It seemed only appropriate to review a chocolate-scented perfume for the day after Valentine’s Day, which many of us are no doubt spending in a chocolate coma. (I myself am currently in a Japanese barbecue coma, but you would be shocked by how few Japanese barbecue-scented perfumes there are. It is a scandal, I say.) Montale Chocolate Greedy initially smells almost exactly like a chocolate wafer; you can almost hear the crunch of the flaky wafer crust. Within five minutes, however, it quiets down significantly, and spends the rest of its lifespan (which is not very long) smelling of some indistinguishable powdered chocolate. To its credit, Chocolate Greedy stays on the bearable side of sweet. Chocolate Greedy is a fun and attractive chocolate fragrance. However, I consider the price ($110 for 50 ml) to be too high for a merely “fun” perfume. Can anyone recommend some more reasonably priced chocolate fragrances?
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I enjoy several from the Pacifica line, so even though I haven’t tried their Mexican Cocoa, it might be worth checking out. Two different natural perfume companies come to mind as well. Perfume by Nature has a “Death by Chocolate” which comes in a 15ml size for $32. I won her related “Craving”, a chocolate musk, during the Mystery of Musk challenge, and it’s definitely chocolate, so I think it’s safe to assume this is as well. A Wing and a Prayer perfume on Etsy has a chocolate orange fragrance called Sabra Coco with great longevity, and their samples are a generous 5ml spray.
Mexican Cocoa is good! 🙂
I would love to try this one! My Sephora only carries the fruitier Pacifica scents. 😦
I like Pacifica too! Their coconut is very nice, and the prices are so reasonable. I’m not terribly attuned to the natural perfume world, so thank you for bringing my attention to the natural perfume companies! “Death by Chocolate” may well be the best perfume name ever.
Payard Bergamot Truffle is very chocolately and pretty reasonable at $48/50ml. Toykomilk’s Bittersweet is more cocoa powder (which I think is a total bonus) than milk chocolate and can be had for $36/60 ml.
Seconding Bittersweet, which was the first thing that came to mind for me. It smells so good!
I NEED TO TRY THE TOKYOMILK LINE! They all sound so interesting, and I’m a sucker for a good name.
There is a fragrance from Sweet Anthem that I quite like called Evelyn that is a deep chocolaty scent. It’s not currently available I don’t think, but she rotates her perfumes seasonally so it could pop up again or even be available during her “sweeps week” where she sometimes has discontinued stuff. Her prices are really reasonable.
Oooh, I hadn’t heard of this Sweet Anthem line. Thank you for bringing it to my attention! Now I want to take their Perfumery 101 classes! (The Ayala Moriel classes look amazing too, but damn, I can’t afford $800 a class!!)
Meredith, the owner of Sweet Anthem, and I go way back. She actually was instrumental in getting me interested in fragrances more deeply in the glory days of LiveJournal. We met through a complete un-perfume-related forum there. I plan to blog about it some day, and I have an standing order of her new spring launches, so when that ships, I’ll probably review those as well.
I like Sweet Anthem too, and have reviewed some of her things. Mary is my favorite – when only cherry hay will do. 🙂
The new Angel taste of fragrance thing is very cocoa-ish, not too sweet. And not too much patchouli either. Not sure how expensive it is though.
That cocoa note is amazing! It seems a little too high to me ($90), but it comes in the prettiest dark blue bottle.
I second Odonata’s suggestion of the chocolate-reinforced Angel flanker!
If only it was a little less Angel-y, I swear I would already own a bottle.
(Furiously scribbling down Names of Things to Avoid… thanks to all of you, and I am completely serious here.)
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I third Angel Le Goût du Parfum! 😛
Chopard Madness is quite chocolatey. I didn’t find Chocolate Greedy all that chocolatey!