arsweb – 2022-07-05:

3 out of 5

I have and love the vintage EDT. It is my winter signature and it garners so many compliments, if that is your thing. I was lucky enough to get a 35ml tester (for a mere fraction of the retail price, thank you perfume lovers on the net) of the parfum and oh my! It is a shape-shifter, in that some days it smells more spicy and some more soapy. The ylang in this brings out a woody soapiness on some days. As for it being soft, one spray (I have the atomiser version) and I am in oriental floral heaven. I don’t think parfums are supposed to project like crazy, they are cosy, classy personal aura scents. It lasts well and I am pleased to own it.

juliajul10 – 2022-07-05:

3 out of 5

I’ve been pretty confused by the reported notes of the three current formulations of Coco – the EDT, EDP and this, the Parfum. Fragrantica says the notes of all three are identical, however the official Chanel website says that the Parfum (which only comes in two sizes – 7.5 and 15ml) has the following notes only:- Sicilian Mandarin, Jasmine and May Rose Absolutes, Indonesian Patchouli, Tonka Bean and Benzoin. Of course it’s possible that their copy writers left out notes, but to leave out ten???
Chanel also advises that the EDT and EDP have ylang-ylang, but it’s not in Fragrantica. Oh, what a Dalai Lama.
So I hope what my sniffer has detected helps you if you are in the market for a Coco, any Coco.
I own the EDT – love love love – and am familiar with the EDP. I finally tested the Parfum a few days ago. Yes, it’s quality stuff, but I honestly can’t smell any difference between it and my EDT, which I was not wearing at the time, because I wanted a true test of the Parfum. The EDT provides me with over twelve hours of wear, and while long lived, the Parfum faded after about six. Not bad, but not good, given the price difference between the two.
The Eau de Parfum is long lived too, and gorgeous. I smell the rose more in it. The Parfum and EDT seem spicier.
Overall, if this helps anyone at all, while the Parfum is beautiful, I can’t honestly say that it smells significantly different to the EDT, but IS significantly pricier. Please trial the three yourself if you really do want Coco. You may have a more sophisticated sniffer than mine.

msv – 2022-07-05:

5 out of 5

Dear reader’s♥
This classic and beautiful perfume was introduced to me in my childhood by the one special lady who raised me , influenced my taste for perfumes and other finer things of life. And every holiday and birthday I buy this gorgeous perfume to my special lady, my mother.♥
This perfume is my mothers signature perfume, from my first memories of childhood before I ever knew my mother’s real name, I could recognize this scent of Coco Chanel whenever I got lost in the department stores by wandering off. The scent of my mother’s chemistry with Coco Chanel was a rich fragrant light house to my senses and I always found her by following the invisible trail. I will always have many found and comfortable memories with this perfume relating to my mother, when she picked me up from school or when were going out to town in her BMW , listening to new wave and rock music and my mother’s Coco Chanel dancing in the air together with the leather interior of her BMW as my mother cracking jokes with her red Dior smile as we drove on the coast’s of California in all 1980’s style and glory.♥
Now the perfume :
Both vintage and reformulated version are still a well orchestrated symphony of oriental flowers and spices , with a light touch of musk to create an very irresistible body in this fragrance . Its a true Lioness in a bottle with its bold and beautiful personality, that will definitely get you noticed and become memorable in everyone’s book of life. This powerhouse perfume is definitely not for the shy “barely there flower scent lovers” nor for the “forever girly cookie and cream girl”, Coco Chanel perfume belongs for females who are proud being an adult woman with lioness strength , a queens assurance and dignity that make her a dazzling jewel that enchants other’s to stop to marvel her.
The perfume on my chemistry whenever I took a spritz from my mother’s collection. My chemistry brings colder but rich flowers at first and than it drydown becomes a soft but spiced refine musk that creates a sensual creature of fine linages. The silage is bold and longevity last for many hours. Its very beautiful scent of me but I have way to much respect and I cant make this my signature perfume since it totally my mothers signature perfume. Although the apple doesn’t fall too far from the tree, I have Anteaus and Chanel No5 that are fabulous companions with my chemistry , lol.
Many praises to chief of the house of Chanel Karl Lagerfeld and his crew for creating an exquisite modern classic perfume for strong and beautiful ladies of the world. It makes a sublime signature perfume and gift, for its sheer class !.♥

igy525speagoessenda – 2022-07-05:

3 out of 5

Soft rounded feminine, confident and centered. I think anyone could tell it is a Chanel scent.

medic – 2022-07-05:

5 out of 5

A very comforting perfume. Like the warmth from an fireplace in a cold winter night; or a generous hug from mum when you are feeling down. It is elegant and sophisticated; and yet sensual and sexy at the same time. A perfect perfume for a romantic night out. I think this is better than the No 5.

Sagit_Arty – 2022-07-05:

3 out of 5

Hello ,
last year I bought this , it’s 15 ml , well vintage coco is not like current one , vintage one is based on one main note it is the maysore “Sandalwood” milky creamy buttery warm .
now is restricted , coco after 2006 became a clove amber powdery carnation bomb .
this new extrait de parfum is close to vintage buuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuut with only 5 notes “)
yeahh vanilla jasmine musk and sweet notes .
lasts 30 min not worth it and not spicy .
if you love the spicy notes in edt and edp then stick with it .
forget about the current pyramid notes there’s no rose cloves or coriander in current extrait , no amber civet .
just vanilla jasmine ,then the musk came in the dry down , you also get the sweet notes in the middle .
good luck

theitnewsru – 2022-07-05:

4 out of 5

Brought a 50ml pure parfum spray from the 80s. This is soooo strong. One spray and the windows in the car had to be rolled down……..

dm-kotel – 2022-07-05:

4 out of 5

I have either a true vintage or a fake bottle of this. I don’t know for sure, but it’s divine. It’s sweet like modern Coco EDT, but richer and with less of the strong spice. I never thought, with my hundreds of loves/likes/wants, I would ever come upon a fragrance that is the ONE I would take to that mythical desert island. This is it.
But there’s a problem. Having discovered this new pinnacle fragrance love and placed it on my ‘special birthday list’, I went to check out the new (2016) definitely authentic Coco Parfum in a department store…
Nyeh. Does nothing for me.
So now I have a real dilemma! The genuine current version is bleh. So what do I have? I don’t know! I may buy another small cheap bottle from Asia, that might be fake, but might also be utterly fabulous…

Sam00000 – 2022-07-05:

5 out of 5

Underwhelmed
Expected this to be a 50 or at least 30ml bottle. Nope its only 7.5mls or 15mls and at a ridiculous price for a fragrance that has zero sillage and weak longevity.
The scent is lovely though, its a soapier coco with a bit of mademoiselles dna.
But its a skin scent and after 2 hours barely noticeable.
The woman at chanel told me that only 8 women in the world are allowed to do the threading for the top of the bottle… in my head i was like so what? Is that meant to impress me so much that i buy it lol
I can see why people would feel the need to own this but to me its not worth it.

DelRosso – 2022-07-05:

5 out of 5

This is a like an EDT version of the parfum much sweeter more floral and very pretty. It’s not the Coco I remember my mother wore in the 80’s which was a hardcore Oriental. This is a pretty “pink” scented Coco. It opens with a sweet fruity accord: mandarin orange and peach. This is very peachy compared to the original Coco. I love peach. As a child I would put my nose to a peach before eating it because I loved how it smelled. The scent turns floral for a long time. It has mimosa petals, sweet yellow mimosa that smells similar to heliotrope, some clover jasmine and rose. The rest of the fragrance has an aromatic aspects: sandalwood, opoponax, and something like a touch of incense. But this is very watered down compared to the base notes of the vintage Coco. On me this is not a big showy Oriental with sandalwood. Also, it really doesn’t have civet or musk. It’s vanillic. The vanilla shows up in the dry down, very powdery and delicious. It’s easier to wear than the first Coco but I do love the original Coco as well. I proudly wear both the old and new versions.

Kyzmich13 – 2022-07-05:

3 out of 5

The sweetest version. NOT MUCH SILLAGE!! But an aura develops around you and remains there until you wash it off. I recommend using this with the EDT to increase sillage.

aaapchxiii – 2022-07-05:

3 out of 5

L’estratto di Coco è un capolavoro assoluto.
<3

Неццу – 2022-07-05:

5 out of 5

I inherited a bottle of vintage extrait from my grandmother. The colour of the juice is golden brown. The smell is heavenly. The depth and complexity is unlike anything I have smelled in modern perfumerie thus far. This is fur when other people are wearing cotton. There is a lot of rose in there, but I detect no smoke or incense. There are other things as well, such as spice, but I am at a loss for words. It just goes on and on. I bet this would do well in the Arab market if it could be sold again in its original formula.

msa075050 – 2022-07-05:

4 out of 5

This is the only version I have or have tried, so I can’t compare them, but I adore my Coco parfum. Not sure the date of mine. “Checkcosmetics” website shows my code (4608) as Oct 2011 but I think it is older than that. What Checkcosmetics posts is that Chanel started putting bar codes on in 1990 and that between 1998 and 2004, the box should have short list of ingredients. Starting from 2005, the box should have long list of ingredients. “Checkfresh” website says Chanel repeats codes every 8 years. Mine has a bar code and a short list of ingredients, so I’d say it’s from 2003 or 1995.
Tonight, as I dabbed this on, for an instant, I smelled Arso by Profumum Roma. That’s the first time that has happened to me. Tonight, what I detected, was smoke. Crazy! But almost as soon as I smelled it, it was gone. A fluke? Maybe, but it was enough to prod me to do this review.
Nicole mentioned that there’s no spice and I would agree. Coco parfum is very rich and deep. I get lots of fat wet roses over syrupy sweet peach. Peach is a note that scares me, in the sense that it’s often too much and overwhelming on my skin. It can easily turn suffocating, to me. But here, it is blended so well and so smoothly. I find this fragrance absolutely dreamy.
For me, it’s difficult to pick out specific notes other than the rose and peach, and I think it is due to the incredible recipe. It all works together like magic.
The longer I sit with it and work to find specific notes, I get jasmine. I think it is she, who is able to keep the peach from becoming overbearing. I like it. But this is not a jasmine scent in any sense.
Coco is sweet but in an elegant way. I almost find her more plum-like than peachy, in the way that Coco seems more purple than golden, if that makes sense to you. But now that I am thinking more on color lines, Coco is royal purple with golden trim. She is very regal, indeed.
Because she is so regal, I’m not sure I would wear Coco out to dinner but wow, she would be dynamite for late night drinks or an art gallery opening.
She really is sophisticated and most of the time I wear Coco is in the evening, before bed, as my life is not filled with late night cocktails on the town or countless gallery openings…lol! I’m no Carrie Bradshaw. But every once in awhile, I do wear Coco out in the real world, MY real world, which includes denim and trips to Home Depot. I love those Coco days!
One more thing, Coco parfum lasts and lasts and lasts.

otto2069 – 2022-07-05:

3 out of 5

I adore Coco EDT, so I was excited to give this a try. I was disappointed, though. None of the glorious spice here. Instead, it’s replaced with a bitter woodsy note that doesn’t fade from top to bottom. It’s a shame since this is longer lasting on my skin, but I think I’ll stick with my lovely EDT.

Вечный_студент – 2022-07-05:

3 out of 5

On the plus side, Coco Parfum is very strong and long-lasting. I can imagine it would smell wonderful on the right man… However, it is far too unisex for me. There is a sharpness in the top notes that never fades and the fragrance stays very linear. It lacks the complexity, femininity, richness and softness of the Eau de Parfum, which I’ve loved and worn for about 25 years (including on my wedding day). I expected Coco Parfum to be a more concentrated version of the EDP, but was sadly disappointed. Perhpaps it’s due to recent reformulations, but in my opinion the pure Parfum isn’t nearly as beautiful or interesting as the vintage EDP. I only wish I’d have bought the pure Parfum years ago, as I’m sure it would have been quite different then.

resuscitate – 2022-07-05:

4 out of 5

During the last few years, I read a lot of stories, written by perfumistas, about finding a little gem by sheer luck. This year my time came too.
I walked into a local perfume store I visit regularly and found the last bottle of the extrait without tester. I’m a huge fan of the EDT and with Chanel scents I found that if I love the EDT of a fume, I usually adore the extrait (like with no. 5, Allure). I already had my eye on this version and smelled it earlier in another shop, but somehow procrastinated to buy it. This time I did not hesitate. The price was really high but I was ready to pay it.
I realized only when I arrived home that the box was from 2002, before the heavy reformulations (it did not have a long list of ingredients). I opened the box eagerly and sniffed the cap and that was the start of a passionate love affair that goes on for months now without loosing its initial momentum.
I still love the EDT (I’ve worn the version before 2014 reformulation so that’s pretty strong too) but I now realized what others meant by saying that a vintage version blows the current reformulation out of the water.
It has a depth – I guess given by the stronger base – that the recent formulation does not possess. It’s even more alluring, a scent fit for the wise and beautiful wife of a maharajah. It conveys seduction but in a less direct way than a lot of opulent fragrances. It allows men to approach you and try to seduce you, charmed by your mysterious, slightly restrained sensuality and does not attack like some loud and vulgar scents that scream “Take me, I’m yours!”
It is rich and heady, only one spritz on my cleavage lasts me all day long.
It is perfect accessory for a night at the opera but even on regular workdays I find it gives me a mood and confidence boost.
As a singer I love to use it on stage, it grounds me and enchants me at the same time.
In the hot weather it might be too much but on a rainy or snowy day, it is comforting and sensual like a hug from your valentine.

Муси пуси – 2022-07-05:

4 out of 5

The best perfume ever!
Well done Chanel, well done Mr. Jacques Polge!