Coco Extrait is the extrait version of Coco, composed by Jacques Polge for Chanel in 1984. The house sees it as the quintessence of this amber with floral and spicy notes: Sicilian mandarin opens onto a heart of jasmine and May rose absolutes, extended by Indonesian patchouli, tonka note and benzoin.
A reserved reception: Elena Vosnaki, of Perfume Shrine, who owned a large bottle of the extrait, recognizes in Coco a spicy oriental in the line of Opium without managing to love it, and recounts that she found no enthusiast willing to take it off her hands.
Olfastory’s review
An extrait with no taker for Perfume Shrine
On December 11, 2013, Elena Vosnaki, of Perfume Shrine, places Coco among the spicy orientals in the line of Opium, which she loves, yet admits she does not love it. She smells honeyed spices in it, pimento, cardamom, cinnamon, cumin and clove, melted into a resinous amber.
She recounts owning a large bottle of the extrait, as a spray, that no enthusiast would swap with her; she eventually gave it to a women’s shelter. She does, however, praise Jean-Paul Goude’s film, in which Vanessa Paradis plays a caged bird.