Cocaïne
Fragrance notes
Character
The name is the provocation; the fragrance itself is a dense, tropical white floral with a dark, resinous edge. Caramel and tobacco open it dark and sweet together, and bitter orange with red berries cut a sharp, slightly bitter fruit note straight through the middle of it. Tuberose, lily and orchid take the heart into thick, almost narcotic white-flower territory, heady rather than fresh, closer to a florist's back room at closing time than anything typically sold as a fragrance.
Monoi oil, vanilla and patchouli settle the base into something warm, waxy and a little animalic, the kind of drydown that smells like sun oil left too long on warm skin, coconut-adjacent without a single coconut note in the formula. It is long-lasting and carries well, the kind of sillage that gets remarked on, present enough that people nearby will ask what it is. It belongs to cold-weather nights, dark and tropical at once, a genuinely strange combination that mostly works, better suited to a party than to an ordinary Tuesday. Franck Boclet built a small line around provocative names, and this one earns its spot: the composition underneath the label is stranger and more interesting than the shock value alone would suggest.
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