Description
In the creator’s imagination, Cabotine is a daughter of Cabochard, a younger generation perfume, which has preserved the elegance and distinction of Cabochard. It was created with love and enthusiasm, with a very limited budget, and it became a classic of the 1990-ties.
It was created by Jean-Claude Delville from IFF, and he was expected to make a light but lasting perfume, what was a hard task to do. The perfumer found its formula in floral-aldehyde accord and presented a transparent fragrance with green floral and sharp aldehyde notes. The perfume is very light, easy to wear and at the same time tenacious. It achieved success regardless of very limited advertising and promotional support.
The composition is created around the ginger lily, also known as a butterfly lily, a Himalayan large-petalled white flower. Growing in harsh high mountains climate, this plant blooms for only a few weeks in the spring time, and each flower lives only for a few hours, what makes it difficult, almost impossible, to extract the oil. An IFF pioneering researcher, Dr. Braja Mookherjee, found a way to analyse the oil structure using the ‘living-flower’ technique, and to copy the fragrance of the ginger lily, what enabled the industrial production. Cabotine is the first perfume which contains ginger lily in its composition.
The top notes contain blackcurrant buds, pear, plum and corriander. The heart is composed of rose, tuberose, ylang-ylang, ginger lily, hyacinth, heliotrop, fresia, violet and iris. The base notes are cedarwood, vanilla, tonka bean, cybet, musk and amber. The perfume was created in 1990. The bottle, whose stopper was turned into a shape of flower, was created by Thierry Lecoule.
ytvs336 – :
Will I ever stop writing about this amazing fragrance? My love for this fragrance is endless, I decided to write another review on it since I was thinking “if I had to choose one, what would it be?” and the first answer was Cabotine. This is the perfect floral fragrance, fresh, vibrant, strong, determined. The fragrance opens with a fresh splash of Ginger and then develops into this freshly cut, freshly watered flower bouquet. I love plants and flowers and my garden is very precious to me, this fragrance for me symbolizes my garden, my home. A green paradise in the middle of a dusty city.
Lasting power is incredible, sillage as well. This is probably a man repeller and most people would think of it as old fashion, but if you really want to dive into flower frangrances with no gourmands, no orientals, give Cabotine a try. I absolutely adore it in the colder months and I just wish they would do a milder version so I could wear it in the middle of a hot summer day as well without being too overpowering.
Scum – :
I love this perfume, I already bought the 3rd bottle right now.
mmuse – :
Cabotine was totally unknown to me before I came to Fragrantica, but once I saw pictures of the pretty bottle with the green flower top I had to try it. Plus it’s from Parfums Gres, so how bad could it be? Yeah, a big name is no guarantee of quality – I’m looking at you, Gucci. Just kidding!! Not really: Envy Me is a mess.
But back to Cabotine … it’s really something else. There’s no other perfume that compares to it, I’ve never smelled this type of fragrance before. First of all, it’s strong. The ylang ylang is right there, powerful and straight forward. I don’t get ginger or carnation, tuberose or coriander, but eventually hyacinth creeps in.
Cabotine is long lasting with good sillage, which is unusual for green scents, at least on me. A few sprays are enough to scent body and clothing, but the fragrance doesn’t overwhelm. At first try I thought Cabotine would make a good body spray, but it’s really too powerful for that kind of overall use. C. is opulent in a very modern, youthful way, yet fresh. The perfume is very affordable and yet high quality, there are no nasty cheap notes. Cabotine is well made and worth every penny. All things considered, I like Cabotine very much!
xJuDgEx – :
A very sumptuous floral scent with heavy tuberose, strong carnation, ylang-ylang, and civet. Cabotine is sweet, but thankfully not the sugary, sticky sweet, more greenish sweet with just a hint of bitterness from freshly cut green grass. It seems to be quite linear with the predominant florals overpowering all other components by far, thus I don’t detect any woody notes, amber, or musk in the drydown at all.
Cabotine is a classical floral scent that I imagine being perfect for a dinner party while wearing an elegant white dress and sipping cocktails. Its sillige is huge and it also lasts for many hours. The price is very reasonable and although Cabotine is not an everyday scent for me, there will be several — mostly official — occasions every year where it fits perfectly, therefore it belongs permanently in my collection.
bbabah – :
Wow! The jury is out on this one! Just received my bottle today. I immediately sprayed on my wrist, and off the bat, I have to say this is the most disagreeable opening I have ever experienced in such a highly regarded fragrance. I smell the sharp ginger and coriander and nothing else, unless my nose is unaccustomed to such a green tuberose. I like my tuberose creamy and heady – Fracas and EL’s Tuberose Gardenia are favorites. Nevertheless, I persisted.
It has dried down into something far softer. The bitter smell from the initial blast is still detectable, but has been tempered by the fruits and florals, adding a certain sweetness that is pleasant. It’s a definite like, and will remain in my collection, though I will likely wait for springtime to take her out on another test drive
SVIKL – :
Very clean and also very sweet fragrance,sillage and staying power are pretty impresive . Kinda remind me of Gancia.
leoleo333 – :
Mom perfume. When i and my sis were little kids, we hate it. :p now=neighter hate nor love. Floral. Heres so many things listed but LOTS OF THEM ARE WRONG. Please change the list ladies. Give notes -1 which one isnt in perfume. Explanation= Green and nostalgic flowery and DOESNT KAST LONG,1 MORE wrong information.
andrei29 – :
The perfect fabric scent!!! I wish I could find a fabric softener that smells like this. I couldn’t wear this as a perfume because it didn’t smell like perfume just fabric softener!!!
kinoonline.tv – :
I know this scent when my mom got sample cabotine gres..
Cabotine have very warm scent.Good to use for spring season.
MagicK – :
Just received this one in the mail. My first impressions….starts out with a sharp blast of tuberose. Green and very sweet. This is a powerhouse. I only sprayed one wrist and can smell it. WOW! Becomes softer in the dry down and less green but tuberose is still the star. It is a linear fragrance with few changes from the original spritz.
phoenix222 – :
Blind buy, I missed this in the 90’s so there is no baggage associated with it.
Cabotine is delightful. On my skin there is no sharpness, just a soft creamy sweetness with an underlying layer of subtle dry green peppery-ness (freesia?) and the dry down is quick with the scent moving from ‘it wearing me, to me wearing it’. This stage is the best because it starts to smell uber sexy yet elegant at the same time (no skank here folks.
I suspect this scent makes more of a statement at night as I noticed when I moved from a warm environment to a cooler one the scent became more noticeable. (this could be my chemistry or my nose). A single squib is understated any more than two and you could be in dangerous territory. I suggest you play with it. Maybe two squibs from a longer distance to diffuse the concentration to one and half squibs. Also maybe experiment with layering it with a similar lighter fragrance if that’s your thing. Personally I’d be interested to see how it works with a Cabochard body lotion.
smatagomb – :
I finally scored a big bottle of this scent and am really happy with it. On my skin it smells like vintage Dior Poison. Smells just like the drydown. This is an amazing fragrance for such a small price! I am thrilled.
ryansk – :
Cabotine? CaboGREEN.
This one gets noticed. I am always wearing perfume at home but this is the only one family members end up commenting on. Its green, loud and happy. It made me enjoy aldehydes.
It reminds me very much of the 90s. Shell suits and those geometric pattern things. I affectionately call the bottle the broccoli bottle.
Soapy tuberose, ginger and sharp hyacinch. Zingy and very cheerful.
altagir – :
This fragrance really says “spring” to me. A very aromatic, green, sweet, and fresh spicy floral. I get mostly tuberose, hyacinth, and ginger lily. Nice!
Varptexl – :
Found a full bottle for a price I couldn’t turn down.
I originally wanted this, because my mom always had a bottle of it. I don’t even remember liking the way it smelled, but for nostalgic reason, had to have it. Plus the bottle is one of my favorites.
I suppose my tastes have matured, because I’m really liking it. Spritzed some on this morning before work, and now 8 hours in, I am still getting wafts of Cabotine.
On initial spray, it’s very sharp and green to me. That’s the only way I can describe this scent…GREEN. As it dries down, it get’s softer, and I like it more and more. At this point, it’s sitting close to my skin, but it’s definitely still there! I’ll add that it’s full swing Summer in Texas and I’m sporting this fragrance with no problem. I really think this could be a year round scent.
Very happy with my purchase, and with this lovely bottle sitting on my perfume tray.
sanches1488 – :
I remember smelling this fragrance on a lot of people when i was younger, so i decided to get it last spring. It’s a spicy green scent, as i wore it, i discovered that it will be suitable for late fall and winter. It’s a very sophisticated green goodness with a bit of complication that makes it mysterious. Im sure it won’t be every fragrance lover cup of tea.
Meamn789intitytek – :
Seduced by the name and packaging, this was a cheap blind buy for me.
First associations in the first fifteen minutes: bright, fresh, green, heady, beauty shop chemicals, urinal cake, white florals, retro hairspray, lily of the valley, jasmine, freshly permed old ladies at church on Easter Sunday, the metallic tang of cheap costume jewelry.
Lovely though some of that may sound, boy, oh boy, do I sort of hate this perfume. I wish I could detect literally any of the notes other reviewers say they smell — the notes that make this one look, on paper, like it may be more my speed. I am namely thinking of tangerine, orange blossom, vetiver, cedar, black currant. But no, this one does not smell like it’s of the earth.
For me, it’s very chemical in an off-putting way. It’s screechy and soapy, like a bar of ivory soap packed in a musty travel case that got spilled on by some loud, cheap Avon perfume from the 70s. Not even sure I can stick with this one for the dry down; I may have to shower it off to keep from smelling it any longer.
doktur – :
Cabotine (EDP)is a masterpiece. It is chef d’oeuvre to an extent that provoked my willingness to post a comment here. Usually I keep away from doing this mainly due to lack of free time. But it’s worth to be given a fair praise. It is not an easy fragrance yet it is easily wearable in a marvelous way. A carefully thought-over, complicated composition which results in a compact scent which is calm, smooth and exultant at the same time. Reading this frangranticans here must bear in mind that I’m actually into vintage chypres, balsamic perfumes, different types of sophisticated classics, and not that much into floral ones.Honestly I don’t fancy them at all. When it comes to its ingredients, I love Tuberose, Carnation and Violet, but although I like Coriander in my salad I regularly start detesting perfumes just because they have Coriander as a basic ingredient. However I blindly purchased Cabotine and was delivered 2 hours ago. I’ve been sniffing my hands since in a meticulous attempt to discern the ingredients, which is impossible , at least up to now. Nothing dominates the structure, so I can feel a beautiful bunch of flowers, fresh, green, bitter grass and can easily figure out a lady, dressed in a loose cotton or silk dress, subtly patterned, having rest in a summer lazy afternoon on the terrace of a small chateau a la campagne. Nothing affected yet nothing modest. Truly beautiful classical scent of which I am a delighted owner.
P.S. Moderate sillage on me – about 4 hours. If it is not that natural match I make with certain fragrances, or in other words that point in time I stop feeling them but other people still do.
artshah – :
I’ve put on one of my very favourite perfumes today…Cabotine. It always sends me back in time, evenings out in favourite restaurants, English pub-gardens and all the time wafts of this lovely scent drifting among the chatter. Great times and a great perfume. So here I am today on another hot day, sipping cool Dandelion & Burdock. I don’t know why I always thought the green stopper was a cabbage, not a flower Ha Ha! Must be my gsoh. Well, it is a green scent in my opinion. Sweet and fresh and so lovely sometimes takes your breath away. I will always have this in my collection, no matter what
Perliblos – :
Whew!!! I’ve been wearing Cabotine EDT for about 8 hours now and it’s literally just as strong now on my wrists, of all places, as when I first applied it. I wish ALL my perfumes performed like this!! Usually my skin just gobbles fragrance right up, especially my poor little wrists, they just can’t seem to hang onto any perfume of mine for more than a couple hours.. but wow, this stuff is nuclear!!!
Good thing it smells great 🙂 if I didn’t love this scent I’d probably be in olfactory hell right now. Cabotine is beautiful! Green and sweet, flowers with the stems and pollen all mixed in.. it’s also very zesty, that sharp ginger note makes you stop and take notice of it. I love the idea of the “ginger lily” composition–this is definitely not a perfume I can compare to others as a smell-alike, Cabotine is Cabotine.. this is one unique powerhouse right here.
Another great blind buy.. if you are looking for a unique fresh floral, here it is. It’s so cheap you could do a lot worse!
KY_BCEM – :
I was looking for a unique fragrance, so when i read about Salvador Dali Laguna, i found more than 20 comments which describe it as a “unique, unusual, weird” fragrance. I was intriqued and decide to blind buy Laguna (the same time i also blind buy Gres Cabotine)
When i got the package, i was so excited, Laguna has a beautiful bottle, but when i spray my left hand with Laguna and right hand with Gres Cabotine. I find Gres Cabotine more unique than Laguna.
Laguna has a creamy, soft smell while Gres Cabotine is more sharp green.
My skin is dry and it tend to suck up the fragrances quickly. I am happy Gres Cabotine has a great long lasting power (8hrs +) and a heavy sillage.
For now i like Gres Cabotine more than Laguna.
angelllforlove – :
Just what I needed today on a cool temperamental Spring day. I wasn’t keen on this over the Winter. Smelled dated. Slightly dusty.
But in this weather I can appreciate her greenness joined by my friend tuberose, along with hyacinth and many flowery honeyed notes.
I’ve sprayed myself all over today and feel at one with my garden. And I love the green and tuberose vibe.
ктотама – :
Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. Flowers and powder and aldehydes (and kinda spicy?!) The EDP is intense, she begins VERY sharp and eventually (this took all day) fades into something warm and floral and delicious. She almost smells like a Chanel, but she clearly doesn’t care (she’s too pretty to care).
igmim – :
My Husband and I Stopped in a Perfmania in an outlet mall Sunday. I spotted this in the clearance section and regret not buying it. My Husband and I had smelled SO many colognes and perfumes, as we first stopped at Perfume Outlet and made purchases there as well. Cabotine Gres smelled like what I imagine a bee would smell like, flowers and sweet honey. Oh well I can always order a bottle through the mail! I wanted to test it on my skin but the shop suddenly got flooded with customers and the lone clerk was overwhelmed.
ebd967Unlogrere – :
Cabotine satisfies my craving for flowers with levity and humor. With each whiff during my initial test I found myself remembering something different (Dove soap, bubblegum, ginger ale), but it smells better and unlike the sum of all those things. As I write this, it’s becoming more and more clear: this IS it. This is my summer scent. While I have had a signature scent for fall and winter for a few years (Tabu), the many white florals in my wardrobe that I love have never quite satisfied me enough to earn that level of devotion. I found common characteristics in my favorites and narrowed down my next purchase to Cabotine, which has been sitting in my wishlist for some time. After letting the fragrance settle on my skin, I said out loud to myself, “This might be it!”
Compared to the favorite florals in my collection, it felt to me like:
White Shoulders, but without the heady gardenia;
L’air du Temps, but more contemporary;
Coriandre, but with sweetness in place of funk;
So De La Renta, but without the candy fruitiness.
For this lover of drugstore classics, this is the perfect warm-weather pick-me-up. I have been wearing it exclusively since I got it and have gotten compliments, and occasionally I can catch a whisper of it on my blankets or even just in the air. Magical, sparkly, FUN.
14881488 – :
To me this is Dove soap, fresh cut green grass on a dewy spring morning, white Florals with maybe the tiniest bit of sweet powder.
One of the freshest scents ever. Who wouldn’t want to smell like this?
soydrisse – :
Office wear; compliments galore, especially men. It is very green, so I am feeling that I am in the close comfort of a botanical garden wandering happily, yet getting paid for actually being at work. I usually wear florals in Spring/Summer. It’s good to be happy and if a perfume can get me there, then I will always gravitate to it. One time, one guy followed me on my heels about 12 feet in the hallway and then said, “You smell so good!” and smiled as he opened his office door. How can you forget those moments? Scents are all about very special “one time only” moments.
GulGemm – :
It’s basically sharp synthetic tuberose and ylang-ylang scent. All other notes are very subdued. Carnation, coriander, green notes, woody notes and civet are noticeable, but the unbalanced tuberose and ylang ylang make it redundant. As time passes, the civet grows stronger, and you start smelling like dog poop. Kinda, I love tuberose and ylang ylang, but if I want to smell like plain synthetic tuberose and ylang ylang (wich I don’t) I go to Ebay and buy those $5 perfume oils from India that smell like an esoteric shop. There is no reason to pay $20 for it, although $20 is cheap. Cabotine is a perfume that has no reason to exist. It’s indeed very 1990ish. It reminds me of my middle school years when all girls wore tacky crappy stuff that was “in” so that they could brag about it.
p.S.: As the perfume evolves, tuberose, ylang ylang and that bad civet lose their sharpness, leaving an equally bad greenish floral supermarket toilet soap scent.
Denis090386 – :
Oh my gosh I just got this in the mail today after reading the reviews and putting it on my wish list. I usually wear really strong florals or creamy and sweet fragrances but I love this. It’s so fresh and clean smelling. I get a bit of the light florals mixing with the green scents along with a soft powdery finish. It’s a happy and comforting scent. This will be one of my top scents now. I can’t believe I didn’t discover it sooner.
saymon58 – :
hyacinth, tuberose, ginger, black currant, ylang, vetiver, oakmoss, civet
tiger1950 – :
Gorgeous, just received it today after another blind buy based on reviews. It’s identical to the wonderful Al Rehab Shadha, I really can’t tell the difference. Not sure on longevity yet as I’ve only just tested it but I’ll be impressed if it lasts as long as Shadha does, she hangs around for days on my clothes 🙂
nvg715InsuffBooni – :
Sharp, herbal – like a herbal nettle shampoo. It is not a fresh green scent – it is too “shampooish”, cloying, chemical, sultry, very very 80-ties, similar to Tendre Poison but not powdery, with a hint of honey.
icerock – :
I bought this after reading the reviews here, oh myyyy.. what a cheeky gorgeous scent I don’t even know where to begin. Am currently wearing the edp, it is true that there’s a lot going on in this bottle, but that’s what makes it so unique. It has a happy vibe to it, the first thing I remember feeling this way was whenever I’m using moschino cheap n chic. Of course they are not alike at all, but they both gave me the same happy reaction to it.
It is very green, very floral and very sweet, much to my delight. I love it.
yqd516Diobtetty – :
I adore cabotine it’s ons of my favorites. (Cabotine edp), is a beautiful sharp floral with heavy doses of ginger, lily, Tuberose, etc. longevity is incredible and sillage is also perfect.
winerror – :
Comments on the current EdT version.
Cabotine EdT is strong, green, flowery and almost harsh, especially at the beginning. I would recommend caution in applying, because in my experience even when used with very light hand Cabotine is noticable over 12hours on skin and even longer on clothes.
It has resemblance to Tendre Poison, but at least compared to current Cabotine EdT, Tendre Poison is softer, less green and has more nuances.
There are days during the early spring when mornings are still cold, but sun warms up the day a littile bit, and I feel need for something uplifting, cheerful, that reminds me of grass and flowers, but is not sweet or girly, and on those days I reach for the Cabotine.
384maks14 – :
I think that this fragrance is perfect for summertime! I tried to wear it in winter, but it was too heavy and intoxicating. I didn’t like it at all! But now I can feel its real beauty!
xzx6at9xzx – :
following the comments i just bought a 50ml bottle for a try out and i must say, the fist impression was like NO WAY i can ever wear it, my husband didnt like it at all! i put it on my skin and after a while i started to like it, reminds my youth in some ways…
zar197878 – :
Clean green floral. There’s something very L’air du Temps about this. Haven’t checked the notes to compare, but they have scent bloodlines lol like classy cousins of a sort.
I love them both!
UPDATE: just checked – many shared notes! 😉
iLatvia – :
This is absolutely gorgeous! One spritz on the back of my hand and I spent the whole day smelling my hand, addicting, luscious and sexy. Yes sexy, this is a scent for a woman. Its a classic mature bouquet of flowers, it opens very fresh and then it settles to this carnation like soapy scent. It has the same vibe as VW boudoir in the sense its a sensual but not sweet gourmand. Captivating. Long lasting, it lasted 8 hours on my skin, 4 sillage. A new favourite!
sweetdaisy – :
As a huge fan of Cabochard I was initially very sceptical of trying out this “lighter” daughter. Not quite sure how I passed through the 1990’s without ever trying it on myself, but I just couldn’t remember it.
Until I sprayed my wrist the first time, years later, and was thrown right back to the very 1990’s, in a split second. Oh my god! Where did this belong on the map…?! So many forgotten memories came rushing at me.
At last the pieces fell in their place and my memory narrowed it down to a field hockey trip with my team, early 1990’s, when we were in our late teens / early twenties, on our way to a tournament abroad, in the fall, on the ferry to Germany and in a crowded cabin full of giggling girls, fresh from the showers, dresses on, beers opened, ready to go and flirt with some boys in the bar. Someone (perhaps more than one?) must either have been using Cabotine or been testing it out in the taxfree shop on board. Because this was the very scent of that trip! Down to the vacuumed carpets in the hallway, fresh linen on the cabin beds and the smell of our hockey gear. (In a good way.)
Yes, this is the more civilized daughter of the wonderful Cabochard, they are indeed related. But Cabotine is also very much her own. Young, bold, fresh, a bit stubborn and certainly adventurous! Not standing in the shadows of anyone.
Needless to say, I don’t regret on this blind buy, at all. I only regret not trying her much earlier. But SO happy she’s finally with me now!
sergarik3331svo – :
I only tried this once but it just had too much going on. I usually like most of these florals by themselves or mixed differently but having them all combined here doesn’t seem to work to my nose. It’s quite overwhelming and a little pungent if I’m honest. No freshness, no sweetness, not even any powderiness, all of which I’ll happily take with my floral fragrances. I don’t want to use anymore negative adjectives to get my point across just know that yes, this has all the flowers imaginable in it, and to my nose it does not smell good.
And as the rule of thumb goes, if you hate it, it will surely last all day and project in a way that never lets you forget you have it on, until you don’t.
visochestvo – :
Just received my bottle of Cabotine….and wow! This is lovely. I can’t believe it! I had tendre poison by dior in the early 90s and this really reminds me of TP…but a little more polite and lady;ike. For the price…an absolute gem! Will be wearing this in the summer non stop!
jongornak – :
Smells a bit harsh and screechy on the topnotes but later develops into a fresh green flowery scent. The color really matches this perfume since it’s one of the greenest smelling perfume I can think of. Very sharp and lively. Although i’m a guy but i enjoy wearing this scent. This is one of the few floral scent that I can tolerate.
nik79 – :
This beauty has got me the best compliments.
It blends all the notes beautifully… I am not sure how Gres managed to create a perfume to have sweet, fresh and aldehydic notes all in one.
What a masterpiece and such an underrated gorgeous perfume.
My eau de toilette lasts for hours so I can imagine the eau de parfum to be a total blast.
Pretty much everyone coming in the office comments on how they love the scent and my colleagues point at me when the person coming in asks who is wearing the beautiful scent.
It is strange as this is normally not me as I love sweet gourmand scents but I am amazed how I always reach out for it as I own lots of perfumes.
I will be buying the eau de parfum once I have finished the eau de toilette. This will always be on my dressing table.
I LOVE IT !!!!!!
Sportfreundchen – :
Sophisticated, stunning perfume. I wore it in the nineties, and I’m already getting compliments after buying it again now. How on earth can this beauty be so ridiculously cheap, when there are so many awful fragrances out there costing a fortune? I will never understand the comparisons to air freshener etc. Yes, Cabotine packs a punch (I have the EDP) and starts off sharp, but it quietly settles down into a green, fresh, gingery, delightful and very unique perfume. I get freshly gut grass, fizzy lemonade, spice and green leaves. There’s an underlying tropical note to Cabotine, but NOT sickly coconut, not at all. I can just imagine a beautiful Hawaiian lady wearing this on a sun-drenched beach! Take a gamble and get some. Spray once and walk into it. Just gorgeous, and COMPLETELY different to anything else on the market. Must be the gingerlily. Love you still, Miss Cabotine.
IrriffItano – :
أحببت العطر جدا قوي رخيص فواح يدوم كثيرا احسن من كثير من العطور من ماركات معروفة
Kalmykovu – :
Mom used to wear this…. Just beautiful. The bottle is so cute with the green cap. Kinda looks like a broccoli, so cute.
Gramila – :
It was a must have for my collection. I use it as a room spray. It’s like nothing I own and yet has a familiar smell to me. You’ll say I’ve smelled this before but not have a clue where. I don’t think I’ll wear it out or maybe one day I’ll get crazy and say why not. Smells like a French call girl to me from way back when. Torn vintage lace trimmed dress falling slightly off your shoulders, and button up ankle boots. In your face, no manners, but pretty all the same. A little musty, sharp fresh cut flowers. If your grandma had a naughty story from her late teens, she may have been wearing this. Not something you’d wear often…but a must in your collection.
Knyaz2009 – :
I purchased this based on the fact that so many people thought it was similar to the discontinued Tendre Poison which was one of my all time faves. Stupidly I threw out my bottle of Tendre Poison when I’d finished it, not knowing that I wouldn’t be able to buy it again, so I don’t have it to compare, but Cabotine Gres doesn’t ring a bell with me. It just doesn’t remind me of my (quite possibly forgetful) memory of Tendre. Why would Dior discontinue something so popular? Anyway, I’m not sorry I bought Cabotine. It is fresh and lovely, but doesn’t have that wow factor which Tendre had. Oh well.
Edit – I just layered this with Prada La Femme, and the honeyed tones in La Femme are just a beautiful mix with Cabotine’s floral greens. Now THIS reminds me more of Poison Tendre. Even if my memory is faulty, Cabotine and La Femme make a lovely couple.
Mishel00769 – :
Sharp, spicy, and green. Use a light hand. Very different from my usual fragrances. This one really stretches my olfactory muscles.
budakwa – :
A swap partner, and now friend mentioned this but did not recommend it. Well, I never listen, so I had to try this for myself. It looked like something I’d like– now that I love vintage, green, aldehydes, animal funk, leather, etc… (I used to love gourmands, talk about doing a 180!!!)
This was a cheap try… $10 for the EDT, or $13-14 for the EDP, so I went EDP.
I don’t know what pickled okra tastes/smells like… so I can’t compare this to that… I don’t really get pickles either… but shit… this is sharp and odd. And for once, I do detect a grumpy stinky musty old woman. There is something sharp and stale and weird in this. I’m not sure I hate it tho… I will still test on my skin in different seasons before writing it off (deep dark cold winter right now). This is a tissue test.
It is light-ish/airy but STRONG, so they nailed that. It’s tenacious all right! But… I don’t get aldehydes, or at least not the kind I like and expect. It is sharp green floral/woods tho! But instead of being animal-funky or vintage dusty funky… it’s just…. weird/funky. I think it’s a sharp weird woody funk that makes this stale, old, and sharp. I don’t get any fruits, I can’t make out any particular flower…. and def no vanilla, amber, or tonka bean. Just a potent green sharp funk/animal wood? Anywho… no regrets… I’ll give it a try. 😉
Bitter and dry now.
semenovav1995 – :
It’s funny how folks compare Cabotine to Tendre Poison, when actually, it should be Tendre Poison that gets compared to Cabotine. Cabotine was released years earlier than Tendre Poison!
I used to love this. Then at some point, I began to loathe ginger and carnation. I love tuberose…..but the other notes just ruin this for me. I don’t mind smelling it on other people though.
orgonavt – :
I bought this perfume on sale at the drugstore only because my grandmother wore it and I wanted to smell her perfume again…Not something I would typically wear but has a nostalgic quality that I love to smell or catch a whiff of it on clothing. It is light and sparkly but not very sweet…like a green spring day. Sharp but softens up. A bit of an oddball fragrance!
Joker1982 – :
Simultaneously really old and really young. Old like a grandmother’s well-worn sweater that’s been hand-washed with her favorite laundry detergent for the past twenty years. Young like a child playing outside on a spring day, rolling around in the grass and making daisy chains. It’s interesting that it was introduced as a younger sister to Cabochard, because I think that today, at least, a very light application of Cabochard is a lot fresher and more contemporary than Cabotine.
AVARIA – :
BTW, This doesn’t smell like pickled Okra AT ALL. Some of these reviews are hilarious this really just smells of something similar too a downy smell which really makes you smell fresh and clean. I think Cabotine is fabulous. My new favorite!
nayk12345 – :
I love this it smells so crisp and clean I did notice it’s not as heavy as it use too be which is fine this reminds me of Downy and I love it so much! Beautiful.
donf23 – :
This is a Nice Perfume However,
The First Scent That Comes Out of It to Me it Smells like Pickled Okra, But After That, The Next Part of The Smell is Pleasant and is Feminine so Since This Perfume is a Feminine Perfume, If a Man were to Put it on himself, then he will likely be Laughed At.
loveplane – :
A child’s remembrance of a mini cute bottle of Gres from a coffret in early 90s. Playing with mom’s perfumes, didn’t like the ‘grown-up’ perfumes of the late 80s. This is Honey + green flowers. It appears complex based on the ingredients but the standout feeling was quite simple. My bottle has been 20 years old, same smell, maybe a bit more sour. Maybe newer formulations are different? I wouldn’t wear a 20yr old perfume out but it’s got sentimental value.
PEHAT – :
a lady walks in the office, I could smell her from 2 metres. had to ask of what she was wearing, and what time she had put it on. around 10 and I could well smell it at 14.30. L’heure bleue meets insolence in a very modern interpretation. amazing. wow, had no idea whether she wore edt or edp. oh well… what a pleasant surprise…
vik1945 – :
I really must try this. I’m looking for a green that isn’t chypre and a happy scent. The bottle is so weird you just have to love it. I remember thinking as a kid” that kind of looks like a surrealist broccoli stalk”.
Edit: I received a sample from someone on here and I’m pleasantly suprised how much I like this!
It smells vaguely familiar…can’t pinpoint it but the beginn