Description
Honore des Pres in cooperation with perfumer Olivia Giacobetti is launching “New York Collection” available in French Colette. The new collection includes three fragrances I Love les Carottes, Love Coco and Vamp a NY, created of 100% natural ingredients.
Parisian organic fragrances are packed in unconventional way – in plastic cups to take out.Love Coco is also a scent of happiness and optimism, gentleness and exotic. It was created as a breath of clear extract of gently spiced coconut milk and coriander leaf with a soft touch of vanilla. This is the first fragrance which accentuates exotic enhanced with vegetable zest, which deconstructs basic olfactive form of coconut. Available as 50ml EDP. Love Coco was launched in 2010.
GUGA – :
It starts off straight coconut but is quickly and forevermore pencil shavings. It stays close through out
nissi – :
If pine trees grew coconuts the Finnish forests would smell like this.
Ererrydox – :
The coconut note is edible but it pretty much drowns under strong coriander leaf smell. I like the coriander seed note but it also drowns under the leaf. So this is pretty much coriander leaf on me and other notes stay in the back. Unfortunately I don’t like the smell of the leaf… It reminds me of one specific insect which has a very strong unpleasant smell.
This doesn’t suit me. I can imagine how good this might be if only the chemistry works.
machin – :
Is this the same as “Love coconut”? If it is, it was horrible. I think you must be into any kind of coconut scent (even artificial) if you enjoy this. The coconut note isn’t the prettiest.
DETT – :
Opens with lots and lots of coconut. Soon the coconut is joined by dry cedar notes and something spicy– I dont smell coriander per se but it does remind me of curry& coconut beef stew. Tonka and vanilla are in the background ensuring the herbs stay in place and giving a little sweetness. The drydown is a sweet and soft coconut with a hint of green cedar notes and something that smells of tictacs.
Sillage is moderate, longevity is weak on me.
Gorgeous scent, love the dry coconut. It reminds me tiny bit of James Heeley’s Coccobello, the tictac note is there also as well as the dry green cedar. Shame about the longevity, if it lasted a bit longer I’d definitely get a full bottle. Maybe a decant!
Bloodsport – :
Not working for me, even though I love the concept of perfume with all natural ingredients.
Coconut is nice, not sickly sweet, but I also get an equally strong burnt rubber smell. Coconut and burnt rubber. After 4 hours, only a soft version lingers.
operminphp – :
I totaly get the thai food reference here. This is actually a scent that smells very much like “real” coconut to me. Not a dessert in sight. No sugar, just raw coconut. Don’t think I ever smelled any scent quite like it. Very interesting byt not for everyday use, I’d say. Don’t really smell the vanilla at all but I do get the coriander. Only after reading it’s there though, so I know to “look for it”. I definately get a green feeling straight away though.
bandit-173 – :
I do love a good coconut, so I had high hopes for this 100% natural coconut fragrance. The coconut smells soft, clean and natural. Unfortunately the savoury green note tips it into Thai food territory for me. Delicious smelling, but not what I want to smell like!
bt123 – :
This is wonderful, cool, green and refreshing! I love the coriander with the coconut, ah – what a great blend. On me this smells really nice. It works best for colder weather as well – which makes it cold, almost metallic. And that’s cool, different. Not your usual coconut smell. And I love coconut. I used to be addicted to the coconut perfume-oil you could buy at the Body Shop. This is like a sophisticated, grown-up version of that, sweeter, oil. I need to get my hands on a proper sample of this so I can write a proper review.
dron777 – :
The opening of this feels like a green coconut which is probably the coriander talking. Not my cup of tea.
The drydown however is a plain dry coconut milk, neither gourmand or tanning oil coconut but a clean one. I quite enjoy it. Too bad the longevity is pretty bad, a few hours at most.
dmitrii8891 – :
As with Vamp, this dried down to a waxy, synthetic scent on my skin, that is difficult to describe. Ironic, since it is 100% natural. I wish I liked it, but again, how hard can you try to like a perfume, regardless of the fact it is natural.
ВажныЙ – :
At first it is very green and earthy, like a carrot straight from the garden bed – you haven’t washed it yet and the green tops are still there.
Then it transforms to a coconut oil smell. If you’ve ever used coconut oil on your skin you have to know how it smells. It’s more nutty than creamy, makes you think of the pressed and heated coconut flesh.
The base sounds like a Thai dessert and sometimes even like an opened pack of tic-tac mints (Do you know what stunning, pure and round vanillin aroma I am talking about? Smell some spearmint tic-tacs before putting them into your mouth). I also get a hint of warm sand there, at least this is how my associations work.
The way this perfume fades is the most interesting part. Let me agree with Raquel – it stays with you forever but you never know when and why you can start feeling the smell of it. You stick your nose to the wrists – but it’s gone. You try to smell your clothes – no, not there. But it’s somewhere around! This is a very unique feature – call it a ghost-perfume or a molecule game.
I am feeling very blessed to have an opportunity to use a phtalate-free perfume that smells so nice.
teslo – :
Love Coco (thank you for the sample Amarah!!), is a soft scent that is harmoniously balanced with the other ingredients. Nothing screams “here I am” – not even the coconut – but it’s rather as if every note is contributing to let the coconut shine in its best light, and for me, it sure does. I am 50 now and this is the first coconut scent I would actually wear as a daytime fragrance other than at the beach. It is at the same time fun, lively (but not in your face), soft, cuddly and cozy. I must say I love “Love Coco”. It might be that the current hot and humid Australian Summer is just perfect for this lovely scent, but hey, I am the last one to complain.
It’s a cool day today and I must say that I love it even more.
maxbaron – :
Besides coconut itself I get a strong coriander leaves which are for some reason a hate scent for me – I can’t even smell the plant itself without wanting to puke. Without the strangely loud coriander leaf -element this would be perfect coconut perfume. Or even if the coriander wasn’t about leaves but about seeds – that’d balance the sweetness of coconut perfectly without the strange acidity and overwhelming element that coriander leaves represent. Vanilla comes through just enough, tonka beans a bit more – making it a nice blend of exotic yet easily approachable fragrance. It’s not your average coconut scent – and that’s a total advantage.
Anyhow, if you like or even can stand the coriander leaf component and are looking for a nice, summery day scent that has something funky yet not being too silly or childish, I would highly recommend this one. It is a bit pricey, but I would say that it’s worth of the money. Lasting is good, and you can really feel the difference between the all natural perfume compared to synthetic ones when breathing and living with the scent. Most synthetic fragrances make me ill and nauseous – this one never does.
Ilyinishko – :
I was disappointed as soon as I smelled but ….. I was enjoying it more and more. When it seems that there is no longer any smell on the skin suddenly the aroma fills my nostrils and do not know where it comes from. It is different, no doubt
qwv100intitytek – :
I got a sample of this, and I’m not sure if it is old or what but when I first sprayed it on, all I could smells was carrier oil. No perfume. About an hour later I could smell some coconut and vanilla. It dis last all day but so faint that I have to hold my wrist to my nose and inhale really deep to smell it. Honestly even if it is an old sample, I would rather just get a coconut body spray for $12 from BBW that I know I can smell, and won’t fade over time like a lot of perfumes do that are in a natural oil base. If I were going to spend asuch as this costs I would get something else. From what I can smell, it is pleasant, but not spectacular. Good for spring and summer. Not one for my wishlist.
akrasnyy – :
This is coconut for grown ups. The coriander balances the cocounut to giive complexity
and depth. Wonderful longevity and sillage and recommended for summer.
nastya2410 – :
Hey Fragrantica, is it not possible for you to differentiate between “Coriander” (which is actually usually just the seeds of the plant), and “Cilantro” which is the leaves only of the coriander plant ?
As using just a generic “Coriander” note definition for both the seeds and leaves, while actually correct for they are both still “coriander”, it is also rather confusing. As the seeds of the coriander plant actually smell very different from the leaves. And are in fact two separate notes entirely !
Perfect example is the fragrance above, “Love Coco” which you show under your notes list as only plain “coriander” (with the corresponding picture of the seeds of the plant). Which in fact is not entirely correct for “Love Coco” (and misleading) as the fragrance actually contains “Cilantro” or the leaves rather than the seeds of the coriander plant. (Which as I previously mentioned smell completely different from one another !)
I think you could do with two separate “notes buttons” for the coriander note. One just “Coriander” (or “Coriander Seeds”) and the other “Cilantro” for those occasions when only the leaves are used in a fragrance.
luba2010 – :
Too much coriander for me to wear it. Coco and coriander… this reminds me thai food.
KLM777 – :
If I am not mistaken, this is the perfume I tested which smells like bubble gum. It was delicious and it is made of organic and natural ingredients.
On my skin, it lasted for hours and hours, keeping me quiet satisfied. However, I had to stick my nose to where i had sprayed it to actually get a whiff of it.
It smelled very cute!
zhuksa – :
This is a very interesting deconstruction of the concept of ‘coco’-a Bachtinian take on the carnivalesque nature of the eponymous ingredient. Coriander jumps right to the fore at first spritz, after which it’s coco, but not in its beach oil incarnation. The coriander stays with it for quite some time, constantly undermining its otherwise cloying sweetness.I am not yet at the base note vanilla stage, but I am afraid it might disappear before I finish typing this. I like this as an olfactory experience, even though I wouldn’t wear it. Its nature would probably be aided by sun and a gust of wind by the sea.