Costamor is a line inspired by the smells of Costa Rica. At first sniff, you know that Dulcess is based on a dessert of some kind. The kind of dessert that a little girl tastes and never forgets, trying for years to replicate that recipe but always feeling like it is not the same as they remember.
Dulcess is a very sweet fragrance. Sniffing it in the bottle, I get a very literal brown sugar. On the skin, I get about the same. It’s a burnt sugar with toasted coconut, sweet but not cloying. And then I get fruity, coconut macaroons with bergamot. The dry-down is very sweet and creamy with a suggestion of “modern woods” and mainstream musk. Dulcess is a dessert, a “fantasy” dessert that none of us has tasted. But, when I smell this, I believe that it could exist.
Notes listed include almond blossom, pear, mandarin, muguet, cyclamen, coconut, vanilla bean, creamy musk and sandalwood.
Try Dulcess if you like sweet, gourmand perfumes or perfumes like B&BW Warm Vanilla Sugar, Juara Candlenut Oil, Aquolina Pink Sugar, Huitieme Art Sucre d’Ebene, and/or Calypso St. Barth Lea. The scent reminds me the most of B&BW Warm Vanilla Sugar. Since toasted sugar isn’t something I want to smell like all of the time, I’m happy with my cheap-o B&BW $20 perfume. If you like to wear sweet perfumes frequently, try the Costamor. Dulcess isn’t for me but I can see why people enjoy wearing it since it’s sweet but not heavy or cloying.
The scent has average projection and longevity. I can’t say that about my cheap-o B&BW perfume.
The 1.7 oz spray of Costamor Dulcess retails for $75 and is available at Lucky Scent.
Victoria’s Final EauPINION – Toasted sugar and burnt coconut. This reminds me of fragrances I can get for much cheaper (since sugar is sugar to me). It isn’t a bad fragrance but it’s too familiar; hence, I’m not impressed. But, I like other scents by this house. And I had a feeling this would be my least favorite from the line.
Want more reviews? Try…
Fragrantica – Member reviews
don’t they have a bunch of sugar fragrances?
ugh, my teeth hurt.
Brian recently posted..Tauer VERDANT – first impression of the Pentachords series
Is 50% a bunch? Well, I guess Tabacca is sweet too but in a different way. 75% sweet?
I hear people like sweet…
when people stop eating sugar they still want to smell like sugar… it’s like diabetic perfume.
sugar is OK once in a while but wtf? 😉
Brian recently posted..Tauer VERDANT – first impression of the Pentachords series
I’m making insulin perfume.
It will not surprise you to learn that I find this one *gross.* Not quite as bad as Pink Sugar, but Pink Sugar can see Dulcess from where it’s squatting.
Dulcess was passed around at a recent Knows Perfume class, and the two Groupon drop-ins (both perfume muggles) LOVED it. I liked them less after that.
Gnosmic recently posted..EauMG’s Best Masculine Fragrances
It doesn’t surprise me at all that you think this is gross. It’s sugar. And then sugar. And then some more sugar over some “modern musks”.
The last time I was there, I also saw TWO people buy this. That’s why I said that somebody likes it. But, hey, they’re interested in perfume, so it’s a start.
[…] EauMG – If you want to smell like sugar, then you should try Costamor Dulcess. […]
[…] Disco Nap a try if you like sweet perfumes or perfumes like Costamor Dulcess, Bath and Body Works Warm Vanilla Sugar, and/or Serge Lutens Un Bois […]
[…] aren’t too sweet or if you like perfumes like Prada Candy, Parfumerie Generale Indochine, Costamor Dulcess, Pacifica Island Vanilla and/or Guerlain Myrrh et Delires. Un Bois Vanille is […]
[…] Sugar Bandit a try if you like gourmands. Or perfumes like Costamor Dulcess, Prada Candy, Laura Mercier Eau Gourmande Creme Brulee, B&BW Warm Vanilla Sugar and/or B&BW […]
[…] Pink Sugar Sensual opens sweet orange oil, tart cassis and pink lemonade. And I get there’s clean, fresh towels, like a clean musk. The white florals are waxy, warm but of course they are candied. This is an Aquolina perfume! The white flower petals are covered in sugar crystals. Cutting through the sweet, waxy florals, there is a subtle camphoric patchouli. Pink Sugar Sensual dries down to sugared woods and vanilla reminding me of the niche perfume Costamor Dulchess. […]
[…] Costamor Dulcess EDP – Dulcess is like toasted sugar and burnt coconut. It’s more like a baked good than some sort of tropical cocktail. It’s like a coconut cookie. Retails for $75 at Luckyscent. Full review here. […]