Coze 02

Parfumerie Generale 02 Coze This fragrance is Amsterdam in a bottle. I was in the middle of backpacking around the world with one of my best girlfriends when we landed in Amsterdam. We had just come from the beaches in South India where a palm reader had foretold me that I would soon be married to a Dutchman. This became a huge joke between my friend and I so, of course, when I arrived in Amsterdam, I was already in an adventurous fun-loving mood. Well, if the whole of Europe had to name one city as THE party city, Amsterdam would be it. I had been living in Berkeley, so I thought I had seen it all. But, this city took it to a whole new level for me. I had, what I call, the Amsterdam Deluxe experience. We were lucky enough to stay with two of the most beautiful people on earth who had an open marriage. A funny thing happens when you’re with two beautiful locals active on the dating scene, and that is that the entire city opens its arms to you. Within days, I found myself at a huge out of control boat party on the canals with a full band, cocktails, space cakes, chocolate and beer from Brussels, you name it. The boat took the entire party touring through the red light district. I met my “Dutch husband” that night and we were “married” by the DJ on the dance floor. I couldn’t have dreamt up a more hedonistic, fun, once-in-a-lifetime experience if I had tried. This fragrance has bottled that entire experience for me. From the top notes, to the heart, to the dry down, I feel like I’m on that party boat again, touring the city. The patchouli and tobacco were the first partiers to arrive. I’m not a huge patchouli fan, having been around the Berkeley locals who drench themselves in it, so I was a little worried, but this is probably the best patchouli note I’ve encountered. It’s so perfectly blended with the tobacco that it gives the tobacco a rich, smokey depth. I was actually surprised that there is no incense note because that’s what I got, but not head shop incense, but the same smokiness that you find in vintage Habanita. The sticky black cannibis note and the dark chocolate heart is what I fell in love with. That lasted only about an hour and I wish it would have lasted much much longer, although, it was such a fun ride while it lasted. The dry down on me was ebony wood with coffee and a lingering smokiness; exactly like that warm happy feeling you get when you go home after a great party, having met some incredible people that you just know are going to become great friends! Just, wow. Thank you PG for that incredible adventure.

Near my house there is a record store, the employees are all of the overweight, long-haired ex-dead-head variety. While I'm sure most of them have put their drug days behind them (sarcasm), a few like to light up behind the shop during their lunch break. Theres musty patchouli from a forgotten rack of incense and theres a worn in, comforting, almost dusty woodiness from shelf after shelf of vintage used records. Coze reminds me so much of this record store that upon first sniffing it I was instantly brought back there. Not many fragrances successfully transport me like this. Outside of my own personal memory bank, this is also just a really really well made scent. Warm and cozy (or coze'). It's blended immaculately and no one note stands out in an unnatural or unpleasant fashion. It creates a scent instead of just being a jumble of notes, no doubt because of the genius selection of notes. There is obviously very realistic cannabis (which i love in fragrances) but it blends with an extremely natural, strong earthy patchouli note which keeps it from smelling like a fresh bowl. Underneath the green bitterness there is a thick, toasty, sweet mocha accord. Slight peppery spice and some generic woody notes round it out and make it decidedly masculine to my nose. Not that a woman couldn't pull it off but this sort of sweet and dirty-yet-compellingly-alluring vibe I associate closely with masculinity. In the past I have retired Coze' for the patchouli note. I occasionally find myself intolerant. Most fragrances with a strong patch note I cannot wear but this one I always come back to because it's just such a good combination of notes and I feel that it suits me quite well. This is one of the few patchouli dominated fragrances that I love. Performs pretty great and garners quite a huge amount of compliments for me. 8/10

Warm, enveloping, velvety, chocolatey, dark-brown scent, absolutely radiating tobacco and spices. The smell of cozy pubs and bars in northern cities, with extra whiffs of old vinyl record shops in the 1970s. I find it delicious, but verging juuuuust on overbearing territory - it surely wouldn't go with everything, and seems so strong and rich it could be overwhelming on warm or hot days. To me this is a great big, bulky, imbued-with-bar-smells woollen overcoat you'd wear to protect from winter drizzle. At the beginning there's even a noticeable waft of ashtray - not poisonous nicotiney ash, but definitely a sense of something that's smouldered and been stubbed out. Hugely characterful - and I don't mean that as a polite way of saying 'borderline weird', but in the sense of being distinctively itself and not like much else I've ever tried. I'm powerfully ambivalent about it: for about 80% of the time I love and admire it, then for the other 20% I'm wondering if it's just too much. And this is, I'm pretty sure, the modern formulation tried on a woman - what must the old stuff on male skin have been like? A knockout, no doubt. Definitely unisex-skewing-masculine, but wearable on women - it's really *not* shy, though, it projects like a mother and is not a discreet kind of smell anyway, so definitely do try before you buy. ETA: Ended up thinking about this one so much I sprang for an FB and on this near-freezing, foggy, grey dark day in London it is EXACTLY the protective mantle my spirits need.

Coffee, vanilla, good herby almost black dope resin, chocolate, pepper, sandalwood, patchouli, cedar, ebony wood, the inside of a golden virginia tin. Coze by Parfumerie Generale, this stuff is "The Little Shop"/1978-79 in a bottle. The scent of those sophisticated chaps we were all in awe of, of deep polished wood, 1930s club armchairs, Italian coffee and mocha, dusty second hand fur coats and flapper dresses, chunky silver bracelets under the rolled up cuffs of crisp cotton grandad shirts, braces and bowler hats. David Essex and all the fun of the fair circa 1974 "Tarmac Your Drive For A Tenner Miss?" Oh. My. Goodness. Please God, do not send a man wearing this within ten feet of me, or my vow of celibacy is shot to sh*t. I gifted a sample of this to one of my more discerning male chums for assessment. He wrote: " a very fresh ground with highlights of matron's apron soaked with the bitter tears of a 3rd former who has fallen on the cross country run". I concur wholeheartedly, for his is the sort of erudite chap this fume suits perfectly.

Sit down light a toke and enjoy the trip as you go through a yummy and groovy journey with COZE! this non conventional scent opens with pure and uncut Cannabis that adds to the inebriation of the mind dries with crushed patchouli evokes the earthiness of dancing barefoot in wet mud under a summer's rain, then dryness of paprika with sundried nuances and grounded pepper make this a fiery exotica of the southwest a world of azure blue skies and terracotta red earth finishes the top level,Tobacco opens our second journey with it's wisp of smoke caressing your senses with it's dry bitterness Dark Chocolate adds to the sexiness and animalistic properties Oud brings the dark and esoteric mysteries of the mind Sandalwood with golden hues ends this journey with dry fiery nuances. This scent is daring and doesn't follow conventional rules of perfumery this is a unique piece.

The cynic in me looks at the notes and says this is brazen attempt to combine all the comfort scents of humanity- coffee, tobacco, cannabis, vanilla. And of course it would be called Coze!! Upon application, Coze opens with a somewhat harsh, confusing burst of pepper that gives way within seconds to reveal the warmth of chocolate, coffee and tobacco - Ah yes, those comfort scents, but it develops so beautifully and with such grace and subtlety that it really does live up to its name. It is like a soft blanket, a warm embrace, or the feeling of coming home. I have been looking for a scent with tobacco and considered Tom Fords Tobacco Vanille a little too masculine. Although off beat, IMO Coze is a good option for those who feel TV is too heavy yet want a little wisp of tobacco in the background. Highly recommended!!

When I first smelled this, I was stunned – dark chocolate, coffee and hemp. Lovely poison. I smell strong tobacco note. And fortunately – no cloves detected. I also smell sove expensive liquor, like coffee liqueur. All in all – great composition. I also love the different effects it gives to people – dark chocolate dominates on woman skin whereas on man all I can feel is exclusive tobacco with cannabis hints. This perfume gives me a feeling of time travelling. Genlteman with a dark lady drinking coffee in English cafe on a rainy day. Dark love developing... Generally speaking, it‘a multidimensional, rich and slowly unfolding perfume. Scent is a bit bohemic and unique, but definitely not loud or aggressive. Unfortunately, it doesn‘t last for as long as I could wish for.

تست امشب . تست دوباره . تحسین برانگیز لنسان اکستریم گرلن رو دوست دارید ؟ اینترلود آمواژ رو چطور؟ کاز 02 اگه فضای اینترلود آمواژ رو خیلی دوست داشته باشید و دنبال ی عطر تو هم مایه ها ولی ی نمور شیک و پیک تر و اتو کشیده تر باشید کاز همون عطره . ی استارت دلفریب از پچولی وشکلات و قهوه که کیفییت و بالانس و فریاد میزنه و اون حس سبز و آبکی کانابیس سکسی ترش کرده . شنگول و شاد . ی رگه هایی از حس سبز تو این عطره که واقعا ماما میا 👌 از قلب عطر هر چه به سمت درای داون پیش می‌ره حس افیونی پیدا می‌کنه البته ملایم پایان رایحه بعد از چند ساعت چیزی که نمایش داده میشه حس خاکی و سبز پچولی . با ته بوی افیونی و رزینی و فرود روی نت وانیله . عطر بینهایت زیبا و با کیفیت کار شده پرفورمنس بسیار مطلوبی هم داره .

ah this is such a dream! starts off very chilli-like... which is waking up your olfactory senses to hyper super levels :)))) but just before you would get scared of the heavy pimento/pepper cloud it starts to unfold... the fluffy vanilla introduces itself along with the dryness of the tobacco/patchouli/cannabis ...and it all starts to melt together. I would not say I get specific chocolate notes but the chili and the rest are so magnificently blended that it is soothing and creating excitement at the same time (pimento has a nice warming effect, which i really appreciate in nasty cold winter times) i loooooooooooove it!!!! good sillage and lasting power.

Warm, dry, earthy, woody spicy and a bit of tobacco. I tried this because of a comment on a Bois de Jasmin post that mentioned this as smelling reminiscent of a library, but like a gentleman's library. I wholeheartedly agree. Like the smell of an old library/study with dark wood and leather furniture and old books read by the light of one of those green and brass bankers/lawyer's desk lamp and cigar smoke and a scotch cabinet . I agree with Ouch! that it leans masculine, especially at the beginning. It's probably about as masculine as I'd go personally, but I love this. It's so comfy and spicy. I really want a full bottle.

It's a love for me. I am an ex-smoker with a lot of fond memories and associations to smoking, and this is my ultimate comfort scent. I find it very wearable too, it really is just a chocolatey, herby patchouli for those who are not familiar with the smell of hemp, and for those who are, it smells enough of it to trigger the brain's pleasure center but it's not gonna be off-putting to anyone. I love that's perfectly balanced between sweet and fresh, dry and damp. I can pick up the coffee note too, super relaxing.

I absolutely adore this scent. The tobacco/ patchouli blend I was looking for since I started my perfume adventure. Both comforting and exciting. It reminds me of my youth, of dark clubs and hidden bars, of laughing and flirting til dawn. Of tiny Parisian cocktail bars and late night cabaret. Lithe men with smudges of eyeliner and silver foxes in velvet. I've never had a bad scent from this house but I can't imagine Coze not always being my favourite

One of the best gourmands I have ever encountered. It's like a croquembouche soaked in coffee liqueur, dipped in chocolate ganache, then topped with billows of Chantilly whipped cream and melted caramel. The cannibis and mahogany serve to enrich and darken the other notes. Tobacco is a nice touch. The overall effect is a gourmand for grownups. Sinful and indulgent.

Gingery, woody, warm and comforting but not too much even in summertime. It has a faint sense of brewed coffee, but that doesn't really describe it, either. (Part of that may be the canipa sativa oil, which PG says has not been used in a perfume before.) Simply beautiful, and as SNS says so well, a must-try.

On my skin this is first of all a tobacco fragrance. The tobacco leaves are wet and fresh and pleasant smelling. Other notes include patchouli and spices to add complexity. It is one of the most pleasant tobacco fragrances I have tried. Long lasting. and vanilla...a lot of it.. long lasting

ITS SOOOO GREAT! I can smell the antiseptic cloves-scent too, although it is not listed. But for me its absolutely multi-dimensional! I snuffle on my wrist and can detect so many wonderful scents! (@SedNonSatiata) I ́ve a wild heart, I want this for christmas!!! ;-) LOVE from LOUVE <3

Smells what I imagine an English pub in the winter to smell like. Very smoky, brooding and sophisticated. Reminds me a bit of Monsieur by Frederic Malle but more palatable. I really enjoy this. I would buy it if I was older but for now I’ll stick with the sample. 8.8/10

Peppery, but very fresh patchouli with a musky vanilla. Such a comforting and very elegant composition. Complex, but not overbearing that your nose is trying to pick apart every single note. Calming to your mind. The name is perfect and suits it.

Got it a few days ago from ZGO and love it! Someone said it is a musky gourmand and it does capture Coze a bit. It is not a sweet scent, only slightly. It is unique, darkish, a bit smokey but very wearable.

Sweeter hemp tobacco light spicy warm and cozy scent, unisex yet not girly, mature but ever-youth. Kind of modern vintage effect. I love it and can wear in every weather. One of my signature scents.

Trying Parfumerie Generale (PG02) Coze for the first time. On my skin, up top I definitely got the hemp with a dash of pepper, but not overwhelming to my nose (but my sample was not a spray so I had to dab, which tends to make a difference to my skin on how a fragrance presents). About midway I could pick up the patchouli and was thrilled (one of my fave scents), intermixed with coffee and chocolate. Never detected the tobacco until drydown, and then almost an ashtray tobacco scent (but not in an unpleasant way). Honestly don’t know what Ebony wood is supposed to smell like, but I detect something woody at the base so presume that’s it. At the finish, patchouli, vanilla and sweet tobacco were the strongest on my skin. On me this was not heavy but again I had to dab instead of spray which makes a difference for me. This had fairly soft sillage for me but I used only a small amount, and if I were actually using this from a bottle I’d definitely use more and probably get better projection from it. On my skin everything seemed to settle in after about an hour, and this lasted on me for about 4 – 5 hours before becoming a faint skin scent. I definitely see this as a cool weather scent and would not wear in spring or summer heat, but I find it unoffensive enough that I’d wear it to the office. I also can see this being a nice fragrance for either day or evening wear. Unlike other reviewers, I never picked up that clove note even though I was intentionally looking for it (and I actually like clove). On me, the patchouli and vanilla with notes of tobacco and wood dominate, and if there are any cloves in there they are buried deep! Right now I’m riding between Like and Love, and will try it a few more times to see if I get nudged in one direction or the other. I know this is a unisex scent, but to my nose this comes across as quite a sweet scent and on my skin definitely falls on the feminine side. I’m not sure some men would feel comfortable wearing this, while others would. Although, having said that, this PG02 Coze is intoxicating enough that the juxtaposition between this sweet fragrance on a macho guy wearing this rising up from his chest could be an alluring combination! As always, your results may vary!

Coze opens with a lovely, astringent, medicinal, bitter facet of patchouli, with lots of black pepper and some perfumey polished sharpness. There was a hot minute when “cannabis” notes in perfume were trendy; unfortunately cannabis smoke smells bad. Apparently a popular solution is to just use patchouli instead, which is a choice I can get behind. An hour in, Coze warms slightly; I don’t get chocolate or coffee, but I do get a hazy ambered hay or dried-grass scent, golden and sheer and still peppery around the edges. Coze retains its dark-green peppery patchouli character all the way through — it just gets more and more transparent and hazy. It’s slightly warmed by vanilla, but it never gets outright sweet. This is a patchouli that hasn’t forgotten it’s a leaf. Pierre Guillaume makes a lot of perfumes and allegedly most of them are duds; but Coze is a winner. Up there with Tempo (which it rather resembles) as straightforward real-deal patchouli scents, more green than brown, rather sheer and elegant.

Dry chocolate, coffee, pepper and a little metallic smoke to open, warming up with hints of vanilla. Coze, cosy? With this combination of notes, I thought I'd get that. But somehow the scent remains rather aloof and never manages to captivate me, feeling rather dry with the delicious scent of second-hand smoke that never gives me its intended effect. I think the addition of pimento is also what makes Coze stand out from other fragrances--rather bitter, dry and suggestive of a metallic numbing effect like chewing on a dried clove bud. And in combination with hemp, perhaps adding to the 'tarry' accord that SNS mentions. As it's rather cold today, I imagine that this would unfold and deliver more depth if my skin were a little more humid. Even if it did though, and albeit it original and likeable, the initial impression doesn't grab me enough to want to retest as I don't imagine myself wanting to wear this.

Opens as cigarette smoke on a damp cashmere coat, and warms into vintage wood paneling and a smoky hash pipe. This is someone's hip mom in the 70's, having a feminist consciousness raising meeting in the basement, passing the pipe behind a thick oak door, and making plans to change the world with her friends. Extremely well blended, comforting and cozy, in a quirkily nostalgic, ghost of a lost counter culture sort of way. Smoky without being acrid, patchouli that is readily present and accounted for without crushing the rest of the notes under a deluge of lavalamps and blacklight painting associations (a RARE feat) and warm without being overtly spicy........Coze is a collection of clever contortions of memory that all land splendidly. Now I just need to find a modern space fit to wear it. :D

Tobacco, spices, woods... the perfect trio for a bold, but at the same time warm and conforting fragrance. It opens with a spicy dark chocolate, supported by a vegetal/green note (supposedly an impression of hemp/marijuana, but it misses the shot on that aspect, but who cares). Shortly after, the chocolate morphs into a beautiful dry tobacco note, and appears. Then, at the one-hour mark, the tobacco fades out to leave the stage to an oily vanillic/chocolat-ey patchouli, leaning towards gourmand (and I wish it was a bit less sweet at that stage). The only downside is the below average performance, that should be better at that price point. Still, it's a beautiful fragrance. Had to go for a full bottle. Fall/Winter evenings, 30+

I agree jtd! over cooked brownie plus hemp... oh what a nice dark gourmand this is. You can smell bitter cocoa and a clear note of cannabis with soft clove. I like this and find it an excellent choice if you like your perfume not to be too sweet. Somehow obscure and refined. Very dusty!! However, I don't find this perfume groundbreaking as some other reviewers do on the internet. Perhaps if I hadn't experienced Borneo 1834 and a hundred other chocky renditions I'd do... Still ... a great one to have. Pretty identifiable among its cousins. It stays loooong and its sillage is ok... I think this is pretty safe even with its twists. I'm sure no one will come up telling you you're a junkie. Not because of the perfume at least lol.

To test Coze is like to enter in a Indian café, smoky and a little shabby, with notes of coffee, bitter chocolate, patchouli to start and then a culinary note, a sort of maceration already smells in kitchens in Tamil Nadu (southern India). A kind of menthol flavored oil they use to store food. Spices come quickly, it is good and so it gets very hot, without Lassi for calm it down. There is also Sandalwood and Vanilla but it has nothing of a pastry, it is a pure spicy oriental (India whips nose) perfect for those who already know niche compositions. The PG range is frankly not very avant garde but this one is a must try

This is a truly unique fragrance. Not something that I would wear on a daily basis, but it is really peculiar. At first spitz I reacted like "Puah!": sweet, musky, caramel blended with a strong leathery tobacco note. But in the following half hour, I was like" I now get why it is called coze". It transforms into a cozy, warm, close to skin scent, with a lovely vanilla and caramel note... (something similar to Angel, but much more subtle and refined). Sensual and very unique. It feels like a warm blanket on a winter evening in front of the fireplace, eating candy and chocolate. Definitely a must try.

Oh man this is beautiful. If i would describe this i would say dry woods. There is a slight sharpness which i also enjoy surprisingly. To me it's a play between patchouli and dry woods. I rarely enjoy patchouli but this one is my favorite patchouli so far. Very raw natural smelling but sexy and addictive. It's definitely not for everyone though but fragrance lovers will enjoy it alot. Good longevity with low sillage. Overall it's a spicy woody patchouli fragrance that u should love to be able to pull off.

Room with a heavy ebony furniture, black leather sofa. On the table cup of black coffee and vase full of black black bitter chocolate with red chili peppers stuffed. Somewhere in a corner room is static full of ebony black ground pepper. Bitter intertwined with mild vanilla sweetness. Very intense, not too sweet, but some kind of bitter-pepper a bit too much. After half hour pepper evaporated and scent was chocolate-caramel woody.

A very nice surprize! A lovely unisex-scent and one of few I can wear. Love the chocolate and coffeenote and the woodsy and peppernote. Soft and warm on my skin but its not skinclose so use with care. En trevlig överraskning! En superfin unisexdoft och en av få som jag faktiskt kan bära. Älskar choklad och kaffenoten tillsammans med tränoterna och pepparen. Mjuk och varm på huden men ändå inte en hudnära doft, används sparsamt..

This perfume takes me back to my grandparents bathroom. It starts out as a mix of my grandmas powder and grandpas cologne. Then it quickly turns smoky on me, tar and whiskey. After wearing it some time it develops more toward a tart and coca-cola like scent on me, it's still warm and powdery at it's base. Interesting and not something I'd wear often. But not something I'd disregard either.

I kinda like it: rich chocolaty patchouli with some herbal (even minty) freshness and a tiny bit of sweetness underneath. Slightly medical, but not in a bad way. Don’t feel much cannabis here, just a nice dry tobacco. UPD: on my skin it’s just a green, dry and somewhat moldy patchouli BEAST!!! Follow me on IG: scent.guide

Gourmand cannabis tobacco vanilla combo. Not so sweet. It reminds me the dry cigar smell when you opening the humidifier. I don't see cinnamon in the notes but I'm sure I can smell it. Maybe I'm confused with pepper. Really nice smell for classy gentlemen. I imagine a victorian era man who's in a cabaret.

Spicy fruity chocolate patchouli. Actually not much patchouli. Interesting but too much like a dessert for me. Gentle sillage, moderate longevity. Quickly becomes a skin scent.

It's not as dark or skunky as I thought it would be. It's more patchouli than hamp; actually the latter is barely noticeable on me. I get mostly patchouli, some dry hamp and something fruity; maybe rhubarb. Late dry down smells of powdery vanilla. It's OK.

Just emptied a 1.5 ml sample of "Coze" straight onto the back of my hand. First impressions were distasteful. It smells leathery and acrid. There is a distinct menthol quality jumping out at me that is reminding me of turpentine; I'd put it down to the piquancy of the chilli clashing with the acute bitterness of the black chocolate and coffee. After about 15 minutes, the unpleasant medicinal screech subsides and things get much drier and smokier. A thick cloud of hashish invades my nostrils, through which I can smell musty wood, leather furniture and dank, oily patchouli. Reminds me of a past visit to Christiania, the infamous commune of weed-smoking hippies nestled in the center of Copenhagen. Like the hippies, "Coze" is earthy, disheveled and just plain weird to be honest. I can't envisage wearing this beyond my hall door. Certainly not to a job interview, unless said job involved selling blunts around the back of a pub after hours.

A contraction of “C’est Osé” (daring). Indian Hemp (Canapa Sativa Seed Oil), heart is blond tobacco, pepper, chilli and coffee. Base is ebony wood, chocolate, Bourbon vanilla beans and patchouli. Love the story behind it (first PG perfume, father's cigar box), but to me this smells like a heavy smoker just entered the room right after he had applied some generic cologne (I am of an age where this is not as rare as it sounds). It's a no for me.

To me this smells like cloves on oranges, or Christmas office party potpourri. Or a Christmas candle. I've never liked those scents and I really don't like them on my skin. I find this to be a very shallow, uni-dimensional scent and I had to scrub. To me it screamed "Middle-aged woman into country decor (geese with bonnets)."

On me it is so much cloves that it basically kills anything else. There is slight heavy cholocate smell, but all else is burried under clove. I do like medicinal smells, but this is too much for me, I feel myself almost paralysed by clove

You open a car ashtray that's full of old cig butts and spliff ends, and leave it open with the car windows closed, and the car is a dusty old banger, and one of your friends is wearing some Lynx (Axe) deodorant (you are all 19 years old), and possibly someone spilled some coffee on the seat yesterday....voilà, that's what you're gonna smell like. 10 mins in and it's getting sour. I only sprayed once on one wrist but this is pretty nuclear, and not in a good way. I'm almost ready to scrub it off and try to forget it. OK I scrubbed it off, no way, no thank you.

Parfumerie General 02 (PG02) Coze is an oriental woody first introduced in 2002. It has notes of Indian hemp (canapa sativa), patchouli, coffee, pimento, pepper, sandalwood, ebony wood, Virginian cedar, tobacco, and Bourbon vanilla. It was created by Pierre Guillaume, who is best known for this house (where he is the perfumer for all of the scents), as well as a couple of Phaedon’s better-known perfumes, especially Oliban and Rouge Avignon. Right off the top of Coze, I get a blend of sharply peppered woods and spices, reminiscent of a very nice aftershave or a big, powerful 80s fougere for men. I pick up on a wood that I’ve never smelled in isolation – perhaps the Indian hemp, which is supposed to be rich, warm, and seductive. There’s that lovely pepper note that lingers throughout the top and the heart of the fragrance that keeps it interesting and differentiates it from a boring masculine fougere. Still further into the life of the fragrance, a powdery, dark, bitter cocoa begins to gently assert itself. The entire presentation of the smell and the way that it wears on the skin is exceedingly dry and masculine. It doesn’t flirt with sweetness at all, even despite the apparent presence of bourbon vanilla pods, which really have an oaky effect anyway, not the treacle we associate with the smell of synthetic vanilla often used unsparingly in women’s perfumes. Despite being familiar with the list of ingredients, none of them pop readily out into the forefront. It’s one of those fragrances that’s so wonderfully blended that on my skin, I’m hard pressed to tell that there is any single note: patchouli, coffee, woods, tobacco, or vanilla. After doing a bit of snooping, apparently this used to be quite more a bit more powerful than it currently it, and used to be a real powerhouse on the skin. Whether this is true or not, I can’t say; I’ve only just landed my nose on it a couple of days ago. But the decant that I got (which is from DecantShop, and I have every reason to believe is authentic) doesn’t last more than two hours before becoming a skin scent that resembles a soft suede with hints of the Bourbon vanilla and the sweetness of dried fruit. All in all, quite a lovely fragrance. If it lasted three times as long, it would get a hearty recommendation from me. Nota bene: One of the things that I really like about Parfumerie General fragrances is that they don’t just come in 50 and 100 ml, but also 30 ml – in case you’re one of those afflicted souls who needs another 3.4 oz of perfume like they need a hole in the head. (I think the smallest sizes need to be ordered directly from Pierre’s website.) While you pay a bit more per ml for the smaller bottles, you still pay less which means, if you’re like me, that you can buy another 30 ml bottle!

Very disappointing. It certainly isn't sweet - the pepper and what must be the ebony have completely dominated what 'bean' products there were meant to be in here. It's brash, dusty, unforgiving and,, 'chocolate' included they say? Must be joking! My Note List: Blend - Spices, cardamom, pepper, chilli, strong woods and dry patchouli. 'True alternatives to all those mass-market products, with their bland, standardised formats aimed at winning over vast numbers of customers, Pierre Guillaume's creations exhale their strong character with distinct and immediately recognisable scent identities that make no compromises.' Says the blurb at the back of my carded Coze sample. I have always never been taken by product advertising but I never mind products giving an elaborate or sensationalist descriptions of themselves - it's all in the free-spirit of intent of advertising a (hopefully) hard-worked product after all. So to have PG so boldly and overtly claim to dismiss the competition not only sets a tone of defiance, it brings immediate doubts into my mind of , is this Parfumier really concentrating on his/her own product? This is my 1st test of this house and sadly it's - quite saddening putting it nicley. It opens with an overwhelming blast of heady pepper, spice and woods. It's almost like I stepped into a boxing ring! Pierre has certainly got the 'uncompromising' bit correct for me! It's 'character' is one that totally burns up my nose,, I simply cannot disern any fine, soothing points or the finer ingredients I was looking for here - the Hemp, Coffee and Cacao. It's certainly unique and, er, different - but so it Black Afgano which is a Tour de Force in rare Opulence, and brooding woody-sweet accords. This swiftly becomes an overbearing woody spice lotion (unsweetened cardamom?) that refuses to put this reviewer at ease at any one moment. The ingredients are very fine, but that just makes this waste of a collection of rare ingredients all the more painful to even contemplate purchasing. Nice try Monsieur Pierre, but I think I'll be dispensing my hard cash on a 2nd bottle of 'generic, mass-market' Creed Aventus, if you don't mind. Not for the feint - try -and buy if you dare. 4/10.

Sumptuous patchouli fragrance. Specifically, a lot more going on here: there's a touch of pimento pepper (similar to Piment Brulant, but more subdued), some clever nuances of cocoa-chocolate, and a two-faceted accord of 'green' tobacco (no sweetness) and marijuana. In fact, it smells quite close to someone smoking a beedi (a form of cigarette common in the Indian subcontinent) - especially if the smoker was also wearing patchouli oil. However, here's the great thing about Coze: despite its diverse elements, it is coherent, suave and and has a rugged sophistication. It is also very well-crafted, easy to wear; expansive and makes one feel good. While it is a patchouli fragrance, it is not a one-note bore but is multifaceted, and in the same 'patchouli plus' group that would include Coromandel, A*Men or Nicolai's Patchouli. I also find it to have some 'green'/herbal elements, similar to Devin or Wazamba. There is hardly any sweetness in this, and the overall vibe is dry, dusty. Finally, it is an EdT and wears exactly as it should. It is a little loud initially but quickly tones down in thirty minutes when its best dynamics come into play, and it is very soft after six or seven hours. One of the most unique (and wearable) perfumes on the market. 4/5

This perfumer does masculine scents really well. (I mean scent has no gender but you know) The blending is just so beautifully done. I don’t even like half of these notes and I love this. It’s woody, chocolate-y patchouli, slightly herbal, with a tiny pinch of pepper and once again- Smoooooth. Almost all of his scents project very well and create a fantastic musky scent bubble. There’s massive quality for the price. It’s also incredibly unique. How often do you get a well blended gourmand with these notes? It’s sort of a superior version of jazz club mixed with music festival in a way that smells way more expensive. I picture this on a very hip guy like he plays lots of instrument’s and dresses well, but not in a suit. He dresses like men do causally in Europe and he doesn’t know any other way of being. He can not only pull off wearing a hat but it looks like he was born with it on his head. This fragrance is suitable for any age. Muah! Chef’s kiss!

The first spray of this one provides a ton of pepper and paprika. Enough to incapacitate the nose for the rest of the day. I was looking for chocolate and vanilla in there, but in vain. Cozé on my skin it remains dry, woody, very peppery, raw. Does not smell like comfort at all; on the contrary, there is something unsettling about it. It is a scent of old room with wooden furniture where someone used to smoke pipe very often. The room in no longer used, hence the dust and powderiness. I am a bit on the fence with this one... I am quite intrigued by it, but I find it too dry. Some ingredients I was really excited about never made an appearance, and some of the ones I am not a fan of are actually really strong. Cozé is definitely something different, and shows that Guillaume is skilled in working with various ingredients, but it is not enough for me to fell in love with.

Why isn't there an 01? Anyway... This first fragrance in the PG line opens with a huge dense blast of spices and wood. Nutmeg to be more specific. It's very and dry. The nutmeg adds to the overall woody feeling. The word cozé means "daring" apparently? This fragrance was designed as an ode to Pierre Guillame's grandfather's cigar box and I feel like it focuses more on the actual box as opposed to the tobacco contained within. It's an intensely dry woody fragrance with lots of nutmeg and cloves at first, and the patchouli in it lends it's peppery woody character, not it's green leafy character. The whole thing is wrapped up in an almost burnt feeling, every note in this is verging on being scorched a tiny bit, which again, adds to the dryness. It's intense at first but eventually ends up being a somewhat dark woody fragrance that leans towards the mascuine. :)

Dry and tough patchouli with biting spicy notes. A little reminiscent of Amouage's Interlude Man. My favorite part of this perfume is the first hour in which there is more variety of notes. After the lighter notes(lower molecular weight molecules), which had given beauty to the scent, disappear, we're left alone with that woody and tasteless scent of patchouli; An invariable patchouli in which only its woody facet can be seen. پچولی خشک و خشن درکنار روایح اسپایسیِ گزنده، این حالت اسپایسی-دودیش آدم رو یاد اینترلود من میندازه. بخش مورد علاقم از این عطر یکی دو ساعت اولشه که در اون تنوع نت ها زیاده. بعدش که نت های سبک تر که به عطر زیبایی داده بودن میپرن، با اون رایحه چوبی از پچولی تنها می مونیم؛ یه پچولی یکنواخت و بدون طعم که در اون فقط بُعد چوبیش به چشم میاد و واسه ساعت ها رو پوست باقی می مونه

Cozé opens dark, smoky and dusty with coffee, desweetened dark chocolate, woods, prominent patchouli and a slight boozy bourbon note. Spices join the party in a while adding depth and mistery to this warm composition. In the drydown I still detect a remarkable patchouli note together with dark woods, sandalwood and hints of vanilla. While Cozé is often listed as a gourmand, I more get it as a sort of dirty spicy oriental that will appeal to fans of the most challenging compositions by Maitre Parfumeur Et Gantier, Parfum D'Empire and a bunch of Lutens. If you're into fresh and clean fragrances you should carefully stay away from this, for all the others, this is great stuff. Maybe not as much unconventional as they want us to believe but still highly recommended. Rating: 8/10

Trying the latest reformulation: Much better for me than the first batch circa 2016. According to my review back then that was dry, full of cannabis. This year's batch is earthy, patchy, sweet, woodsy, resinous, almost gourmand even but not dripping sweet. Definitely more wearable and more enjoyable for me. Perhaps not as niche as the other one but sometimes that's not a bad thing. Great frag, i think i smell a bit of that pepper too. Cannabis peeks out towards the drydown but only just - and that is just the amount of cannabis i can handle! ** 200+ samples for swap UK - get in touch if you have loads of niche samples sitting around unloved at home! Check my custom shelf - looking to swap a big bunch. **