Dark

This is not your usual chocolate scent. It reminds me of the 70% dark chocolate bars that you get at Trader Joe's. I do not detect any real sweetness to the dark chocolate. I smell real hazelnuts, not hazelnut candy or that "shot of hazelnut" syrup you get in your coffee. A nutty and woody hazelnut. The cinnamon is faint, but realistic. There is a hint of vanilla but not sweet, creamy vanilla. Like a real Peruvian vanilla pod. This is very different. I was expecting a juvenile scent. This is a woody gourmand with a sprinkle of spice. I don't usually like woody scents, but the dark chocolate and vanilla pull it in gracefully. This is very unisex to me.

Chocolate and leather! I love this combo, haven't seen it often in the perfume world but I think they go so so well together, much better than the raspberry x leather or any other combinations imo. The development reminds me of By The Fireplace by Margiela? Hot cocoa, leather couch, roasted hazelnuts, warm cracking bonfire. The hot cocoa is 80% dark chocolate, not milk choco, so it's dry, sharp, gently bitter. As it dries down the scent turned slightly patchouli earthy but still warm and edible. I like it, but not enough to entice me since there are so many other great chocolate perfumes out there like Cacao Porcelana or Feve Gourmand.

First hour it's at it's best, really rich cocoa with a slight fizz, probably due to the cinnamon. The cinnamon really keeps this alive imho, otherwise this would be flat from the start. It's a play going back and forth between a deep dark, dry cocoa and something woody, slightly damp, slightly sweet. The first hour the scent is really alive on the skin, a fantastic experience. Sadly, two hours in and it's a skin scent. This will however, last on clothes, I bet. I will get myself a small bottle. From the whole sample kit this is the only one worth a bottle for me. I totally get the references to patchouli.

Olivier Cresp strikes again! to me this fragrance is greater than the sum of its parts, or however the saying goes. I don't necessarily pick up on the notes distinctly or individually, it's more like I'm smelling a beautiful concoction. Or potion. So so so alluring to me, I get just enough patchouli, seemingly more on my skin than what others have said. But I love that. I am dumbfounded by the negative reviews here – I know fragrance is subjective, but it's just PERFECT to me. Lasts 75% longer than Akro's "Bake," on me at least.

Nice bitter cocoa at the beginning, then it transforms to sweet, harsh amberwood, very similar to DS&Durga Pistachio.