Kokorico
Kokorico opens with the green, milky snap of fig leaf—vegetal and slightly bitter, like breaking a stem in summer heat.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Earthy75
- Chocolate70
- Patchouli70
- Woody
The note pyramid
- Fig Leaf
- Fig Leaf
- Cocoa
- Patchouli
- Patchouli
- Vetiver
By the editors · 2 min readKokorico opens with the green, milky snap of fig leaf—vegetal and slightly bitter, like breaking a stem in summer heat. It's an unusual entry for a masculine fragrance, more botanical garden than boardroom, and it sets an earthy, unpolished tone from the first spray.
The heart brings patchouli forward, not the head-shop variety but something drier and more rooted, mingling with cocoa in a way that suggests soil and bark rather than dessert. As it settles, vetiver and Virginia cedar create a woody, almost dusty foundation—think sun-warmed wood and dry grass rather than pristine forest.
This is Jean Paul Gaultier's take on rustic masculinity: grounded, slightly wild, and unapologetically natural. It suits someone comfortable with texture and depth, who prefers their fragrances lived-in rather than polished.
Scent twins
In this family
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