Costamor is a new niche line from Elizabeth Wright, inspired by her memories of Costa Rica:
As a child, it felt like a magical place: waterfalls, jungles, wild sugarcane, monkeys playing in the trees, friendly people and the ever-present flurry of brilliantly–colored butterflies. She was enchanted.
As an adult and a fragrance lover, Elizabeth remembers not just the sights of Costa Rica, but the scents: the dark rich soil, the massive coconut groves, the sweet citrus trees, the lush flowers, the windswept beaches and the glossy green leaves of the rain forest.
There are four fragrances:
Beachwood ~ "Beachwood captures the uniquely beautiful stretches of protected beaches along the Costa Rican coast that are famed for their beauty, warm water and excellent surfing. Sparkling citrus, airy jasmine and cool aquatic notes are layered over a warm bed of woods, amber and musk." Additional notes include bergamot, lavender, mandarin, neroli, coconut, cedar and sandalwood.
Tabacca ~ "A sultry, feminine spin on one the prized crops of Costa Rica – tobacco...uses both the raw leaves (green, fresh and sweetened with a subtle hint of apple) and the richly aromatic dried tobacco and blends them with a deeply romantic rose tea." Additional notes include spices, apple peel, jasmine, woods and amber.
Sugarwood ~ "A soft, woody floral with a surprise twist: the sweet and strikingly fresh scent of newly cut sugar cane...Luscious fig complements the sweetness, while warm cedar evokes the woody aspect of the plant." Additional notes include bergamot, peony, jasmine, musk and iris.
Dulcess ~ "The ambrosial scent that draws a thousand butterflies. Fresh sparkling pear, sweet citrus and yummy coconut are whipped into a tropical froth with a profusion of dreamy flowers – almond blossom, cyclamen and delicate muguet." Additional notes include mandarin, vanilla bean, musk and sandalwood.
Costamor Sugarwood and Tabacca are available now at Luckyscent, $75 for 50 ml Eau de Parfum. Dulcess and Tabacca can be found at Shop Kitson; $90. (via costamor)
Update: see a review of Costamor Tabacca.
Love the smell of cured tobacco but have never smelled the leaves raw, so Tabacca would be interesting for me. And the pricing of these is a bit of a relief after all the stratospheric prices lately.
The price isn’t bad, true!
All 4 sound amazing I bet they can be layered as well.
I’d take 25 or 30 ml of each
I’ll take 5 ml.
I don’t think I can stop myself from getting a bottle of Sugarwood….although the Tabbacca is whispering to me too….and by whispering I mostly mean shouting…..
These tropical niche frags sound amazing to me this freezing, wintry mix morning!
It’s cold here too.
Ooh, the Beachwood & Sugarwood are very tempting-sounding. Dulcess sounds VERY SWEET.
I have a sample of the Sugarwood on the way (ordered earlier this week)…I’ll report back.
Luckily for me, none of them is really calling my name. Like the label though!
I’m with you, Robin. I checked them out yesterday and decided against ordering the sample pack. I still have so many older things to try that I would make myself crazy if I tried to keep up with every new release and every new niche line. I already need to find a new space to hold my rapidly growing collection of FBs in, and my sample chest is overflowing with untested treasures.
Luckyscent’s current samples pack has each of these. I didn’t feel particularly moved to try any of them, but it’s a good deal if you want to try all of them.
Thanks! I’m tempted …
Thanks!
Oh, my goodness, I’ve got to get hold of that Tabacca. I grew up near Richmond, VA. The smell of fresh and curing tobacco permeated my childhood, and remains one of my favorite scents in the world. This sounds wonderful!
Hope it will work for you then! If not, plenty of other variations on tobacco out there.
I think these all sound wonderful. I should probably step back and just appreciate what I have for a while, though … I have samples I haven’t even gotten to!
I must be totally out of step today — you guys are all way more enthralled with these than I am!
Maybe it’s because we’re all freezing and these are Costa Rica-related?
In my case, there was just something in the description of the sugar cane one that tripped an odd half-memory and made me want to try it to see if I could get at the rest of the memory. If it’s fantastic, though, I’ll certainly try the rest too!
Sugarcane is part of my childhood scent repertoire. We used to chew on stalks fresh from the field! Chergui brings back this memory for me, BTW.
LOL — it is quite cold! I’d take a trip to Costa Rica this minute if I could.
Sadly, that didn’t stop me…and my samples I haven’t gotten to number well over 100. Ack! I justified it though, by not buying the $40 sample pack full of stuff that sounded too sweet, and just hand-picking a few.
Sometimes I just have to stop myself from browsing on Luckyscent … I always feel like there’s no point in paying the shipping if I don’t order at least 4-5 samples … I have all kinds of ways of justifying it!
Mine was a consolation order. I missed the Kurkdjian pack while waiting for my bank to straighten out some fraudulent charges, and they’re not available to order. But they ARE available w/purchase… so I had to purchase a few things to warrant that request.
Hehe … been there!
Your rationale is better than mine. I have decided that it is not worth paying for samples when you can get them free by ordering a full bottle. Because spending *more* money makes so much sense. Which I then justify by only buying when free shipping is involved. This is probably why I am so deep in debt.
Fortunately, unless it’s related to a split for which I will be reimbursed, I operate on a cash-only basis. Well, debit-card only, but same difference.
I have used that rationale as well! And how many times have I spent way more than I’d planned JUST to get free shipping? Grr.
I’m a sucker for tropical frags, and though I shouldn’t because I’ll likely find something else to buy, I’ll have to go check out the newest sample pack at Lucky Scent. You’d think I’d be content with the Maison Francis Kurkdjian sample pack en route to try, but nope. Each of these sounds beautiful in their own way.
I’m also guilty of falling for promotions to spend more than I originally intended. I went to Parfum1 planning on just buying some SL Clair de Musc, but when I used a coupon and saw the price, I just had to add Daim Blond, which I planned on buying in the future anyway. It drives the SO nuts, but I always rationalize gift sets, free shipping after spending a certain amount and the like with this same logic. It still ends up to be the same amount whether I buy it now or later.
At least that’s what I tell myself.
Oh, I’d have been content with the MFK set.
SO angry about the timing of the bank fiasco.
Oh, but Daim Blond — lucky you!
You know, these REALLY caught my eye when I got the LuckyScent email. Especially the Sugarwood for some reason. They appealed more than the Nez a Nez line.
However, seeing them written up here… they seem really tepid to me. It’s true that allowing time to pass sometimes really cools down one’s ardor. Funny, that.
What IS it with that Sugarwood? I mean…normally we grumbling about anything sweet and sugary, but here’s one flat-out CALLED sugar…and half of us think it sounds oddly appealing. Now I’m actually MORE eager to smell it, to see if we’re all nuts or there’s something to it.
normally we ARE ALL grumbling…good gracious, not my night.
Well, there’s something green and sappy about actual fresh sugarcane that’s definitely not the same as cotton candy or treacle-syrupy notes. Who knows how this product will really smell though.
There’s a sugarcane note in PG Tubéreuse Couture that I find oddly appealing.
Well, I’ll be changing my tune as soon as I read they’re wonderful! I actually haven’t heard anything about them at all.
The Nez a Nez line is NOT my favorite though. Boy do they like sweet!
Okay, I’m wearing Sugarwoood today and I smell very nice. It kind of reminds me of how it smells when you open a bag of Turbinado sugar, but warmer. It’s not the chemical sweet we are used to in all the trendy sweeties out there. I don’t get much floral, it’s just soft, warm, and rather comforting, like warm milk and honey. Except it doesn’t smell like honey. Maybe brown sugar melting on hot cereal? Hard to pinpoint.. I’m in about the 4th hour and the far drydown is subtle, but there. This is just sample dabbing – I think a spray would be interesting to try.
Not earth-shatteringly swoony, but a thumbs-up anyway.
Nice staying power, too, can still smell it at 7 pm.
Hey, that sounds nice enough! Thanks.
I see what you mean about the melting brown sugar…this reminds me a good deal of the Hilde Soliani scent based on a granita, with bergamot replacing the lime. Think I like this one slightly better, but not sure I’d wear it even if it fell from the sky (too many better scents out there). That said, I’m only a few minutes in (and also dabbed…lightly, as usual)….if it gets better, I’ll come back.
You did not come back so I’m going to assume it did not get better
No, that was pretty much it.