EO Cola

“Cola” is a thing in perfumery. Usually, it describes a scent you get courtesy of some combo of tamarind, caramel, balsam, spices like anise or caraway, and of course… vanilla.

The result is a ‘fizzy’ black cola fragrance that’s typically light (perhaps punctuated with notes of lime and cinnamon to add a summer feel to the profile) and fun to wear casually.

But what if those casual fizzy pop licorice vibes just aren’t enough? What if you love the ‘cola note’ but wish there was more to it? What if the vanilla also oozed OUD?

Imagine that cola caramel sweetness got a bit roughened up with the scent wafting from a cigar lounge and those fleeting citrus top notes were smacked aside to make way for the succulent smattering of osmanthus and frangipani to let their creamy saccharine savor dance with tasty carob to make the whole cola experience ten times more delectable. 

Then imagine you could think outside the box to find a cola supplement that’s been missing all along – a marinade that would colafy even cola – and discover that seaweed wrapped around tagetes dipped in davana juice transmutes the cola flavor into a gentlemanly liqueur that’s suave and sumptuous at the same time.

And then jack up the brew with wild Papuan oud to tease out the tobacco and patchouli and the bourbon vanilla and the seaweed sweetened with hyraceum and inject EO’s DNA into what would otherwise have been just a fleeting fizzy scent you wear for fun – and end up with a seriously resinous aroma that lets you lacquer yourself with cola… dressed in a tux.