Cristalle Chanel 1993 Eau de Parfum
The 1993 EDP is the warmer, plusher cousin of the 1974 Cristalle EDT — same green-citrus DNA, different drape.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 11 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.
- Citrus60
- Floral55
- Fresh50
- Mossy
The note pyramid
- Peach
- Lily of the Valley
- Lemon
- Bergamot
- Mandarin
- Jasmine
- Iris
By the editors · 2 min readThe 1993 EDP is the warmer, plusher cousin of the 1974 Cristalle EDT — same green-citrus DNA, different drape. Peach is the giveaway: it sits on top alongside lemon and bergamot, lily of the valley adding a dewy lift, and the whole opening reads softer, fruitier, less austere than the original.
The heart's jasmine-iris pairing is brief and powdery, more transition than statement, before the composition settles into its oakmoss-vetiver close — the chypre signature that ties this to Cristalle EDT but smoothed out, less bitter, with a quieter projection arc. It's the version for people who want the green chypre architecture without the original's near-cologne severity. Reads office-appropriate spring-into-fall, projects modestly, ages on skin into something close to powder.
Scent twins
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