Dirty Coconut is inspired by the sensual Coco de Mer, also known as the Sea Coconut. This rare fruit, native to the Seychelles, was worshipped for centuries as a symbol of fertility due to its shape, which resembles the female body.
A fruit cloaked in mystery, symbolism and legend; Malay soldiers first believed that this fruit grew on mythical trees at the bottom of the Indian Ocean. Then in the 16th century, it became fashionable for European nobility to buy Coco de Mer seeds for enormous amounts of money and bejewel them as part of their Curiosity Collection. The intrigue and seductive history of this fruit overflows into this new scent.
Dirty Coconut is a sensual blend of tropical coconut, sun bathed exotic woods and creamy, warm vanilla, together making sure blissful summers last all year long. This is far from your typical beach scent though – it’s a lush, sophisticated and sensual coconut that uses an all-natural CO2 extract of coconut to ensure it doesn’t smell like the “fake stuff”. It also has the aromatherapy benefits of coconut, possessing calming, relaxing and aphrodisiac qualities.
Blissing out on the beach never felt so clean and never smelled so naughty!
NOTES
Top: Cedar, Vanillin (derived from clove)
Middle: Coconut CO2
Base: Sandalwood, Vanilla Absolute, Ambrettolide
PERFUMER
Douglas Little
HOW IT WEARS
The fragrance opens with the distinct scent of coconut – it is sweet yet earthy, with a creamy, almost nutty tone to it. The notes of cedar and sandalwood in Dirty Coconut balance the gorgeous sweetness of the vanilla and coconut perfectly. We get summer skin, but better! A creamy scent that Vanilla lovers would also love that will last 6-8 hours on the skin.
LORE LOVES
Dirty Coconut is a true and realistic coconut! While we find that some coconut scents smell very much like sunscreen, this smells so natural – perfectly balanced between earthy and sweet, the most sublime summer scent! Dirty Coconut takes us to summer days by the water, a fresh coconut cut open to drink. The juice is sweet, the flesh is more earthy and creamy, the outcome is satisfyingly quenching, an ode to the magnificent symbol of summer.
ABOUT THE BRAND
Heretic – one who does not conform to the ideals or opinions of the masses; one who follows their own path.
Created in 2016 in New York by Douglas Little, Heretic is a natural, artisan, small batch fragrance collection. Based on the mysterious, sensual and feral aspects of nature, Heretic began with a conscious choice to do things a little differently. Provocative, challenging, unapologetic, visionary and beautiful – Douglas Little has created a rare, unusual and comprehensive collection. As Heretic boldly disrupts the status quo of the fragrance industry with their radical transparency, their fragrances delve into the esoteric world and the realms of homeopathy, ayerveda, and herbology.
Douglas made the choice to work with entirely natural materials – essential oils, concretes and absolutes (blended in non GMO, organic grape and sugarcane alcohol) using traditional perfumery techniques. Believing that nature gives us sexy and erotic scents, the Heretic perfume collection creates unique depth and complexity.
“Natural fragrances are much like wine in that you can detect nuances of the plant, the soil, and its surroundings. They have characters that cannot be achieved with synthetic copies. These fragrances are alive, they create an olfactory fingerprint” – Douglas Little.
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