Coney Island (2007)
by Bond No. 9

I really want to defend this unpopular scent. The margarita takes over more than anything else (almost indistinguishable from the other fruit notes). I never really got much of the gourmand, rather I find that the margarita lingers throughout. I love it! Beautiful and unique, just sour and salty enough to give it life and make it stand out from any other citrus-aquatic. I'm definitely not the only person who smelled this for the first time and thought "WOW!!"

26th January, 2012.

nice perfume
ideal for summer season

19th December, 2011.

Coney Island starts with a very prominent melon note which is accompanied by a salty aroma and a citric note as well, thanks to the margarita mix. Here I think is worth saying that this salty note is way much better than the one we can find in Sel Marin.

After about 20 minutes this smell disappear a little bit together with this strange transition between citric and gourmand notes giving space again to a delicious melon note, but not just a pure melon. Here the fruit seems to be soaked in a sugar syrup leaving a wonderful impression that stays until the end. Anyway, an awesome fragrance with an awesome longevity!

13rd November, 2011.

Imagine yourself in a "meet market" bar with a Key West sort of theme. You're chatting up someone that you find attractive, both drinking margaritas, though this stunning blonde passes by you a little too closely with a wink and a gleam in her eye and a come hither look that makes you take your eyes off the 'other' woman you were trying to impress moments ago. She lets you know what a pig you are by tossing a full margarita on you before she walks away, leaving you in embarrassment.

This is Bond No. 9 Coney Island. If you wanted to smell like a margarita...granted, wearing this would be far less embarrassing and you'd lack a good story, but someone would likely ask if you'd done the Jimmy Buffett lunch. It's fruity fresh in a unique way before it becomes a candy-coated confection, then a musky wood. There's a lot going on here, but it all seems random and difficult to describe, as if there's a personality conflict with the fragrance. I sense that the perfumer was looking for an essence of what a day on the boardwalk would resemble.

This isn't something I'd wear, not does it suit my age bracket. This one would be best left to "Snooki" and "The Situation", though I might be insulting the Jersey Shore on one more count by so doing.

15th August, 2011.

very interesting scent! i get a nice mix of sweet and citrus notes in this. it's pretty much linear throughout, and longevity is very good. i get around 10 hours? though the scent cloud doesn't project very well. oh also, it may seem really synthetic to some. and i have to agree, after a while it does piss me off. great for once-in-a-while usage, but i wouldn't wear this everyday!

21st May, 2011.

Very interesting, one of the sourest and saltiest aquatics out there although many sweet and gourmand notes as caramel, chocolate and vanilla are listed among the ingredients. I guess that the key notes are the tropical Margarita mix, crude melon and Guava in the top and cedar in the base, with the spicy hint of cinnamon in the middle. These notes are over dosed in order to overtake a bit the creamy sweet elements in the engage to make the juice exuding a salty oceanic effect. The outcome of the struggle between tart and gourmand elements is a salty effect with sweet, greedy nuances.  Margarita and Guava are so tart and sour in effects (a lime sort of smell) in the way that, in opposition with caramel, chocolate and vanilla (thankfully  in modest amount) you can perceive the wonderful effect of salty and iodate breeze smell on the fragrant skin spread with smelling of coco-chocolate tanning oils. It's a genial concoction in my opinion. The last notes as musk and sandalwood are usual also for many aquatics and contribute to impress a bit of woodsy, airy feel. Very impressing longevity and good sillage.

19th February, 2011. (Last Edited: 19th August, 2011.)