Green Tea Coconut Breeze

Elizabeth Arden's Green Tea Coconut Breeze Eau de Toilette is a fragrance that captures the magic of summer: bright, fresh, invigorating, and relaxing. The opening notes are lush, tropical, and distinctly citrusy, expertly blended with the invigorating and invigorating notes of green tea and the exotic, creamy sweetness of coconut. A joyfully aquatic fragrance with exotic overtones, it transports us to faraway lands: perhaps the Caribbean Sea after a rejuvenating spa treatment in a magnificent seaside resort, surrounded by the scents of intoxicating tropical flowers caressed by the salty sea breeze. A fragrance with moderate lingering power, ideal for those who love scented waters without being overpowering. It's a good choice if you love fresh scents.

Yes it's basic, and like the rest of the "Green Tea" series, there's something kind of dumb about it, but the smell is so calming, comforting, yet energizing. It makes you cool, calm and collected and ready to do stuff. A floral coconut water scent, where the coconut isn't heavy, greasy and stuffy and doesn't choke you. My skin is prone to bringing soapiness out in fragrances and this does that A LITTLE bit, but I'm 99% sure, it won't be a problem for most of the Earth's population. IMO this succeeds at being a beachy, salty floral without going into sunscreen territory. Very unassuming, yet somehow euphoric. I love this ̄_(ツ)_/ ̄

I have had a few flankers in the Green Tea line. It's the lovely freshy we all know. You buy it for the summer and use it up within a month. I expected a bit more longevity from this particular fragrance given that it has a coconut note in it. Even then citrus heavy Green Tea fragrances last a lot longer on both skin and clothes than this one. It disappears from clothing in 10 minutes max in the summer heat. As a collector’s item, I understand why people would want to put this in their Green Tea collection. No hard feelings though. I enjoyed it while it lasted on holiday.

The opening is indeed sharp, but the dry down is very pleasant, without that sharpness and I'm assuming the coconut is responsible for that. It does not strongly smell like coconut, but it's a bit more comforting than the original and it pairs well with other coconut scents. At some point, the dry down reminded me a bit of La Belle Paradise Garden. It doesn't smell like it, but it had a similar vibe at least. I wish it lasted longer on skin:( It lasts quite a while on my hair and clothes if I spray it generously, but the sillage is still weak.

I really didn’t like the idea of this one because I loathe coconut scents. Coconut and tuberose both smell like baby vomit on me. Reviews said that it was fresh and breezy and I will admit that this has turned out to be a fabulous blind buy. I love that it has a deeper citrus top note that is never cloying. It has legs to stand on with the woody base but they never become dessicated or heavy. This seems more grown up than previous incarnations but it hasn’t lost it’s direction or purpose.