Eau de Coton

This is a beautiful perfume. I absolutely love the opening - crispy bright citrusy deliciousness with a little bit of wood. On my skin it settles into powdery almond almost instantly. I don’t get orange blossom at all. It sits very close to skin which is perfect for me because I don’t like loud perfumes. It’s very elegant, quiet luxury that never goes out of style, it doesn’t scream, but whispers. I only wish it kept the initial crispness longer and had more musk and wood at the base, but that could just be my skin chemistry. I layered it with Musc Outreblanc body lotion and the result was divine 😍

This is a lot more citrus forward than the old formulation, sweetened bergamot & lemon with a clean musky drydown. I compared it with the old formulation instore and bought this one immediately.

My favourite of the range! Basically a clean laundry scent, but very very smooth, very comforting, and very weak. It opens crisp, citrus, laundry-like, rounded out by musk, and then dries down into a lightly herbal, lavender-tinted musk. Still extremely weak, though I would say the second strongest in this range (eau de tulle is the most pervasive for me). Ranking of this range for me: Eau de coton > eau de popeline > eau de lingerie > eau de cashmere > eau de tulle

Nice sharp citrus opening , kind of turns into a sweet “clean” linen like musk feminine fragrance. Dunno if for the profile it’s really worth the luxury price tag, though.

Eau de Coton opens on me with a fairly sharp bergamot-and-lemon cut. It's unexpectedly brisk, citric, almost pointed. Then, after a little while, the orange blossom comes in, but not in the airy Neroli Amara or sunlit California Reverie way. It feels much blunter than that. A bit flat if I'm being honest. It's joined by this green almond-shell nuance that should perhaps have added a dry, textural elegance, but somehow on my skin it just pushes things in a slightly stale direction. I know so many get cologne, fresh linen, white cotton snapping in the breeze, all that lovely clean pastoral imagery. I do not. At all. My skin chemistry pictures it instead like a cupboard musk. Just imagine the smell of opening an old cabinet and finding a dried perfume sachet from three years ago, a faint aromatic trace clinging to fabric that has not been touched in ages, and, unfortunately, the ghost of mothballs hovering in the corner. I wouldn't say it's unpleasant, no... just oddly musty in a clean-dry way. The cotton here is stored cotton. It softens a bit toward the end, and that is when the herby base comes out more clearly. There is a gentleness there, finally, something a little quieter and less abrasive, but by then the spell is already broken for me. Overall, I find it a rather inferior version of Guerlain’s old Eau de Lit. Where Eau de Lit feels like warm aromatic sheets and lotioned skin and the last breath of sweet perfume, Eau de Coton feels more like the drawer they were kept in...