Daring and bold, yet sensual and elegant.
Inspired by the irrepressible spirit of the young Coco Chanel, the modern Oriental fragrance entices with an utterly feminine composition, expressing refined sensuality and incredible freshness.
Chanel Coco Mademoiselle is a very popular, but highly counterfeited fragrance available on eBay, other websites and local swap meets. Counterfeit Chanel Coco Mademoiselle products are very difficult to distinguish visually from the authentic Chanel product.
The most obvious difference with the counterfeit is the authentic Mademoiselle Eau de Parfum should last for up to 8 hours. The counterfeit product usually lasts for a few minutes, and likely has a notably different fragrance. Authentic Chanel Coco Mademoiselle is light pink, not the yellowish-brown that is common with many counterfeits. The Chanel bottle is elegant and balanced, and the vaporizer should be solid, it should not be easy to move side to side. Authentic bottles will have a "lot number" etched into the back of the bottle near the top.
Consumers should heed the warning of Valerie Salembier, senior vice president and publisher of Harper's Bazaar; "Active ingredients found in counterfeit fragrances include things like urine, bacteria, and antifreeze." "You're putting something on your face, on your neck, on your wrists. Those are sensitive parts of the body, so, to have active ingredients that could endanger your life is a very serious health risk,"
There is no way for you to determine the authenticity of the product you will receive from a stock advertising photo.
Counterfeiters often use advertising photos of authentic products as shown here, but send you a counterfeit product.
Counterfeits are made to deceive you. This counterfeit was purchased on eBay and looks visually similar to the authentic item.
Could you identify this as a counterfeit product?
The authentic Chanel box is white and has a manufacturing number stamped in the box. The counterfeit a yellowish/ivory.
Note the difference in text placement on the two boxes. Authentic products can be labeled Made in USA or Made in France.
The Chanel "double C" branding on authentic Chanel Mademosielle neck labels will be the same color and sheen as the gold bands at the top and bottom of the neck label.
Counterfeit branding is often crooked or missing.
This counterfeit Chanel Mademoiselle bottle is missing the gold trademark Chanel "double C" on the neck label.
Do you know what ingredients you are getting in a counterfeit product?
Compare an authentic Chanel Mademoiselle bottle with a counterfeit. The elliptical bottom of the authentic bottle is centered.
On the counterfeit, the bottom is much thicker on the left than the right. See image below.
Close up detail of the non-symmetrical glass bottom on a counterfeit Chanel Mademoiselle bottle.
The left side is much thicker than the right.
Competition is fierce with China Counterfeiters. Here fake Chanel Mademoiselle is offered for just $17.60 with free shipping to the USA.
These products, with unknown ingredients, are often sold as authentic items to unsuspecting buyers on eBay.
This counterfeit was listed on on eBay.
Notice the label is misaligned and crooked on the bottle. The glass base is not symmetrical and the box is yellow, not white.
This counterfeit Chanel Mademoiselle found on eBay has a spelling error in the ingredients.
"SALICYLATE" is incorrectly spelled "SALICYLITE"
When you buy open or used Chanel Mademoiselle like this product on eBay, you run the risk of receiving diluted, adulterated, dangerous or completely fake contents.
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