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.
The house places Cabotine among the aldehydic florals and gives its notes tier by tier: mandarin, ginger and ylang-ylang, a bouquet of tuberose, wild hyacinth and ginger lily, and a base of patchouli, sandalwood, musk and blackcurrant.
Top
Mandarin and ginger open on tones the house calls spicy and energizing, with ylang-ylang bringing its seduction. Fanny Guerin, at Auparfum, hears a sparkling burst in it, within an aldehydic scheme she finds fairly classic.
Heart
Wild hyacinth, tuberose and ginger lily form the bouquet. Auparfum attributes to ginger lily a jasmine-like, spicy and earthy imprint, to tuberose a milky softness, and to hyacinth a green, crisp nuance.
Base
Patchouli, sandalwood, musk and blackcurrant sign the trail. Fanny Guerin describes a woody, dry, almost animalic accord, in which blackcurrant reveals an earthy acidity, while sandalwood and musks cradle the whole.
What stays out
Retail descriptions often attribute coriander, orange blossom, plum, peach, rose, carnation, iris, violet, vetiver or vanilla to it, which the house does not name. Peach, plum, rose, carnation, violet and white musks therefore leave its notes.
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