Cocoa Woods

Got this on sale at Sephora for the rollerball. I love it! It smells so close to Aquolina Chocolovers, one of my favorites that was discontinued over a decade ago. It's a warm, rich cocoa, dark chocolate fragrance with a slightly floral sweetness. It's like a fudgey, spiced brownie, nearly on the edge of cloying-sweet but not tipping over to be too much for me. I used to chop up candied ginger and bake them into Ghirardelli triple chocolate brownie mix to make ginger brownies, and it makes me think of that as well as Aquolina Chocolovers. Because it's a rollerball, I would say it's intimate to moderate in sillage. I'm surprised people find its longevity to be weak because I've worn it on the back of my dominant wrist, and I wash my hands very frequently, but have still smelled it throughout the day and overnight to the next morning. Just now reading see_u_space_cowgirl's review and their first paragraph is spot-on to me in terms of the notes! I think we used the same descriptors and I agree as one who can't recognize the sequoia note. Despite not having a ridiculously long note-list (unlike some frags out there!), it feels pretty complex, deep, and very well-rounded. I'm sad if this is being discontinued because I do enjoy it as a fall-winter fragrance, might have to snag another one.

This is my absolute favorite perfume I own. It’s my signature scent. I love how it wears and how unique it is. I would wear this perfume for any occasion, day or night. But I would say the general population would classify this as a more cold weather/nighttime scent. This was a complete blind buy for me during it discontinuation. It is a beautiful woody fragrance that contains some powder from the white florals, but has a sweetness to it from the cocoa. The initial spray is a powdery cocoa and then as it wears on me the woods come through in the dry down. The cocoa keeps the woods at a nice creamy level for my chemistry that doesn’t make it too masculine or pull like pencil shavings/hamster cage. Overall, perfection for me.

Chocolate woods for sure...and underneath is a blanket of light tiare flower and sandlewood...This is an "odd bird".....and...I am LIKING the oddity !!! Very different IMO. Has some sweet spiciness going on,yup! And this borders gourmond,but not full-on. I would say it IS unisex for sure. I am very inclined to own this unusual scent. I will say...the sillage and projection are average..but if it were higher..it could of become cloying. I can see some similarities to Pinrose Gilded Fox, but the Gilded Fox smelled way more synthetic/metallac to my nose. EDIT: Went thru my Sephora sample of this....and....I miss it !!! I will buy a full bottle A-S-A-P !!! Unique...unusual....brilliant.

I really like this fragrance. It’s floral, powdery, slightly musky intertwined with nutty bitter cocoa notes and a woody base. This is NOT a gourmand chocolate or sweet scent. It’s more powdery than expected, and I normally don’t like powdery scents but this works. I’m happy to find a more mature, woody, but still feminine scent. I think it works well as a unisex fragrance although Cocoa Woods is heavy on the floral so it leans feminine to me. If you like unisex scents like Nirvana Black, 7 Virtues Vanilla Woods — you might like this! For age group, I think late 20s and up might appreciate these notes and lack of sweetness.

This has been my fragrance since summer 2021. It is so good and long lasting!! I like sweet scents but this surprised me, the ginger note reads peppermint to me and my skin brings out the cacao into a dark chocolate sort of depth. Of course great for winter but this scent is a surprise hit for the summer <3 stays on my clothes for days. I feel personally attacked that nest discontinued this. Beware trying to find cocoa woods online: it smells even better macerated and I will fight you for it. Going rate is 50$ (opened, no box) - 100$ (bnib).

I absolutely adore this perfume and it has been my most complemented perfume of all time! It is the perfect winter scent! The perfume is woody and spicy without being insanely overpowering and heavy. It works well as a daytime scent and I find that it lingers on my skin and clothing hours after spraying it on. It is rather dissapointing to know that it has been discontinued. Not sure I would categorize this as a gourmand, perhaps a bit powdery. This was also my first ever proper perfume and it was an excellent purchase!

Cocoa Woods is an excellent example of a fragrance that is layered, mysterious, and intriguing. If it were an article of clothing, it would be a nicely fitted but not too tight velvet dress; if it were a food, it would be a dark chocolate torte with a surprise kick of spice. I like that it is deep and feminine without trying too hard to be sexy. This definitely gives me a deeper appreciation for woods, especially when they can be so balanced with other tricky notes like cacao.

Creamy, elegant white florals melting into a deep, earthy cocoa. Supple in a way that coats the senses. Like having a chocolate picnic in a small forest clearing full of redolent white flowers. It's an unseasonably warm autumn day, and your chocolate repast melts gradually on laid out platters as you lounge on a blanket, relaxed and drowsy. It's well-balanced, with a dense, slightly unusual gourmand elegance.

I have just a little of this left in my rollerball, and I will be so sad when it is finally gone. Thank goodness a little goes a long way! I love the sharpness from the sandalwood & sequoia paired with the creamy cocoa. This is a lovely cold-weather scent. I wore it for the first time in a while today and kept wondering all day what smells so good... spoiler alert, it was me.

So soft and cozy! I was pleasantly surprised by this one. Often cocoa is marred by patchouli, but in this case it's all cocoa, woods, and a nice subtle sweetness. It's not a sugar bomb, but rather a warm, fuzzy sort of sweetness that's well balanced with the dry cocoa and woody notes. I think this is the best and most unique of the Nest line.

Shame this one is being discontinued, but I probably wouldn't have gotten it is if weren't on sale. It is such a lovely woody chocolate scent. On me, it is slightly sweet without being sickly. 11/10 would recommend stocking up on this one.

This is such a treasure in my collection. Great for the cold weather! The bottle is beautiful, and the juice is earthy, cozy and sexy. Gourmand, but not cloying. Imagine dried cacao inside a wooden case, with a sprig of flowers nearby.

This is an underrated gourmand fragrance for those who love Black Phantom and Velvet Haze, but for a fraction of the price. I own all 3 and reach for the Nest fragrance more often. Highly recommend.

I am still working my way through my Nest mini rollerball set, and yesterday’s perfume of the day was Cocoa Woods. Cocoa Woods begins with a heady dose of bitter, rich dark chocolate topped off with a light dusting of ginger spice. I can pick out a sandalwood note and something sort of like a dry patchouli, but as I’ve never smelled a sequoia note before, the woody accord remains somewhat unintelligible to my nose. Throughout the next 15 minutes or so, a slightly creamy tiare flower blooms and fades, allowing the cacao notes to take a backseat and watch. The tiare is thankfully less sharply synthetic than many of Nest’s other florals. Unfortunately, 15 minutes is about all I get before the cacao and floral notes disappear, along with a lot of the woodsy backdrop. What remains is an unidentifiable wood note spiced slightly with ginger sitting extremely close to the skin, which disappears fully around 30-45 minutes after first applying. Sillage is poor as well. Cocoa Woods is a charming little vignette in a bottle. Unlike Midnight Fleur, which I reviewed yesterday, the bottle and name really do fit the scent inside. When I wear this, I imagine myself leisurely walking through a cocoa tree forest during evening’s golden hour, the setting sun illuminating the flower-scattered ground beneath me in a warm glow. I wasn’t expecting to like this fragrance as much as I did, but I also wasn’t expecting it to have such abysmal longevity. The path through the cocoa forest is short - I find myself back where I started much too soon. I am lenient on longevity/sillage when it comes to perfumes, but 15 minutes of fragrance is pushing it, even for me. I really can’t make excuses for how bad it is. That being said, I rated Cocoa Woods highly in spite of my disappointment because I really do find it lovely, unique and evocative. I’d like to try layering it to hopefully coax more performance out of it. In a better formulation, this would easily be full bottle worthy, but as of now I’m happy with my little rollerball.

Nest Cocoa Woods is one of the better cocoa fragrances I have tried. Especially if you are looking for cocoa, more than chocolate. Many fragrances I have tried with chocolate or cocoa notes are very synthetic and cheap candy smelling or the cocoa is drowned out by stronger notes making it just a supporting player. In Cocoa Woods that is not the case as the name would imply cocoa is the star of the show. The fragrance is pretty linear. It starts out as rich woods with dry, bitter cocoa and a generous dose of ginger spice and stays that wear to the end of the wear. The tiare flower adds a creaminess that ties all the other notes togeather.The cocoa is a true cocoa smell, not chocolate. I has none of the sweetness of chocolate and is not at all gourmand. I find this a very unisex fragrance, maybe it leans just a hint masculin with the strong, rich woods and lack of sweetness. I love this as a fall fragrance, perfect for mid to late fall when all the leaves are on the ground and everything smells dry and woody and the air is crisp and cool. I get solid performance with Cocoa Woods. Nest fragrances in general are decent to good in the performance department for me. This on lasts at least 8-10 hours on skin and stays on clothes until they are washed. I love to smell this one on my scarf for days after I initially wore it. The projection is pretty good as well it has a solid moderate projection of around arms reach for 4-6 hours then stays closer to the body. I can smell this all around myself for the whole day when I wear it. A lot of the projection later in the day comes from my clothes and hair. The artwork on Nest bottles is always lovely and matches the fragrance beautifully. Very good quality for a reasonable price. Unfortunately Cocoa Woods has been discontinued for a while, so a little difficult to find.

I didn't care for this the first time I wore it. The notes were harsh and discordant and I didn't get any cocoa or depth, just a sour-sharp opening I thought was bergamot (must be the sequoia and ginger) and syrupy tiare. It was a complete turn-off. So I set it aside to give away. However, I kept thinking about it and finally decided to spritz it on before bed one night about a month later, and that time I loved it. I think the difference was weather and temperature. This is absolutely a cold-weather scent on my finicky skin, which has a tendency to turn musky and woody fragrances animalic and nauseating in hot weather. The harsh woodsy opening notes smooth out, and the tiare flower loses some of its sickly sweetness. I also get an earthy note that must be the cocoa, even though I can't identify it as such. After 2-3 hours I'm left with a light fragrance that evokes the pleasant memory of walking over a carpet of dry pine needles in the woods on a crisp late-fall day. I will say this is not a fragrance with great depth, sillage, or lasting power. It needs to be reapplied every 4 hours at least. And try as I might, I still can't grasp the cocoa note in this one. Imagine a woman wearing Estee Lauder Bronze Goddess Eau Fraiche hugging a man wearing a one-dimensional woodsy cologne. The resulting combination that lingers on each wearer's skin for the next half or or so would be Cocoa Woods. The notes are still rather discordant, but somehow on a dry cold day it works. Overall not one I'd purchase in full size, but I can see myself revisiting the sample on a winter day.

This is from someone who generally doesn't like gourmand fragrances. With a name like Cocoa Woods, I probably never would've tried this. I received a rollerball sample with a perfume swap, so I gave it a try. The first moment is a blast of smooth, warm cocoa. Deep and sultry, sweet but not in the in-your-face-sugar-cookie-milk-chocolate way that I've noticed in a couple other chocolate scents. And then, after a few minutes, the cocoa settles onto a gorgeous wooden base. I can see why kiraagold feels it is masculine, but on my skin, it's still a little on the sweet side to neatly fit under a "masculine" or "feminine" label. I think, depending on skin chemistry, it could be comfortably worn by both any gender. Longevity is non-existent, but I find myself reaching for this just before bed. As I climb into bed, the smoothness and warmth of the cocoa is incredibly comforting, and as I get comfortable and start shutting my brain off for the night, that wooden base is so soothing and helps me drift off. It actually reminds me a little of Angel Etoile des Reves. It's not INCREDIBLY similar, but has a similar vibe. Warm, smooth, comforting, and soft. Definitely a great bedtime fragrance for me. And it seems perfect to invite long cuddle sessions.

Wow just tested this and it's like an updated, fresher Neonatura. Neonatura had a dusty, old books dryness that lacked any freshness at all. Cocoa Woods starts off dry and dusty just the same, just fresher (as in a fresh batch, not juice that's had years to brew in the bottle ). By the middle phase taire livens up and washes away most, not all of the dust. This floral heart is subdued but has a hand in what's coming next... By now it has all comes together and takes a turn towards reminding me less of Neonatura, and much more of the original Boyfriend! Wow! Wasn't expecting this at all from a recent release, let alone from Nest. Basically it opens as a less stale Neonatura Cocoon and closes as a very close dupe to Boyfriend. I sprayed a hefty dose on both arms and after 30 minutes it turnes into a soft, very warm, comfortable scent. No sharpness about it. It has an earthy element of patchouli, and a definite resinous quality, though not listed. I will buy this for its striking resemblance to the 2 late great cozy winter fragrances that can no longer be obtained easily or cheaply. Nest may not even realize it, but they revived two very well loved, highly mourned over fragrances in this one. I would have never guessed.

Does exactly what it says on the label. I get the cocoa note much stronger now than when I first bought it (blind). I get something fruity in the top as well, it may just be the ginger note working alongside the chocolate. This has a very familiar smell to me, like something I wore as a teenager. Was it the orginal Vampire by Body Fantasies? Or their Va Va Voom body spray perhaps. Something cheap and chocolatey. The woods are also there. This smells quite synthetic, but I like it. I might not ever wear it out of the house, but something about it gives me nostalgic vibes so I’ll keep mine and use it up. I don’t recommend seeking it out though unless you liked the other two scents I mentioned or you’re in middle or high school yourself and find this severely discounted, because for the price I do not think what you get is worth it.

I don't see patch listed in the notes, but wow, it's there and it's loud. The only juice I really love with this much of a patchouli scent is Coco. This was a blind buy and luckily it was very cheap and unisex, so my son is getting it. He likes it. Sillage is close and longevity is non existent. Edit 2/22/21 I'm so glad I tried this one again. I didn't give it to my son and I bought another one from Sephora. Unfortunately they are just rollerball size, but discontinued. This time around, it was a creamy, floral, chocolate scent. Long lasting and so comforting. Skin chemistry is the weirdest thing in the world. I'll be using this one up soon, but I'll enjoy every minute of it.