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Cocovanilla Body Mist 100ml
Alyssa Ashley Cocovanilla Body Mist 100ml is a body product rather than a perfume, and it should be judged as one: light, cheerful, applied generously and reapplied without a second thought.
The scent is exactly what the name promises. Coconut and vanilla lead together, the coconut creamy and milky rather than oily, the vanilla soft and pale, with amalfi lemon cutting a bright sweet citrus line through them and passion fruit adding a tart tropical edge so the opening is not purely a dessert.
Tiare flower and heliotrope make the middle. Tiare is the white flower of the Pacific, waxy and sweet with a hint of the same creaminess as the coconut, and heliotrope is powdery and soft, which together push the mist in a comforting rather than a sharp direction. Caramel and amber finish it, the caramel sweet and slightly burnt, the amber resinous and warm, and the whole thing stays low and close to the skin.
A body mist carries far less oil than an eau de toilette, so the right expectation is two or three hours of scent and a soft trail, which is the format working as intended rather than failing. Spray it over the shoulders, arms and back after a shower, use several pumps rather than two, and layer it under a perfume if you want the sweetness to last longer. At 100ml it is meant to be used up rather than hoarded, and a mist is the easiest way to wear a sweet scent in hot weather, when a perfume of the same character would be far too much.
Alyssa Ashley began in 1969, created by the Italian surrealist painter Enrico Donati under the House of Houbigant and named after his daughter. The brand is held by the Perris family, which acquired Houbigant Paris in 2005, and Consuelo Perris took charge of it in 2019.
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