Amour De Cacao

Scrumptious! Oh my gosh. If you love Choco Musk, specifically the oil, you will love this. They are so similar, the only difference being the orange note in this. How to describe what I smell from beginning to end: A crispy, orange-flavored biscuit dipped into chocolate. A delicious vanilla/orange marshmallow coated in cocoa powder. A mug of hot cocoa on the drydown. Finally settles as a very sweet and super sugary vanilla biscuit with a touch of milk. Definitely lactonic. The orange is in the opening, and it doesnt linger long to my nose. It’s gone almost as fast as it appears. It dries down to an airy cocoa powder coated biscuit mixed with a very creamy vanilla (hot cocoa with loads of mini marshmallows.) Absolutely delicious. I’m obsessed, and I want to drink the bottle if I could. Make no mistake, this perfume is SWEET. Sweeter than anything I’ve ever smelled. Please get this if you can. If you love gourmands, specifically edible gourmands, you will 100% love this. There are 0 floral notes or anything to take away from the “foodiness” of this scent. You will smell like you spent all day in a bakery. The best gourmands to me are realistic like this. There is nothing synthetic or artificial about the scent of this either. A true gem. My ONLY gripe is the bottle. It’s not very pretty. The design reminds me of a room spray or air freshener, not a gourmand perfume. It’s also opaque, and it annoys me when I can’t see the inside of the bottle. Regardless... 10/10! Choco Musk’s sister with a twist of orange and crunchy biscuit. Be careful to spray too much. It can be cloying.

This scent opens up with a bang of CHOCOLATE WAFFER smell and pure raw cacao bean. Powdery and warm. Then really soon you can recognize a good amount of starfruit and orange rind in the mix! It makes the scent amaaazing, in my opinion it's impossible to not recognize the starfruit. It's so in there, it's the thing that makes this scent so personal and something that you won't find elsewhere. Drydown: tahitian vanilla with cacao - fifty-fifty! Sometimes the drydown reminds me of popcorn and sometimes incense. It's not chocolaty everytime!But always good! This is the most unique chocolate scent that you can get! It's not just a gourmand, it's more oriental scent to me. Real perfume and not just a gourmand scent. Very sensual. And also this is unisex though it's sweet. Montale's Chocolate Greedy is almost identical. A bit stronger in sillage and there's a coffee note in it. But I can't say that it's better than this! If you want to make this even sweeter, layer it with CSP's Vanille Extreme. The end result smells really gourmandish: hot cocoa with marshmallows! This layers well with so many scents, just like many CSP scents! Lasting power is amazing with Amour de Cacao. Lasts whole day! Sillage on the other hand is not that big. 10/10

Amour de Cacao smells just like hot chocolate powder or brownie mix powder. Open up a container of powdered Nesquik and that's it. This fragrance has the dustiness/dryness that is so characteristic of those products, and just like them, Amour de Cacao has a very vanillic side as well. After the dry cocoa note has gone, you're left with a very sweet, creamy scent that reminds me of cold chocolate milk, which, when you think about it, is almost equal parts vanillic and chocolatey, just like this. Great scent from Comptoir, I think they should've marketed this as a chocolate milk fragrance and would have sold waaaay more. I feel like lactonic fragrances are very popular and sought after and this is right there. I remember smelling the orange note upon first smelling, but I haven't smelled it since for some reason. Even if I try, I don't detect it at all anymore. As for the starfruit note... I can't tell it's there and it makes me wonder why they even bothered putting it on the label, especially since starfruit is not a fragrant or flavorful fruit.

Amour de cacao offers a great dry milk chocolaty cocoa scent for a fair price. Similar to the richer chocolate greedy, amour de cacao is more of a soft dry version without dried fruits. I think Amour de cacao smells exactly like the chocolate cookie parts of an oreo crumbled up to sprinkle on top of ice cream or make a pie crust. The projection is moderate and the silage is surprisingly soft, making it snuggly and an easy wear which you wouldn't expect. This is a chocolate scent you could wear in a close quarters situation. If you want a stronger chocolate scent you might, like me choose to wear several sprays at once to enjoy a cloud with the strength of a gourmand like pink sugar. The versatility of the strength of this chocolate scent is adaptable and user friendly. On a side note, I hardly smell any fruits just chocolate and a little bit of vanilla. Amour de cacao is jolly and simple, don't expect much, only expect to enjoy!

EDIT: this perfume reminds me of Greedy Chocolate by Montale and Choco Musk ! But this one is BETTER !! : Greedy chocolate has that weird opening heavy smell, and choco musk strong opening musk. Which is not the case for amour de cacao, has that light citrus note (orange). Fades into an INCREDIBLE cacao powder (a little bit like nesquik) and chocolate, I could even smell the perfume on my clothes when I woke up the next day. It was so yummy that it quickly became my signature fragrance, and even bought a 100ml backup. When you first spray it: It smells to me like citrus fruity - vanilla - cacao at the beginning. Dry down: yummy warm spicy cacao powder with a touch of chocolate. The sillage is good because I could literally smell it on me after multiple hours and got OBSESSED. So for gourmand fans, don’t walk, run for this one !