Match #57 · Brotherhood Of Scent

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Match #57

Match #57 brings us back to the main bracket for the first Quarterfinal: Jean Paul Gaultier Le Male Elixir versus Chanel Allure Homme Sport Eau Extrême.

And these two could hardly have more different personalities.

Le Male Elixir is the brash teenager who kicks open the classroom door and announces his arrival. Sweet, powerful, and impossible to ignore, its combination of vanilla, honey, tobacco, and tonka is fantastic in cold weather. In the middle of winter, there are plenty of days when I'd happily reach for it.

Allure Homme Sport Eau Extrême is the quietly confident silver fox professor. He walks into the lecture hall without making a fuss—and then spends the next hour mesmerizing everyone with his elegance and eloquence. Mandarin, mint, cypress, tonka, musk, and woods create something smoother and more restrained, but no less compelling.

And that's ultimately the difference for me. Le Male Elixir may be more immediately exciting, but the Chanel is easier to wear, more versatile, and more sophisticated. I can imagine reaching for it in far more situations and across far more of the year.

I'm sure there will be people jeering from the cheap seats over this decision, but I'm sticking with it.

Chanel Allure Homme Sport Eau Extrême advances to the Semifinals.

Le Male Elixir isn't finished yet—it drops into the second-chance bracket, where it will get another opportunity to fight its way back.

The silver fox takes down the teenager.

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Match #57