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Sunny picnic in the early nineties
This is delightful! I blind-bought the EDP version out of curiosity because of all the reviews and comparisons to Dior’s Tendre Poison, and it was a risky one for me, because green scents often tickle my nostrils the wrong way and can be even headache-inducing. This is definitely not the case! Cabotine is green honey, dewy freshness, spring flowers and sticky new leaves and buds. It’s so happy and carefree that it took my mind off all the horrors of the world I’ve been contemplating when I woke up.
This is a retro fragrance, no mistake, but retro in a very good way. It’s like a window to the past. I don’t understand all the “old lady” references I sometimes see in reviews on various resources. When I smell this, I can see my childhood and my mother’s perfume cabinet. I don’t know which one of those 80s frags Cabotine reminds me of, but I definitely smelled something like this when I used to bring a stool to reach for the shelf where mom kept her treasures. Lancome Ô Oui? Revillon Turbulences? Combination of both on my little wrists?
Cabotine EDP smells like late eighties and early nineties, yes, but it smells like young people back then, like oversized plastic jewelry and sequins, curled voluminous hairstyles, flowy fabrics, high-heeled sandals, overdone makeup. Yet all these hip made-up young people are out in the sun on the green having a picnic and drinking a sparkling white wine. It’s fresh, airy, festive, natural, lively. I don’t know how else to describe it. It’s sweet, like the wine can be sweet – not like candy. It has this interesting balance of innocence and sexiness, which makes it sound youthful, exuberant, and carefree. Old-lady, indeed!
With respect to Tendre Poison, I don’t think I can give a very detailed comparison because my only acquaintance with Dior’s discontinued scent is from a miniature I’ve recently bought, and I can’t say how well it’s preserved. All I can say is that I see the similarity, but Cabotine is sweeter and less green – which I prefer, I must say. If such a thing existed in perfume vocabulary, I'd say it's green versus chartreuse (just the color of Cabotine!)
This is a retro fragrance, no mistake, but retro in a very good way. It’s like a window to the past. I don’t understand all the “old lady” references I sometimes see in reviews on various resources. When I smell this, I can see my childhood and my mother’s perfume cabinet. I don’t know which one of those 80s frags Cabotine reminds me of, but I definitely smelled something like this when I used to bring a stool to reach for the shelf where mom kept her treasures. Lancome Ô Oui? Revillon Turbulences? Combination of both on my little wrists?
Cabotine EDP smells like late eighties and early nineties, yes, but it smells like young people back then, like oversized plastic jewelry and sequins, curled voluminous hairstyles, flowy fabrics, high-heeled sandals, overdone makeup. Yet all these hip made-up young people are out in the sun on the green having a picnic and drinking a sparkling white wine. It’s fresh, airy, festive, natural, lively. I don’t know how else to describe it. It’s sweet, like the wine can be sweet – not like candy. It has this interesting balance of innocence and sexiness, which makes it sound youthful, exuberant, and carefree. Old-lady, indeed!
With respect to Tendre Poison, I don’t think I can give a very detailed comparison because my only acquaintance with Dior’s discontinued scent is from a miniature I’ve recently bought, and I can’t say how well it’s preserved. All I can say is that I see the similarity, but Cabotine is sweeter and less green – which I prefer, I must say. If such a thing existed in perfume vocabulary, I'd say it's green versus chartreuse (just the color of Cabotine!)
Updated on 06/23/2023