Coconut Nanas

And just like that, I’ve found my perfect tropical beach scent. I went through nearly a hundred coconut/sunscreen/beach scents trying to find this gem. It smells expensive and oily. No plasticy coconut. Fruity without screaming at me. No loud typical perfumy notes, woods or patchouli to distract. The florals are pretty and soft but noticeable. Not loud and synthetic like Montale/Manceras tiare. Stays grounded and human-smelling, not like air freshener or scented candles. Quite realistically smells how I would want to after a day on a Hawaiian beach—young, sun kissed, dripping in coconut and pineapple juice, with flowers in my hair. The performance on this is outstanding! I sprayed a paper once and left it on my vanity. The next day I smelled it every time I walked by. My entire vanity smelled like this. That was days ago and the paper still smells strong and rich, and still has a perfect blend of natural fruity floral smells without screetchiness or drying down to woods. When I wear this, i can still smell it after a shower. It blends in nicely under many of my other fragrances. Side note-I see this getting compared to JPGs Divine, which is one of my favorite perfumes. I personally don’t consider them to smell alike at all. I would never recommend one because someone liked the other, Divine feels like a perfectly appropriate scent to wear all year with a floral candy girly attention-demanding vibe and different notes, while this is a very classic tropical monoi type scent just done up in a luxe quality way with a more genderless leaning profile. Both excellent and I recommend them, but they aren’t related.

This smells like a red kool-aid or even a jolly rancher candy. Do not get this expecting it to be a very coconut-forward fragrance. It smells delicious but it doesn't read as "coconut". This is a playful fragrance and kinda juvenile smelling but is very well done... And you will be smelled across the room (talking from experience!) with only a couple sprays! This is not a typical tropical fragrance either, but would be great to wear on a tropical vacation. So think red kool-aid + pineapple juice with pretty dang good projection and longevity. This won't be for everyone. You will need to like a light-hearted fun fragrance. It is a good quality fruity fragrance too. I used to think I hated fruity fragrances, but it turns out that was because I had only smelled cheaper-smelling ones and B&BW types... this reminds me most of Kayali Eden in the way it is bright & fruity, but I much prefer this scent. If that makes sense. I wish more coconut came out but it is being covered by a lot of fruit juiciness. Delicious. P.S. I much prefer this to Apple Nanas* - but Dapper has an Apple Nanas dupe that is KILLER and even better than the original and it puts Kayali Eden to shame! I have not tried their Coconut Nanas fragrance yet though and now I am curious if it too enhanced the original formulation that Rirana made. Edit: 10/22/23 ... Ok so I did buy the Dapper dupe for this and I prefer the original. Although I like the Dapper dupe better for Apple Nanas more. I am putting this on my wish list. And I already resold Rirana Apple Nanas and picked up the Dapper version.

An amazingly realistic fruity coconut scent. I don’t think I’ve smelled anything this realistically fresh before. It’s quite sweet but I don’t find it cloying or synthetic. Some coconut scents have a particular synthetic smell; I don’t detect that here. Leans quite feminine because of the sweetness, but I think anyone can pull it because it’s an ‘edible’ sort of scent. Frangipani is blended in well, and I detect the peach. Sillage is good and longevity is definitely there. I sprayed it on my arm at night and could still smell it when I woke up in the morning, albeit not as strong. It’s an oily formula, I had to rub it into my skin. I think it could be great for layering due to its simplistic note profile. Comparing this to my sample of Leisure in Paradise by Simone Andreoli, the similarities are definitely there, but Leisure in Paradise has less sweetness and fruitiness, less projection, and smells more “perfumey”. I love them both but I think Leisure is more refined, while Coconut Nanas is more realistic, sweet, and young.

Coconut nanas is really a suitable name for this fragrance (nanas is pineapple in Melayu language). The most prominent note is coconut, followed by pineapple and frangipani. It doesn't evolve much, from the opening to the dry down it only adds floral note here. Wearing this is such a tropical bliss, I imagine myself sunbathing besides a pool on a beach club, with pina colada/young coconut juice on the table next to me. It's bright, it's warm, it screams vacation in a tropical paradise for me. Got no trouble with projection and silage. I wear this to work today, and it's room filling, and I get compliments from my fellow workers... And it still radiates strongly after 5 hours in... wow.

The Coconut Nanas is quite lovable. Longevity is definitely there, projection and sillage I couldn't tell by myself. Since i been hiding inside a cave during this lockdown i haven't been able to test about compliments, but i do like the proportion of fruit vs coconut. i didn't want the scent to be too creamy or lotion-like for summer, compared to other coconut based scents like the Creed VIW (and its stronger performing alternatives from Alexandria and DUA), The pineapple scent in this one is more dominating and longer lasting than the citrus in VIW variants. This scent does not smell like VIW, just using VIW as a comparison for the fruit vs. coconut proportion.