Cocktail

I looooove this fragrance. It smells like excitement to me. I see that many reviewing here describe it as a mainly floral scent, but that isn't how I experience it. Cocktail smells very fizzy to me and mildly spicy with a floral background. If I had to pick one floral note that stands out, it would be lavender and a bit of ylang ylang. Ylang ylang is normally too cloying for me and lavender can be a bit bitter or soapy, but the notes of this fragrance blend together really well to create something new and I wouldn't call Cocktail a lavender scent or a ylang scent. It reminds me of the butterflies I get when I'm about to go out to something really exciting, but it isn't a giddy scent. It's almost euphoric and a little bit mysterious, but at the same time airy and energetic. It doesn't get powdery on my skin and stays fresh, which is great because everything tends to fade to powder on me. I get bored easily and normally tend to reach for a new scent every day, but Cocktail is the only fragrance that I have worn day after day and I just never tire of it. This is the perfect fragrance for me and weirdly, it makes me want to wear purple.

Cocktail was an instant love for me. It's definitely a 'spritz and walk through' fragrance as it is incredibly fizzy and even a little peppery to begin with. However, once it's had a little time to settle, it smells like a vintage boudoir. The Bergamot helps to balance out and liven up the Lavender notes, which allows Cocktail to be a cheerful, punchy retro frangrance (as opposed to one which reminds one of department store bath salts and the elderly) This fragrance always gets me noticed and infuriates passers by when they can't immediately put a brand name to the flutter by of my aroma. Definitely one of my favourite Gorilla fragrances.

Cocktail is one of my favorite perfumes. I wore it soooo much for a while. Now I wear it when I’m not sure what I want to wear, because I just always love it! It is rich, euphoric, yet grounding, romantic, indulgent...it’s a beautiful cocktail of soothing, uplifting floral beauty. It is still always very interesting to me. Piques my attention and keeps me smelling my wrists 😆 maybe makes me love myself or being alive, or being a woman 😆 it’s just beautiful

First time I smell it, I didn't like it and found it not interesting and overpowering. The second time I smell it I fell in love with the Cocktail !!! It really smells like new sneakers and also it smells really similar to essential Waitrose antibacterial spray :D I am a bit addicted to it and use it really often, but only 2 sprays otherwise it would kill me. It is definitely interesting fragrance.

(Review of the Gorilla Perfume release, bottled in 2016) If this is truly a cocktail, it's a strange cross between a mint julep and a caipirinha. Generally speaking, you better love ylang-ylang to even get close to liking this perfume. Cocktail is crammed full of natural ylang-ylang and cananga oils, which virtually smell the same but the latter is a touch sweeter and warmer. The opening is a full-on starchy banana ylang-ylang, which definitely calls to mind cachaca - the banana forward Brazilian rum in caipirinhas made directly from sugar cane juice as opposed to the deeper molasses concentrate of sugar cane in traditional rums - but there is an extremely bright freshness to it, not nearly the sugary or fruity aspects one would assume from these materials, perhaps a type of alcohol heat, that almost forces the ylang-ylang into wintergreen territories, i.e. mint julep, a cocktail of mint and bourbon. I'm leaning more in the latter direction thanks to the heavily woody base of mosses and sandalwood that makes one think of barrel aged liquor. However, quite a bit of crystal white, citrusy, and piquant jasmine and orange blossom are playing around in the heart, dragging along their quieter and more reserved friend the jammy red rose, which certainly adds a deeper fruity dimension. Alcohol heat, some type of rum or bourbon, wintergreen mint, light starchy bananas, floral citrus, fruity floral, and a big, creamy, damp earth and wood base, in summation - a bizarre but extremely fun concoction that is unlike anything I've ever smelled. I'm not sure how this compares to the original formulation from B Never Too Busy To Be Beautiful or the last formulations under the Lush parent company's name. Serious Lushies that have closely followed the BNTBTBB, Gorilla, and Lush brands' perfumes for the last couple decades would have to tell you, since my experience with them is not that deep or far back. But, assuming the various formulations are very similar if not the same to my 2016 Gorilla bottle, I would say this to anyone wanting to try it: try in the store before you buy to make sure you love ylang-ylang if you don't already know for sure, and, if you do, you're going to find a truly unique ylang-ylang perfume. This is the brand's(s') entry into the tropical pool party, beach side, suntan lotion and cocktails perfume genre that is fresh, lively, and just darn good fun.