Davidoff

Cool Elixir for Women

The houseFor women

VersionParfum Intense

Earthy oakmoss with a bright bergamot lift over jasmine, drying down to patchouli and sweet vanilla.

Davidoff says

You’ll smell oakmoss absolute, jasmine and vanilla.

The house’s page

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Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Cool Elixir for Women’s scent picture, a draft: oakmoss, jasmine, vanilla (vanillin), bergamot, lemon, sweet orange drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Cool Elixir for Women, top notes: Oakmoss, Bergamot, Lemon, Sweet orange, Bitter orange

Heartas it settles

Cool Elixir for Women, heart: Jasmine, Cinnamon

Dry-downwhat stays

Cool Elixir for Women, dry-down: Vanilla (vanillin), Patchouli, Iso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet), Galaxolide (musk), Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What Davidoff names

Oakmoss absoluteJasmineVanilla

What the label names

32 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

7 citrus4 herbs & lavender10 florals2 woods2 sweet5 spices1 musks1 earth & moss

Citrus7

Bergamot oilLimoneneLemon oilBitter orange oilCitralTerpinolenealpha-Terpinene

Herbs & lavender4

PineneLinaloolLinalyl acetateTerpineol

Florals10

Neroli oilBenzyl salicylateHydroxycitronellalDimethyl phenethyl acetateGeraniol (rose)Geranyl acetateCitronellolCinnamyl alcoholFarnesolRose ketones

Woods2

Patchouli oilIso E Super (pencil shavings on velvet)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (new-mown hay)

Spices5

beta-CaryophylleneCinnamon bark oilIsoeugenyl acetateIsoeugenolCinnamal

Musks1

Galaxolide (musk)

Earth & moss1

Oakmoss absolute
10 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell10

AlcoholWaterOctisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)A light stabiliserBenzyl benzoateBenzyl alcoholCi 19140Ci 14700Ci 42090

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.