Wicked Good

Opens like a split open Godiva milk chocolate morsel with vanilla cream(tonka) oozing from it's sides but the vanilla spice makes the chocolate seem a little dryer at times. This scent has a Gothic vibe to me. The vanilla and tonka bean take over with the chocolate fading(3-4 hours) but the tonka bean never takes the lead. It becomes a skin scent in 6-8 hours(not bad) but lasts longer on clothing but will stain so use dark colors. This is the real deal when it comes to vanilla and will be an eye opening experience for most people. Coco Blanc from the house of Matriarch(which I own and love) is the only all natural vanilla that I have smelled to come close but unfortunately it becomes a skin scent in two hours. Nishane Ani is a yummy alluring sexy vanilla, but more of a synthetic fragrance and goes more unisex. Wicked good/Coco blanc and Ani are all different fragrances. I have not put my nose on them all but wicked good should make my vanilla journey a wrap. I do not get any coffee note at all from wicked good, and if anything I get a kinda sexy vanilla spice note which is a credit to its purity. This scent leans more feminine in my book but if your significant other sprays you down, or your looking to snag a hottie, rock on my brother or sister. The ladies are gunna Love this fragrance to death and become very erotic when they get wafts of it. It's a first place, Isle of Man TT winning chocolate/vanilla/tonka fragrance 10/10 and a Must Have for any collector.

Right of the bat i get a blast of rich, creamy chocolate, and a bit of sweetness. After a while it dries down to an almost pure vanilla scent on my skin, with an undertone of chocolate and tonka. The vanilla in this fragrance smells very natural, more line an actual vanilla pod, or a high en vanilla extract, with a tiny hint of boozyness. The juice itself is relatively dense and oily, and i can feel th oils staying on my skin for a good while after. For me it smelled and felt like i had rubbed my wrist with a fresh vanilla pod. Longevity for me is actually quit good. It is not a heavy projector, at least on my skin, but i got little wifs of it from arms lenght every now and then for at least 5 hours, before it became a skin scent. I sprayed it on at 23.00, and could still smell it on my wrist at 15.00 the day after. This is definetly only a fragrance for those who love vanilla and chocolate scents, so i would advise sampling before buying. Especially with the price tag of the fragrance. I loved it alot, considering the fact that i have been looking for a fragrance that is as close to a pure vanilla scent as possible. From me its a 9.5/10

This will be another 9/10, head over heels review from someone who loves all manner of gourmand fragrances. This is probably the perfect chocolate fragrance if you like gourmands and tonka. Perhaps the tonka/coumarin is what played as camphor-like on the previous reviewer’s skin? It is very present, so if you have a similar reaction to the note - the bottle may not be worth the cost for you. I enjoy this one much more than Chocolate Greedy, though perhaps it is not a fair comparison as CG is more hot cocoa powder. Otherwise this scent is quite literally top of mind some days just as I wake up. I want to experiment with layering Wicked Good with MMM By the Fireplace for a perfect s’mores experience, but wind up enjoying this on its own so much that I never get around to doing so. Based on reviews, I was prepared for an amazing frag with poor performance, yet somehow the tester’s elements of the chocolate lingered with stronger notes of vanilla and tonka for at least 12 hours on my skin. Splurged on a full bottle and happy to have done so. This is one that I can imagine loving as much in 30 years as I do today.

Wicked Good is a special limited release, composed of pricey Madagascar vanilla absolute, hence the small size (9ml vial only) and unusual cost ($37.50) for such a fragrance. The only other notes listed are tonka and milk chocolate, but my experience of the fragrance is dominated by the vanilla. The result is excellent, though: a dense, rich vanilla that's spicy and almost cake-like but not in the sense that it's too sweet and smells like sugar. It has the boldness of vanilla extract while being less biting and alcohol-driven, and the density of a cakey vanilla without the excessive sweetness. It fades to a less spicy, midway creamy/transparent dry down that's a bit less challenging than the opening. Its performance is no letdown, either, with bold projection for hours giving way to significant longevity, so quite superb, overall. This is an instant winner for the gourmand- and vanilla-lover in me, a nice treat to have, so I regard it a highly-recommended try for fans of vanilla, especially, that aspire to have something special in their collection. 8 out of 10

The opening smells like a dark hot chocolate! It’s delicious although I’m not sure I want to smell like chocolate. It’s almost a mocha. It’s much better than Choco Musk which smells like a tootsie roll and not like actual chocolate. In the drydown, about an hour or two after spraying, I get no chocolate at all. It smells very close to the drydown of BDK Rouge smoking, which is a cherry/ vanilla/ tonka/ tobacco. I definitely get some kind of camphorous/ menthol note and the almond/ cherry/ marzipan that others have noted. It doesn’t smell like Guerlain Tonka Imperiale to me which was a very heavy, cloying, and smoky sort of tonka to me. This is much smoother and more restrained. I love the drydown a lot but I prefer BDK Rouge Smoking because I love it from start to finish. Over time I smell something like like cocoa butter lotion in the drydown as well, but not the strong chocolate of the opening. This is a love for me.