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!

Hazelnut chocolate! I can’t believe there’s a perfume that smells like this. Ferrero Rocher. You actually experience the chocolate scent first, and the hazelnut emerges as a middle note, almost like you are biting into a chocolate. Beautiful! I love any nut scent so the hazelnut vanilla drydown is great for me.

I think this is the best of my chocolate gourmands. It’s fantastic! But I don’t understand why Fragrantica does not list White Forest Strawberry that was launched together with this one. It’s an amazing white chocolate/strawberry/ almond gourmand. The bottle is exactly the same as this one but white 😍😍

Pure chocolate with a pistachio slant, looks like a food flavor because it makes me want to eat chocolate too much! But I like it! I think using it as a layering with other fragrances could give it the best!!! For example with Nebras.. 😍 But using it alone around the house is also very very cozy!

Are you addicted to Ferrero Rocher chocolate candy like I am? Then this scent is for you...edible, sweet, creamy, addicting. Hazelnut is not listed but it's definitely there. Long lasting. You will be considered edible and delicious when wearing this. Love.

Stunning! This is my favourite chocolate perfume it is so yummy and alluring. It needs maceration so keep it for a month before you judge it. Extremely strong and long lasting. Really smooth. Beautiful, unisex sweet smoky hazelnut chocolate fragrance.

This is such a beautiful silky chocolate perfume. In fact, it reminded me of a dark chocolate hazelnut wafer. In my opinion, this smells quite elegant. It's like wearing chocolate in a natural casual way - yet it smells decadent! Beautiful!

I have been a smoker for 7 years and I quit last year. The smell of cigarettes disgusts me now. This does not smell like cigarettes at all, what the f*ck is wrong with your nose?

Just AMAZING !! I let it sit for a month and now it’s soooo rounded, perfection!! When I just got it I could only smell the chocolate, and now the whole journey came to life 😍😍

This is a perfume that will depend a lot on your skin chemistry! Luckily on my skin this is DELICIOUS! It’s a rich nutty, chocolate caramel scent that has amazing performance!

This is so delicious! It smells edible! It smells just like a Forrero Roche! I'm surprised this fragrance isn't more popular! It has staying power as well!

My Gf says it smells like cookies in a piercing obnoxious way, she hates it. I really really love it. It's a delicious chocolate cookie smell.

If you want to smell like Ferrero Rocher, this is it. It's amazing cocoa, not too sweet, but soooo tasty!

This is fking delicious. A woodsy Nutella.

i bought this scent yesterday. it's nice. all the reviews ranted and raved about a strong chocolate, sweet, nutella-ferrero-rocher-esque smell. so, i don't smell that. i'm on the hunt for a strong chocolate perfume that don't hurt the pockets, and this is a very good fragrance! just not very chocolate forward as all the people insisted. now, what i do get from it is hazelnut coffee creamer, the hazelnut coffee creamer my sister liked growing up. it's very nutty, milky, and warm and can *almost* trick you into smelling chocolate before the dry down, with all the vanilla/caramel and whatnot. i dont know why but, it kinda turns into a pure nut scent after it dries down, spicier, more grown-up. despite my thoughts on the notes not being what i expected, it goes well with my current scent combo. i layer it with choco musk, and vanilla latte by scentual fragrances. i think it brings out the milky, creamer-like aspect of brown choco, since vanilla latte is a little sharp, and adds a nice sweetness with the marshmallow of choco musk. maybe after it macerates i'll get more chocolate like i hoped, but TLDR: overall it's a beautiful, well balanced, deep spicy vanilla-y hazelnut scent, just not particularly what i was looking for.

On Youtube, Maria Collett RAVED about Khadlaj "La Fede Brown Choco." I like Maria Collett a lot. Her fragrance preferences don't always resonate with me, perhaps 65% of the time. With insomnia most nights, certain fragrances help me sleep. I thought Brown Choco might be a good nighttime fragrance. I purchased a full bottle x 100ml for under $20.00 USD. To quote my husband, "It's not too complicated, not too sophisticated," Certainly it's not. Brown Choco is all burnt hazelnuts, some pistachio with an underpinning of dark chocolate. The fragrance is dry, dusty and arid, not lactonic or creamy. The chocolate notes emerge more in the dry-down. But throughout the fragrance's journey, nuttiness reigns supreme. More of a novelty scent than a wearable fragrance. Becomes fatiguing over time.