02/11/2024

DogiCoco
568 Reviews

DogiCoco
2
Tonka in disguise
I'm absolutely flabbergasted that this doesn't have a tonka note. It smells like your typical tonka scent with all the different facets of the bean: Cherry-like sweetness, dry marzipan and cookie dough, powdery facets, even a hay-like undertone... But if we believe the notes list, it all comes from other things.
Parfumo has a very minimal list for this anyways, but other sites have more notes listed: vanilla, cinnamon, benzoin, patch, plum, dried fruits, bitter orange, rose, artemisia and angelica. And some of these are very noticeable.
I can definitely sense lots of vanilla and cinnamon here, this is a warm, sweet, autumnal/wintery kind of scent. The balsamic notes like labdanum (and benzoin I saw listed on another site) also make sense. I guess the chamomile is what I perceive as hay-like, like a bag of chamomile tea. Or maybe it's the buchu, a note I'm not familiar with at all? Or the angelica? There is something undeniably herbal about this.
The dried fruits might be the culprit for the cherry note, after all cherries can be dried, too, and this is not the juiciest cherry anyways.
Maasaï Mara is very enjoyable, smooth, warm and cozy, but it doesn't stand out to me among all the other spicy tonka/cherry winter scents like Khaltat Night, Brecourt Farah or even Fève Délicieuse. They have the same effect on me, but with more depth and individuality. If I hadn't already smelled many similar perfumes, I might have loved this, but well, I did.
Parfumo has a very minimal list for this anyways, but other sites have more notes listed: vanilla, cinnamon, benzoin, patch, plum, dried fruits, bitter orange, rose, artemisia and angelica. And some of these are very noticeable.
I can definitely sense lots of vanilla and cinnamon here, this is a warm, sweet, autumnal/wintery kind of scent. The balsamic notes like labdanum (and benzoin I saw listed on another site) also make sense. I guess the chamomile is what I perceive as hay-like, like a bag of chamomile tea. Or maybe it's the buchu, a note I'm not familiar with at all? Or the angelica? There is something undeniably herbal about this.
The dried fruits might be the culprit for the cherry note, after all cherries can be dried, too, and this is not the juiciest cherry anyways.
Maasaï Mara is very enjoyable, smooth, warm and cozy, but it doesn't stand out to me among all the other spicy tonka/cherry winter scents like Khaltat Night, Brecourt Farah or even Fève Délicieuse. They have the same effect on me, but with more depth and individuality. If I hadn't already smelled many similar perfumes, I might have loved this, but well, I did.