FRAGRANCE | Coconut Nanas EDP by Rirana Parfume is tropical summer happiness all bottled up

For months I've been occasionally seeing Coconut Nanas in a few SOTD (scent of the day) posts in our local frag groups. I was curious, no surprise, but somehow it always ended up as one of those fragrances I look up and then forget—until the next post I see. And now all of a sudden I own one after I saw somebody selling it.

Coconut Nanas is from a Malaysian house called Rirana Parfume. The bottle is giving me some major tropical feels with its cute little rope wraparound. There's no cap and in its stead is a plastic stopper that slides into the atomizer's base to prevent any accidental sprays. I would have loved a proper cap, though. The box, on the other hand, slides open to reveal the bottle in the same manner as MFK's Baccarat Rouge 540, only the material is flimsier and is prepared with much less care. Mine has a tear inside, so the bottle doesn't fit snugly in place.

The fragrance's name truly captures the scent. Nanas, I've looked up, is Malay for pineapple—and my, does this smell of sweet pineapple! But more than the fleshy fruit, it's closer to pineapple juice, like one you'd be sipping on a hot summer's day. However, it's not as sweet as Memo's Tamarindo, probably because it's accented with a little saffron sharpness that appears several minutes into the opening. While the saffron is easily lost in the mix, I reckon it works rather quietly in the background to balance the sweetness off. I can also detect another fruit shadowing the pineapple but it's there only in the opening for, like, 30 minutes, after which it slowly fades away.

The coconut is likewise very prominent but plays second fiddle to the pineapple for the first couple of hours before it is able to flex its might. I was expecting Coconut Nanas to be on the thick and heavy side of things because I often associate coconut with something creamy when it's used in fragrances. But just as Guerlain was able to successfully incorporate it in its characteristically light and fresh Aqua Allegoria line via Coconut Fizz, so has Rirana in this creation. That said, I think it's very wearable even in high heat.

As to performance, the fragrance delivers. Projection is fairly strong for a good few hours before waning but the scent itself really lasts. I don't know what the perfume concentration is but much like Nishane fragrances, it leaves an oily residue on my skin, which I suppose is an indication of its potency. The coconut and nanas duo endure but they somewhat give way to a soft vanilla skin scent very late into the drydown, which only happens many hours after. They're not totally lost, however, as there are still traces of them if you dig your nose deep enough.

Coconut Nanas is a delight to wear, which to me conjures up images of a white sand beach somewhere in the tropics. If you're into sweet gourmands or tropical-themed scents, this is something you ought to try.