Description
Coque d’Or from 1937, named after the French name for the opera by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, means “golden shell.” Jacques Guerlain dedicated it to his friend Sergei Diaghilev, the founder of Ballet de Russe. The perfume came in cobalt blue bow-shaped Baccarat bottles coated in gold, designed by Jean-Michel Franck.
Coque d’Or is a perfume from Guerlain launched back in 1937. It was developed by Jacques Guerlain. The fragrance contains classic chypre and oriental tones. It opens with peach and citruses including orange, with the heart of flowers of iris, carnation, clove, rose and violet, and the base of oak moss, sandalwood, leather, amber and labdanum.
Its Baccarat bottle was designed by Georges Chevalier and Raymond Guerlain.
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I managed to get a vintage bottle with just a few ML’s remaining.
I can smell something very similar to vintage mitsouko here, most likely the oakmoss + peach combo. I cannot detect the citrus, but perhaps my bottle is old and the top notes have gone.
Starts off similar to mitsouko except more floral and mossy. Strong dense lush oakmoss and some rose + peach detected, Iris and carnation also comes through after about 30 minutes and dries down to be a dense, darkish, spicy floral with a very boozy and liquor-like quality to it.
My nose is untrained so perhaps I may be naming some notes wrong.