Ici Coty for women

How could anyone create a gourmand fragrance that is smart and elegant as oppose to being playful???
I have never experienced anything like this; to be able to smell gourmand but at the same time, classy and mature!
Ici strongly reminds me of Flowerbomb - so I fully agree with Teebird comment on the bottom, to me Ici is a Flowerbomb little sister.
Ici is very tasty, the sweet notes and cocoa makes it a perfect winter warmer, the fragrance is snuggly and cuddly, so to speak.
I cannot detect magnolia but I do detect orchid and the perfectly combined base which is all about creamy amber and sensual musk.
I was also ever so mesmerized to discover how long lasting it was - it literally lasts and lasts on my skin and with only one reapplication at mid day today, I can still sense the fragrance entwining my body nicely.
Silage is also better than I anticipated - I received two compliments in morning and afternoon from men in executive positions at my workplace.
Ici is a gem; it is unknown in my working environment and my circle of friends and I shall keep it that way.
I shall keep it a secret.
Just to mention that Ici clings nicely to my clothes as well.
Looks like I discovered a perfect winter juice.
Ici simply is a must have for gourmand lovers.

a lil' gem named ICI... this is a perfect chocolaty-ambery scent which one lingers subtle and intoxigating on your skin for hours without being overpowering or sickening in any way... also i confirm, it smells more expensive than it is, the quality is incredible! such a nice blend, which does a clear statement: warm, sweet and sexyyyyy.
i do really love it and it's a shame it is than hard to find in bigger amounth. i would love to have a bigger bottle of this !

Picked this up super-cheap on ebay; I was guided by these reviews and the notes appealed to me, but in reality... it's a mis-spelling - Ici should have been Icky. I found this to be a real mess on me, a perfume which couldn't make up its mind whether to be sweet, dry, floral, fruity, spicy, with the resultant combo being quite unwearable for me. I can appreciate that others would like it, but alas, not me. Smells cheap and rather nasty.

I picked this up for $3 in Walmart tonight. I remember the advertising for this when I was a girl. There are a few nice things a out this fragrance. The first is that it smells expensive. It does. When it is first sprayed I smell menthol and honestly I think its always there under the sweet notes. It is a "c" perfume to me. I don't think its that amazing. But it isn't bad and it has a peaceful vibration like a wind after rain. It makes me feel calm like the night air paused. The nose for this is an excellent perfumed which is why I made a note to get this if I ever saw it cheap. I don't hate this. I don't love this but I will wear it at night especially when there is wind or rain. See...I'm kinda confused now be because I just caught a whiff of this on my ARM and I swear it was like bliss. Just a deep beautiful smell. I do like it. But, I'm not sure exactly what to make of this. It's pretty lovely.

There was a time when I was in love with sweetie gourmands.

I was Christmas shopping with my father in a now defunct department store picking up last-minute gifts. The Coty display was right at eye level and piled high with their newest release. My hands were drawn magnetically to the bejeweled pink bottle and I immediately began playing with the cap and spraying passers-by. My father leaned over and asked "Do you want to get that for Mommy?"

"Yeah!" I said. I was eight years old.

Needless to say my chanel-wearing mother hated it and it wound up in my wardrobe. I never really wore it either. It's a sweet, coco-tinged fruity floral that smells a little like tootsie rolls - a sterilized, lobotomized Angel. There are hundreds of fragrances like it - but they cost 80 dollars each. Ici is 20 dollars in the drugstore and predated those others by ten years. If you like candy-gourmands, buy this one.

I totally love this Perfume.
Its nice and cheap too :)
Lots of great memories that goes along with this smell :)

Love love love this scent. It smells sweet and stays with you for a long time . Whenever I wear this scent I always get asked w2hat I'm wearing.

It does smell a little cheap... like what you would get at a pharmacy, you can tell this isn't some huge brand by the scent; hence, why I had it this when I was in high school, it's all you can afford. It's super sweet like caramel candies, tons of sugar.. that's what I went for as a kid.

Just enough spice to tone down the sweet.

This is way too sweet for my liking. It's like 7 sugars in your coffee when you usually take 2. I don't completely dislike it, I did have a girl compliment me on it. If you are a fan of sweet perfumes this is for you. It did have some great sillage to it.

I am a gourmand lover when it comes to perfumes. Ici was my first gourmand, before I knew much about perfumes and even looked at notes in a perfume. This is delicious in a bottle, infact I think this should be classified as a sophisticated gourmand, because a lot of gourmands out there you would never wear out to work lets say, cause it's way to cottoncandiesh and lollipops. This scent is elegant with a gourmand feel but you can wear it pretty much anywhere, any time. I have such a small bottle but I've been saving and using sparingly many years.. and I've had this perfume at least 20 years and it still smells perfect as if I bought it today.. so it doesn't go bad quickly. A must have for gourmand lovers.

I am fortunate to have an aunt who worked at the local Coty outlet store in my hometown! She presented my sister and I each with a bottle of ici for Christmas one year when we were teenagers. This fragrance is sweet but sharp. It reminds me of the carefree days of my teens. I like it...but can't say that I would wear it now as an adult. My tastes have grown up quite a bit.

I really like this scent, on me it smells like warm marshmallows. Yum. Unfortunately this perfume is very strange. I spray it on and within 5 min the scent is gone. I thought maybe I just couldn't smell it on myself, you know how that sometimes happens? so I asked other people if they could detect it on me, and they couldn't. Yet, several hours later the scent suddenly returns and is wonderful! Weird!

It is so interesting how each person smells things differently. Like how people see colors or not. I did not think this was sweet. I liked it for a inexpensive perfume.

I smelled this in a drugstore way back when it first came out .

Oh, I had nver smelled any perfume like it before and had to have it.
I recieved it as a gift and wore it everyday fornthe longest time.

Then forgot all about it and a couple years ago bought a bottle on Ebay-

it smelled just like i remembered but was way too sweet for me the 2 nd time around.

I still like it but dont want to wear it if that makes any sense! L.O.L

what a cute little gem you made me discover dear fragranticas! i'm wondering what the sweet notes are! the first burst is delicious, not sticky sweet, it's airy and soft but very intense, by drying down the sweets are still there, layered on a incredible sexy warm base - indeed intoxicating. it's a very unusual scent and it's modern and playful, i wouldn t call it girly, it's sexy and tempting for any age. it last quite long as well and sillage is just great! what a pitty it's hard to find in 30ml bottle for a reasonable price :(

On first spray, I get the most wonderful whiff of cherries with what can only be described as a hint of pomegranate. Since there is no actual cherry or pomegranate essence in this fragrance, I can only assume that this is an accord formed by the melange of the citrus and sweet notes.

As Ici dries down, the cacao and florals temper the sweetness with a seductive note that makes me want to draw my wrists to my nose again and again. Ici makes me happy! The only thing that prevents me from loving Ici is that it is too soft, the base notes are far too subtle and it just doesn't last long enough to suit me. Sillage is pale and overall it lasts just a few hours on my skin (which may be fine for some).

Ici, you are a beautiful temptress that teases me!

I have a very strong sense of smell, according to most outside observers so, maybe that's why I'm a sucker for delicate scents.Ici does last as long as I wear it without bathing- if I fall asleep in it, I smell it the next morning, but always in little whifs.

This perfume is even less noticeable to me than Loves Baby Soft Body Spray, the Rainforest version of which I love.
I also love real unsweetened hand made dried cherries so I love Ici.
I agree with other users, however, that it is young and borderline gourmande,as categorised.If your young lady likes your stronger orientals/gourmandes like Tabu, Angel or Shalimar, start her on this perfume.
What some call a musky dry down smells musty on me but it's so slight as not to be bothersome, and I can still smell the fresh sharpness overtop.

I love the sharp-sweet smell mixed with the spicy-fresh,ever so slightly aquatic scent.

I usually wear perfume on clothing because my body really makes smells strong,bringing out a powdery smell in them but, I'd wear Ici on the skin,it's pretty understated on me and surprisingly understated in the fruitiness, which is rare for "fruities" on me.The spiciness of Ici and my natural buttery scent are what I smell with an undercurrent of floral and then a kiss of bitter cherry.


Wear it over cucumber or mint soap/body lotion to sparkle it up, I'd be interested to try it with a bergamot or verbena soap but on me, it'd probably become flowery/powdery.
This is a nice everyday bright perfume,for early summer/early fall when the air is temperate,warm.

It's hint of oriental may smell stronger in heat or different chemistry ;)


To me this perfume smells like my swimming practice shirt from childhood, infused with the aroma of my cherry lipsmacker from where my shirt had been nestled inside my duffle and the wafting chlorine that, like salt air, can leave whispers of it's aroma in clothing... I'd walk home through Mom's garden after the rain let up and I'd smell the releasing of the dahlias' flower stalks and tomatoes' stems, those rough spicy dark green smells drowned in the smell of rain water.I smell all of that experience in this perfume.

Well , I ordered a small bottle this weekend SO chocolate covered cherries ..........here I come again. Havent smelled in so long. Cant wait to see what my nose will say. I hope I still interpret it as that cherry , chocolate but vanilla hodgepodge.

Hi! I remember smelling ICI a long time ago... many years. To this day, I still kick myself for not getting it. YES! I remember that as someone else mentioned, that it DID smell a little like Apres L'Onde, which is now harder and hearder to find in ANY form, unless you buy a small amount from the Perfumed Court.

C'EST LA VIE ALSO smells somewhat like
Apres L'Onde. I mention these two here because Apres is one of my most absolute favorite scents. And yes, as a fellow perfume lover on this site mentioned. It DOES remind one of the smell of the wind.

After reading some of the reviews on Fragrantica and the fact that a person mentioned the comparison to 'Apres L'Ondee, I HAD TO HAVE it. So, I went to EBAY and bought some.

Regarding ICI, Apres L'Ondee, and several other of the scents... the CLASSIC scents that many of us just LOVE, I have been emailing a couple of the designer oil making companies.

Hayward enterprises and LLC THe Common Scents are two AWEsome places that make good strong oils. Common Scents ( which I think also goes under Pure Body Oils for the purpose of having a couple of presences on EBAY) have been the best to date for me.

If these places hear from enough of us, they told me they would see about carryiing certain oils that we request.

I still have some of the 'real' scents, and I've purchased various oils from THe COMMON SCENTS TO COMPARE. These include , Tentations, C'est La Vie, Chocolovers ( by Aquilina), Joy, L'Aire du Temps, Ultraviolet, and several others. Common Scents has it Locked in on the real scent. They provide good strength, too. Long staying, to the tee ( at least for me) not drying down into something weired that would scream out ' Not the real Scent'.. Lots of bang for the buck.

I'm bugging them right now about carrying Maja, Nahema, Apres L'Ondee, and several others of our beloved scents.
I made sure to request to them to see about getting the OLD version of Maja.

SO, regarding ICI, I am excited to FINALLY be getting it ... still hard to get, still a little high priced, even on EBAY. But I decided to get myself this beauty on EBAY. I'll let ya'll know what I think of it and if it is as I remember it.

Until then, I'm going to go smell some of my other ones.
:)

I don't care for this. I can see how it's kinda sorta compared to Flowerbomb but that isn't what was familiar. I knew I'd smelled this before! As SOON as I read cherry pipe tobacco I knew. Joop has a cologne for men and I did a review on it! This is the exact same scent only on a MUCH less offensive scale. This is only about 1/10th the strength of Joop. I could almost like this if I'd never tested the Joop cologne but it pretty much wreaked this scent for me. I don't think I'll ever be able to use this one because of that terrible strong cherry pipe tobacco scent. I've never liked pipe tobacco. If you do, then this just might be a LOVE for you!

AHHHH, I remember testing ICI in a store and I STILL kick myself for not having purchased it. I was amazed when I found it because I don't usually go for the sweeter perfumes, but like at least a touch of the floral.. I'm more of a floral / oriental person.
Well, when I smelled it, I was really amazed. It was sweet, but almost like a sweet WIND , if you can imagine that.

Apres L'Onde, by Guerlain is the closed scent that I could think of, but Apres is much lighter and has the cedar. Apres L'Onde means 'after the rain' so it has that sweet wind smell I describe.
ICI, is I would say more grounded/ solid. I'm hoping to get it at a good price sometime soon.

One of my favorites, I got Ici when it first came out and have kept a few bottles in my possession ever since. Never realized there are chocolate/cocoa notes, I just loved it for the heady combination of sweetness, florals and musk. It smelled different from anything I smelled before, I could just spray it on and revel in it, which I did. Back then I wore it all the time, at work and going out, everywhere. Got lots of compliments on it from men and women. I burned myself out on the stuff, nowadays I wear it only once in a great while.

What a cute little sweetie! There is something sour on the first spray, citrus-y, but not a blast of lemon...more like a sour cherry, mixed with some sweet florals. There is a sort of "musky marshmallow" smell in the background that I get in a lot of inexpensive celebrity perfumes (Hello Mariah Carey!), but it's not very pronounced. About an hour into it, there was a smooth, buttery toffee with a dusting of cocoa powder that ran under the sour and the flowers. It is quite artificial-smelling, but not unpleasant at all. I don't know if I'll be wearing this all the time, but I won't shy away from it.

I just discovered this Coty fragrance at Walmart, and I am totaly shocked at how good it smells. It's very spicy and sugary sweet. There is a strong vanilla smell although I don't see vanilla in the mixings. If you enjoy sweet scents like BS and PH you will love this. The bottle is too small though. I think I will keep this in my stockpile.

A very sweet(too sweet) and simple scent. It smells like a mixture of cherries and vanilla. It did have one of the great advertising slogans of all time: "Put it where you want to be kissed".

I wore Ici briefly in my early 30s. It was a nice but a tad strong, sugary sweet smelling fragrance with 3 to 4 hour lasting power. I found it a bit too sugary for me.

Ici was a purchase made on a day where I woke up and knew I just needed to buy perfume. I'm a Chanel wearing lover of class, but for no reason I can understand, something about a plastic crystal shaped cap makes me want to buy a perfume. Must be the same part of me that dressed as a fairy princess for Halloween year after year.

Anyway this was a cheap walmart buy that i really enjoy. Its a very simple sweet scent that smells the way easter chocolates taste. Not gourmet chocolates but the sugar chocolates that come in colorful foil wrappers. There is also a hint of a sweet fruit in there, kind of an orange without the citrus bite.

I do get tired of this scent after a few hours and crave something a bit more unique, or perhaps just less sweet.
Good lasting power, would make a nice gift or first perfume.

Coty does really well with sweet vanillas but they have been around long enough that I feel like I've smelled them all.

I found Ici by chance on sale at a local store and, could I pass it up? Oh heck no. I remembered seeing it recently here and couldn't resist. Ici is not 80's at all. It starts out a sweet floral with the softest trace of cocoa bean. Much like a pod of cocoa beans when you first open it, not cocoa powder. It then goes through an odd phase I wasn't completely sure about, but quickly settles into something reminiscent of white chocolate and fresh cocoa beans. Nice!

I should add for those not familiar with fresh cocoa beans since I mention them, that they have a juicy, almost lychee textured fleshy edible coating around the bean. The flavor and scent are lightly fruity, very slightly sweet, watery and refreshing. Not super sweet (such as a lychee) or tart. Very good actually. If you get a chance to try one you should check it out!

Oh WOW! This fragrance is pure and absolute nostalgia for me. I used tweak extremely bad over this as a young girl and when I say tweak, I do mean tweak. I used to be just ga-ga over this fragrance. I remember the commercial saying "Spray It Where You Want To Be Kissed", and I'd spray it on my neck and wrists and hands and then I'd tell my friends to do the same. I can still remember the intense smell of orchids, musk and genuine sweetness. It might've been cheap, but back then nobody could tell me I didn't smell like a million bucks. For me, Ici was nothing but absolute love. I haven't worn it in years. Perhaps it's time to take a trip down memory lane because Ici is truly unforgettable. It's youthful, can be worn everyday and better suited for the autumn.

My mother has fallen in love with this perfume.It starts with a burst of citrus then fades into a nice cocoa, musky smell. Rich.My mother smells wonderful.

it smells like plastic... too sweet... good for teens, but not for me, thanks.

When Flowerbomb was introduced I instantly thought of Ici because the magazine strip smelled exactly like Ici. They are not the same exactly, but Ici came out first and for 1995 there were not many gourmand perfumes around. Coty hit the mark with this one. It's not expensive... but I have a bottle of the edt from years ago and it smells incredible. I love it during the Autumn because of the cocoa and amber. Ici was WAY ahead of it's time.

I remember for the comercial made for Ici (or here in french when translated)... It sais 'put it where you want to be kissed...I never tryed it but I want to if I can find it.

my mum loves this perfume!! she has worn it forever, every time I smell it I think of her. I've tried wearing it a few times and I do like it, but it smells better on her. Its a soft scent with a bit of to me smells to me like a sharp note.

Oh man, this is going be a long review....sorry if I bore you all with it. Ici has been with me for over 10 years now (since the age of 17 back in 1999) it is my favorite perfume of all time, my security blanket, and I would dare even say my legal drug of choice (haha) since it makes me feel so darn happy and puts me in a dreamlike state.

I have so many memories linked with Ici. From early on when I was a teenage girl going joyriding with my friends on the avenue looking for "cute guys", to having my sad days crying in my bedroom. There's so much more but I will try to keep this review from being TOO long.

Now for the actual scent: Ici smells extremely sweet and citrusy without it being sickenly sweet (if that makes any sense). It reminds me of a chocolate covered orange with a hint of flowers in the background. I also detect grapefruit though it's not listed as one of the notes. It's a beautiful scent and I encourage everyone who hasn't smelled it to go out and at least try it once. Ici still stands the test of time even today. To me it is a masterpiece.

Love love love this one - you cannot go wrong with it. I am glad it was finally added to the database. There is a sweet yet bitterness to it. I have also heard of it being compared by others to flowerbomb. I have worn this off and on since I was a teenager when it came out in 1995, so it brings back memories. Quite a sophisticated scent overall with many interesting notes.

Was happpy to see this one was finally added to the database--one of my favorites(but getting very difficult to find now). I don't get the chocolate note--when I smell it it's reminiscent of my father's cherry pipe tobacco. Better than it sounds, believe me.
This is a softer, better version of FlowerBomb to my nose.

When ure on a budget and u want a great gourmand thats the one.nice chocolate note.