny, how scents change so much depending who wears them. Masculine? maybe for you but not at all for me. Here I have a beautiful, feminine pencil. This is so lovely and sweet without being cloying. I don't get much beeswax, but I do get dried fruits and the barest hint of rum. The way it melds with the pencil shavings really works for me.

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JK -AV tech from Los Angeles

Of the SL fragrances, only MUSCS KOUBLAI-KHAN supersedes this one... CHENE smells like a huge oaken library chair... The salubrious, hearty, virile aspects of wood are effulgent in this fragrance. The drydown is to die for... it smells like human skin, tanned after a long day at the beach. Perhaps it is on the masculine side, but women who love the woody family will eat this one up, it's that sublime.

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david lincoln brooks -graphic artist from boerne, TX USA

This is a decidedly masculine fragrance, but like all Serge Lutens scents, it's mesmerizing in its subtlety. Oak moss and sap/forest smell come through loud and clear, but in the drydown, the fruits and spices come out more and lighten up the masculine hit. Though I might not wear it for myself, I put some on my husband and it was divine. It's very unusual smelling (I think all SL perfumes avoid the typical cliches) - a chypre for those who don't want a typical scent. Very woodsy, but in a good way.

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Michele -Self from Vermont

A friend brought back a bell jar for me and I said oh dear this is mucho peligroso not like the wax sample, and I couldn't quite deal. in fact I remember writing a review of it on basenotes saying it reminded me of a story a great erotic artist told me about his childhood fixation for a man he saw at the local gym. when the hot hunk would quit the steam room, our young genius would enter and lick the slats on which he'd sat. The review was censored and... I got rid of Chene! The seasons they go round and round and I must say that Chene is one of my favorite fragrances. It's also great for layering with other lutens, such a Daim Blond - puts hair on their chest! I must say also, another interesting thing about this fragrance is that wearing it I've been complimented not on my perfume but on my smell. People have supposed that it was me giving off this intoxicating, and unabashedly erotic odeur! I don't just love it, I live it!

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Anonymous -I've looked at Chene from both sides now... from Hollywood

Oh, gosh - this is one of my favorite SL's and one of the most evocative fragrances imaginable. Chene is an ancient wooden beamed cabin, tucked away under a forest of ice-bound white birch in the frozen north of Finland or Siberia. If you can conjure the scents of that hut when its soul is quickened with a blazing fire in the hearth: strong herbs in the rafters, warming spirits in flasks, and crystalline sap everywhere, you can experience this dream that is an SL masterpiece. Now that Luckyscent carries it, I know it must be mine soon!

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Sarina - from LIC, NY

positively the most beautiful scent in the world.

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Anonymous -producer from Los Angeles

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CheneEau de Parfumby Serge Lutens

Chene
Eau de Parfum
by Serge Lutens