Pasion Choco

What is the LOVE? LOVE IS you... I could say that to nishane because i LOVE all the perfumes i have tried from this brand! And this time is not different! Pasión choco' is a very nice perfume which shares the wonderful quality of all the nishane perfumes. It is an extrait de parfum and this is evident from the beggining when you can see the oily character of this perfume (be aware if you are going to wear It with White clothes ☺️). In pasión choco' i have found a very good option to wear during the spring summer un daytime. I can smell a very nice pasión fruit mixed with flowers over a sweet background of chocolate, coffee and different Woods and resins. According to his notes It could seem too intense but It is not. It is even a bit fresh. The longevity and sillage are very good but It doenst project too long. It jeeps close to skin from the opening but It jeeps for the whole day. I have o ly a small dacnt but It goes Direct to my wishlist!!

I immediately get authentic sweet coffee x milky chocolate mixed with lime x grapefruit x passionfruit. Kind of smells "sticky" the first 2 minutes, and then it gets veeery smooth. Smells like a high quality milky chocolaty praline to me. For everyone worried about that the fruity notes might be too strong: They're not. They're present but not in a disturbing or sour way. Blended in very well. The base is a mix of (benzoin x) vanila x patchouli x musk - it's very soothing and warm. The orchid and coriander are detectable too. I get a veeery light marzipan vibe. Imagine this scent as a very authentic Belgian or Swiss praline. Overall the ingredients are quality stuff. It's definitely gourmand (but not pure gourmand like montale chocolate greedy for example) and perfectly unisex, maybe even rather masculine. Perfect for cuddle sessions and dates in fall/winter. For me slightly better than a just a simple like. Definitely unique and good.

Notaları hiç görmeseydim hafif tatlı, baharatlı, lezzetli bir koku derdim. Hissettiğim notalar şöyle: açılışta kısa süre çarkıfelek meyvesi alınıyor. Parfümde bitter çikolata koklamadım, öyle acı acı bir çikolata yok açıkçası. Ortada bağıran bir çikolata yok zaten. Parfümdeki tatlı havanın belli bir bölümünü çikolata sağlıyor. Kişniş notasını aldım ve harmana böyle yakışacağını tahmin etmezdim. Kahve gerçekten hissediliyor ama bağırmıyor, ara ara öne çıktığını hatırlıyorum. Son zamanlarda hiçbir parfüm bu kadar keyif vermemişti. Sanki Tilia'daki kireç (ıhlamur) çiçeği dokunuşu Jorge Lee tarafından yıllar önce burada kullanılmış gibi. Deneyimsiz burunların bile çok sevebileceği bir parfüm. Nasıl bu kadar düşük notlanmış anlayamadım.

This is a gourmand chocolate fragrance like no other! It's all about dark chocolate, passionfruit flavored, dry coffee bean and warm vanilla base. It's not a beast projector but lasts on skin quite a long time; I get 8-10h every time. This is not a typical chocolate fragrance so you really need to appreciate it as a piece of art. It's rather spicy and dark, not a milky and sweet chocolate. For me it's definitely 10/10!

This is gorgeous, so much better than I expected reading the reviews. A delicious sweet gourmand, leans feminine on me. The passion fruit fades but it leaves a fruity dark chocolatey vanilla coffee. I bought a sample then a full bottle. Love. Edit: I’m wearing this today, it’s an amazing scent for the Christmas holidays. Warm, sweet, chocolatey with a hint of coffee. I can’t believe it doesn’t have a higher rating!!!

This stuff right here is full of vibrant character. Vanilla, chocolate, passion fruit, and coffee arethe main stars here and boy do they all shine! Projection is beeeeaast mooooode! And last all freakin day id say 12hrs easy. The house of Nishane exploring continues as this house keeps me intrigued. This kind of puts me in the mind of givenchy pi done in a niche version without the synthetic smell. Overall 7.6/10

Playful perfume,gourmand and beautiful!! Opens with notes of passion fruit and coffee... in the drydown is a sweet/oriental delicious. And eccentric with a dark /sweet background that makes it unique and powerful at the same time. Fragrance full of contrasts, last long and the sillage is heavy. Very beautiful! Sillage: 9/10 Longevity: 8.5/10 Scent: 8.5/10 Overall: 9./10

In Pasion Choco, the dark chocolate + lime blossom may be unique in all of perfumery. I get mostly the dark chocolate, the lime blossom, vanilla, coffee, and benzoin. Also faint hints of cinnamon-coconut-leather not listed in the notes. A delicious fragrance, for sure, and a "must" for chocolate lovers!

Very beautiful scent indeed. 100% unisex as well. The best fruity/gourmand out there. Lasts 10+ and projects 5-6 on my skin. Truly a gem.

Pasión Choco opens up sweet, sour and spicy. A gourmand lover's dream. A bright passion fruit springs forward, backed up by coffee. As strange as this pairing may sound, it's so masterfully blended, you don't notice anything out of place in it. Don't think of it as coffee with passion fruit, but rather as a glorious passion fruit, grounded by the slightest touch of coffee. This idea of contrasting notes yielding smooth harmonious results, applies to the entire composition. As it warms up on the skin, the fragrance loses some of the playful passion fruit, turning darker and sweeter and I get the first whiff of chocolate. The finest, most complex chocolate note imaginable. There's so much going on underneath this chocolate... Warm vanilla, spicy coriander, uplifting lime and a very refined orchid, balance out this beautifully complex composition that never gets too edible or too perfumey. So, while full of contrasts, as stated bellow, it's also an ode to harmony. The end result is a seamless blend of very different notes, each one supporting the next, while adding depth and dimension to the whole.

While using a small sample from a vial I noticed: On skin: grapefruit and passionfruit in the opening with chocolate already dominating the head. Then the top notes fade, I hardly smell the middle notes at all, if anything, it does get a bit floral before their place is taken by vanilla. Lasted about 6.5 hours. On clothing: There's not as much progression. It stays about the same composition for as long as you are wearing the clothing you sprayed it on. I get mainly dark chocolate supported by vanilla, orchid, benzoin and patchouli with the fruits only adding a slight bite to the mix.

I am quite surprised by these negtive reviews.On me this is gorgeous..may be a question of skin chemistry, but I find this super elegant, exotic and feminine.Very different from what I've tested.I love gourmands, and this is for sure a gourmand scent.I get every single note,with excellent longivity and sillage. Like a love embrace, tender and passionate.Unique.Just lovely!

Gourmand delicato, delizioso. Una spolverata di cacao in polvere su pan di Spagna. E' esattamente lo stesso profumo della torta diplomatica al cioccolato con qualche goccina di liquore. Il profumo utilizzato dalla Binoche per conquistare Johnny Depp nel film Chocolat...? Una bella fragranza per chi ama il genere zuccheroso con misura. Non il mio genere.

A solid like. Its performance is a little disheartening as it becomes a skin scent rather quickly. On me its a coco coffee scent with nuances of other things. The patchouli was strong in the beginning for me with the chocolate. I think it be great in the late fall/early winter.

Pasion Choco was one of those fragrances I’d heard good things about, and wanted to sample for a long long time. Now I finally have it, all I can say is that I’m underwhelmed. Nishane have a very mixed bag when it comes to good perfumes, this one in particular is very meh. The chocolate accord more closely resembles a dusty, musty old bookshelf with a sweet earthy undertone. The coffee doesn’t seem to fit, bringing an unwelcome bitterness, whilst the passion fruit seems mostly absent - instead swallowed up by a big orchid note. It’s not awful, but neither is it particularly enjoyable to me. I’m glad I didn’t end up blind buying this, just goes to show how little you can trust the opinions of others! Always trust your own nose.

This was a bit of a strange one. I never noticed any chocolate which was disappointing. Instead it smelled like slightly fruity aftershave. I would say this fragrance definitely leans more masculine, at least for my tastes. The sillage is quite weak and was more of a skin scent.

A floral chocolate. Not a combination I think works well together.

Between Cult Status and Sugar Overload I got this decant back when I did not care for gourmand fragrances at all, so it never received much attention from me. I wore it occasionally, but always found it overwhelmingly sweet. Nowadays that is less of an issue since I have grown to enjoy sweeter scents, although chocolate and coffee remain categories I rarely gravitate toward despite discovering a few favorites over the years. Nishane’s - and more specifically Jorge Lee’s - interpretation of gourmand perfumery is intensely sugary in an almost heavy, sticky way, to the point where it still feels challenging for me at times. The dominant accord resembles melted milk chocolate flavored with coffee and drenched in syrupy passion fruit nectar. At moments it even suggests liqueur or cherry nuances, while at others it recalls thick chocolate spread rather than dark cocoa-rich chocolate - more the distinctly sugary style common in Nordic confectionery. These three facets dominate for hours after spraying, and the composition remains surprisingly linear throughout most of its lifespan. Only in the drydown does the sweetness soften into a more vanilla-like warmth, while the promised resinous character barely emerges. Pasión Choco is undeniably well constructed, yet for a fragrance that continues to enjoy cult status, it needed some form of contrast to maintain intrigue over time. The base contains all the right ingredients on paper, but the musk never introduces the subtle animalic undertone the composition seems to call for. Likewise, the patchouli fails to provide the earthy darkness and textured depth that helps balance sweetness in fragrances such as Kayali’s Vanille Royale. Still, it is important to remember that Pasión Choco was released in 2014 and discontinued years ago. At the time, its hyper-realistic edible quality likely felt genuinely distinctive and filled a gap in the market - it is the kind of scent you can almost taste while smelling it. Today, however, the gourmand landscape is saturated with similarly sweet creations, which inevitably diminishes some of its original impact. Even so, I struggle to think of another fragrance that smells quite like it. Looking at the note composition, I am reminded of Nejma’s Le Sublime, where passion fruit and chocolate are handled with far greater restraint and elegance - an approach that aligns much more closely with my personal taste. Pasión Choco lasts all day on skin, though thankfully it projects far less aggressively than fragrances like Fan Your Flames or Ani. In a way, that restraint works in its favor; otherwise it could easily feel like a suffocatingly dense sweet elixir intent on overwhelming both the wearer and everyone nearby. Thank you for reading, I would appreciate if you follow me on my IG and/or YouTube (English subtitles available): @ninamariahperfumes It gives me a lot of motivation to write more.

I'm afraid that I have grown quite addicted to my samples of Pasion Choco and will probably have to buy the full bottle. The path to purchase was not easy, however. I ordered a sample one night without paying any attention to the notes other than "choco" and expected a chocolate-passion scent (i. e. heavy on the cacao) and instead was greeted with what to me smelled like a coffee/dark chocolate shaving cream. This opening struck me as masculine and also sticky. The combination wasn't appealing. Over some weeks I tried Pasion Choco again, this time with the understanding that there were significant fruity notes at play alongside what I came to appreciate as a vanilla-coffee note, given a zest from grapefruit and that sticky pulpiness from the passion fruit. I hadn't been able to get my head around it because I don't associate fruit with coffee; it reminded me of a gourmet chocolate that just missed the mark, or something a barista might make given too creative rein in a contest to concoct a coffee-shop's next big craze. And then, rather than continuing along this misguided path, Choco Pasion began to warm up on my skin and turn into a lovely vanilla/coffee musk with a trifling bit of patchouli and some remnant fruitiness to keep it from being drydown-boring. Suddenly I was swooning over the stuff and then came the idea that I might want to purchase the bottle (it is "on the list," moved recently to very near the top, into a spot formerly occupied by a cola scent). This perfume (it is an extrait) is gloriously simple and fairly conniving in the way it pulls you into its heady and sweet embrace while revealing not too much, perhaps an orchid note here or there, or a slight herbal that keeps it from being a sweet, feminine gourmand. Oddly, it does still remind me of a shaving cream, which probably is the coriander note shaking up a revelatory bitterness to the coffee, but I don't care. I'm madly in love with it and best of all, it smells like nothing else in my embarrassingly large and frequently redundant perfume wardrobe. I think I might even get away with wearing it in the summer, even though it has the heft of a warm winter scent wrapped around it.

Nooo,, If Pasion-choco removed the passion fruit, it may have been one of the Best ever scents. The opening as such with the fruit becomes a little too 'standardised' or even 'mainstream'. The passion fruit is not a freshy-genre one; the would-be fresh-sparkling exotic fruit comes off as a smooth, 'dusty dessert' type with vibes of orange that give it it's 'designery-ness'. As such, orange accord being so domineering, it creates that familiar 'cloud' although here it's much smoother and a bit creamy. It's certainly not that sweet, there's no vanilla party here, just a discreet sweetness and softness. I virtually cannot detect any coffee; certainly would not be able to list the note if I blind-tried it. So, that's not good. Worse thing is that from both the stopper and after 10 minutes by application, I still didn't the notes that I was looking for; namely the grapefruit, cocoa and benzion. If you're after deep-rich cocoa and intoxicating syrupy benzoin, forget it. And to compound it, for an rare and sought after extrait version, this is awful; it barely projects beyond my fingers! I love many things Turkish but unfortunately, my 1st foray into their 1st Niche House is a huge disappointment. I can say, that their exquisite blending does save it a point or 2 from utter humiliation, which pains me but I feel better being honest. My rating: 3/10. Scent quality: 7/10.