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Nest Fragrances – Cocoa Woods EDP Cocoa Woods is a new release (2018) from Nest.   It is a woody spicy fragrance with hints of being a gourmand.   The best way for me to describe Cocoa Woods is as an analogous tale.   The images of the story of Little Red Riding Hood immediately came to my mind as I was wear-testing this fragrance. As Cocoa Woods opens, we have Little Red Riding Hood on her way to visit Grandma.   She is carrying a basket full of luscious goodies.   The goodies are all, still warm, rich cocoa cookies.   The smell of the Dutch bittersweet cocoa fills the air as she walks on. As Little Red Riding Hood continues on her way, she passes some lovely white flowers springing up along the path.   She stops and gets a quick whiff of the flowers (which have a creamy, lightly spiced coconut tinge to them).   Little Red cannot pause too long as the scrumptious smell of her cookies has beckoned a wolf from deep inside the forest. ...

Nest Fragrances - Wisteria Blue Launched this year (2018), Wisteria Blue (“Wisteria”) is a new offering from Nest Fragrances.   The fragrance is a floral aquatic and was inspired by the Founder and CEO’s (Laura Slatkin) appreciation for the wisteria trees she saw growing up in the south and was recently reminded up during a historic homes tour in Charleston, SC.   On me, this fragrance is all about the lightness and beauty of wisteria.   It is not a fragrance that has much development on wear, although at times a note does come forward for a bit and then recede.   Instead, it is more like an experience of being the delicate, draping wisteria blooms. There is a gentle light airiness to this fragrance.   The wisteria comes across as being very real.   The jasmine and rose float along with the wisteria creating a sense of Southern comfort.   The aquatic notes add a fluidity to the fragrance and, in that place and time, seem to add a lazy dra...