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hovo3m – :
This is intensely woody on me. Now that it has dried down a bit; it smells like pine tree sap with vanilla. It’s nostalgic…reminds me of camping when I was a kid!
Antimatrix – :
Warm, dry, earthy, woody spicy and a bit of tobacco. I tried this because of a comment on a Bois de Jasmin post that mentioned this as smelling reminiscent of a library, but like a gentleman’s library. I wholeheartedly agree. Like the smell of an old library/study with dark wood and leather furniture and old books read by the light of one of those green and brass bankers/lawyer’s desk lamp and cigar smoke and a scotch cabinet . I agree with Ouch! that it leans masculine, especially at the beginning. It’s probably about as masculine as I’d go personally, but I love this. It’s so comfy and spicy. I really want a full bottle.
aleks55 – :
Why isn’t there an 01? Anyway…
This first fragrance in the PG line opens with a huge dense blast of spices and wood. Nutmeg to be more specific. It’s very and dry. The nutmeg adds to the overall woody feeling. The word cozé means “daring” apparently?
This fragrance was designed as an ode to Pierre Guillame’s grandfather’s cigar box and I feel like it focuses more on the actual box as opposed to the tobacco contained within.
It’s an intensely dry woody fragrance with lots of nutmeg and cloves at first, and the patchouli in it lends it’s peppery woody character, not it’s green leafy character.
The whole thing is wrapped up in an almost burnt feeling, every note in this is verging on being scorched a tiny bit, which again, adds to the dryness.
It’s intense at first but eventually ends up being a somewhat dark woody fragrance that leans towards the mascuine.
🙂
igrokkey – :
A wonderful spicy resinous clove dominant fragrance between a aromatic fougere and an oriental gourmand,is rich,sweet,heady,narcotic, some woody and green glimpses; smells like castles of velvet walls and golden chandeliers.Must be on every perfume collection,absolutely a masterpiece.
naise – :
Warm, enveloping, velvety, chocolatey, dark-brown scent, absolutely radiating tobacco and spices. I find it delicious, but verging juuuuust on overbearing territory – it surely wouldn’t go with everything, and seems so strong and rich it could be overwhelming on warm or hot days. To me this is a great big, bulky, imbued-with-bar-smells woollen overcoat you’d wear to protect from winter drizzle. At the beginning there’s even a noticeable waft of ashtray – not poisonous nicotiney ash, but definitely a sense of something that’s smouldered and been stubbed out.
Hugely characterful – and I don’t mean that as a polite way of saying ‘borderline weird’, but in the sense of being distinctively itself and not like much else I’ve ever tried. I’m powerfully ambivalent about it: for about 80% of the time I love and admire it, then for the other 20% I’m wondering if it’s just too much. And this is, I’m pretty sure, the modern formulation tried on a woman – what must the old stuff on male skin have been like? A knockout, no doubt.
Definitely unisex-skewing-masculine, but wearable on women – it’s really *not* shy, though, it projects like a mother and is not a discreet kind of smell anyway, so definitely do try before you buy.
ETA: Ended up thinking about this one so much I sprang for an FB and on this near-freezing, foggy, grey dark day in London it is EXACTLY the protective mantle my spirits need.
nurjannb – :
This is Seminalis with a few extras. Very well done. I am pleased.
PavElektrik – :
Not a Parfumerie Generale fan but I can admit that Coze is one of the more coherent products of the house and possesses true ambition which is a thing I do not normally associate with their slapdash work (to put it bluntly). This fragrance instantly conjures up imagery of the legendary Honno-ji incident, a coup d’état against the Japanese daimyo Oda Nobunaga and the raging flames that enveloped his body as he committed seppuku in the temple to prevent the enemy from claiming his head. Groovy!
dpl194speagoessenda – :
Parfumerie General 02 (PG02) Coze is an oriental woody first introduced in 2002. It has notes of Indian hemp (canapa sativa), patchouli, coffee, pimento, pepper, sandalwood, ebony wood, Virginian cedar, tobacco, and Bourbon vanilla. It was created by Pierre Guillaume, who is best known for this house (where he is the perfumer for all of the scents), as well as a couple of Phaedon’s better-known perfumes, especially Oliban and Rouge Avignon.
Right off the top of Coze, I get a blend of sharply peppered woods and spices, reminiscent of a very nice aftershave or a big, powerful 80s fougere for men. I pick up on a wood that I’ve never smelled in isolation – perhaps the Indian hemp, which is supposed to be rich, warm, and seductive. There’s that lovely pepper note that lingers throughout the top and the heart of the fragrance that keeps it interesting and differentiates it from a boring masculine fougere. Still further into the life of the fragrance, a powdery, dark, bitter cocoa begins to gently assert itself.
The entire presentation of the smell and the way that it wears on the skin is exceedingly dry and masculine. It doesn’t flirt with sweetness at all, even despite the apparent presence of bourbon vanilla pods, which really have an oaky effect anyway, not the treacle we associate with the smell of synthetic vanilla often used unsparingly in women’s perfumes. Despite being familiar with the list of ingredients, none of them pop readily out into the forefront. It’s one of those fragrances that’s so wonderfully blended that on my skin, I’m hard pressed to tell that there is any single note: patchouli, coffee, woods, tobacco, or vanilla.
After doing a bit of snooping, apparently this used to be quite more a bit more powerful than it currently it, and used to be a real powerhouse on the skin. Whether this is true or not, I can’t say; I’ve only just landed my nose on it a couple of days ago. But the decant that I got (which is from DecantShop, and I have every reason to believe is authentic) doesn’t last more than two hours before becoming a skin scent that resembles a soft suede with hints of the Bourbon vanilla and the sweetness of dried fruit. All in all, quite a lovely fragrance. If it lasted three times as long, it would get a hearty recommendation from me.
Nota bene: One of the things that I really like about Parfumerie General fragrances is that they don’t just come in 50 and 100 ml, but also 30 ml – in case you’re one of those afflicted souls who needs another 3.4 oz of perfume like they need a hole in the head. (I think the smallest sizes need to be ordered directly from Pierre’s website.) While you pay a bit more per ml for the smaller bottles, you still pay less which means, if you’re like me, that you can buy another 30 ml bottle!
casher – :
Reformulated. Three years ago Coze smelled like; ‘eating a space-bonbon in a smoky Amsterdam coffeeshop’: cannabis, tobacco, chocolat… patchouly. With the strength/vibe of Kinski.
Nowadays it’s sour (paprika?) and weaker. Too bad. Go for Kinski!
marokassa – :
This is a little dry for me also, lots of cannabis, reminds me of kinski but might just be the cannabis. I can smell the woodsy earthy notes which are great, but this has a dry citrus earthy feel to me rather than a warm spicy. Grows warmer and spicier upon drydown.
valezh – :
Dry aromatic opening. Crisp, elegant, masculine. I feel like it calls for a suit and a tie. Morphs into a dry, spicy patchouli tobacco with the slightest touch of sweetness. Good sillage and longevity.
shooter1985 – :
Just lovely, masculine, contemplative bliss.
Not unlike Heeley’s Phoenician melody, journey.
This though, is drier, dustier. Borders on sour. Any sugar is barely noted. It hits on the “high” points of wood, sawdust,Jasmine tea and Canadian tobacco, ethereal. Intoxicating, my brain cells say, orgasmic.
Goes to the top of my list, for procurement.
March 15,2016
Ordered one day, delivered the next.
Today March 16th, I spent the whole day “high” bathed in this. Bliss.
skif-78 – :
Opens as cigarette smoke on a damp cashmere coat, and warms into vintage wood paneling and a smoky hash pipe. This is someone’s hip mom in the 70’s, having a feminist consciousness raising meeting in the basement, passing the pipe behind a thick oak door, and making plans to change the world with her friends.
Extremely well blended, comforting and cozy, in a quirkily nostalgic, ghost of a lost counter culture sort of way. Smoky without being acrid, patchouli that is readily present and accounted for without crushing the rest of the notes under a deluge of lavalamps and blacklight painting associations (a RARE feat) and warm without being overtly spicy……..Coze is a collection of clever contortions of memory that all land splendidly.
Now I just need to find a modern space fit to wear it. 😀
FriendJordan – :
Near my house there is a record store, the employees are all of the overweight, long-haired ex-dead-head variety. While I’m sure most of them have put their drug days behind them (sarcasm), a few like to light up behind the shop during their lunch break. Theres musty patchouli from a forgotten rack of incense and theres a worn in, comforting, almost dusty woodiness from shelf after shelf of vintage used records. Coze reminds me so much of this record store that upon first sniffing it I was instantly brought back there. Not many fragrances successfully transport me like this.
Outside of my own personal memory bank, this is also just a really really well made scent. Warm and cozy (or coze’). It’s blended immaculately and no one note stands out in an unnatural or unpleasant fashion. It creates a scent instead of just being a jumble of notes, no doubt because of the genius selection of notes. There is obviously very realistic cannabis (which i love in fragrances) but it blends with an extremely natural, strong earthy patchouli note which keeps it from smelling like a fresh bowl. Underneath the green bitterness there is a thick, toasty, sweet mocha accord. Slight peppery spice and some generic woody notes round it out and make it decidedly masculine to my nose. Not that a woman couldn’t pull it off but this sort of sweet and dirty-yet-compellingly-alluring vibe I associate closely with masculinity.
In the past I have retired Coze’ for the patchouli note. I occasionally find myself intolerant. Most fragrances with a strong patch note I cannot wear but this one I always come back to because it’s just such a good combination of notes and I feel that it suits me quite well. This is one of the few patchouli dominated fragrances that I love.
Performs pretty great and garners quite a huge amount of compliments for me. 8/10
sergius755 – :
Just emptied a 1.5 ml sample of “Coze” straight onto the back of my hand.
First impressions were distasteful. It smells leathery and acrid. There is a distinct menthol quality jumping out at me that is reminding me of turpentine; I’d put it down to the piquancy of the chilli clashing with the acute bitterness of the black chocolate and coffee.
After about 15 minutes, the unpleasant medicinal screech subsides and things get much drier and smokier. A thick cloud of hashish invades my nostrils, through which I can smell musty wood, leather furniture and dank, oily patchouli.
Reminds me of a past visit to Christiania, the infamous commune of weed-smoking hippies nestled in the center of Copenhagen. Like the hippies, “Coze” is earthy, disheveled and just plain weird to be honest.
I can’t envisage wearing this beyond my hall door. Certainly not to a job interview, unless said job involved selling blunts around the back of a pub after hours.
koklina – :
Seriously! I just dabbed this on before checking the notes and I’m going to have to scrub. Not because it isn’t pleasant, it actually is very nice, but because I’m helping drive my son’s eighth grade class to a dance performance today and I can’t meet his teacher smelling this disreputable. I actually really enjoy this and it’s funny too but I smell like a clean, well groomed man who smokes a lot of tabaccy, wacky and otherwise.
So nice, humorous and completely unwearable.
elena27 – :
On my skin this is first of all a tobacco fragrance. The tobacco leaves are wet and fresh and pleasant smelling. Other notes include patchouli and spices to add complexity. It is one of the most pleasant tobacco fragrances I have tried. Long lasting.
and vanilla…a lot of it.. long lasting
Bioffiere – :
Oh, my God, it’s a time machine. I am back at the apartment of my disreputable but highly amusing boyfriend D. I was twenty years old, and the place was pretty much a hash den.
Burned out pipe bowl, peppery, woody leaf, a little boozy, a little chocolatey, vanilla tobacco, dirt and patchouli. All it needs is a leftover pizza in the background and I will start having flashbacks.
SergoAnri – :
Peppery, but very fresh patchouli with a musky vanilla. Such a comforting and very elegant composition. Complex, but not overbearing that your nose is trying to pick apart every single note. Calming to your mind. The name is perfect and suits it.
LordGray – :
Trying Parfumerie Generale (PG02) Coze for the first time.
On my skin, up top I definitely got the hemp with a dash of pepper, but not overwhelming to my nose (but my sample was not a spray so I had to dab, which tends to make a difference to my skin on how a fragrance presents). About midway I could pick up the patchouli and was thrilled (one of my fave scents), intermixed with coffee and chocolate. Never detected the tobacco until drydown, and then almost an ashtray tobacco scent (but not in an unpleasant way). Honestly don’t know what Ebony wood is supposed to smell like, but I detect something woody at the base so presume that’s it. At the finish, patchouli, vanilla and sweet tobacco were the strongest on my skin.
On me this was not heavy but again I had to dab instead of spray which makes a difference for me. This had fairly soft sillage for me but I used only a small amount, and if I were actually using this from a bottle I’d definitely use more and probably get better projection from it. On my skin everything seemed to settle in after about an hour, and this lasted on me for about 4 – 5 hours before becoming a faint skin scent.
I definitely see this as a cool weather scent and would not wear in spring or summer heat, but I find it unoffensive enough that I’d wear it to the office. I also can see this being a nice fragrance for either day or evening wear. Unlike other reviewers, I never picked up that clove note even though I was intentionally looking for it (and I actually like clove). On me, the patchouli and vanilla with notes of tobacco and wood dominate, and if there are any cloves in there they are buried deep! Right now I’m riding between Like and Love, and will try it a few more times to see if I get nudged in one direction or the other.
I know this is a unisex scent, but to my nose this comes across as quite a sweet scent and on my skin definitely falls on the feminine side. I’m not sure some men would feel comfortable wearing this, while others would. Although, having said that, this PG02 Coze is intoxicating enough that the juxtaposition between this sweet fragrance on a macho guy wearing this rising up from his chest could be an alluring combination!
As always, your results may vary!
greellecobe – :
One of the best gourmands I have ever encountered. It’s like a croquembouche soaked in coffee liqueur, dipped in chocolate ganache, then topped with billows of Chantilly whipped cream and melted caramel. The cannibis and mahogany serve to enrich and darken the other notes. Tobacco is a nice touch. The overall effect is a gourmand for grownups. Sinful and indulgent.
dxy789Bessinepome – :
A very nice surprize! A lovely unisex-scent and one of few I can wear. Love the chocolate and coffeenote and the woodsy and peppernote. Soft and warm on my skin but its not skinclose so use with care.
En trevlig överraskning! En superfin unisexdoft och en av få som jag faktiskt kan bära. Älskar choklad och kaffenoten tillsammans med tränoterna och pepparen. Mjuk och varm på huden men ändå inte en hudnära doft, används sparsamt..
renat-n1981 – :
Parfumerie Generale 02 Coze
This fragrance is Amsterdam in a bottle. I was in the middle of backpacking around the world with one of my best girlfriends when we landed in Amsterdam. We had just come from the beaches in South India where a palm reader had foretold me that I would soon be married to a Dutchman. This became a huge joke between my friend and I so, of course, when I arrived in Amsterdam, I was already in an adventurous fun-loving mood. Well, if the whole of Europe had to name one city as THE party city, Amsterdam would be it. I had been living in Berkeley, so I thought I had seen it all. But, this city took it to a whole new level for me. I had, what I call, the Amsterdam Deluxe experience.
We were lucky enough to stay with two of the most beautiful people on earth who had an open marriage. A funny thing happens when you’re with two beautiful locals active on the dating scene, and that is that the entire city opens its arms to you. Within days, I found myself at a huge out of control boat party on the canals with a full band, cocktails, space cakes, chocolate and beer from Brussels, you name it. The boat took the entire party touring through the red light district. I met my “Dutch husband” that night and we were “married” by the DJ on the dance floor. I couldn’t have dreamt up a more hedonistic, fun, once-in-a-lifetime experience if I had tried.
This fragrance has bottled that entire experience for me. From the top notes, to the heart, to the dry down, I feel like I’m on that party boat again, touring the city. The patchouli and tobacco were the first partiers to arrive. I’m not a huge patchouli fan, having been around the Berkeley locals who drench themselves in it, so I was a little worried, but this is probably the best patchouli note I’ve encountered. It’s so perfectly blended with the tobacco that it gives the tobacco a rich, smokey depth. I was actually surprised that there is no incense note because that’s what I got, but not head shop incense, but the same smokiness that you find in vintage Habanita. The sticky black cannibis note and the dark chocolate heart is what I fell in love with. That lasted only about an hour and I wish it would have lasted much much longer, although, it was such a fun ride while it lasted. The dry down on me was ebony wood with coffee and a lingering smokiness; exactly like that warm happy feeling you get when you go home after a great party, having met some incredible people that you just know are going to become great friends! Just, wow. Thank you PG for that incredible adventure.
iCord – :
Funny thing. On my skin it`s hemp, hemp, hemp. A little bit later, when the perfume settled down, it started to smell exactly like in the horse stables! I know this smell too well since I`m doing horse riding regularly. Well, I absolutely adore the stables` smell but I`m not sure I would like to smell like it myself. Though I admit that the hemp note makes me hilarious!
nik73nik – :
A spectacular piece of perfume, on that little piece of paper at the department store. Sweet, woody, spicy, smoky, creamy – it has everything in wonderful harmony. And that quirky cannabis twist! But on my body … just flat and dull. Nothing like it was intended. In this specific case I fully blame my skin and congratulate those who get the full ride with Coze. You lucky people! I must also give PG credit for the classy bottle design and overall graphic profile.
Embeweedo – :
A little bit too sweet for myself– but I keep coming back for another sniff. It’s like a sumptuous dessert that I know I shouldn’t have but keep eyeing just the same. If I had a BF I’d make him wear it.
krikk – :
137) the top of the class
Tester Coze c’est entrer dans un café indien enfumé et un peu miteux avec les notes de café,chocolat amer, de patchouli pour commencer et ensuite une note culinaire, une sorte de macération déjà sentie dans des cuisines au Tamil Nadu (sud de l’Inde). Une sorte d’huile aromatisée mentholée qu’ils utilisent pour conserver des aliments.
Les épices arrivent vite, c’est de la bonne et donc ça chauffe beaucoup, sans Lassi pour les calmer.
Il y aussi du Santal et de la Vanille mais ça n’a rien d’un pâtissier, c’est un pur oriental épicé(l’Inde ça fouette le nez) parfait pour ceux qui aiment déjà des compositions de niche.
La gamme de PG étant franchement pas très avant guardiste celui là vaut le détour.
To test Coze is to enter in a Indian café, smoky and a little shabby, with notes of coffee, bitter chocolate, patchouli to start and then a culinary note, a sort of macération ever smell in kitchens in Tamil Nadu (southern India). A kind of menthol flavored oil they use to store food.
Spices come quickly, it is good and so it gets very hot, without Lassi for calm.
There also Sandalwood and Vanilla but it has nothing of a pastry, it is a pure spicy oriental (India whips nose) perfect for those who already know niche compositions.
The PG range is frankly not very avant garde but this one worth seeing.
Шерлок – :
Very disappointing. It certainly isn’t sweet – the pepper and what must be the ebony have completely dominated what ‘bean’ products there were meant to be in here. It’s brash, dusty, unforgiving and,, ‘chocolate’ included they say? Must be joking!
My Note List:
Blend – Spices, cardamom, pepper, chilli, strong woods and dry patchouli.
‘True alternatives to all those mass-market products, with their bland, standardised formats aimed at winning over vast numbers of customers, Pierre Guillaume’s creations exhale their strong character with distinct and immediately recognisable scent identities that make no compromises.’
Says the blurb at the back of my carded Coze sample.
I have always never been taken by product advertising but I never mind products giving an elaborate or sensationalist descriptions of themselves – it’s all in the free-spirit of intent of advertising a (hopefully) hard-worked product after all.
So to have PG so boldly and overtly claim to dismiss the competition not only sets a tone of defiance, it brings immediate doubts into my mind of , is this Parfumier really concentrating on his/her own product?
This is my 1st test of this house and sadly it’s – quite saddening putting it nicley.
It opens with an overwhelming blast of heady pepper, spice and woods. It’s almost like I stepped into a boxing ring! Pierre has certainly got the ‘uncompromising’ bit correct for me!
It’s ‘character’ is one that totally burns up my nose,, I simply cannot disern any fine, soothing points or the finer ingredients I was looking for here – the Hemp, Coffee and Cacao.
It’s certainly unique and, er, different – but so it Black Afgano which is a Tour de Force in rare Opulence, and brooding woody-sweet accords. This swiftly becomes an overbearing woody spice lotion (unsweetened cardamom?) that refuses to put this reviewer at ease at any one moment.
The ingredients are very fine, but that just makes this waste of a collection of rare ingredients all the more painful to even contemplate purchasing.
Nice try Monsieur Pierre, but I think I’ll be dispensing my hard cash on a 2nd bottle of ‘generic, mass-market’ Creed Aventus, if you don’t mind.
Not for the feint – try -and buy if you dare.
4/10.
ushanuch – :
I don’t have the gift of writing some of the other reviewers have but I will say this is a lovely scent. It opens with a strong chocolate note but the tobacco & coffee keep it from being overly sweet.I would consider it more feminine then unisex however. I don’t detect any cloves on my skin .The longevity leaves something to be desired unfortunately. It lasted less than a hour.
Nelik – :
When I first smelled this, I was stunned – dark chocolate, coffee and hemp. Lovely poison. I smell strong tobacco note. And fortunately – no cloves detected. I also smell sove expensive liquor, like coffee liqueur. All in all – great composition. I also love the different effects it gives to people – dark chocolate dominates on woman skin whereas on man all I can feel is exclusive tobacco with cannabis hints.
This perfume gives me a feeling of time travelling. Genlteman with a dark lady drinking coffee in English cafe on a rainy day. Dark love developing…
Generally speaking, it‘a multidimensional, rich and slowly unfolding perfume. Scent is a bit bohemic and unique, but definitely not loud or aggressive. Unfortunately, it doesn‘t last for as long as I could wish for.
Cepera16pyc – :
Coffee, vanilla, good herby almost black dope resin, chocolate, pepper, sandalwood, patchouli, cedar, ebony wood, the inside of a golden virginia tin. Coze by Parfumerie Generale, this stuff is “The Little Shop”/1978-79 in a bottle. The scent of those sophisticated chaps we were all in awe of, of deep polished wood, 1930s club armchairs, Italian coffee and mocha, dusty second hand fur coats and flapper dresses, chunky silver bracelets under the rolled up cuffs of crisp cotton grandad shirts, braces and bowler hats. David Essex and all the fun of the fair circa 1974 “Tarmac Your Drive For A Tenner Miss?” Oh. My. Goodness. Please God, do not send a man wearing this within ten feet of me, or my vow of celibacy is shot to sh*t. I gifted a sample of this to one of my more discerning male chums for assessment. He wrote: ” a very fresh ground with highlights of matron’s apron soaked with the bitter tears of a 3rd former who has fallen on the cross country run”. I concur wholeheartedly, for his is the sort of erudite chap this fume suits perfectly.
Drjynfrnt – :
Weak, watery coffee and wood mixed with the faint scent of an electrical fire.
Salfploruro – :
I agree jtd! over cooked brownie plus hemp… oh what a nice dark gourmand this is. You can smell bitter cocoa and a clear note of cannabis with soft clove. I like this and find it an excellent choice if you like your perfume not to be too sweet. Somehow obscure and refined. Very dusty!! However, I don’t find this perfume groundbreaking as some other reviewers do on the internet. Perhaps if I hadn’t experienced Borneo 1834 and a hundred other chocky renditions I’d do… Still … a great one to have. Pretty identifiable among its cousins. It stays loooong and its sillage is ok… I think this is pretty safe even with its twists. I’m sure no one will come up telling you you’re a junkie. Not because of the perfume at least lol.
kolyaba – :
Coze offers both that fresh, moist feel of a close-fitted evergreen forest canopy and the dry, herbal tone of a dry forest floor. With its hemp foundation, though, the other side of this combination of notes is an over-baked hash brownie. A delight either way.
FrernJamnmita – :
On me it is so much cloves that it basically kills anything else. There is slight heavy cholocate smell, but all else is burried under clove.
I do like medicinal smells, but this is too much for me, I feel myself almost paralysed by clove
siwigubr – :
I don’t like cloves, but the way it is presented here is distinct and not overpowering. Coffee, tobacco, and pepper start to come through after an hour or so. It is unisex, but has just a touch more sweetness than what I would consider a typical male fragrance. The complexity will keep everyone guessing…there is something mysterious and attractive about it. If you don’t want to smell like everyone else in the room, this is a great choice.
maksimus2202 – :
Beautiful MINERAL composition.
First moment: Wet Hemp and Raw Coffee
After 3 hours: Dark Chocolate, A LOT OF CLOVES, Wood.
It stays longer on the clothes than on skin.
Sillage: 7
Longevity: 10
Fragrance: 9
bogdna9429 – :
ITS SOOOO GREAT! I can smell the antiseptic cloves-scent too, although it is not listed. But for me its absolutely multi-dimensional! I snuffle on my wrist and can detect so many wonderful scents! (@SedNonSatiata) I´ve a wild heart, I want this for christmas!!! 😉 LOVE from LOUVE <3
BrutalheatH – :
To me this smells like cloves on oranges, or Christmas office party potpourri. Or a Christmas candle. I’ve never liked those scents and I really don’t like them on my skin. I find this to be a very shallow, uni-dimensional scent and I had to scrub. To me it screamed “Middle-aged woman into country decor (geese with bonnets).”
711 – :
(Thanks artsy mom for this sample!)Peppery, woody hemp assaults me at first whiff. Then the patchouli,tobacco and sandalwood join the party with the cedar making a quick entrance and just as quick departure; the patchouli and sandalwood stay much longer with pepper and hemp along the fringe during the drydown. Chocolate is slightly discernable.Keeps my nose very interested. The wood note is dry, like an incense stick. I could wrap myself in a soft sweater or blanket with this scent sprayed on it and be instantly comforted, “Coze’-like.
Haicleleplisk – :
The first spray of this one provides a ton of pepper and paprika. Enough to incapacitate the nose for the rest of the day. I was looking for chocolate and vanilla in there, but in vain. Cozé on my skin it remains dry, woody, very peppery, raw. Does not smell like comfort at all; on the contrary, there is something unsettling about it. It is a scent of old room with wooden furniture where someone used to smoke pipe very often. The room in no longer used, hence the dust and powderiness.
I am a bit on the fence with this one… I am quite intrigued by it, but I find it too dry. Some ingredients I was really excited about never made an appearance, and some of the ones I am not a fan of are actually really strong. Cozé is definitely something different, and shows that Guillaume is skilled in working with various ingredients, but it is not enough for me to fell in love with.
Demon2604 – :
Cozé opens dark, smoky and dusty with coffee, desweetened dark chocolate, woods, prominent patchouli and a slight boozy bourbon note. Spices join the party in a while adding depth and mistery to this warm composition. In the drydown I still detect a remarkable patchouli note together with dark woods, sandalwood and hints of vanilla. While Cozé is often listed as a gourmand, I more get it as a sort of dirty spicy oriental that will appeal to fans of the most challenging compositions by Maitre Parfumeur Et Gantier, Parfum D’Empire and a bunch of Lutens.
If you’re into fresh and clean fragrances you should carefully stay away from this, for all the others, this is great stuff. Maybe not as much unconventional as they want us to believe but still highly recommended.
Rating: 8/10
supershmarka – :
Dry chocolate, coffee, pepper and a little metallic smoke to open, warming up with hints of vanilla.
Coze, cosy? With this combination of notes, I thought I’d get that. But somehow the scent remains rather aloof and never manages to captivate me, feeling rather dry with the delicious scent of second-hand smoke that never gives me its intended effect.
I think the addition of pimento is also what makes Coze stand out from other fragrances–rather bitter, dry and suggestive of a metallic numbing effect like chewing on a dried clove bud. And in combination with hemp, perhaps adding to the ‘tarry’ accord that SNS mentions.
As it’s rather cold today, I imagine that this would unfold and deliver more depth if my skin were a little more humid. Even if it did though, and albeit it original and likeable, the initial impression doesn’t grab me enough to want to retest as I don’t imagine myself wanting to wear this.
oinxgkqdnjr – :
The cynic in me looks at the notes and says this is brazen attempt to combine all the comfort scents of humanity- coffee, tobacco, cannabis, vanilla. And of course it would be called Coze!!
Upon application, Coze opens with a somewhat harsh, confusing burst of pepper that gives way within seconds to reveal the warmth of chocolate, coffee and tobacco – Ah yes, those comfort scents, but it develops so beautifully and with such grace and subtlety that it really does live up to its name. It is like a soft blanket, a