Coconut Skin

Imagine this: you’re at a bonfire at the beach, and the sun has nearly set. You’re a little tipsy, you smell roasted coconut and palm trees from the bonfire, the person right next to you smells like baccarat and the other person next to you smells like a cheap Victoria’s Secret body spray. Also, you’ve been in the sun all day, and there’s so much salt in the air and on your skin. Now combine all of these scents and you got Phlur’s coconut skin. To be honest, I blind bought this and it was not what I expected. On first whiff, it reminded me of one of those super popular baccarat dupes (not for me). But as time passed I fell in love with this fragrance and I reach for it daily (it’s summer currently). Sometimes it smells cheap, sometimes it smells super complex and expensive. It lasts pretty long for a body mist (3-4 hours?) and the dry down is a beautiful salty skin scent. I don’t understand where do the “fresh” and “light” and “creamy” comments come from - to me this is even a bit overpowering for summer, but not enough to make me pass on it. What I love most about it is that it’s also a little slutty, but in just the right way! Perfect for summer nights at the beach without being overly sweet or girly and with just the right amount of smoky coconut combined with something both sugary and salty at the same time. Not your conventional coconut!

I’ve seen the negative reviews, but I’m here to set the record straight — Coconut Skin deserves way more love. To me, this scent is pure paradise. It opens with creamy coconut and a whisper of sea salt that immediately evokes the feeling of sun-warmed skin after a blissful beach day. There’s an easy, radiant warmth to it — not cloying or overly sweet, but soft, salty, and effortlessly sensual. And longevity? Incredible. I applied it after an evening shower and woke up the next day still catching dreamy wafts from my clothes and hair — well over 12 hours later. For a skin-scent style fragrance, that’s impressive staying power. So if you’ve been hesitant because of the mixed reviews, I say give Coconut Skin a fair shot. On the right skin, it sings — and smells like a summer memory you never want to end.

Really enjoying this. It’s a nice light beachy gourmand. A salty coconut that smells like you have dried sea water on your skin that you first put sunscreen on. Lasting surprisingly long on my skin, like 5+ hours, though with very weak projection. I think I’ll buy a full size of this for my next vacay!

Beachy, sweet, warm, floral, green, fresh, bright, tropical, lush, creamy, musky, woody On me this opens sweet, tropical, fresh, and floral with prominent notes of creamy coconut, fresh and green palm leaf, sweet and creamy caramel, delicately sweet, tropical, and lush Tiare flower, jasmine sambac, and buttery frangipani, and the golden warmth of amber. I’m sure I’m getting some sweetness from the sorbet too. Once it dries down the coconut takes on more of a musky toasted scent with sandalwood and amber. I still get some of that green scent from the palm leaf, some tropical florals, and a bit of the sweet and creamy caramel too, just more subtly. This is definitely not what I had expected when I blind bought this one based off the notes. I’m a huge fan of beachy/coconut fragrances, and I especially enjoy ones with Tiare flower in them. I thought this would have a monoi oil like scent to it, but it doesn’t really seem to. It’s very sweet, green, fresh, and tropical in the opening, and then dries down to an almost toasted coconut scent that’s musky and has a prominent sandalwood note. I honestly really didn’t like this one at all whenever I first sprayed it on some tester paper after getting it. However, I just revisited it, and actually sprayed it on my skin this time. That made a big difference! I still can’t say this is a love, but it is definitely a like! I was very surprised to discover that I think this smells very similar to the new SDJ Flor Mística, which I happen to really love! I recently compared the notes, and they do have some in common as well as other similar ones. For reference, I own 5 Phlur fragrances including this one. The other 4 are definite loves for me... Vanilla Skin, Caramel Skin, Beach Skin, and Heavy Cream. I’ve only sampled maybe 3 Phlur perfumes, and I didn’t like any of them enough to want to own them. As for the beachy/coconut fragrances that I do really love, those include Tom Ford Soleil Blanc, Nest Sunkissed Hibiscus, Kilian Sunkissed Goddess, Replica Beach Walk, Estée Lauder Bronze Goddess, JHAG Lust For Sun, JHAG Vanilla Vibes, Bobbi Brown Beach, Kayali Maui in a Bottle, Kayali Maldives in a Bottle, SDJ 39, B&BW Coco Paradise I get great performance with Coconut Skin, especially for a body mist. The longevity is very good, it lasts the majority of the day on me. The projection is nice, it radiates out about a couple/few feet from me. With the performance I get and the price of this I actually think it’s a pretty good value.

I live in a hot and humid tropical climate and I’ve owned this for over a year now. I pick up mostly a dry coconut, palm leaf and sandalwood. It’s also green, but well blended to where I pick up mostly wood than green notes. To me this smells like the perfect dry, coconut, woody scent for over 70 degrees. Worn in colder weather changes the scent profile. That’s the only time I pick up the pickle scent mentioned by others. Worn alone it’s a nice fresh out the shower dry woody scent. Come to think of it, the dryness may be the sandalwood Im picking up. But I mostly layer this with other coconut dominant perfumes that I love but I find to be too sweet and basic on their own, like Kayali Yum Marshmallow and Kayali Maui. It adds a dry coconut husk note to any scent.