Coquette Tropique

Probably the most interesting and cute fragrance I own. Smell like tropical fruit candy syrup. Has a cinnamon note in there. Sometimes it smells like candy banana. Tends to evolve upon application- cute candy fruit. Think pink birds and big butterflies and artificial flowers type scent, but in the nicest girliest way. Powerful and lasts- the oil make it tricky to apply properly like a scent. Find it's much nicer on clothes than skin.

Tahiti beach vacation in a tiny little bottle. Despite my affection for it, it's not something I wear often. {(Maybe that's why I love it?) I always pack it on beach vacations. On my skin, it's all tiare flower and coconut. When I want to smell luscious, tropical and girly....this is one of my favorite go-to's. It goes perfectly with a white sundress, a hot pink mani-pedi and a tan.

Love it! Love it! Love it! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . What I like about this perfume is that very few girls have it! and very few people heard about it!

if i could eat this perfume i would. if you like the smell of bounce dryer sheets this is for you. i’m gonna bathe myself in it all summer.

This smells like alot of other things out there already. Smells like "tropical" scented oils you might find at a booth in the mall next to some incense sticks or at a beach shop. Not unpleasant, it smells yummy - a nice, sweet & tangy fruity combo of orange, pear (almost apple-ey), and tropical flowers, particularly gardenia. The flowers are a bit buried by the fruits - they do come out more with time, to my nose. On me, there comes just a hint of a dry dusty-mustiness at the base that I do really like. As it's an oil, it lasts well. I'm just not sure if it's unique or a good enough quality to be worth the price.

I got this for sale on luckyscent (it was like 60% off and came with 2 free samples) and I can't help but love her... she is bright without being blinding, fruity without being juvenile, floral without being headache-inducing... she is lovely. Not my favorite scent ever but I love the clean pear scent I get with this, perfect for layering with vanillas or other fruity scents for an extra layer of complexity and beauty.

Agree with the other reviews. Got my rollerball for $10. Not bad, not great either, fair price. Only tropical fruit fragrance I own, and I bought it to fill that gap until I find something I like better. If I had Hawaiian Tropic bronzing oil on, that would be comparable in terms of style, projection, sillage, longevity.

Right on Carnelian! I was thinking the same thing. It's familiar and nice just not special enough for me.

I'm not sure how I feel about this one. The juicy fruit gum comparison is accurate, but imagine that layered with pretty big, synthetic gardenia molecules. I'd love it if it wasn't for Monyette's telltale gardenia. Confusion hits me over the Frangipani. It is one of my favorite scents in the world. Hibiscus as well. I could bathe in the enfleurages for the rest of my life and die quite content. I also spent a lot of time in Florida and a neighbor had several varieties of frangipani trees as well as hibiscus bushes. Between spending so much time near those flowers and adoring the notes in perfume so much, it confuses me as to why people find the plumeria so strong in this perfume. I could only detect the faintest whisper of it. The hibiscus, on the other hand, is at least noticeable in the opening. But both are absent in the dry down. The final stages of this, hours 2-5, are a soft coconutty, oily gardenia (borderline monoï oil, except not the tiare variety - it's close enough to remind you of Goe oil without the herbs), over a gentle vanilla amber, dusted ever so lightly with a sweet, true cinnamon. The pear has mostly faded, along with the citrus, and the gardenia is the star. If you like Monyette's famous Gardenia, you will probably like this. Unfortunately, there's not enough of the other notes to make this FWB in my opinion and the mouthwatering juicy fruit scent fades too quickly. It's definitely an excellent summer day scent, but also definitely warm enough to wear in the subarctic winters of the Midwest USA or Siberia. Oh how perfect this would be if not for the huge synthetic gardenia note! It's a bit heartbreaking, to be honest. It would have been such an excellent fruity floral gourmande.

It was ten dollars from Lucky Scent, so why not? I've spent more for a can of Coors Light at an NFL game. Coquette hit with a strangely specific nostalgia the second I rolled it on my lower left wrist. It’s tropical with that banana-coconut creaminess coupled with a faint waxy Hobby Lobby floral arrangement smell. My olfactory mind went straight back to my parents’ carpeted bathroom in the late eighties. You remember those? Powder-blue wall-to-wall shag soaking up every ounce of Aqua Net mist, damp towel funk, and the endless churn of plug-in potpourri trying to mask it all. This perfume has the same humid sweetness, the same over-ripe fruitiness that clung to the fibers no matter how many times my mom ran the vacuum over it. There’s a powdery softness in Coquette Tropique too, like the talc that always seemed to float in the bathroom air, mixing with steam from the shower and the faint plasticky note of the blow dryer. It’s cozy and garish at the same time. Come to think of it, it's exactly like carpeting a bathroom ever was. It honestly doesn’t smell bad to me. It smells like one distinctive memory. A snapshot of an era when tropical notes were aspirational, indoor plants were plastic, and carpeting your bathroom floor was the height of north Dallas suburban luxury.

I don’t get all the hate for this fragrance. Coquette is a simple, straight forward tropical plumeria for a hot afternoon by the pool that mixes nicely with a coconutty banana sunblock. It’s a vacation weekend in Palm Springs or Miami sort of scent. Bright, happy, very sweet. Use sparingly though, as this is a strong one and a little goes a long way. Many reviews categorize Coquette as a perfume for young women, but I think any age can wear it if it’s worn in the right setting.

While it is not offensive to me in any way, the pear is far too sweet and syrupy for me, drowning out the floral aspect I have been preferring lately. It reminds me of Juicy Fruit gum, with a plumeria (frangipani) in the background.

I was hoping it would be as nice as Monyette Paris, the original but unfortunately all I could think of when wearing this was an overpowering bathroom air freshener. Stinky and cheap.