Guerlain Elixir Charnel Gourmand Coquin
4.4
Overall
Accords
warm spicy
cacao
chocolate
sweet
vanilla
rum
rose
Notes Pyramid
Top
RumPepper
Heart
RoseSpices
Base
Dark ChocolateCacaoVanilla
Community Verdict
Pros & Cons
- ✅ The best chocolate perfume ever. I tried Feve Gourmande and while they are 90% similar, Gourmand Coquin is better. I get candied roses, rum, vanilla, chocolate, and spices. Stunning gourmand without smelling juvenile. 10/10
- ✅ Exquisite. I love this fragrance dearly. It is a sexy and rich scent that envelopes you in a gorgeous chocolate rose cloud.
- ✅ So freaking good. I found an excellent clone from Andromeda's Moon for anyone looking! It's not a typical clone house, just one artisan with an excellent nose and ingredients. I know most clones suck, that's why I proselytize for her. Anyway, the chocolate, rum, spices, rose, and vanilla of this make an intoxicating blend. Gourmand for sure, but not just a simple sugar bomb. It's sexy and smells good enough to eat!
- ✅ I love this fragrance dearly. It is a sexy and rich scent that envelopes you in a gorgeous chocolate rose cloud.
- ✅ I love this fragrance despite the poor performance and poor sillage. It last 30 minutes only on my skin but I don't care since I use this fragrance for my bedtime and I love the deep sweet of roses and chocolate so much that giving me a good night sleep.
- ❌ It’s okay, I mean, it’s more boozy than chocolate-y on my skin and that’s what bothers me so much about it… No trace of tea or rose notes whatsoever, which is sad, but all in all a nice quality fragrance? Not worth the thousands of dollars though…
- ❌ When I first purchased the FB, I did get the chocolate liquor, dessert, holiday fruit cake fragrance that caused me to consume half the bottle within six months. Then it changed on my skin to becoming a little synthetic and chemically, which overpowers the gourmand notes that I previously described. I use it for a car spray from time to time, which is true to the notes, but on my skin it is a different story. I try it every season to see if it will change back to the notes I fell in love with, but it is just a chemical sweetness that you would get from Aqualina Pink Sugar or any cheap gourmand perfume, unfortunately.
- ❌ I received both Feve Gourmand and Gourmand Coquin from two different people in a fragrance swap. They are identical! They smell exactly the same and perform the same. There is no reason to hunt down older bottles and pay triple. That being said- I really dislike this 😂 The opening of rum was rough though I felt the same way about Dior Vanilla Diorama and now it’s one of my favorites. Then they both turn into a plastic-like chocolate “dolls head” with a note that smells like hair product but I’m not sure what- gel, mousse? Not hair spray though. I think I also smell “stale cake” I dunno. Maybe it will grow on me but this isn’t for me.
- ❌ I do not get the hype over this. It is very earthy, and smells like dirt on
