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Cabotine (for women)

Designer: Gres Olfactive Group: Chypre Floral
In the creator's imagination, Cabotine is a daughter of Cabochard, a younger generation perfume, which has preserved the elegance and distinction of Cabochard. It was created with love and enthusiasm, with a very limited budget, and it became a classic of the 1990-ties.

It was created by Jean-Claude Delville from IFF, and he was expected to make a light but lasting perfume, what was a hard task to do. The perfumer found its formula in floral-aldehyde accord and presented a transparent fragrance with green floral and sharp aldehyde notes. The perfume is very light, easy to wear and at the same time tenacious. It achieved success regardless of very limited advertising and promotional support.

The composition is created around the ginger lily, also known as a butterfly lily, a Himalayan large-petalled white flower. Growing in harsh high mountains climate, this plant blooms for only a few weeks in the spring time, and each flower lives only for a few hours, what makes it difficult, almost impossible, to extract the oil. An IFF pioneering researcher, Dr. Braja Mookherjee, found a way to analyse the oil structure using the 'living-flower' technique, and to copy the fragrance of the ginger lily, what enabled the industrial production. Cabotine is the first perfume which contains ginger lily in its composition.

The top notes contain blackcurrant buds, pear, plum and corriander. The heart is composed of rose, tuberose, ylang-ylang, ginger lily, hyacinth, heliotrop, fresia, violet and iris. The base notes are cedarwood, vanilla, tonka bean, cybet, musk and amber. The perfume was created in 1990. The bottle, whose stopper was turned into a shape of flower, was created by Thierry Lecoule. Cabotine was launched in 1990.

Fragrance Notes

top notes
CorianderBlack CurrantPlumCassiaPeachTangerineOrange Blossom
middle notes
CarnationTuberoseIrisVioletFreesiaGingerJasmineHiacynthHeliotropeYlang-YlangRose
base notes
SandalwoodTonka BeanAmberMuskCivetVanillaVetiverCedarBlack Currant
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VEry nice, one of those scents you smell someone wearing and have to ask about! Its a mood lifting scent. Clean and green but warm.
12/01/08 04:07:33
Cabotine is a cheerful green floral on my skin. I bought this one unsniffed after falling in love with Gres' Cabaret perfume, and I have fallen in love with this one, too. The EDT can be found online or at discount stores for very little money, and it has incredible staying power even in this concentration.

It opens with a sweet tropical floral note. The top notes are feminine and pretty, but the best thing about all of the Gres perfumes is the dry-down, and Cabotine is no exception. Very sexy, with a touch of incense and powder. I detect some similarity between Cabotine's dry-down and Cabaret's, though Cabotine's is a little sweeter.

It does seem like a spring/summer scent, but I'm not going to let that stop me from wearing it this winter. If you're a fan of florals or floral chypres, it's probably worth a try.
11/26/08 00:09:30
 
i like this fragrance but after a while it becomes disgusting, not enought fresh, because anise
11/11/08 03:17:13
Oh p.s
I bought the cabotine bleau.
It smells crisp when it first hits your skin. Then it dries down to a lovely warm creamy finish.
Quite subtle though and doesn't last that long.It's good for day wear,,even summer.
10/18/08 11:51:34
I just adore this perfume.
It's so fresh clean and feminine. I get so many admirers when i wear this one.
Although it is so hard to get it anywhere! I think i will but one soon, as i have finished mine some time ago now, but i can't stop coming back to it.
LOVE IT LOVE IT LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
10/18/08 11:40:48
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Disgusting. One of the worst perfumes I ever had. If you want to shy away rats... this one is perfect.
10/04/08 12:39:17
Sharp, green, crispy. I'm not decided yet if I like it, on me it smells too alcoholic. Bottle is nice.
10/02/08 13:05:46
Nice and simple for every day use. If you want to feel good, clean and freshy but not to drag too much attention this one is perfect.
09/27/08 14:48:00
Huge personality.If you are smoking, this will nutralize cigarettes smell on your clothes, as one of my old friends say.
09/24/08 06:08:15
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For me it smells like mothball :-(
09/18/08 15:07:50
There is something so retro about Cabotine. From the design of the bottle to the print on the box, this screams drug store fragrance, and yet you can find it in Lord and Taylor and smells wonderful. This scent is different than most- it is light, green but warm. It is true what the other writers say in that it can not be worn by everyone. Let your chemistry guide you, but def. try it out.
09/18/08 14:54:35
I love this for the summer. Strangely, I don't like the initial green/aldehydes notes as much, but I love the warm ginger lily after it is dry.
08/14/08 18:38:01
I adored this perfume; very much a 90s scent for me, so I suspect I won't ever go back to it ... Very lovely, though, and rather unusual, with exceptionally good staying power. Not your average chypre floral, with a really pretty bottle. Very elegant and French.
08/01/08 17:13:00
 
It was really good but it can't be a classic i think...
06/30/08 21:07:12
Like caribou55313 said, a very happy chypre with the bonus of being so long lasting. A green scent that is more suitable for a hot sunny day = so I would wear it in the summer.
01/05/08 16:23:07
A cheerful scent, happier than Happy! Highly diffusive, sharp and sweet. Juicy floral green; the blackcurrant bud and ginger lily give it lots of zing.
11/01/07 01:44:19
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Kind of like Red Door by Elizabeth Arden.
10/06/07 01:49:13

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