L’ORCHESTRE PARFUM
Cocktail Appalaches

2024

PERFUMER
Camille Chemardin

guitar wood liqueur
amaretto
roasted sesame
vanilla tobacco
pink pepper
benzoin
saffron

‘West-Virginia. 9:32 PM. A mystical cocktail distilled in the folk woods of a guitar. Bright and sensual cedar frequencies. Smooth and addictive Amaretto tones. A sacred musical liqueur. Acoustic echo of the ballads filling the mountains’ tops. Woody, intense and thrilling.’ – L’Orchestre Parfum

Unfortunately, Cocktail Appalaches was an instant no for me upon spraying it. It gets better during the wear, and people who like rugged, rough boozy and sweet scents, may enjoy this, but it never reaches a point where I can genuinely enjoy it.

It has the sugary sweet booziness of a Nasomatto Baraonda or Kilian Angels’ Share & Old Fashioned, but mixed with a rougher amber woody vibe and leathery saffron. That leather especially, wasn’t too my taste. Slight hints of gasoline, burnt rubber and old shoes came to mind.

As mentioned, it gets better for me the longer I wear it, because the sweetness starts to dominate and it leads into a Tom Ford Tobacco Vanille-esque direction.

Overall, I found this to have parts that were quite generic and I’d pick many boozy-sweet-tobacco vanilla fragrances over it, and the parts that set it apart, were not to my liking. The burnt/roasted quality that reminds me of harsh amberwood ingredients were a turn off from start to finish, making this arguably my least favorite release from the brand to date.