Kokorico is a Jean Paul Gaultier masculine launched in 2011, composed by Annick Menardo and Olivier Cresp and named after the rooster’s crow. This woody cocoa scent opens on fig leaf, places raw cocoa bean at its center and rests on vetiver, patchouli and cedar. Its black bottle draws a man’s face in profile, a nod to the torso of Le Male.
Robert Herrmann likes the fig and cocoa opening, less the ambrox that dominates the end; Portia, won over to the point of buying a bottle, finds it more likable and more sensual than its competitors, and fully unisex.
Olfastory’s review
ÇaFleurBon, December 2011
Robert Herrmann praises the opening, a successful fig leaf that tilts the start toward green, and the texture cocoa gives the whole. The first half of the development seems very good to him, and the perfume gains strength like a rooster crowing at daybreak.
The ambrox that dominates the end appeals to him less: it is what, he writes, will decide each wearer’s verdict on Kokorico. He prefers, he concludes with humor, to stick to his alarm clock to get up in the morning.
Perfume Posse, April 2015
Portia is surprised she waited so long to wear Kokorico. The opening reminds her of a chocolate-orange marble cake, with nothing edible about it; chocolate and patchouli are both dry and plush, carried by a sweetness running beneath the earthy notes.
She finds it less singular than some, but more likable and far more sensual than its competitors, and declares it fully unisex. After using up her sample, she bought a bottle, too good, in her view, to be missing from her collection.