Elixir Charnel Gourmand Coquin

As a gourmand lover,I could expect to like Gourmand Coquin but I didn't even think of such a huge love.it was a love at first sniff and I knew that I can't live without it. There's only one perfume shop that offers exclusive Guerlains in my whole country and they are very expensive there(more than 400$ !)but I was blinded with love and just knew that I need to take Gourmand coquin and French kiss home with me and now I'm thrilled to bits to have such amazing fragrances I have numerous chocolate,cacao perfumes and dozens of other gourmands but none of them come close to this one To me the most dominant notes are dark chocolate,cacao and vanilla.it's not overly spicy,not too much boozy either,I can smell just a hint of rum's warm boozyness and a little dash of pepper and a little cinnamon sometimes,and yes,I can detect a shy rose lurking around.I also agree with some reviews mentioning a faint smokey undertone which reminds me chocolate flavored Captain Black siggarets.drydown is a smooth chocolate-vanilla powder Gourmand Coquin is very yummy without being cloyingly sugary.it's very very addictive and very sexy,not just on a woman but also on a gourmand lover man.it's also very cozy and comforting.whenever I wear it,my nose is glued to my wrist and if it wasn't so expensive I'd love to spray it before sleep to fall asleep on a smooth cacao-vanilla blanket. people will remember and recognize this fragrance on you since it's not forgettable.I was surprised to find out how much my husband,my sister and my father love it on me as all three of them usually don't like and complement gourmands.this is mostly a cold weather perfume and a must have for all cacao-chocolate lovers Gourmand Coquin is longlasting.I had sprayed it more than 10 hours ago and it's still there as a light skinscent.sillage is very good when first sprayed but it rapidly decreases.this is the only thing I'd change about it,also about my beloved French Kiss.I wished they were sillage monsters.anyway I love them and consider them as my new top favorites P.S: call me crazy but Gourmand Coquin reminds me Al Rehab Chocomusk! not that they're exact dupes,the former one is definitely high quality,has more complexity and balance and is more pleasant but they both have the same DNA of cacao chocolate and vanilla powder.considering Chocomusk's super cheap price and stronger projection I think one can wear them together to use less of the expensive Gourmand Coquin اگه عطرهای خوشمزه و شکلاتی دوس دارین تحت هیچ شرایطی گورمند کوکویین رو از دست ندین.ترکیبی فوق العاده دلنشین از کاکائو،شکلات،وانیل پودری،یه کوچولو نت های اسپایسی(فلفل و دارچین)یه کوچولو نوشیدنی رام و یه رز خجالتی،اما اصل و اساس رایحه همون شکلات کاکائویی و وانیل پودری معروف گرلنه.بنظرم برای آقایونی ک عطرهای خوشمزه دوست دارن هم قابل استفاده ست ریویو کامل در اینستاگرام: myperfumeworld

I would sell my left arm for this perfume. Flash back to me being at Epcot almost a decade ago I'm in the french district, ended up walking into a boutique that had some perfumes on display, I blindly picked this up and smelled it.... You know that scene in ratatouille when Remy combines the food and and explosion of color appear in his mind, complete euphoria? I almost fell to my knees, I sprayed it all over me and my clothes, for the rest of the trip I couldnt stop thinking about it and smelling it, even after taking a shower, it was on my clothes, I didn't want to wash them because it smelled like this perfume. I didnt buy it because I was a 13y/o that didn't have 200-300$ or parents that would spend that money on a perfume. And I regret that I didn't buy it every day because now it's a 800-1,300$ perfume. Why they would discontinue this scent is beyond me, it should be considered a crime in my opinion to discontinue a godly blend of scents and feelings this perfume gives. Guerlain has scents still buyable they've had around since the dang 70's, you'd think they keep this around at least for a decade or two. Grandma gets to wear her favorite scent but I can't? Why Guerlain? Why do you enjoy causing us olfactory pain. Ps, Apparently there's a really great dupe by Julianna's Perfumes - call me by your name. It has the exact same DNA, I'm on the wait list as we speak! Hopefully I can get it before Christmas, I have high hopes. Update: it came in!!! Juliannas perfume is an amazing company, I got two free samples and one was their interpretation of LDBS by Kilian, so so so good, I think I'll buy that one next. Now the interpretation for Gourmand Coquin is delicious and smooth and just tad spicy like the original, instantly when I smelled it I smiled so much, I have missed this scent for so long and finally feel peace 🕊️ I really recommend Juliannas Perfumes, they're high quality, great costumer service, and long lasting/silliage.

I purchased this from Saks a year ago and I enjoy it, even though I find it to be one of my softer scents, especially after hours of wear. Upon first spray the dominant note is Dark Cocoa Powder. There is a sweetness that reminds me of high quality Dark Chocolate Covered Cherries. But after 10-15 minutes, the sweetness morphs into a candied rose in bloom. On my skin, this candy rose note is 2nd most noticeable--it is what provides the sweetness, followed by gingerbread-like spices and then faint rum. My daughter is 6 feet away from me and can smell the perfume on first application. She says I smell like spicy cocoa. So the sillage is moderate in the early stage. I realize I have a tendency to be anosmic to it and only get whiffs of it on myself as the hours go by. Otherwise, I sometimes forget I'm wearing perfume, unless I also spray this on my clothing. Strangely, after a few days, I can smell this on a sweater I've sprayed earlier in the week. (That's after wearing a different perfume). So it's like I've gotten used to the scent the day I wear it, but after 'taking a break from it' I can sense it again. I believe others will smell this fragrance around you even when you can't sense it. But if you really want them to notice it on you, you should spray it liberally on clothing as well. I enjoy this fragrance mostly when I sniff my own arm. That's how it's the strongest. Otherwise, after I finish up this bottle, I'm not sure that I will repurchase. It is one of my more expensive perfumes. I do also own French Kiss from the Guerlain Charnel line and find that I'm less anosmic to that one. I've listed Gourmand Coquin as one of my favorite perfumes because it smells so fantastic, however it really is a soft scent. By the way, the French pronounce this something like Gourmand Coke-yawn and the 2nd syllable is quickly pronounced with barely any emphasis (Not Co-Keen and Not Co-Kan)

I usually give a fragrance a few months before I write a review, but I just can't with this one. My sister got her bee bottle (Place Vendome Belgium) in February and it's just now deepening into a lovely, spicy, rummy, creamy chocolate ~ rosey ! ~ confection. I opened mine yesterday (from the same shop) and it's light. Not the heavy fragrance that I remembered from the other bottles. But she'll get there. All of my bee's have taken a while to mature, I guess bc they are formulated, mixed with Ho2, decanted into the bee and sent. The other bottle had time to meld together as it sat in perfume stores or department stores (when they were still sold there). If I had no experience with the process I'd be sooo disappointed, but don't get too upset if yours is still light. It will change. It's frustrating when you've just spent that much money to get it, expect this orgasmic experience based on previous reviews and............well, you can barely smell it. I wish Guerlain would be truthful about this, but I have had sales associates warn me that this will happen, just have patience ~ but I get the initial disappointment. If you will put a little on your finger, rub it around a bit ~ you'll feel how oily this scent is, very high in concentration. It might make you feel better about the whole thing knowing there is a lot of the parfum oil in there, just waiting to percolate. All Guerlain fragrances smell better after a few months and smell divine after a year or more. If you can hold out (I know it seems unfair) you'll be rewarded. I took pix, cause I'm crazy about that bottle, decanted about 20 mls into the included atomizer, (always use a glass or plastic pipette to decant, so you won't spill and waste your hard earned cash) and put her back in her box throne, like the Queen she will eventually be. Then I did a voodoo witch chant over the box and told her to hurry the eff up.

I have refrained from writing a review on this one for quite a while, simply because I don't know if I can do it justice. This arrived as a surprise sample, from a lovely man back in Toronto. I'd wanted to try Bouquet de Mariee, and he threw this one into the mix as well. Perhaps that was a blessing, since this was infinitely more affordable than the Bouquet de Mariee. The minute I put this one on, I just felt like I was home. I don't know how else to describe it. The initial blast was of Butter Rum Lifesavers; the ones that they always used to put in the Lifesavers booklet that popped up in Christmas stockings across North America. It was the most delectable scent, but it also brought back a wave of nostalgia for me. The initial butter rum scent lasted for about 20 minutes, when it smoothly transformed into chocolate and spices. About an hour in, a bit of a floral note starts to creep in at the back of the chocolate. I get enormous longevity out of this one, with it lasting upwards of 12 hours on my skin, and much longer on fabric. Despite the longevity, I find it to be closer to a skin scent, than one with monster sillage. If someone is standing next to you, they will probably smell it. If someone is more than 2 feet away, they probably won't smell it. I had one of the Guerlain tube samples, which I was trying to make last as long as possible, so I've never tried it in warm weather. It seems like it would be a better cold weather scent, but now that I have a full bottle (finally!!), I'll have to try it in warm weather, just to see how it fares. I have not found another perfume like this, or even one that comes close.