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Chanel · Est. 2016

Boy

Lemon, grapefruit, and lychee open in a bright, slightly exotic citrus accord — the lychee's floral fruitiness lifting the more conventional citrus with something unexpected.

ConcentrationFragrance
Forunisex
Released2016
Statusenriched
Boy — Chanel
2016 · Fragrance
lem·mus·san·ora
Rating
7.9
0.5k reviews
Fig. 01

The scent fingerprint

Visualization — constellation
citrusfloralfruitygourmandpowderyamberywoodysmokychyprearomaticgreenaquaticspicy

Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.

Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.

  • Lemon
    55
  • Musk
    55
  • Sandalwood
    50
  • Orange
    50
  • Vanilla
    50

By the editors · 2 min readLemon, grapefruit, and lychee open in a bright, slightly exotic citrus accord — the lychee's floral fruitiness lifting the more conventional citrus with something unexpected. Mint and lavender add aromatic freshness that shifts the register toward the herbal: cool and slightly medicinal, with the androgynous quality the name implies. Orange blossom and rose provide warm floral depth, present but not dominant.

Sandalwood and vanilla anchor the composition in creamy warmth — the sandalwood soft, the vanilla providing quiet oriental sweetness. Musk extends cleanly. Boy was named for Coco Chanel's great love, and it wears the paradox of its name: simultaneously feminine in its florals and androgynous in its aromatic structure — a Les Exclusifs composition that earns repeated return.

Filed: ChanelSillage · vol. I
Fig. 02

Scent twins

Computed via accord overlap