Cocoa Pink The Un-Red Review

Brand: Cocoa Pink
Availability: General Catalog Autumn/Winter (N/A in Spring/Summer)
Notes: This blend would make any vampire or other undead creature stalk your bathroom. Buckets of bloody orange juice, sweet vanilla, bourbon vanilla, sandalwoods and ambers. 

First impression out of bottle: Campari and orange juice (it was my mom's signature drink in the '90s, ok?)

Freshly applied: Tart, super nice blood orange juice, like the kind you'd find freshly-pressed in Ina Garten's kitchen.

"If you can't harvest your blood oranges from a centuries-old Sicilian orchard...store-bought will be fine."

Drydown: Same tart luscious blood orange juice, now with a beautiful sweet vanilla woods tone. I really do get the "buckets" of juice smell, because it has kind of a cascading juicy smell. Reminds me of the scent you get from pouring a glass of fresh blood orange juice. The vanilla sandalwood background is so soft and almost fuzzy. This is like the gorgeous but demure sister of the brash and sexy grown-up creamsicle Lucrezia Borgia from Deconstructing Eden. Where that has patchouli and labdanum to deepen and adult-ify the blend, this relies on more innocent sandalwood vanilla. 

Sophisticated vanilla orange

After several hours: Same, but lighter on the citrus and more focused on the soft vanilla sandalwood. 

Longevity: High
Sillage: Medium. The blood orange isn't POW after the first few minutes, but overall the perfume has nice throw and it doesn't immediately lose the citrus. 

Would an [X] lover love this? Citrus-vanilla lovers, i.e. members of the Possets Dance With Me army, will really like this. It's fluffy and sweet without being childish, thanks to the sophisticated blood orange.

Would an [X] hater love this? I think if you hate sandalwood, vanilla, and orange, then you can give this a pass. If you are open to any of those notes, then try it out as it's a really fun blend of the three.

Where am I? Eating a creamy citrus dessert in a room filled with sandalwood knicknacks.

Where would I wear this? This is a daytime scent to me, but I'd wear it for summer or winter, work or social stuff. I think the notes are a great marriage that don't specifically scream one occasion or weather type.