Brownie Pop

Oh----weeee this is good. Gourmand lover is checking in. This passes the test! Gone head to the front of the class and get your gold sticker, your shiny read apple, and pick out which book you want to take home as your prize. This one takes the cake for sure. This smells like Chocolate Queen and What About Pop had a baby. It's addictive. It's long lasting. It makes you smile. It's not overly sweet. Its like undutched powdered cocoa on top of nuts in the organic market for $18.99/lb. It's labeled as imported from Belgium even though this was harvested, fermented, dried, roasted, and mixed with tired brown hands in West Africa. The mid has the soft essence of popcorn but not that movie popcorn with synthetic carcinogenic orange liquid butter they have in America that's banned in other smart developed nations. (I'm definitely on my soap box here) This is South Carolina, great grandma, share cropper, elbow grease, put-your-foot-in-it churned butter, melted on fresh hot corn bread that Jiffy WISH THEY COULD goodness. This is cast iron gas stove no indoor plumbing, pick your switch, someday we gone make it over, down home, Sundays best smooth & delectable butter on pop. Make sure you put this on skin. Make sure you WEAR IT WELL. Wash, polish, moisturize...prep your surface and then go ham! I want a full bottle. Can you tell?

First thing I’m gonna say is that this smells nothing like a brownie. I only get chocolate for the first 30 seconds of the dry down, and overall the strongest note is hazelnut with a hint of biscuit and popcorn. VERY reminiscent of SDJ Cheirosa ‘71. I start getting some sandalwood after about 30 minutes which fades after a couple of hours and brings out the brown sugar. Has moderate sillage and lasts all day and more. In terms of perfumes listed as similar— ❌ by/ rosie jane Dulce: I’m nose blind to this so it obviously doesn’t smell similar to me ❌ Chabaud Lait de Biscuit: a simple biscuit and vanilla scent, not nutty at all ❌ GDT Bianco Latte: a thick and creamy caramel and coumarin fragrance ❌ Jo Malone Ginger Biscuit: very ginger heavy, nowhere near as nutty ❌ Montale Chocolate Greedy: isn’t nutty at all and remains chocolate heavy through the entire wear ❌ Pierre Guillaume Musc Maori: very sour, nowhere near as sweet or nutty ❌ Shay & Blue Salt Caramel: smells like salty sandalwood ❌ Vivamor Caramel Pop: much more caramel and popcorn heavy with distict chestnut

Brownie Pop was love at first whiff for me. From the moment I put it on, I was enveloped by the aroma of freshly baked cookies and warm brownies straight from the oven. As someone who loves realistic gourmand fragrances, this is exactly what I hope for when I reach for a dessert-inspired scent. What wows me most is just how photorealistic it smells. Many fragrances claim to capture the essence of baked goods, but Brownie Pop REALLY delivers. It's rich, indulgent, and seriously mouthwatering. I also find it to be beautifully balanced as well. The sweet elements are complemented by subtle savoury nuances, giving it depth and makes it surprisingly wearable despite its decadence. I've received numerous compliments while wearing Brownie Pop, too. People seem really drawn to the warm, comforting scent trail it leaves. If you're a gourmand lover, I consider Brownie Pop a must-try. It captures fresh-baked treats better than almost any other fragrance I've experienced, and it has quickly become one of my favourites.

Sampling Maison Mataha Brownie Pop, one of the house’s three releases, all gourmands so far, the first I tried being Escapade Gourmande. Brownie Pop is fittingly a mix of brownie and buttery, caramel popcorn, quite well done, sweet with just enough salt for credibility, but quite warm, interesting, and inviting—realistic yet pleasant to wear. It’s an instant winner of a gourmand, in my opinion, a must-try for gourmand lovers, like Escapade Gourmand. It’s neither too heavily chocolately nor an obsessive popcorn blend but rather a harmonious pairing between the two that, while not extremely loud, performs quit well, and I love the value. It’s extrait concentration and priced at $215 for 100ml, sold at boutiques in the US like Perfumology and Luckyscent, among others. I think this value is very good nowadays for wearable, high-quality juice, and I’ve not smelled something quite like this, so I give it plenty of credit for uniqueness, also. 8 out of 10

If you like (or kind of like but wish it was better) Chocolate Greedy by Montale, Sticky Popcorn by Jousset, Crème Brûlée by Theodoros Kalotinis or Cheirosa'71 by Sol de Janeiro, chances are you will love this one. It is also much higher quality, more complex, rich and delicious than Montale, not as salty and body mist like as SdJ, more rich and less salty than Jousset and less coconuty/more biscuity than Kalotinis. It is certainly worth the price, as althout not groundbreaking or novel scent, it is super delicious and very good quality (no off putting silly or synthetic notes), and also has superb longevity. The biscuit is the strongest note to me, along with vanilla, then followed by brown sugar, chocolate and popcorn. It is not as strongly popcorn or brownie forward as I expected, also not much of hazelnut. And although not listed, I get a hint of sweet toasted coconut which is lovely.