Description
Carolina Herrera launches two new limited editions of the original fragrances CH (2007) and CH Men (2009): CH Africa and CH Men Africa in 2015. The fragrances continue the theme of last year’s limited editions CH Grand Tour, inspired by vintage, luxurious train travel in South America.
This year, the African continent and exotic journeys through savannas served as the inspiration: lush Kenyan vegetation, endless Nigerian deserts, the Tanzanian red lake …
CH Men Africa opens up with mandarin and pink pepper, with blue sage and green pimneto in the heart, and the base of cashmere, Atlas cedar and black coffee.
Available as 100 ml Eau de Toilette in the signature bottles decorated with leather and camouflage print, with African symbols as charm pendants.
FireLine – :
Probably all the coffee went to my bottle if it is not enough for others:-) I adore very much limited edition Africa CH Men. ACHM does not have the nasty sweetness of the Original CH-2009 and it’s great for me. Excellent unusual mix of Cashmeran & Coffee. Slightly scabrous scent. Longetivity is nice, more than 8 h. Bittersweet woody fragrance for infinite olfactory pleasure. Paradox, but next limited edition grassy CH Men Central Park I did not like, a lot of ginger for my taste.
9.0/10
shalun123 – :
I think the hate on the fragrance has little to do with the actual scent itself. Maybe the bottle design influenced the decision to rate it this low.
Don’t get me wrong, It’s not a great fragrance, but it’s no where near a 3.50 rating. I own other juices that have a 4+ rating and they are not as good as this fragrance.
7.0/10
анзеба – :
I hate to admit it, but I somewhat like this fragrance and feel that I am in need of a top-notch, Grade A, ass kicking. While it is not a bad fragrance (you know it’s a bad fragrance whenever anyone prefaces their review with, “It’s not a bad fragrance…”) it is a strange concoction and a huge disappointment when compared to the iconic CH Men. But seriously, I’ve worn it several times now and I am liking it more with each wearing. However, it remains my 2nd least favorite CH Men fragrances (I have all the flankers) just above CH Men Sport.
First, let’s toss-away the notes pyramid…CH Men Africa is one-part CH Men (the watered-down reformulation), one-part 1 Million or Invictus (take you pick), one-part Le Male (the watered-down reformulation) and one-part Bazooka Bubble Gum. To me, it’s as though CH tried to make a version of 1 Million and then decided to make a version of Le Male and then decided to make a version of a Bubble Gum. There is nothing in this fragrance that reminds me of traveling on the plains of Africa – nothing!
Performance is rather lackluster in that it lasts 4-hours and projects moderately on my skin. I detect no coffee and there is very little of that scrumptious CH Men DNA. Moreover, I honestly can’t detect many discernible notes…just waves of synthetic sweetness, woods and spices – and bubble yum.
Sounds bad but I don’t hate this fragrances and even kinda like it – shame on me! CH Men, Prive, Grand Tour and Central Park are both much better options, in my opinion, but I still kinda like it so let the ass-kickings begin. I’m going to [finally] wear this one out while dancing this weekend so perhaps this one may be a sleeper and really please the ladies. We shall see.
Update: Lordy to I hate this bottle design (Tres Bon and Tres Nuit). Even with large hands, the bottle is extremely difficult to hold. Moreover, the atomizers are complete garbage in that they spray the tiniest amount of juice imaginable. Not a manly sight watching myself in the mirror holding Tres Bon with two hands and pumping the atomizer furiously with index fingers trying to get enough fragrance on my body. To the sadistic individuals who designed this bottle and atomizer combo….”I got your Tres Bon right here in my hands for you.” LOL!
wvl914JeomiWogkig – :
I kind of like this fragrance because it smells CH Men Classic. Since the original isn’t available anymore in my country, I’ll be splurging on this iteration of CH MEN just to kill the cravings for the original. Lol.
MoLLIeHHuK – :
Fruity-bitter-synthetic combo (that supossedly coffee? note is more like a stale bitter-sweet coffee left out for days), in a cheap-looking bottle, not much feeling in common with original CH Men which, imo, is still the best in the serie.
Strong sillage, good longevity but unfortunatelly not something very challenging or appealing. 6.5/10
tbigor – :
I was a bit disappointed with CH Africa, as happened with the CH men sport. The original CH Men version is more elegant, has more personality. CH Africa is more fruity (red fruits?), less sweet and less leathery than CH men. It lacks personality.
maks 85 – :
This fragrance is somewhere between CH Men and it’s Sport version.
Strong DNA of CH Men, but less sweet, kind of bitter.
Not so much more to add.
An everyday fragrance.
Ikd4lsmdSc – :
Smelled this in Singapore. First off, tacky camo design on the bottle, nowhere near as classy as the original. Next, the smell….pure synthetic straight out of the bottle. Typical generic woody spicy scent. PASS! I didn’t even give it a second sniff. My advise buy the original!! That is excellent juice!
KristDreno – :
Smelt this in Santorini, Greece a couple weeks back. Love the fragrance, the bottle is the same as the CH Men bottle but with a tacky camouflage design. I think the marketing is wrong on this one. The fragrance is great and could of been a new release instead of a flanker.
Unfortunately I didn’t purchase it. I regret it now. Luckily I have family going over a month so I’ll be getting my hands on it! Can’t wait!
Wweter48 – :
i test this for the second time and it’s quit similar to lacoste yellow. same vibe i believe, and it’s also very versatile.
jdaulyk – :
It’s already available in Europe I believe.
I tried it at a local perfume store. I do have the feeling I tried a similar fragrace before but I can’t remembre which one it is.
Either way, it is a nice fragrance for Spring and Autumm and it could even be used during Winter.
You can feel the citrus in the opening notes and then it becomes quite Woody. I will have to try again to give a better review
Chaybolsan – :
Apparently this is available at Duty Free shops in the Middle East….Can’t wait to give it a whiff!
yarullinavenera – :
Keeping my fingers crossed as i did not like the original cause it did not work well on me !!!!!!!
( notes sound interesting ) 1
ZoreTiekPleli – :
They aren’t. Don’t believe everything you read on this site.
After some research, apparently this is a UAE release only. I found one site that will allow you to purchase if you are taking a flight on Saudia airlines.
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14881488 – :
Another Edition!
Loved the Original CH Men and Grand Tour, looking forward to test it 😀
ТЕРМИТ – :
test this fragrance yesterday and i must say it’s just amazing. smells fantastic, longetivity is moderate. it’s almost better than the original…