Coccobello
Heeley (2013)

I'm not generally a fan of coconut scents, but I like to keep one around for an occasional summer evening. This is the one. The green and salty notes blend perfectly with the coconut. It does get a bit sweeter in the dry-down, but not cloyingly so. Summer nights, rum-laced drinks, and a beachside tiki bar...

Heavy pina colada/sunscreen notes in the opening that eventually pave the way for a white floral. Good palm leaf in the breeze after a good hour after the coconut notes simmering down.

The vanilla smells very alcoholic, a bit like the vanilla bean paste used to cooking. Eventually Coccobello does a 180 turn and it goes from a very floral/fruity beverage scent to a very green, waxy one with a wooden aged deck chair thrown in. I prefer the later part of the wear rather than the first as it's coconut overload in the beginning. Perhaps on a sunny day at the beach or near the pool Coccobello would be more appropriate, but not for the office use or in closed meeting spaces, it feels more like scented body lotion in such confined spaces and recycled building air.

Sun-kissed, leafy green note. Coconut & gardenia creamy cocktail accord. Musty, almost moldy bourbon-vanilla note. I like that. Benzoin gives this a slight barnyard, animal smell underneath. Very well done sandalwood and cedarwood blend. Starts out light and summery - ends like an autumn fragrance. The whole thing reminds me of either a tray of freshly baked, drying biscotti or the combo of ingredients that make woodwind, cork grease which are oils, coconut oil, and animal fat usually. I know - weird, right?

Pina Coladas in a Hurricane

Imagine mashing a milk chocolate Bounty bar into your skin and then wiping it off again with a hank of grass. You wouldn't, would you? The coconut here is the desiccated and candied kind - far too sweet for me to share a room with for too long, and the green too faint to counter it. At the very beginning I did get a blast of calone, but beyond that I could not detect any other components for the overwhelming coconut. I suspect this could possibly be carried off by a man with a very masculine skin odour, as long as he didn't use more than the merest spritz and we were never forced to share a lift.

A simple, very modest but enjoyable fragrance that does indeed bring sunny beaches to mind.

If you're looking for a coconut fragrance that doesn't SCREAM coconut, i think this could be it.

Personally i would have liked a bit more complexity, just a little something dry/bitter to balance the sweet basenotes.

Moderately green (more like organic green) fragrance that actually seems like a tropical one (coconut note). This is a summer gem. When it starts to cool down, I detect a boozy note in there. Non-cloying and perfect for the warmer weather. Longevity and projection are average. 7.5/10