...and I can't think of much more to say about Cole's "Signature".
It's a somewhat flabby, slightly lye-like, mildly sweet aquatic. The comment below from MartinGE, that it would stylistically be an 80s fragrance, hits me like a brick. 80s???!!! That???!! Please!
I can't think of a single scent from the decade before last that would be similar to such an olfactorily tired and shallow thing.
At the beginning, slightly sour grapefruit and somewhat unnaturally sounding violet mix together, while the water lily, surrounded by the usual post-2000 aquatic synthetic nuances, quickly becomes prominent.
Slightly Asian in tone, the water lily has a somewhat herb-floral quality. Espresso? Yes, perhaps vaguely detectable in the form of a slightly black coffee-like bitterness.
Unfortunately, none of this is stunning; the composition strikes me as a bit lye-like, shallow, and unnatural. That the base then features the favorite wood of all post-2000 mainstream average perfumers, the misty-sweet-rubber-toned guaiac wood, which forms the core theme, concludes the fragrance just as it began.
The color scheme of the inherently beautiful bottle along with the color of the liquid stands in stark contrast to the content - one expects something dark, powerful, woody, perhaps leathery - and gets a harmless, watery, and powerless Aquaguajak concoction.
It's like getting into a pretty, dark leather Jaguar with fine wood elements and breaking through the floor onto the street...
