Choco Violette

Mancera Choco Violet opens with a moderate to a strong projection of sweet, gourmand, floral, nutty, and slightly citrusy notes. The opening is exquisite, delicious, and very pleasant. The orange and bergamot are just a soft touch, not prominent; the dark chocolate and vanilla, on the other hand, are intense and delectable; the hazelnut is a tasty sweet nutty note; the violet is a fresh, airy, floral note but not as prominent as the chocolate or hazelnut. The white musk is a projecting accord but without any noticeable participation. The fragrance is relatively linear, except for the orange and bergamot, which come and go for a brief moment during the opening, all other notes continue into the dry-down. The most noticeable change in this fragrance is the loss of potency, the opening is moderate to strong, however, the dry-down is moderate to low. Once Mancera Choco Violet has reached its full dry-down, it can be summarized as a moderate to low projection, very sweet vanilla, chocolate, and hazelnut fragrance with violet and very soft citrus accords. The fragrance feels comforting, creamy, delectable, delicious, exotic, fine, gourmand, inviting, mature, mild, modern, natural, rich, romantic, sweet, syrupy, unisex, warm, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020 (#19J304C). WOW RATING: 6/10. The opening is intense, but the dry-down is rather soft and unimpressive. DISLIKE RATING: 2/10. Very sweet, the chocolate and hazelnut notes are prominent. UNIQUENESS: 7/10. Gourmand fragrances are relatively common. MASS APPEAL: 9/10. This is a fragrance that most people will enjoy. PROJECTION: 3/10. Moderate to low, about 3 feet around the wearer, it projects softly. SILLAGE: 3/10. Moderate to low, about 3 feet around the wearer. APPLICATION: 4 atomizations will suffice. LONGEVITY: 4/10. About 4 hours, it projects moderately for 2 hours. SEASONS: Winter, fall, colder days, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, casual, holidays, romantic, dating. VERSATILITY: 5/10. A fragrance ideal for formal or casual wear in cold weather. GENDER: Unisex, the chocolate, vanilla, and hazelnut are neutral accords. The violet in this fragrance is slightly sweet, powdery, and airy and does not lean the fragrance to the feminine side. AGES: 20 and above. RECOMMENDATION: Mancera Choco Violet can be found for about $80, its performance could use some improvement, very low compared to other Mancera fragrances. It is a pleasant, gourmand fragrance, a nice-to-have. BLIND-BUY: Yes, but only if you are familiar with its main notes. SIMILAR: These are examples of gourmand fragrances. Dua Fragrances Beauteous Delight is the clone of Feve Deliciouse, very similar but with stronger citrus notes and great longevity; Feve Delicieuse is a fantastic gourmand fragrance featuring cacao, milk, and other notes; Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille is a great boozy, and vanilla fragrance; Kilian Black Phantom EDP features delicious coffee, rum, caramel, and dark chocolate; Kilian Back to Black is a great honeh, tobacco, almond and sweet fragrance; Montale Chocolate Greedy bring cacao, vanilla, and tonka, but lacks performance; Nishane Fan Your Flames features woody, sweet, coconut, and rum notes, and it is very good; Paco Rabanne Black XS By Paco Rabanne is a gourmand fragrance that features praline and it feels chocolaty; Parfums De Marly Oajan EDP is slightly boozy, sweet and spicy; Thierry Mugler - A*Men Angel Men Pure Tonka is another great gourmand fragrance featuring coffee, cacao, and other delectable notes; Tiziana Terenzi Al Contrario is an exquisite malt, woods, cacao, and sugar cane gourmand fragrance; Tom Ford Noir De Noir is more floral and more chocolaty; Tom Ford Noir Extreme EDP is a sweet, dessert-like, floral fragrance but slightly tilted to the feminine side; Mancera Choco Violet is a tasty chocolate, vanilla and hazelnut fragrance. SUMMARY: A moderate to low projection, very sweet vanilla, chocolate, and hazelnut fragrance with violet and very soft citrus accords. The fragrance feels comforting, creamy, delectable, delicious, exotic, fine, gourmand, inviting, mature, mild, modern, natural, rich, romantic, sweet, syrupy, unisex, warm, and very pleasant.

Guuuuuurl. That BLAST of chocolate is immediate and ready to get in your face about it! I mean, one spritz and my finger hasn’t even snapped back into the pre-spray position on the nozzle before it’s Willy Wonka time! I read one of the reviews here where the reviewer said they get no chocolate from this fragrance at all. Like, zero. And I’m over here wondering how someone planted a fully heated and ready-to-eat pot of chocolate fondue in my closet without me knowing. I mean... I haven’t worn this fragrance in a while, as I’m in sweltering Los Angeles and it’s early September. It’s been a hot summer and fall temps are a ways off yet. I mention this because, to me, Choco Violette is strictly for fall and winter temps. But I wanted to be reminded of why it’s such a unique, interesting, lovely fragrance so I sprayed a spritz on my forearm as I got ready for bed. Needless to say (again), that initial note is straight up chocolate for me. Not much else is elbowing its way in with that heavy dose of chocolate starting the show. The chocolate starts out on the darker side (love dark chocolate, not so much a milk choc fan), powdery, very strong. Within just a couple minutes, that lovely violet peeks over the chocolate wall, says a somewhat timid hello, but decides to stay. She climbs up and takes a seat on the wall’s ledge, where she’ll stay, slowly gaining the courage to join in the conversation. As the major choco presence slowly recedes a bit, the hazelnut becomes more identifiable. And after a good 20 mins, the vanilla joins the party. I feel like the vanilla knew all along that she was going to have to come in and temper her boisterous chocolate cousin, and she does — with a wink and a smile. She’s a welcome addition to the gathering, and she stays for a good, long while. After about an hour, there’s a harmonious conversation between everyone, in which the vanilla sets the tone, but enough time has gone by that even the shyest party guests have taken a comfortable seat. A touch of orange is now lingering, but just a touch. That warm lilt of musk has also found a cushiony seat at the center of the social gathering. Very long lasting. I smell it on me the next day, for sure. By then, the violet has aged and fading, but still noticeable. This fragrance is so cozy and wintry and gourmande, but it also, inexplicably, manages to give some freshy vibes somewhere in the distance. It must be the violet and orange. I usually gravitate toward more fresh fragrances, but my goodness, I can’t stop sniffing my arm. There’s just something so addicting about it. Big thumbs up.

HAZELNUT & VIOLET, this beauty opens with a fruity hazelnut burst and transitions to hazelnut dark chocolate featuring a delicate violet note in the air. The violet goes on to become quite jammy. The chocolate here is very dark and bittersweet, not what I would call a milk chocolate and with the hazelnut evokes almost a coffee/espresso vibe (not listed). This beauty is fairly linear and a beast mode performer, however you do get some transition to Madagascar vanilla and white musk in the final drydown several hours in which goes on for days. This unique scent is unlike anything I've smelt before, but here are some contrasts. Contrast to To Be Camouflage Pink, Police: This is the closest scent to Choco Violet that I've smelt, but these are still very different, especially in the openings where I smell gardenia in Camouflage Pink. I don't pick up gardenia in Choco Violet Mancera, but just violet and hazelnut on steroids. In the dry down of Camouflage Pink I get hints of violet and hazelnut that remind me of Choco Violet Mancera. Contrast to Angel Muse EDT Mugler: These are different however there are some similarities as both are hazelnut-chocolate scents. Angel Muse EDT has passionfruit instead of violet, and the Angel style patchouli. But both of these were love at first scent for me and different enough to each be FB worthy. Contrast to Rebelle Rihanna: These are very different but have some similarities with both having a heavy dose of chocolate. I don't smell any coconut in Choco Violet unlike Rebelle. Rebelle is softer overall except for the slight bristle of patchouli. I get more of a make-up and cocoa vibe from Rebelle which I don't get in Choco Violet. Overall: A very unique scent with stellar performance. Must love hazelnuts, dark chocolate & jammy violet. It's a love for me. Enjoy!

So first off, you do have to enjoy violets to like this perfume, both their powdery soft side and their slightly sharper, astringent side. On first spray you get a LOT of astringent violet, which quickly calms down and you are left with a powdery, lactonic vanilla and chocolate smell that I find delicious. It's a lot like hot cocoa mix. However, I had to write this review because of a recent experience of mine. I'd been using this as a bedtime scent, because I find it so comforting. I'd spray a half-spray on each wrist before bed. Recently, I chose to take it traveling and because traveling can be stressful, I applied a tiny punch up in the morning, like a few drops on each wrist, to help me relax through the day. My travel got delayed, and I ended up traveling ALL DAY- from 5 AM to landing in Juneau, Alaska finally at 9:30 PM. As we were in line disembarking the plane, climbing out of the plane and going down the stairs to the tarmac, I heard a father and a young, maybe early 5 or 6 year old child talking behind me. The father was trying to get some enthusiasm for Alaska out of the kid, and asked him to breathe in the fresh Alaska air. The child did, and was like "Wow, it smells like s'mores!" and the dad was like "Yeah, wow, isn't it cool that even the air in Alaska smells like s'mores? That's fun, right?" So I'm pretty sure that this was me :D LOL! Choco Violette smells a lot like s'mores- powdery and sweet like marshmallows, chocolately, and there's a little bit of a graham cracker thing going on too! But I had long ago thought the perfume had become a skin scent, and had to put my nose right against my wrist to smell it- so be warned, apparently it continues to project long after at least I can no longer smell it. 15+ hours and getting positive comments from strangers- I'll take it!

O M G. I needed to feel something so I blind bought this bottle off of reviews on Fragrantica and Youtube. I knew I would love it because I love Hazlenut, Violets, Chocolate and Vanilla. Also, I absolutely love and adore Mancera Velvet Vanilla and Montale Vanille Absolu. When trying it today my eyes opened up wide, this is NICHE quality uniqueness and experience. The very first smell has a tiny bit of a green quality with the bergamont and violets but the chocolate quality comes in quick with a vengence. In the very beginning it smells like 60% chocolates +20% Violets +10%Hazlenut + 10% Orange and Bergamont. You can smell these notes but they blend to create something fun, unique and YUMMY. After about 2 minutes on the skin, the hazlenut is very present and when very close to the spot sprayed, the nuttiness is realistic and projecting. The scent smells super strong on the spot sprayed but in the air its much sweeter for some reason, which is unique and fun. At the 2-3 hour mark OMG it changes, and this is when the Montale/Mancera vanilla kicks and makes it smell much more creamier. The dark chocolate facets are now smelling completely like milk chocolate because of the vanilla. At this point its projecting this lovely scent and my skin smellin soooo good. Holy smokes 10/10 scent tbh. Finally!!! I understand the Cocoa Pops + Oreo cream reference. This was SUCH a satisfying blind buy because I have been researching this perfume for such a long time now. I am so happy rn💖💖💖💖

Had a hard time deciding between this and Roses & Chocolate as I was looking for a floral-chocolate fragrance. I couldn't find much information on this one as the latter seems more popular. It was risky but I'm really happy I chose this one!! Initial spray I thought "crap why did I buy this... This is like burnt sugar.." the hazelnut with orange threw me off and did something weird to my skin.. It was quite bitter... But by the middle notes I get mostly chocolate and the violet took a while to appear but not as pronounced. It's SO interesting I can't stop huffing my arm! Why aren't people talking about this more?? This is extremely underrated!! What I find unique is that every time I smell my arm I think "it's mostly chocolate" to then "oh I smell more violet!" It's a very sweet and powdery fragrance, sweeter than what I'm used to. I'd put it in the same sweetness level as Givenchy's Hot Couture or Pink Sugar if that can give you an idea. This is my first Mancera fragrance and I'm definitely interested in purchasing more!! I'll be back with an update on longevity and feedback from family (: Edit - This has ENORMOUS sillage with just 2 sprays- one on the wrist and my neck. I could smell this for 12 freaking hours! I've never had a fragrance last so long and so intensely, I went to the gym and suffocated myself with my own fragrance so I gotta be careful with when I spray this. I've also tried spraying a rose fragrance on top and it's just UGH! <3

Very classy 'warm-violet' scent! Violet is not often used! The beginning reminds me ALOT of PRADA CANDY NIGHT! But the chocolate in Choco Violet is softer, just like Nestle Nesquik chocolate powder. I can smell the violet but it's not overwhelming, identical to the smell of Chowards Violet Squares Mints. There is a beautiful contrast between the coldness of the violets and the warmth of the chocolate. The hazelnut is only present in the opening of the perfume, it's a very pleasant nutty smell. It smells just like opening a fresh bag of Quadratini Hazelnut Creme-Filled Wafer Cookies! That smell goes away after a few minutes and settles down to the balanced powdered chocolate and violet smell. It's a very complex smell, no one ever does violet with a warm quality. At times I swear I smell sweettarts/pixie sticks or even that fun dip candy from the 90's. It's not overly sweet like Angel by Mugler or anything like that, but it's similar to angel where you have this contrast of light and dark. You often see reviews where violet are thought of as 'melancholic' but this is the opposite! The longevity is moderate I'd say. Looking to try Insolence by Guerlain next I'm hooked on Violets! EDIT: I layered Choco Violet over Angel By Mugler and it smelled like AURA by Mugler.

I blind bought this fragrance and it wasn’t what I was expecting... at first it was Nutella slap right on my face and than a little chocolate and lots of sweet violets, I regret it and I couldn’t believe that I had blind bought it (again) ... but my most loved fragrance are the ones that are blind buys and I almost never liked them at first. I give it another chance and I sprayed more, the next day I wore it for work and I was pleasantly surprised. Not loud or offensive, it was fresher than I thought it would be and it last a reasonable time ( I didn’t sprayed to much cus I wasn’t sure of it). I don’t know if I would have bought it if I have sampled before, but now I’m so glad I have this because I have nothing like this in my collection. On my skin the Nutella goes quickly away and what’s left it’s really interesting, Violet with a little bit of choco and some vanilla , sweet but not cloying, I guess you have to get used to it. Longevity and sillage are not bad , but it’s not a monster either.... But again this happened before I know that if I let him macerated for some time it wil be stronger. Almost all year around kind of fragrance.

Blind bought it .... On the first spray thought uh that’s strange.The opening doesn’t work for me something with the nuts and citrus notes that doesn’t marry to my nose ...seriously thought that I will be giving it away to my husband😭 but 15 minutes later... choco pops with vanilla came in ☺️ I was like ok this is nice a bit boring but nice...and smelling like choco pops is fine with me .then after 30min.... the violet comes through!!!! 😍😍😍😍 ends up as chocolate, vanilla and violets and it’s magical. This is definitely staying with me!!!😜It’s chocolate but fresh in the same time - so unique. Really reminds me of Guerlain Insolence which I absolutely love but with additional chocolate twist💕 however sprayed on the clothes and it comes through as chocolate and nuts ... very little or one of the violets note . This scent needs the skin I don’t think I can live without it now 🥰 maybe not a safe blind buy for someone that doesn’t like the violets - it’s not sweet chocolate fragrance more dry powdery chocolate with strong and refreshing violets 🥰🥰🥰🥰

It's been two weeks since I wore this for a small get together dinner and my coat STILL smells strongly of it, as in whenever I pass by the coat in our hallway I smell this gorgeous perfume. It smells like brownies with icing sugar on top for me. Or coco pops. It has a milky/doughy/cakey element to it and it smells absolutely edible. Powdery but not straight up violet to me. The first seconds are a tad overwhelming, as it's just so strong.. And that is coming from someone who loves strong perfumes. But when you just let the perfume work on your skin it does wonders. With manceras I tend to not like them as much when I stick my nose straight into wherever I've sprayed. The cloud it makes is bomb though. Lasting power and projection is out of this world! Also received compliments from strangers on this one, which is highly unusual where I live 😅 Especially when people are totally sober. Was told I smelled like something you could eat or a bakery.

Instantly reminded me of my Garden Fairies Cabbage Patch Doll from the 90s named Violet. My doll was Violet scented. I always remembered how she smelled, it seems like yesterday. I could've cried when I smelled this. It reminded me of that doll and my childhood. I actually felt regret after spraying this. It dried down to a nutty violet milk on my skin. It was faint and barely lasted. I thought maybe I was going nose blind. Also remembered I'm sick. I sprayed Chocolate Greedy on the other wrist and got same dry down. THE NEXT DAY, I sprayed this on my clothes instead of my skin. Such a huge difference. On my skin it was giving rancid milk. On my clothes it's violet chocolate vanilla milk. So good. I feel like ppl could def smell as I walked around. Boosted my confidence. It has gotten better with time. I really love this fragrance and I prefer unique scents in my collection. This would Classify as unique and I'm so happy with this blind buy.

So i am back after a year or more to say i now love this. Heres what happened: i wore Étoile d'Une Nuit Goutal a few weeks ago on a cooler summer day in pennsylvania. I was at a funeral so i thought that was a good scent bc it isnt loud, sexy, juvenile or buoyant. Idk what happened but i then developed overnight an obsession with iris and violets. So i dug this dusty bottle out of the back of my perfume closet— a FULL BOTTLE - and sprayed all over and now i am in CHOCO VIOLET HEAVEN. What was wrong with me before that i could not appreciate this beauty?! I even layered it with Étoile d'Une Nuit Goutal in a joyful frenzy of violet iris choco bliss. What did we learn here? A perfume can go from love to hate and back again. Suddenly you can smell notes you never did before and its all new! Dont write stuff off forever! So here i am wearing chocolate notes in summer in maryland. I know the season is wrong but i dont care. I am in love❤️

Rich, delicious and SUPER gourmand. Probably the most realistic chocolate fragrance I’ve ever smelled. It’s a nutella-y hazelnut chocolate (kinda like ferrero rocher chocolate) and smells SO yummy! It literally smells like a dark chocolate hazelnut cake. A lot of people say they get violets in here but I’m kinda not really getting it? but then again, I also don’t know what violets smell like so that’s probably why I don’t pick up on it 😂. I bought Montale’s Chocolate Greedy before I got this one, and I remember I was worried that they would smell too similar but they’re different enough for you to own both. For me, the difference btwn this one & Chocolate Greedy is that the vanilla in CG is a lot more prominent. CG smells more like sweet vanilla & milk chocolate whereas this one is dark chocolate & hazelnut and its also richer, denser, and more complex to me as well. Both are extremely sweet.

Recently got a sample of this and wow I’m amazed. As a gourmand lover, this is a must have. It’s chocolatey, nutty, almost cake-y. The chocolate in this is dark, sweet and a little powdery but not dusty like the chocolate in Mancera Roses and Chocolate. Something in this fragrance a little bit of green in the opening, maybe its from the bergamot? You can also detect the violet mixed in with the chocolate which gives the fragrance a fresh airiness, making this appropriate for most settings. The very drydown is chocolate vanilla heaven, absolutely beautiful and edible. Compared to other mancera’s the projection is not as big but it’s not a skin scent and lasts for about 7-8 hrs. Fully expected to get chocolate from Hugo Boss Private Accord (disappointed), but this one is the real chocolate sh*t. If you love chocolate fragrances, this is the one to get.

I bought this for my mom (85) bc she loves chocolate. She really hasnt worn it much she seems to lean more to voce viva and chloe roses. Yesterday i thought id give it a try. It definitely is chocolate! I get a very tiny bit of floral notes but mainly chocolate. It did smell good i enjoy the scent, but idk how to describe it, it felt a bit like i was living in a simulated world. I only have 2 mancera fragrances, but both have the common denominator of feeling like i am in a simulation vs being in the real world. One reason i love fragrance is because i believe it helps me to connect with and enjoy the present moment. I dont get that present feeling as much with mancera house, it feels like this is how the new version of humans in 3400 AD will produce the feeling of chocolate for all to enjoy, because real chocolate no longer exists.

I only bought this a couple of days ago and it’s all I think about.. WOW this is good. 🤤 I get a BLAST of chocolaty roasted hazelnuts at first spray and in the dry down I swear I smell like I’ve been baking cookies 🍪 My first words when I sprayed this were, “COCO POPS!!!”🥣 REALISTIC chocolate IMO 😍 I’m soo addicted it’s no joke. Opens similar to CG. The only thing I’d say is, the Violet in this is NOT a sweet powdery candied violet like in insolence. 💜 This Violet is extremely GREEN!! Like it still has all the stems & leaves on.🍃 Bit of an awkward note & at first I wasn’t keen, but now, the more I smell it, I realised it makes this fragrance wayyy more wearable, balanced and not sickly sweet at all! 👏 You HAVE to like dark Chocolate & Violets in your perfume to enjoy this because it really does what it says on the bottle! 🍫💜🍃

I think this is a wet cold violet first, dusted with warm facets of cacao and hazelnut shavings. The violet comes off fresh and that’s why I stated it was wet and cold, but that may be the citruses on top creating that effect? Or maybe more accurately, I imagine someone drinking hot chocolate, standing by their opened window looking outside at a field of violets, it just rained and cool air blows in. A very unlikely occurrence in my personal life but that’s what I get lol and I think this would be beautiful on an early spring, cool rainy day. Anyways, the chocolate comes out more and more as it dries down but I honestly mainly get violet. I don’t think this smells exactly like Montale chocolate greedy. The floral aspect that lasts for majority of the wear makes this different. Choco violet also lasts longer.

I wore this again a couple of months ago and meant to update. Do i like it? Yes it smells good, but it is just so much photorealistic chocolate. It feels pretty linear to me, i dont really smell anything else but chocolate. I dont really get any citrus or floral, no nuts no musk. I think if the chocolate accord was dialed back about 50 percent it would be more of a “blend”. The performance is amazing this will NOT fade away, to the point that i felt like i needed to escape it. I guess there are different strokes for different folks, maybe some people want to smell like chocolate, and as much as i like that accord, i dont think it suits me. I do think i may layer this with other things in fall/winter. But i would only use a teeny tiny drop of this with something else, maybe something woody or musky.

Oh this is a fun one! So glad I risked the blind buy when I found a good price! I could only get the 4 oz bottle so I was a little nervous, but this is a casual scent I could even wear in summer, so I don’t think it will be wasted. It starts off with a powdered milk chocolate foreground, (think hot cocoa powder) but a sweet violet is already there with it just behind. A few minutes in the hazelnut comes out, but at this point I also get something like fresh raspberries too, not sugar syrup, but fresh and cool, adding some yummy juiciness to the dry composition. Another blind buy win, and a really enjoyable fragrance! The sweetness is tempered by the hazelnut and berry note so while very edible, I’d say this could be a gourmand for those who don’t like the overboard candy floss and diabetes trend.

What an odd experience - I totally dislike the first five minutes and totally love the scent after that. It starts off with the nastiest combo of burned nuts you forgot in the oven and the cheapest 80% cocoa cooking chocolate you can find in the store. Thank God this smell completely disappears in just a few minutes and you're left with hours upon hours of beautiful powdery violets. Here in Bulgaria there's violet hard candy covered in fine sugary powder and this perfume smells exactly like that. I do smell vanilla but only in the deep deep drydown. Not sure how often I'll use it, but will definitely buy a bottle. Even if I only spray it while at home. I'm genuinely confused why people compare it to Chocolate Greedy. Violet is a main player here and is nothing to be found in the Montale.