La Fede Brown Choco

Holy. crap. 🤩 I literally put this on my arm and started smiling ear to ear. This is literally the ferrero rocher cream filling warmed up. It's so rich and decadent, I'm obsessed. Dear god this is perfect. Khadlaj continues to pleasantly surprise me. I'm not quite getting the cigar/tobacco comments. I don't enjoy tobacco notes at all and in the drydown this gets a bit less sweet than in the opening (after about 20 mins), the cacao starts shining through and the lovely scent of roasted nuts. If you've ever made a chocolate cake with roasted nuts, the smell is very similar to when you mix the roasted nuts with the chocolate and cacao. For me, the drydown is absolutely lovely, it still has that ferrero cream note, a bit of less sweetness and a really rich, deep roasted hazelnut scent. The pistachio is more of blended with the rest, it doesn't stand out unless you look for it. This has really good sillage. I sprayed it 3 times on my arms and the entire room was filled with the fragrance. Longevity was also good on my skin which I was worried about since gourmands can sometimes be really short in longevity, however this lasted daysss on my clothing and the entire afternoon on my skin. I washed it off in the evening but I'll be testing in the morning and see how it does. This is an absolute win for this gourmand girl, and for this price, the sillage, longevity and the scent are insane. This smells like a niche perfume. I cannot recommend this enough. Edit: I've been wearing this non stop so I just want to give some additional feedback. This pairs really well with any lactonic, creamy mists, perfumes or lotions you might have. I've been using it with Dermacol's Truffle Body lotion and I feel like they were made for each other. It also pairs well with caramel forward frags. Now that's it's sat for a while in my closet (3 weeks), the drydown is sweeter and more chocolatey than it was. I would say it's in the Chocolate Greedy adjacent family (NO NOT A DUPE, just a similar, cousin type scent) On another note, if you're not a fan of realistic nutty fragrances, don't get it. I love nutty forward scents so this is a win for me but if you don't like a prominent nutty note, this won't be for you. It's really hazelnut forward in the drydown. And the longevity really is good, I can smell this on myself throughout the day. Sprayed this after a shower, in my bathroom and my friend visited hours later and asked me what that scent was.

Giving my first impressions; This fragrance by far exceeded my expectations. This is for true chocolate & hazelnut lovers. It's not really super sweet imo, just intensely deep & rich. It comes across like a bitter dark chocolate bar with dry roasted nuts(nuts, hazelnuts & pistachio as listed on box). Sprinkled with a slight dusting of cocoa powder. I only sprayed once on hand but so far very potent with excellent performance. This fragrance really surprised me, in a very good way. Super happy with it already but I'm sure it will get even better with time. Fair warning; as stated above, this is a bitter deep dark chocolate. It's not your standard crowd pleasing sweet chocolate. I think people who enjoy woody, smokey &/or darker aesthetic scents are best suited to this fragrance. Others will pick up all kinds of odd olfactory associations if not familiar with the smell of true dark chocolate. On an aside, Fragrantica left out two of the top notes. Notes listed exactly as stated on the perfume box... Top Notes: Nut, Cocoa, Hazelnut Heart Notes: Pistachio, Chocolate, Milk Base Notes: Chocolate, Vanilla, Caramel Edited to add: I'm not sure where people are getting a cigarette smell from. If I smelt that in this scent I'd hate it. Not a smoker & not a fan of the smell. Thank goodness I don't get anything remotely like that. #2 Edited to add: This will probably be my final update/review because this has not changed much scent-wise....maybe it's more well blended. But regardless, it was outstanding from the get go. The performance did improve though. The longevity & projection was pretty decent at first spray. I will say when I gave it a proper wear for the first time it didn't quite live up to the hand sample I did previously. Thankfully, I recently wore it again after it sitting for 2 months and it's improved a lot. Before I would have rated the performance at a lower 7 (which is still good) but now I'd give it a solid 9. It wore very nicely all day. ;) It's the perfect chocolate scent imo. Super happy to have it in my collection. Performance rating: 9/10 Scent rating: 10/10 Overall rating: 9.5/10

Stunning! Wow, this is smelling like a snack! I get popcorn flavoured with Ferrero Rocher chocolates straight up. Dont even think popcorns listed but that what i get. Eventually for me it gets more into the Ferrero flavoured hot mocha coffee still with a touch of buttery popcorn. Its more a dark chocolate scent and not too sweet. Love that. Its powerful too, lasting on my clothes FOREVER. Have to be in the mood to wear this though and a light hand would be recommended to not choke other out around you. Mine arrived with a production date of 4/25 so it's already around 6 months matured so I'll see how this goes over the next few months. Spring/ summer here in Australia so probably won't be used until winter next year. Still, will be looking forward to that ❤️

I love this. Its a bitter smoky dark chocolate with at the same time sweet hazelnut and milk/cream. I am so happy that this gourmand isn't so overly sweet. It is sweet yes, but not to the point it gets nauseating. I love the bitterness and smokiness in it. I love how my nose cant seem to make up it's mind about ; it switches from hey now it is more sweet creamy nutella like, to mmm or is it smoky very dark bitter chocolate or cocao powder. I love that contrast in this. I smell no cigarettes or ash whatsoever. Maybe its a skin chemistry thing...Blown away, i absolutely love this. 9,5/10.

I LOVE THIS! I blind bought it and until it arrived I read a bunch of terrible reviews. That it smells like earth, like cigars like idk what. For me, when it’s firstly sprayed it smells like a huge mountain of hazelnuts and then it settles down and it smells like aromatic hazelnut chocolate filled wafer rolls. It’s incredibly sweet and I literally smell edible. It’s also extremely long lasting. I’m sorry if others pick weird notes, every skin reacts differently to perfumes and amplifies different facets but on me this is amazing!