Gold Coast

It opens with the smell of fresh raw apples and softens to a rosey watermelon that dries down to a softly sweet skin musk. Yes, I agree with everyone that the entire line is overpriced and the Swarovski crystal bottles are outright garish for what they actually contain (even though they are pretty to look at) but, I smelled Gold Coast on a scent strip in a magazine at my chiropractors office and immediately knew I wanted a bottle. When I went to buy it and was told the price I literally answered, “Really!?”. I still purchased the lovely metallic pink bottle as it is the first Bond N9 fragrance I own. It does bear a resemblance to the youthful rose of Chloe’s signature scent, however Gold Coast is sweeter with a soft fruity rose where as Chloe is more of a clean rose due to having a dominant peony note as well.

While Greenwich Village is by far my favorite, this is my second favorite in the Bond no 9 collection. These are the only two I would recommend for women. This has a nice Apple/watermelon note that makes it perfect for spring and summer. Despite the bad reviews, in my opinion this is an absolutely beautiful fragrance and it is the single most wearable scent in the Bond no 9 collection. Inoffensive, fresh, clean and fruity. Admittedly, I haven’t smelled every Bond no 9 fragrance but I’ve smelled quite a few that were deemed female or female-leaning unisex. This is definitely feminine. I would say it’s a safe blind buy as well.

Love this one. This is a very underrated Bond 9 fragrance. I smelled it at Saks on the weekend and BOOM! my full bottle arrived today - thanks to Jomashop. It's fruity - smoothly blended apple, apricot and watermelon with rose that is not bumping into the fruits. It's mouth watering. I wish I knew about this one earlier. It was love at first sniff for me. Currently I have full bottles of Tribeca, Greenwich Village, Nolita, NY Nights and now Gold Coast. I have decants of many others but haven't decided to get the full bottle. If you like sweet fruity aquatic fragrances... you betta try this one.

Nice! Fresh and fruity, crisp and clean. The classiest and most mature, yet youthful and exuberant, fully feminine Bond No. 9 scent I've yet to sample. Totally a spring/summer scent of moderate to low projection and longevity. However, I found myself sniffing my wrist repeatedly as Gold Coast dried down; and I didn't mind refreshing this lovely scent after about 4 hours. I will purchase a full bottle and decant my own purse/travel spray. Honestly, Bond should offer travel size sprays with the purchase of their awkwardly humongous women's fragrance bottles.

This reminds me of something from my childhood... Late 80s early 90s maybe. I don't know what this smells like!? I'm thinking it's some hair stuff... Definitely some hair product but I don't know which one at the moment. It has a synthetic sweet spicy cherry muskiness to it, it's nice, it's different but I'm hoping it gets better in warmer weather cuz the hair oil smell is off putting although not bad. I figured it out! It's the money house fruit incense spray! That cheap bathroom cleaner fruity smell that ppl use and is sold at corner stores in the hood.