Delicious Black Powder

Absolutely a love for me. I’m not normally a cacao fan. Ususally they are too “cakey chocolate”. Heavy gourmands turn me off. This one, however, moves gracefully, fleet, nimbly through it’s layers....Jousset’s description of this fragrance is apt. At first bite, the cacao is intense, but not overly sweet. You are aware that this is a dessert, but more of the layered cake variety, whereby the main (not only) hit of chocolate lies on top. The vanilla and immortelle smooth in about 20 minutes later, and they are delightful. This is my jam. I’m an absolute FIEND for a good Vanilla. Not a sweet Vanilla. Real Vanilla. Sticky Vanilla pod, still alive and on the orchid. And while not listed as the main player, it becomes, for me, the real star. I think it’s because of all the other notes that play around it. I know saffron is listed, but I’m not picking it up. I think that this is intentional and masterful. 20 more minutes and what remains is a gorgeous, sexy, woody soft suede vanilla with a hint of a boozy rum undertone, weaving in and out of that very, very nice cacao pod - and these are expensive cacao pods - Jousset spared no expense for this juice and it shows! - to end on something wholly unexpected. I’m gettin’ me some of this powder! Also- one last thought. I keep thinking that this reminds me of Eau de Missions but with an added cacao element. And that, for me, is very much Christmas in July. EDM is my Big Lurv. I didn’t even mean to sample this and if given a choice, wouldn’t have picked it (as mentioned previously, me and chocolate usually argue). It came in my LuckyScent June Sampler Bag! Oh Kismet! Fate!

Never went so fast from "despise" to "love" within an hour. Initial spray was rancid - it smelled like an old glam lady in fur at the train station concentrated - that dusty chocking chemical perfume, but within 5 minutes it settled on my skin and started smelling like honey with black sugar. On dry down it completely turned into honey-covered blag sugar tapioca pearls. Exactly that. I am not sure why people talk about chocolate, can't get any of that here. But if you like black sugar - grab this one! I layer it with Fugazzi's Vanilla Haze and can't stop selling my wrists at all times. Lonegivity and silage are both real good - it holds whole day, longer on clothes. I will be buying a bottle after my sample is done.

Delicious Black Powder is everything TF's Black Orchid should be. Where Black Orchid's truffle note actually makes me want to vomit, Delicious Black Powder creates a nice earthiness from saffron, delivering a mysterious, sexy dark chocolate scent. It wasn't love at first sniff but it's very moreish. Now I can't stop sniffing it. It's smoky to me, but definitely unisex. Good performance.

On Me this is similar to TF Noir de Noir

Sampling Jousset Parfums Delicious Black Powder, a mostly-gourmand, semi-floral blend of cocoa, immortelle, saffron, tonka, suede, and vanilla, it’s fittingly dark, provocative, unisex, sweet, and somewhat multifaceted in that there are woody and leathery edges to it. I quite like it, though I generally find the subgenre of sweet floral fragrances a little challenging on my skin, personally, though I find this fragrance very easily likable and on par with the house other’s releases, which have mainly been gourmand-adjacent. Delicious Black Powder is sold in the US by Luckyscent and Sealed Essence, priced at $175/180 for 50ml in extrait concentration, and it performs very well. 7 out of 10