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1085 in my "Tour de Fragrance"

I recently noticed "Maitre de Blue" improved on the "Bleu De Chance" rating from 3.57 (which is really awful given how every scent on here is given a lot of "benefit of the doubt") to 3.76, which is still terrible, in a range with David Beckham and Antonio Banderas, but still a significant improvement. So I thought, "what the hell", and spent the $16 to give this scent a spin, even though I don't think original Bleu de Chanel is worth owning, let alone "Bleu de Chance."

When I first joined Fragrantica I was struck by how testy people got about scents that copy BDC and Sauvage. They would downright savage the dupes for using synthetics, which the originals also do (anyone see real "Calabrian Bergamot" in those notes?). It seemed to me, and still does, that some clones ratings suffer more from indignity that a favored scent was copied than that it was a bad attempt. But admittedly, Maison Alhambra's first attempt at a BDC clone, "Bleu de Chance" was pretty bad. It was cheap and smelled it, though not for long, as the performance was, in a word, wretched. And several of the BDC notes were completely missing. So I thought copying both the BDC bottle style and initials to sell a bad copy was deceptive marketing and bad product management strategy that hurt the Alhambra brand overall. And apparently it backfired so they came back with this product months later under a new name, and it is different.

The synthetic bergamot is still of the screechy variety, but this scent does add a couple of the missing BDC notes from that first attempt, aldehydes and melon. But still no coriander. So I have to wonder what the point of a new version was if they still were not going to fully dupe BDC? And the incense note is still not all that smoky. But my main complaint is that the missing coriander makes a marked difference in the overall warmth and smoothness of the BDC scent, and while I think BDC itself is a thin concoction, when you compare it to what everyone compares it to, Dior "Sauvage", a 100% note match would have helped this scent.

So my verdict is: "missed again Maison Alhambra!" The performance has improved a bit, still at an EDT level. Given that the BDC EDT itself performs badly, that's probably not a show-stopper for those that like BDC. But this is certainly not an EDP, and it still just doesn't smell quite like BDC. What it still smells like are the other cheap BDC similars: Cuba Paris "Shadow", Armaf "Voyage Bleu", Afnan "9am Dive." I bought them, wore none of them, gave them away, as I will this juice.

Armaf's "Club de Nuit Blue Iconic" is a note-for-note copy of BDC that costs about $20 more than this. It's not perfect, but serviceable, versatile, good for any setting. So do yourself a favor, avoid the disappointment of spending $16 for something that I think you'll find disappointing, and spend the additional money for CDNBI. It both smells better and performs better than Maitre Bleu.