While many people say you need coco coir-specific nutrients, this isn’t absolutely necessary. You can get away with the standard General Hydroponics Flora series, a pH testing kit, and some Calimagic calcium + magnesium supplement. Insect-neutral: Most garden pests do not enjoy settling in coconut coir, making it yet another line of defense in your integrated pest management system for your garden. May need additional supplementation: You may find your plants short on calcium and magnesium when using coconut coir, so supplementing with “Cal-Mag” may be necessary. Other fertilizers will be necessary as well since coir has low NPK levels. Now that you understand what coco coir is, how it’s processed and made, and what to look for when buying it, you’re armed with the info you need to make a good buying decision.

Coco Noir feels contemporary and polished. I can see a woman wearing it to the office and reapplying with a heavier hand when she’s ready to go out. It’s not a challenging perfume, but its eagerness to please is what puts me off a bit. Some of the elements–the fruity-crisp citrus opening, the sweet patchouli, the white musk–are familiar and perhaps too much so. On the other hand, it has quality and finesse that are rare to find in big brand fragrances today. I mostly wish that Coco Noir were closer to Coco with its baroque spices than to Coco Mademoiselle with its gourmand patchouli. I crave more Byzantine than what it offers.Coco Noir I got as a bottling a few months ago in the course of a swap. I expected me not much, because I did not know the fragrance and with Chanel eh never warmed up, except with "Chance eau tendre edt". In the meantime, actually came "Allure edp" and the Crowdpleaser par excellence "Coco Mademoiselle" in addition, but of this another time more. Coco is not that. It does what Chanel does best. It distills the best of the current fragrance trends, uses materials of impeccable quality, and composes fragrances of great beauty, elegance, and delicacy. About ten years ago, Jean-Claude Ellena said that Chanel's then recent perfumes were beautiful, but not of crazy brilliance, and I think he is right. I suspect that the haute bourgeois style of Chanel, as a whole, considers obsessive trendiness, as a kind of vulgarity, and so their creative team waits, until something has a firmly established foothold, in the market, before they risk the house's reputation, with something new.

Retains moisture and provides a good environment: Coco coir is one of the most effective growing media for water retention out there. It can absorb up to 10x its weight in water, meaning the roots of your plants will never get dehydrated. There’s also a lot of growing media for roots to work through, promoting healthy root development.First, they need to remove the coir from the coconuts. This is done by soaking the husks in water to loosen and soften them. This is either done in tidal waters or freshwater. If done in tidal waters, the coconut coir will take up a large amount of salt, which will need to be flushed out by the manufacturer at a later stage. Inert: Coconut coir is inert, meaning it has no nutrients. It may look like soil, but it is not soil. This means you must add hydroponic nutrients and control the pH when using coco coir. Growing in soil isn’t too different, though, as many gardeners amend their soil constantly throughout the growing season anyways. We’ve tested a lot of different brands and learned a lot simply through trial and error. Here are our findings, which you can take with a grain of salt (pun intended).

As days go by, I cannot stop thinking about Coco Noir and I revisit it again and again, liking it a bit more each time. It unfolds on my skin in sparkling layers of bergamot, grapefruit and sweet orange. Right underneath the shimmering and crisp top, there is a soft glow of sandalwood and patchouli. Sweetened by the same cotton candy as in Coco Mademoiselle, it’s nevertheless creamy and tender. When you buy a coconut coir product, you’re really buying three types of coconut coir: fiber, the pith (or coconut peat), or the coco chips. If I wear him times during the day (as today, for example), then simply because I just totally feel like the fragrance. Otherwise, it fits through its fine heaviness also very well in the colder season. Caroline Aiu: A bit late on the commenting but I finally got to try Coco Noir for myself on Sunday. I was almost tempted to get a bottle w/o smelling but based on your review & several other decided to err on the side of caution. IMHO it really is not worthy of one of Chanel’s classic square bottle w/the faceted top. I detected what I called the “watermelon note” which became so popular after Calvin Klein launched Escape. I do not care for that note in fragrances & it was enough to put me off of it. I don’t like that Coco Noir is interchangeable w/dozens and dozens of other perfumes — even more so than Mademoiselle — (which I actually don’t mind but if I get it would get Fendi’s Fan to get a different sort of bottle to go on my vanity). The dry down reminded me a little of Dune. I like Dune, but; I could buy Dune & have it smell that way from the beginning. I do really think that since I had no preconceived notions going into it, that I was able to fall in love with this without any biases.This is one of the few fragrances that my eyes bulged out of my head when I experienced it for the first time. It’s stunning to me, and I wish I bought a 3.4 oz bottle instead of a 1.7. Why does all I do become Byzantine?” mused Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel. The silhouettes of her garments might have been streamlined and paired down, but the embellishments would be sumptuous: baroque jewels, ornate camellias, richly textured embroideries. Byzantine may not be the first association with Chanel fragrances, which tend to be polished and understated. Yet, if you look closer, you will find plenty of intricate details that make each perfume memorable: the luscious ylang-ylang of No 5, the smoky incense of No 22 or even the vivid technicolor jasmine of Coco Mademoiselle. Coco Noir, the latest addition to Chanel’s collection, promises to take Byzantine a notch further. The perfume rests on a very light, very smooth, sandalwood accord, and a soft, clean musk, and that is another reason why, I can imagine, that some people don't like it. There is an unmistakable, fresh laundry component, that would be a deal breaker for me, if it weren't so subtle, and so appropriate to the perfume, as a whole. Leave it to Chanel, to find a way around the typical bludgeoning laundry accord, using it with a very light touch that reminds me of the excellent recent reworking of Balmain's Ivoire. It makes sense, in the context, of this very well-mannered perfume, that accommodates so many common elements of modern perfumery, and still smells, unmistakeably, Chanel. The aldehydes, the rose-jasmine, the sandalwood, you can't miss the signature, and that puts it over the net, for me. Coco Noir (2012) makes sense to a degree, but is still hugely disappointing. The name and bottle graphics imply that Jacques Polge created a darker and more alluring interpretation of his classic Coco Chanel (1984), but what we actually get is a serious non-ozonic "full frutchouli" take on Coco Mademoiselle (2001), which is the furthest possible thing from either a "Noir" concept or a unique variation of Coco, since all the hallmark characteristics of either Coco Chanel or Coco Mademoiselle are all but lost in the transformation. I can understand the thought process, as something like Coco Noir was probably built with fanbases of both "Cocos" in mind, but it leans far too much into the direction of mainstream feminine perfume tropes to really serve either, even if it is a more mature take on Coco Mademoiselle for women who want to move away from the Jolly Rancher candy accord of Mademoiselle and into something more appropriate for evening use. If Coco Mademoiselle was training wheels to eventually move into the original Coco Chanel, Coco Noir is a full-on adult tricycle for those too afraid to ever create their own balance.