Coco Parfum Chanel perfume – a fragrance for women

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.