Coconut

Mugler

Angel is the perfume that invented the gourmand category.

Dior

The opening is sweet but not exactly fruity—coconut mingles with plum and apricot in a way that feels dense, almost narcotic, like overripe fruit left in the sun.

Versace

Crystal Noir opens with a dusky warmth, cardamom and ginger flashing briefly before the scent settles into something darker and more enveloping.

Ariana Grande

Cloud opens with a haze of soft lavender and bergamot that feels more pillow than sharp, sweetened by a whisper of pear.

Dior

Dolce Vita opens with a spiced brightness, cardamom and bergamot threading through soft peach and lily, like sunlight filtered through gauze.

Diptyque

The fig tree in its entirety—leaves, bark, milky sap, and fruit—captured with almost documentary precision.

Yves Saint Laurent

The immediate sensation is thick and resinous, a dark sweetness cut by spice—cinnamon heat against plum and carnation-like florals.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Le Beau Le Parfum opens with a sharp hit of ginger that immediately softens into tropical sweetness—pineapple mellowed by iris's powdery restraint.

Creed

Virgin Island Water opens with the sharp brightness of lime cutting through rich coconut cream, a pairing that immediately conjures sun-bleached docks and salt air.

Chopard

Casmir opens with the plush sweetness of coconut and peach, an almost tropical richness that feels deliberately opulent rather than fresh.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Le Beau opens with a sharp citrus bite that vanishes almost immediately, making way for what this fragrance is really about: coconut.

Salvador Dalí

The opening bursts with ripe, almost candied fruit—pineapple and raspberry lead, backed by plum and peach, with grapefruit adding a bright citrus edge that keeps it from collapsing into pure sweetness.

Chanel

Allure Homme opens with a brightness that's both citrus-crisp and faintly sweet—bergamot and lemon cut through with a whisper of peach and the warmth of ginger.

Tom Ford

The opening is all bright heat—pink pepper and cardamom crackling against bergamot like sunlight through glass.

Avon

The first spray delivers a sun-warmed collision of coconut and peach that reads like tropical sunscreen mixed with ripe fruit—unapologetically sweet and nostalgic in its boldness.

Mugler

Alien Goddess opens with a brief citrus flash before diving into a plush heliotrope accord that dominates the composition.

Guerlain

Terracotta Le Parfum opens with warm bergamot lit from behind by creamy coconut, establishing a sun-touched softness from the first spray.

Chopard

A pear-centered composition that opens bright and generous, the fruit amplified by yuzu's citrus fizz and softened by a whisper of coconut.

Aramis

Aramis opens with a bracing herbal punch—thyme and bergamot cut through by myrrh's resinous bitterness, an oddly medicinal gardenia lurking beneath.

Dolce & Gabbana

A white floral built around magnolia and coconut that walks the line between tropical ease and formal elegance.

By Kilian

Moonlight in Heaven opens with a gentle spray of citrus—grapefruit and lemon humming quietly alongside pink pepper's soft warmth.

Ariana Grande

**thank u, next** opens with a bright burst of candied pear and raspberry—sweet but not cloying, more like frosted fruit than jam.

Tom Ford

A sun-drenched sibling to the original Soleil Blanc, this eau version opens with a brisk citrus haze—neroli and bergamot sharpened by pink pepper—that quickly gives way to a creamy white floral core.

Marc Jacobs

Dot opens with a syrupy sweetness that feels almost edible, like sugared orange blossoms dipped in coconut cream.

Givenchy

Ysatis opens with a blast of galbanum so green it feels almost medicinal, tempered by plush coconut and a heady dose of ylang-ylang.

Maison Martin Margiela

The opening is pure soap—bright bergamot cut with a powdery softness that conjures the ghost of just-rinsed skin.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Le Beau Paradise Garden opens with a sharp blast of ginger and mint that feels more herbaceous than sweet, like stepping into a greenhouse rather than a tropical postcard.

Serge Lutens

A pale, milky warmth that hovers closer to skin than air.

Estée Lauder

**Sensuous Nude** opens with a whisper of pepper—just enough spice to lift the blend without announcing itself—alongside a subtle bergamot brightness that fades almost immediately.

Chanel

Gabrielle Essence opens with a plush, slightly tropical brightness—petitgrain's green citrus edge softened by ripe peach and a whisper of black currant.

Escada

The opening is a bolt of blood orange—tart, sweet, and sun-warmed—cut through with a fizzy brightness that feels almost candied.

Grès

Cabochard opens with a blast of green defiance—bitter sage and tarragon cut through citrus like a knife through silk.

Nobile 1942

The opening is a quick shimmer of bergamot with a faint green-apple sweetness, but it doesn't linger.

Caron

Yatagan opens with a bracingly herbal collision—mint and galbanum strike first, followed by lavender and basil that feel more medicinal than soothing.

Dolce & Gabbana

The Only One Eau de Parfum Intense opens with a bright neroli that quickly gives way to a lush, creamy heart.

Robert Piguet

Bandit opens with a blast of bitter galbanum that cuts through the white flowers like a knife through silk.

Chloé

The opening arrives soft and lightly powdered, with peach and coconut blending into creamy ylang-ylang and orange blossom.

Nishane

The opening is disarmingly sweet—coconut bent toward caramel by a splash of dark rum, more dessert than tropical.

Yves Saint Laurent

The opening bursts with champagne-bright peach and apricot, their sweetness tempered by cool mint and a whisper of anise—effervescent and slightly tart, like fruit macerated in sparkling wine.

M. Micallef

Ylang-in-Gold opens with an unexpected herbal brightness—sage and rosemary cutting through the sweetness of peach, creating a contrast that feels both classical and slightly off-kilter.

Jacques Bogart

One Man Show opens with a bracing slap of galbanum and basil over citrus, green and almost medicinal before the real architecture emerges.

Naomi Campbell

The opening arrives with unexpected sharpness—star anise cutting through a haze of coconut and soft white florals, bergamot lending brightness without sweetness.

Lancôme

The opening fizzes with pink pepper and bergamot, a citrus spark that quickly softens into something warmer and more enveloping.

By Kilian

The opening suggests something tropical and edible—coconut pulp blurred with purple stone fruits—but within minutes, cinnamon threads through, cutting the sweetness with a dry, vaguely dusty spice.

Oscar De La Renta

The opening arrives as a bright clash of herbal basil and soft peach against a haze of orange blossom, establishing Oscar's signature contradiction: it reads as both fresh and baroque.

Lancôme

La Nuit Trésor Nude opens with a sunlit blur of peach and coconut that feels more like skin warmed by sand than tropical sweetness.

Mugler

Coconut milk and bergamot arrive together, tropically bright but tempered by a soft, grounding warmth.

Mancera

Coco-Vanille opens with the unmistakable sweetness of coconut—not the suntan oil version, but something richer and slightly caramelized.

Coty

The opening arrives sweet and tropical, coconut and peach merging with bergamot's citrus brightness to create an immediate sense of warmth.

Maison Francis Kurkdjian

Amyris Homme opens with a jolt of rosemary—green, medicinal, slightly camphorous—that clears the air before settling into something far stranger.

Hermès

The opening rushes in with bright, slightly medicinal sage and cardamom—herbal and clean, but with a roughness that prevents it from feeling polite.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

Premier Figuier established fig as a serious perfumery accord before it became a genre.

Chanel

One of Chanel's earliest-surviving white florals, Gardenia never quite smells like gardenia — the flower is nearly impossible to capture directly — but invents something gardenia-adjacent through orange blossom, tuberose, and jasmine working in concert.

Elizabeth Taylor

Passion is an 80s powerhouse that announces itself without apology.

Mancera

Roses Greedy makes good on both words in its title.

Memo Paris

Named for the Ethiopian city of stone-carved churches, Lalibela opens with coconut and peony — an unexpected tropical pairing that reads as ceremonial rather than beachy, the coconut milky rather than sunscreen-sweet.

Aquolina

Gold Sugar opens with neroli and orange — bright, slightly soapy, the neroli adding a Mediterranean quality to what would otherwise be straightforward citrus.

Escada

Pacific Paradise opens with a quartet of tropical-citrus notes that are cheerfully literal about their intentions: coconut and lime immediately call up sunscreen and beach bars, apple adding sweetness, lemon providing some sharpness.

Van Cleef & Arpels

Tsar was built in 1989 when men's fragrances were still allowed to announce themselves.

Rochas

Alchimie opened in 1998 when fruity-floral-gourmand was crystallizing as a category, and Rochas contributed one of the more generously built entries.

Mancera

Holidays declares its intent with its first note: coconut, warm and slightly sweet, instantly tropical.

Tiziana Terenzi

Ylang-ylang and bergamot open together — the ylang creamy and almost banana-floral, the bergamot keeping things bright and citrus-clean, with a fleeting green-grass note.

Lolita Lempicka

Elle l'Aime opens on a candied pastry accord — a sugared cherry-pear sweetness with a lick of marshmallow — that tells you immediately what kind of fragrance this is.

Ariana Grande

Cloud Intense opens with a gentle, slightly aromatic fruit combination — pear and bergamot alongside lavender's soft herbal quality, creating an opener that reads as lighter and fresher than its name suggests.

L'Artisan Parfumeur

Batucada opens with a burst of lime and mint that feels less like citrus cologne and more like crushed leaves in humid air—green, cool, almost effervescent.

Harajuku Lovers

Harajuku Lovers G opens with a blast of sweet, suntan-lotion coconut that feels unabashedly playful, closer to a tropical cocktail than a formal composition.

Bath & Body Works

A cozy haze of vanilla arrives immediately—soft, sweet, and unabashedly comforting.

Issey Miyake

Le Feu d'Issey opens with an unexpected collision of buttery coconut and cool Bulgarian rose, the bergamot barely tempering their strange intimacy.

Bath & Body Works

Twilight Woods opens with a fleeting sweetness—coconut brushed with apricot—that immediately softens into something warmer and less literal.

Trussardi

A gauzy tuberose lifted by the warm, slightly bitter scent of espresso and cinnamon — this is Milan in a bottle, the kind you find in arcade cafés where marble meets velvet banquettes.

Juliette Has A Gun

The opening is a blast of sunlit coconut and bergamot—tropical but not sweet, more like the bright warmth of tanning oil on skin than a piña colada.

MDCI Parfums

The opening of Peche Cardinal is a sun-warmed fruit basket, ripe peach and coconut meeting darker berry accents that prevent it from tipping into simple sweetness.

Etat Libre D'Orange

A lime-sharpened opening cuts through the haze of coconut milk and toasted rice, bright citrus meeting creamy tropical warmth.

Salvatore Ferragamo

The opening balances tropical warmth with citrus brightness—coconut and bergamot meet in an unexpectedly refined way, softened by the licorice whisper of star anise.

Van Cleef & Arpels

The opening arrives with a bracing herbal clarity—sage and lavender tempered by bright bergamot and a peppery touch of basil.

Escada

The opening is pure tropical exuberance—ripe pineapple bright enough to feel like sunlight on skin.

Diesel

Diesel's Plus Plus Feminine opens with an immediate burst of fresh pineapple against a delicate veil of lily of the valley—a contrast that feels both energetic and clean.

Byredo

Velvet Haze opens with an unexpectedly muted sweetness—coconut milk rather than suntan oil, softened by ambrette's subtle musk.

Gucci

The opening unfolds with unexpected brightness—a shimmer of blackberry and citrus tempered by milky coconut that feels almost edible without tipping into gourmand territory.

Lattafa Perfumes

A sunlit collision of tropical sweetness and creamy florals, Qaed Al Fursan Unlimited opens with pineapple and coconut that feel ripe but not cloying—like walking past a beach bar at noon.

Dior

The opening of mint and lavender arrives like a clean gust, aromatic and almost medicinal, before giving way to a soft floral heart that never quite dominates.

Estée Lauder

The opening is a flash of sun-warmed citrus—bergamot and mandarin—quickly softened by creamy coconut.

Mancera

Black Vanilla opens with a curious tension: creamy coconut softened by bergamot's brightness, while black currant adds a tart, almost wine-dark edge.

Cartier

Santos de Cartier opens with a bracing clash of medicinal lavender and sharp galbanum, tempered by neroli's bitter-green citrus.

Escada

The opening announces itself with a tart rush of pineapple and lemon, bright enough to suggest a chilled glass rather than warm skin.

Animale

Animale opens with a bright citrus flash—neroli and bergamot—that quickly gives way to a lush, unapologetic floral heart.

Escada

**Escada Rockin' Rio (2011)**

Zoologist Perfumes

Chameleon begins with a sun-drenched blast of ylang-ylang and citrus, almost tropical in its brightness, before pink pepper adds a subtle rasp at the edges.

Masakï Matsushïma

Mat-Chocolat opens with an unexpected sharpness—tart blackcurrant and grapefruit cut through what you'd expect from the name, keeping the composition from sliding into dessert territory.

Mancera

Aoud Orchid opens with a sunny blur of peach and coconut that feels more tropical than overtly fruity—sweetness tempered by a faint bitterness, like fruit flesh against the pit.

Banana Republic

Tobacco & Tonka Bean opens with a rush of sweet pear that feels more candied than fresh, quickly folding into a soft coconut cream that reads almost edible.

Lattafa Perfumes

The first spray delivers a wave of coconut that feels less like sun lotion and more like sweet cream over warm skin.

Etat Libre D'Orange

Dangerous Complicity opens with ginger's live-wire brightness, sharp enough to make you blink, softened only slightly by a whisper of rum sweetness.

Selena Gomez

The opening is a soft-focus fruit bowl—peach and raspberry dominate, sweet but not piercing, with a fizzy edge from pineapple that keeps it from feeling too dense.

O Boticário

The opening carries a spark of pink pepper that fades quickly into a milky sweetness, more coconut cream than bergamot brightness.

Pierre Balmain

Jolie Madame opens with a bite of green petitgrain and neroli that barely softens the flowers to come.

Zoologist Perfumes

The first breath is ice-sharp and unexpectedly tropical—spearmint frost over pale coconut, with lily of the valley lending a clean, nearly translucent brightness.

Givenchy

Givenchy III is a 1970 green floral chypre — a genre at the height of Parisian sophistication then and a genuine rarity now.

Loewe

Paula's Ibiza opens with a collision of creamy coconut and sharp green galbanum—an immediate contrast that feels both sun-drenched and oddly bracing.

Chabaud Maison de Parfum

The first spray is almost jarring in its sweetness—a thick wave of condensed milk cut with caramel that suggests dessert rather than perfume.

Memo Paris

Tamarindo opens with a bright citrus flash—bergamot and orange laced with cardamom's green spice—before quickly veering into warmer, more indulgent territory.

Britney Spears

Rocker Femme Fantasy leads with coconut and blackberry — a combination that reads as sunscreen-sweet without going sticky.

Yves Saint Laurent

The opening declares itself immediately: plum-tinged spice erupting through jasmine and bergamot, sweet but never polite.

Alexandre.J

Zafeer Oud Vanille opens with an unusual pairing: coconut's milky sweetness layered over leather's smokiness, creating an impression that's both indulgent and slightly animalic.

Fragrance Du Bois

Santal Complet opens with a surprising clarity—bright lemon cutting through a haze of creamy coconut, like sunlight filtering into a humid wood workshop.

Issey Miyake

Le Feu d'Issey Light opens with a playful collision of toasted coconut and anise, sweetened by bergamot and a whisper of rose.

The House of Oud

Keep Glazed opens with a flash of lemon peel—bright and tart, but quickly softened by the warmth that follows.

Estée Lauder

The first spray delivers bright bergamot sharpened by coconut, a pairing that immediately conjures sunscreen and salt-warm skin.

Estée Lauder

A sun-drenched reinterpretation of the original Bronze Goddess, this Eau Fraîche leans lighter and more transparent.

Montale

Day-Dreams opens with a blast of sweet, indolic orange blossom softened by neroli's bright citrus shimmer.

Montale

Sweet Peony opens with a soft, powdery peony that quickly gives way to something warmer and more candied than expected.

Etat Libre D'Orange

Bijou Romantique opens with a flutter of ylang-ylang that feels almost vintage, its creamy exoticism tempered by the sharp crack of pink pepper and citrus.

Bath & Body Works

Pink Chiffon opens with a rush of ripe pear and peach that reads sweet but not cloying—more like biting into actual fruit than smelling a candle.

Bath & Body Works

Paris Amour opens with a dewy freesia clarity that quickly gives way to its heart: a sun-warmed peach wrapped in soft jasmine petals.

Chanel

Chanel's gardenia opens with a paradox: the flower doesn't yield essential oil, so any gardenia perfume is a reconstruction.

DS Durga

Radio Bombay opens with a gentle fizz of aldehydes and a whisper of cedar, immediately evoking the static hum of vintage transistor radios.

Nest

Sunkissed Hibiscus opens with a sheer coconut that reads more like sunscreen than piña colada—milky, slightly sweet, with that nostalgic poolside quality that either charms or overwhelms depending on your tolerance for tropical literalism.

S.T. Dupont

A sharp citrus-herbal opening sets the stage—lemon and rosemary cutting through galbanum's green bitterness.

Comptoir Sud Pacifique

Coco Extrême announces itself with the rush of fresh-cracked coconut, sweet and milky rather than suntan-lotion synthetic.

Escada

The original Escada signature opens with a tropical sweetness that immediately transports—coconut and peach blend into something creamy and sun-warmed, softened by bergamot's citrus.