L’ Aromarine ~ Cola
L’ Aromarine Cola eau de toilette smells exactly like you think it ought to: like cola. The first time I sprayed it I could identify spice in the beginning - a little dab of ginger, possibly a pinch of cumin. There’s also orange in this fragrance as well. But after all of five minutes, even on that first try, it was like an RC Cola. Wait, no, it’s more like a frozen Coke. Or maybe this is just like those cola-flavored Bottlecaps I used to love when I was a kid. You know what? It’s all three. Despite the sweetness of the scent, it is not syrupy to my nose. I can’t even smell the spice or orange anymore, all I know now is that there’s gonna be cola the second it leaves the atomizer.
Perhaps it sounds like a juevenille fragrance to wear, and for that matter, perhaps it actually is one.
I don’t care.
I have a total schoolgirl crush on this scent. Cola makes me happy; it even makes me smile just thinking about it while I’m typing this. I’d have to say this is the most ridiculously fun scent I’ve tried in ages.
The staying power ain’t great. Worse yet, it’s one of those tricky little suckers that fool you into thinking it has evaporated after an hour or so, while everyone else still senses that you’re wearing it for a few hours.
I don’t care.
Because. it. smells. like. cola! No one’s going to ever proclaim this fragrance as an ineffable piece of art. However, it’s exactly right to my nose and I’m completely smitten. What else can I say? Cola!
In the US, Cola can be purchased online through smallflower.com (online site of Merz Apothecary in Chicago), and BohoBelle, with apparently free shipping for deliveries weighing under 2 kg.
Image from dpsu.com. Sorry about all the boring hyperlinks in that first paragraph. I am unsure sometimes about what is familiar to most people versus that which exists purely within American pop culture alone.
February 27th, 2006 at 3:55 pm
Hey, I read about these on Scenteur7, the bottles are so cool… have you tried any of the others?
February 27th, 2006 at 9:08 pm
There’s the Peach and the Mure Musc, neither of which are too bad, though obviously they are extremely simple scents.
February 28th, 2006 at 4:24 am
I couldn’t resist… and just bought a 1.5 l bottle of coke. I hadn’t had it for months. Still feels good. Perfumery wise it wouldn’t be it for me, though. I want a Dr. Pepper perfume…..
February 28th, 2006 at 4:37 am
Oh, Andy - a Dr. Pepper Perfume? You must try Escada Collection or Givenchy Oblique Rewind!
Katie - thanks for the review, I’ve gotta try this!
February 28th, 2006 at 5:41 am
Katie,
I’ve been lemming this for ages. Why haven’t I caved on a scent that costs under $20, you might ask. Well…it’s that juevenille aspect you were talking about. But there is no stopping me now! :-)
February 28th, 2006 at 6:05 am
When I was a little girl & had an upset stomach, I was always given a few teaspoons of something called “Cola syrup”, poured over crushed ice. I loved that smell. Will have to look for this one.
February 28th, 2006 at 11:06 am
Like I said elsewhere, I want to get this to remind me of the lollipops that came out of the pierrot head in the cola flavor I used to get after piano lessons. On my way to fizz land. Thanks for the tip!
February 28th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
I like this one too! And sometimes I get a similar feeling with Dinner by Bobo.
February 28th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
Andy, I’m actually more a Diet Coke with lemon or lime kind of a gal, but every so often I crave the full on sugar version.
And Dr. Pepper would be a fun little fragrance note, so thanks for those ideas Marlen.
Marina, I know.. I’ve had the same hesitations even though it’s no more than some at the drugstore cost. But I’d been sitting on an Amazon.com gift certificate for a while waiting to see if they got in a book I’ve been looking for, and when Marlen brought them back to my attention, I decided to just blow book money on perfume instead, heh.
Robin, I’ve never heard of that doled out for when you’re sick, but I still remember this soda shop that was open when I was a kid, and they had syrup versions of all those different flavors, including cola syrup. I have to say, and this might just be nostalgia talking, that those tasted so much better than the stuff that gets bottled up in plastic and aluminum cans.
Cait, I don’t think that this is “fizzy” in smell exactly, though I’m guessing that might be why some of the spice is in there? I think you’ll have fun with it, certainly.
Victoria, you know, I’ve heard that about Bobo. I have a sample I have yet to get around to trying of it, so I’ll be looking forward to that aspect of it when I do :)