Cabotine (1990)
by Grès

Cabotine opens like tuberoses grown from earth. Sweet flowers accompanied by earthiness and greenness. Then it evolves into a scent very similar to Dove soap if my memory recalls well. Soapy at first, then it mellows and becomes less sharp. After about 3 hours, jasmine becomes prominent among all the floral notes but not overpowering. It then continues the ode to flowers for another 7 hours.

Cabotine is like a garden. It doesn't punch into face like a bouquet of various flowers. The flowers shows themsevles one after another along the path of the evolution of the fragrance while still in harmony. I can't pick any green or woody notes distinctively, but I can certainly feel their efforts balancing the whole fragrance. The sillage is quite good, but it doesn't smell heavy, more like flowers brought by the wind, floating in the air. The longevity is between 10 and 12 hours.

A wonderful fragrance for spring!

Originally written in 2013

On me, it smells like Poison Tendre by Dior. Love it!

Evil in a bottle. The notes look non-threatening, but don't be fooled. It's a trap. It's like an icepick in the eye followed by slow poisoning.

Goodness, I never thought I would experience this kind of "fragrance".

I always liked "the different" but this just smelled like something you kill insects or plants with. No florals nor vanilla could I detect. Nothing but pain in the nostrils. This was a cheap blindbuy from the internet so I thought, why not?

No-one likes it (and I tried to give it away to many people before I gave it to charity. It will probably be there forever until someone tosses it).

I recommend this to people who wants to be left alone. This one is perfect for that. People repellent.

(Perhaps I got a really bad one, but I have to be honest with you guys. I feel sorry for leaving such a bad review, but it is the truth for this particular one. Be careful out there with Cabotine Gres!)

It reminded me of YSL Paris a little. Rose and soap and peach.
The dry down is good and floral but nothing original. Smells like a typical Bank of England smell.