Kokorico

The house presents Kokorico as a woody cocoa scent in three stages: fig leaf at the top for energy, raw and bitter cocoa bean at the heart, woods at the base for power. The woods named at launch are vetiver, patchouli and cedar.

Top

Fig leaf opens the perfume on a green note, which Robert Herrmann, of ÇaFleurBon, considers beautifully rendered. Cocoa immediately brings a dry sweetness to it, which he compares to that of a freeze-dried food. Portia, of Perfume Posse, finds this leaf drier than fruity.

Heart

The cocoa bean is meant to be raw, bitter rather than sweet: the house makes it the aphrodisiac part of the perfume. Auparfum sums up Kokorico as a daring accord of patchouli and cocoa, lifted by fig leaf, far from the sugary gourmands of the time.

Base

Vetiver, patchouli and cedar, classics of men’s perfumery, form the woody base. Robert Herrmann mostly recognizes ambrox, which takes over in the second part of the development; Portia smells a woody vetiver softened with amber and vanilla.

Lavender, tonka bean and amber woods, sometimes attributed to Kokorico, do not appear in the notes announced by the house at launch, which sticks to fig leaf, cocoa and woods.