Coco Mademoiselle

A shrill floral for Now Smell This

On December 14, 2009, Angela, a reviewer for Now Smell This, credited Jacques Polge for not simplifying the formula. She nonetheless regretted a shrill floral burst that recalls no identifiable combination of flowers, and caught a hint of peach in it.

She compared the effect to driving a car with a slack fan belt: bearable for a few seconds, irritating beyond that. The musks in the base bothered her even more, and she concluded that she likes catching the perfume on others without wanting to wear it.

A patchouli in the lineage of Angel

On August 10, 2012, Suzanna, who writes for Bois de Jasmin, presented Coco Mademoiselle as the best-selling women’s fragrance in the United States. She judged that it has almost nothing in common with Coco, apart from a positioning aimed at young women.

She smells a greenish, herbal patchouli in it, coated with vanilla and fruit syrups, and places the perfume among the descendants of Angel, Thierry Mugler’s gourmand patchouli. This somewhat sticky patchouli, which she also finds in Chance, long kept her from wearing it.

She prefers the line’s dry oil, in which vanilla and white musks round out the patchouli: a softer version, whose notes all seem to appear at once, and which she finds eminently pleasurable.