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baChinlyPhyncpz – :
The sales associates at Sephora will direct you to this scent if you tell them you’re on the hunt for something cozy or chocolatey. You will spray it on a tester. You will say, “Yum.” You will dare to spray it on yourself or ask for a sample to try on your skin for later because you’re already wearing something. What the sales associate will neglect to tell you is that as delicious as this smells, it will be gone in an hour. You’ll no longer smell it. Poof.
VLADIMIR – :
Cocoa powder + rum. Deeeee-lightful. Even better when layered with Secret Genius.
DjEric – :
We all love scent and that’s why we are here. But let’s face it, most perfumes are just mediocre and that’s why when we discover something truly outstanding we want to sing it’s praises. Unfortunately that’s not Gilded Fox.
Deep, pleasant spicy scent, with excellent base notes of vetiver and amber. I also pick up a bit of a synthetic, chemical smell, but I’m not sure which note it’s coming from. It will work in all seasons if you like oriental gourmands
But I have two points to make: this kind of scent is so common these days. In fact, I can list several others in my collection that are alike. And all of them have much better performance. Secondly, the Pinrose line really behaves more like an EDT than a EDP on my skin. I get 1.5 hours tops and then it’s a skin scent (I know, they are made for layering….. but still.) For a little more money you can buy something similar, but more unique with much better longevity and projection. And you won’t have to layer it. After all, if you need to buy two bottles you’re better off investing that same amount into one really good perfume.
And that’s why Gilded Fox is just another mediocre offering. I still like it, but I won’t be purchasing it.
fc_Zenit_34 – :
I have a small rollerball of Gilded Fox that I got in the Pinrose 9 scent discovery set. I really like this, a bit on the masculine side very lovely boozy woodsy chocolate, not too sweet. A bit plastiky but not unpleasant I get that same plastiky vibe from Tokyo Milk Dead Sexy and I absolutely adore that one. Not sure if I love this one as much as I do Secret Genius but it’s a solid like, the silage is pretty decent, will update later on longevity 🙂
Madmars – :
I received a decant of this from Scentbird (along with two other chocolate fragrances) and this was my favorite of the bunch. I was worried the chocolate might smell too synthetic, but not at all. I get lots of buttery cocoa, warm spices, and vanilla. The dry down was definitely reminding me of something that I couldn’t place, until I went back to my tester of Serge Lutens Un Bois Vanille, and realized that these smell very similar on me, at least in the dry down. Funny, because according to Fragrantica, they share zero notes in common, and Gilded Fox doesn’t even have Vanilla listed in the notes.
Gilded Fox is not as heavy as Un Bois Vanille, so I’m more comfortable wearing it in warmer weather than UBV, but GF is also more apt to change on my skin depending on the day (?), I’ve tried it several times this week and sometimes I LOVE it, other times it can smell a bit sour.
panterka46 – :
I get chocolate mint from this
Agapelkos – :
Boozy, sweet, slightly woody, this one is really nice in colder rainy days like today. I got the rollerball trial set at Sephora and this one is better than I’d thought it was going to be. I am a fan of this scent, but I haven’t decided if I’d spend money on a full bottle yet. I really like Secret Genius and will buy that one for sure. This one and SG last pretty much all day on me, I’m going into almost my 12th hour and I can still detect it on my hand.
pestov1969 – :
The first time sampling this I was immediately transported into a place memory more strongly than any fragrance I’ve experienced yet.
It was in a ski chalet, while the snow was being groomed between sessions, resting on the sofas by the fire with full view of the glittering slopes. On the sound system came “Stairway to Heaven” by Led Zeppelin (already a decades old classic by then but the first time of my hearing it), and I finally understood why all the teenage boys around me talked about wanting to master it on their guitars. A sublime moment of novelty and first times that I was grateful to have surface again for me.
So, I snapped this pretty up to have for my collection. It’s deliriously boozy, definitely luxurious, and divinely suited for snowy white winter nights.
liana – :
This is a lovely gourmand, all cocoa and dusky evenings…warm, luscious and sweet without being child like. I normally do not love sweet fragrances but this is so deep and musky on me as it develops, I can’t help but love it.
Another big bonus for me is the fact it smells remarkably similar to Jo Malone’s discontinued Blue Agave and Cacao scent; one that absolutely loved my body chemistry and I received so many compliments when I wore it.
The perfume rep at Sephora said the nose behind this fragrance also used to work for Jo Malone, so….
Maybe we can thank him for letting Blue Agave and Cacao live on?
Try it. I think you will like it.
yogurt1988 – :
im not generally into sweet scents, but i’m really into this one. the vetiver kind of grounds everything, makes it a little fresher, and there’s a kind of boozy vibe somewhere in the background? bear with me here, im new to fragrance vocab. i dunno. not a fav, but i wanted something that other people would like on me, and this fits the bill. lasting time is ok, maybe 5 or 6 hrs, but it keeps pretty close to the skin.
one weird thing: the copy on the box called this scent “sexy?” on me it mostly smells like hot chocolate. delicious and cozy, but not exactly arousing? am i missing something?
anyway, solid 7/10, especially for the price, looking forward to smelling sweet and slightly alcoholic during the cold weather.
nafaka – :
Sampled this today and loved the beginning burst of cocoa. Unfortunately it faded quickly and left a vague vetiver/cardamom trail and then poof! it was gone in a flash. Wish I was getting the rum and butter cookie business.
romansax73 – :
Ohhh, this is good. Buttery, maybe slightly chocolate-ish and a slight hint of rum, but everything is so well blended, it is hard to really pick apart the notes. One might look at these notes and think this is gourmand, but to me it is a warmth sophisticated scent. I do not think of this as gourmand per say. I know that sounds weird, but..yeah. Just a yummy smelling yet sophisticated, warm scent. As has been noted by other reviewers, however, not good longevity. But I like this well enough and to me this is unique enough and lovely enough to have to re-spritz during the day. Also worth bearing in mind, sometimes our noses get used to a scent as the day progresses, whereas others can still smell it on us. But even so, I do not think there is any real danger of over-spraying with this one. I have been really liking this one for the cooler months. Soft to moderate sillage. Very nice.
hram-marina – :
Deliciously scrumptious for five minutes, at the end of five minutes, it disappears as if never sprayed, but leaves behind a faint whiff of powdery vetiver. But I never get any scent from this house to last more than a few minutes on my skin anyway.
Kaktyc – :
I bought the variety mini roll on pack at Sephora to try out since their bottles and display are so cool looking and this was the first scent I tried and it’s a winner! This is a delectable and edible natural cocoa powder gourmand without the horrible synthetic harsh notes that cause headaches and doesn’t have a monster projection which I find a lot of gourmands have. I sprayed this on my wrist and ate a bag of chips and every time I opened my mouth I would slightly taste some of the cocoa notes emanating in the air near my wrist and it tasted naturally sweet and good like real food. The cocoa notes are well blended with everything else for a soft seamless cozy scent that lasted on my wrist overnight. I am very impressed because cocoa is not a scent that has been very successfully been the focus of a perfume in my opinion without it getting too coconutty which I hate.
Avoisyloala – :
I’m totally in love with the chocolate rum part of this. I was surprised at how how well it mixed with me. It immediately puts me in a better mood. I’m a fan forever of this Pinrose scent.
I also like Cuddle punk and Secret Genius !
fan.tv – :
I wanted to like this, notewise, it is all things I can wear. However, there is something that is acrid on ‘off’ to my nose.
I suspect that I might be able to smell, and DO NOT LIKE the fixatives this house uses, as I’ve noticed it in other things I’ve tried from them.
Sans that note, it’s a really nice boozy, spicy vanilla that is similar to a number of other things I own, but not quite as good.
kimvaka – :
Butter cookies and spiced milk chocolate.
Slowly fades to amber with remnants of cookies and powdered hot cocoa mix.
Lasts all day.
uab918Diobtetty – :
I wanted to like this so much. The combo of notes sounded so wonderful. Alas, this smells like cocoa powder and bug spray on me. I was disappointed. It smells nice on one of my daughter’s, though.
PJ_TOR – :
Warm and cozy. Similar feel to ‘By the Fireplace’ by Maison Martin Margiela or ‘Boyfriend’ by Kate Walsh. It doesn’t have the smokiness of the first and it is a little more sparkly than either than those. It is also sweeter and more ‘glam’. The rum and the cocoa notes are the most prominent, followed by amber warmth. Nice for fall or winter. Too heavy for spring or summer. The scent card says ‘sips like spiked hot cocoa,’ which is fitting. This would be perfect if you wanted to feel as if you were clean and a bit made up, but wrapped up in a cashmere blanket with a decadent cup of something sweet, hot, and boozy, while fresh sparkly clean snow was glimmering outside the window.
aleksandrkopan – :
Got a sample in the towelette form of this with my sephora order.. must say upon opening the pack my nose curled a bit I got hit with a huge blast of almost synthetic like cocoa.. I said ok maybe the skin with play a diff story. so I applied.. at first I was like nuh uh no still smells the same.. then a few moments later it was like oh hello what’s this emerging. You get the most intoxicatingly beautiful hypnotic cocoa-nilla mix. It’s like opening a new box of chocolate cake mix & then splashing in a bit of rum and vanilla extract for flavor..think rum balls..it’s has a smooth whimsy merged with a devilishly-sexy vibe, though slightly synthetic it still balanced with a level of quality. It’s deff. foody I also get a slight powderiness from it. deff a fun/ intriguing scent, Pinrose is good for that, not sure if I’d leap for a full bottle (think I may get sick of it after a while) but I could see deff. getting the towelettes.
LV_Vic – :
A cardamom and amber fragrance that is a dead ringer, although slightly more subdued than, ELDO ‘Remarkable People’. Still trying to find a true original by this house.
hor2 – :
Sometimes there is a fragrance you just can’t classify as reminding you of something else. You think you have the name right there in your head, but then it’s gone before you can take note of it. That’s how Gilded Fox was for me. Then I realized the reason I couldn’t place it with a fragrance was because the scents I was thinking about were all foods! This fragrance is a fun one for fall. It’s boozy and chocolatey like a spiked hot chocolate or chocolate cake, but it’s creamy enough to make sure no one thinks you’re a drunk. I seriously want this just so I can sit by a fire, sip hot chocolate, and go to corn mazes and smell this while I do so. It’s really unique and really suitable for fall, and it’s got a little bit of sexy in there as well. Pinrose did it again! What a fun and well-balanced effort!
I’m definitely getting to be a fan of their work.