L’ Aromarine ~ Cola
Monday, February 27th, 2006
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.