Courteney Cox Wants to Create a Scent Inspired by Partner Johnny McDaid

The 'Friends' alum said the fragrance would take inspiration from the Snow Patrol musician's Irish heritage

Johnny McDaid and Courteney Cox
Courteney Cox and Johnny McDaid. Photo: Dave Kotinsky/Getty

After creating a fragrance inspired by her daughter, Courteney Cox wants to bestow the same honor on another important person in her life.

The actress, 60, revealed she wants to collaborate with partner Johnny McDaid on a new product for her Homecourt home care brand, during a talk at the Inc. 5000 45th Annual Conference & Gala in October.

“I think that there's something that should be done in bringing in him. I don't know if I should say it,” she teased before deciding to reveal the idea: “ I want to do a scent with him.”

Johnny McDaid and Courteney Cox
Johnny McDaid and Courteney Cox. Steve Granitz/WireImage

The Friends alum went on to explain that her olfactory tribute to the Snow Patrol musician would marry his roots in Northern Ireland with her own Southern upbringing.

“I think it would be nice to do a scent with my partner, who I love, and how I could make something really beautiful from Ireland,” she said of McDaid, who was born in Derry. “I'm from Alabama, kind of joining things, something about our heritage together.”

The couple have been together since 2013 (briefly splitting in 2015), after mutual friend Ed Sheeran introduced them at a party.

Cox also shared what it was like working with her daughter Coco, 20, on the brand’s Cocomoi collection, released earlier this year.

Coco Arquette and Courteney Cox attend the Global Premiere of Paramount Pictures and Spyglass Media Group's "Scream VI" at AMC Lincoln Square on March 6, 2023 in New York, New York.
Coco Arquette and Courteney Cox.

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“When making the mood board for Cocomoi, I told her the idea of what I wanted,” Cox remembered, sharing that she thought it should look “green and wet and woodsy.”

The proud mom says Coco, whom she shares with ex David Arquette, assembled “the most beautiful board” to represent the scent.

“I think if you look at our website and our Instagram, it's just all of the shots are really classy,” she continued.. “And the Cocomoi stuff really came from a few words that I said, but her inspiration.

Cocomoi marked Cox’s launch into bodycare, with a perfume, body wash, body mist and body butter, plus a candle.

“I am really, really proud of it,” she said, adding of Coco,  “She's got great taste and she's got great attitude.”

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Cox said she mixed the scent, which blends notes of coconut, pepper and cedarwood, at a perfumery before asking Coco to weigh in on the concoction.

“I put together a lot of different things and I gave Coco some choices, and leading her hopefully that she'd pick the one that I knew I was going to use,” she said. “And she did.”

There’s another Homecourt item that Cox says has made a fan out of one of her Friends costars.

She described Jennifer Aniston as “obsessed” with the brand’s signature Cece scent, a blend of white leather, cardamon, cedarwood, smoke and cinnamon.

“I've never been to her house without smelling a Cece candle right when you walk in,” Cox said. “And I love it.”

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