Where it differs: Modelled on the original Gabrielle, so it is brighter with grapefruit and lacks the creamy coconut and vanilla warmth that Essence adds to the white flowers.
Smells like Chanel Gabrielle Essence.
3 bottles the community rates close to Gabrielle Essence, 84 percent cheaper at the top, with the one thing each does differently. white floral, fruity, sweet, for women.
Scent overlap
Both bottles' accords, strongest at the top, facing each other. A bar joined through the middle is one they share.
Notes of Gabrielle Essence
What Chanel publishes. Black means Dossier Floral Ylang Ylang shares the note.
Top
- citrus
- peach
- red fruits
- black currant
- petitgrain
Heart
- white flowers
- tuberose
- ylang-ylang
- jasmine
- orange blossom
- coconut
Base
- musk
- sandalwood
- vanilla
Notes of Floral Ylang Ylang
What Dossier publishes. Black means Gabrielle Essence shares the note.
Notes
- Orange Blossom
- Ylang-Ylang
- Jasmine
- Tuberose
The 3 worth trying, ranked
Similarity is the owners' vote plus the note overlap. Price is a typical US bottle price when the house publishes one. Bars are each match's own accords.
Where it differs: Inspired by the original Gabrielle, it reads cleaner and more tart with grapefruit and pear, without the tuberose, coconut and vanilla sweetness of Essence.
Where it differs: Shares the peach, tuberose and coconut core but leans more on tuberose and finishes warmer with amber instead of clean musk and sandalwood.
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Side by side, the way people actually decide
Two bottles, two prices, one honest sentence. Every match on the site has this card.
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