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Cabotine

Launched by Grès in 1990, three decades after Cabochard, Cabotine is an aldehydic floral by Jean-Claude Delville built around ginger lily, a Himalayan flower captured on the living plant. Mandarin, ginger and ylang-ylang open onto wild hyacinth and tuberose, before a base of patchouli, sandalwood, musk and blackcurrant. Its green stopper is sculpted with flowers.

Brand
Grès
Launch year
1990
Perfumer
  • Jean-Claude Delville
Gender
Women
Olfactory family
Floral
Secondary family
Aldehydic
Concentration
Eau de Toilette
EAN
7640111494324 (30 ml) · 7640111494508 (50 ml) · 7640111494515 (50 ml) · 7640111494027 (100 ml) · 7640111494133 (100 ml)

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Grès launched Cabotine in 1990, three decades after Cabochard, created by Bernard Chant, which had opened the house’s perfumery. Perfume Intelligence describes it as intended for the daughters of women who loved Cabochard; the house presents it as a benchmark among fragrances for young women.

An actress

The name first refers to an actress. The house sees in it a woman of many facets, whose favorite role ranges from elegance to gentle madness, and gives her a blunt motto: “I am as I am!”

A flower captured alive

Jean-Claude Delville composed an aldehydic floral built around ginger lily, a Himalayan flower. Perfume Intelligence and Osmoz explain that its scent was captured on the living flower, using the headspace technique; Osmoz adds that it was a first.

Gaia Fishler, of the blog The Non-Blonde, reports that the owners of Grès conceived it on a small budget, for a young generation that would never have worn Cabochard, the house’s great classic, born in the 1950s.

An Italian award, a Japanese success

In its second spring, in 1992, Cabotine received in Italy the international award for best feminine fragrance from the Accademia del Profumo. Osmoz also reports its great success in Japan, which it attributes to its second-skin effect.

Olfactory pyramid

  1. Top notesThe first minutes
  2. Heart notesThe heart of the perfume
  3. Base notesWhat lingers

What critics say

Fanny Guerin, at Auparfum, sees in it a kaleidoscope of the great classics that came before it; Gaia Fishler, of The Non-Blonde, a bold, somewhat chemical green floral that is best not overapplied.

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What the community says

LongevityLong
Fleeting2 votesAll day
SillageModerate
Intimate2 votesOverpowering

Season

Spring67 %
2 votes
Winter33 %
1 vote

Occasion

Evening100 %
2 votes

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The advertising

An almost innocent fragrance

At its launch in 1990, the campaign presented Cabotine as “an almost innocent fragrance,” aimed at the daughters of Cabochard lovers.

According to Perfume Intelligence, the launch campaign carried the slogan “an almost innocent fragrance,” which the encyclopedia reads as the admission of a light flirtation. The fragrance then targeted the daughters of women who loved Cabochard, a young clientele the house still claims.

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