- Cabotine de Gres for Women is a light and cozy fragrance by the luxurious house of Gres. The perfume was created by the proficient Jean Claude Delville from IFF. This fragrance was all the rage in the 1990s. Created of love and enthusiasm, this fragrance is elegant and sophisticated and can be worn to work or even for a classy evening dinner. It is a sparkling transparent fragrance with green floral and sharp aldehydes. This is one fragrance that didn’t need much advertising and went disappearing off shelves as soon as it got there. This perfume is the first to have the delicate fragrance of ginger lily in its composition. The ginger lily is also known as butterfly lily and is found in the Himalayas. It is a large petaled flower that is white in color and grows in the harsh high mountain climate. The thing that makes it really hard to get your hands on is the fact that this flower blooms only for a few weeks in the spring time and each flower survives for a few hours before it withers away. The perfume is contained in a curvy transparent glass flacon that is oval in shape with a huge green stopper that looks like a clump of leaves. The fragrance was created in the year 1990. TOP NOTES The fragrance opens out with rich and delicious notes of blackcurrant buds, sweet and fruity pear, lush plum and coriander. MIDDLE NOTES The heart of this fragrance is a floral one and composed of sophisticated rose, tuberose, light ylang ylang, ginger lily, intoxicating hyacinth, hazy heliotrope, refreshing freesia, earthy violet and iris. BASE NOTES The base notes of this perfume consist of Sandalwood, tonka bean, amber, musk, cinet, vanilla, vetiver, cedar, and black currant.