Etoupe, chocolate brown, marron fonce?

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Gorgeous picture!
to my eye MF is very dark brown with cool, almost purplish, undertones (I had a bag in fjord MF which was stunning, my favorite brown); ebene also is very dark with cool blackish undertones (had a lovely clemence or togo picotin in this shade), and chocolate is a touch lighter with warmer red undertones (had this brown too!).
The cafe I saw at H was very close to ebene. I didn't have anything side by side but if the SA didn't tell me it was cafe, I'd have sworn it was ebene.
 
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hermesmonkey, I forgot to mention that your Chocolate Togo Birkin is delicious! I came back to have a second look. No need to see the front even. A front view could send me seeking one! :sweatdrop:
 
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I actually had the same debate in FSH when I picked up my box HAC - one SA said marron foncé and one said chocolate. It was never resolved (I forgot to get a final confirmation) and i still don't know the actual colour - I assumed chocolate in the end but you experts may be able to confirm/ deny! This is in natural light.
 

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To my knowledge, all brown Box bags that are not SO's, are Chocolat; if you want Marron Foncé, you have to order it.....The standard brown used for Box is Chocolat...

Poshhoney, your HAC looks exactly the colour of my Birkin, which I ordered in Chocolat, so I'm pretty sure that's the colour of your HAC.
 
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Totally amateur hour here. I've pasted a crop of CAFE taken in direct sunlight over hermesmonkey's lovely shot of her Chocolate and Ebene pieces. Can anyone tell me if this a true comparison of how the shades differ in real life? When I last looked at the leather book at my boutique, it didn't have CAFE in it for me to compare.
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I'm still waiting to hear back from my store manager about whether cafe will be available in togo at podium as I might like a 30 Birkin in this combo. A few pages back there is a useful thread, "Browns for Birkin", where you can see examples of ebene, chocolate, cafe and havanne. Speaking of havanne -- does anyone have a photo of a havanne togo Birkin with phw? I don't want to highjack this thread, though...
 
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gazoo said:
Thanks MrsSparkles! I can always count on your vast knowledge! Could you please describe the browns in order of darker to lighter then? Does it go Ebene, Marron Fonce, Cafe, Havanne, Chocolate?
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gazoo, I am afraid I can't help you do this with the flair like some of the other tPFers. My descriptions of colours are always way off. I can't see undertones, when alot of ladies here can. I am always wondering like "what undertones" "what overtones". Very duh of me. And I also do not own all the browns.

But I can do it simplistically, and based on the limited colours I own and what I can recall from the swatches at my store ...

- Ebene to me, is the darkest brown there is. I call it a black kind of brown.
- Marron Fonce, also a dark brown is a couple of notches down from Ebene. I have only seen MF in Togo, in a Ulysee PM. One day, I may want to own MF in Fjord in a bag ... I have heard a friend refer to it as a brown in dark chocolate
- Havanne - it's reddish brown
- Chocolate is chocolate ... Milk chocolate
- Cafe ... I remember tPFers not agreeing with this ... to me, Cafe is no difference from Chocolate. They are so close when I look at them. To be specific, I have put a Chocolate Togo swatch and Cafe Clemence swatch side by side, and I still think they are alike.
 
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