Cacao Azteque

Absolutely stunning, and this comes from someone who is not a fan of floral scents, This is indeed to my nose a spicy-heavy, warm, unisex (but masculine leaning) take on a very dry and honey-like tuberose. It starts off with a dusty puff of pepper and a touch of a citrus sparkle that dissipates quickly, revealing mostly a dense cardamom and a dry almost leathery tuberose (among other floral notes) with a delicious rum-y honey-like sweetness. Then the 'stage shy' star of the show appears, a bittersweet dusty cacao note together with a warm musky base. I see a lot of confusion about this not smelling like cacao and I think it comes down to people confusing cacao and chocolate notes. Chocolate has a distinct lactonic fattiness and is heavily scented with vanillin, which is what I think people expected. Instead what you get here is, as the bakers among us can attest to, a dry bittersweet raw cacao. Little vanilla, it seems to be sweetened only by the addictive tuberose and some coumarin in the base, which brings also a certain dry hay like quality to the composition. While not really similar, I am reminded of Guerlain L'instant pour Homme EDT, specifically of the way it sits on a fine line between fresh and gourmand, but in this case it is more of a 60/40 or even 70/30 balance between dry, bright, spicy freshness and delicious cacao honey sweetness. The two are also very similar in term of performance think functional all year round day scent of about 4-5hr longevity, light, radiant, ethereal. If you are looking for dense sweet lactonic chocolate, this is not it (see Chabaud Lait et Chocolat). If you can conceive of a dry almost savory cacao, warm spicy tuberose, I highly recommend sampling this, easily a top 10 fragrance for me.

تست امشب ❤️❤️❤️ . من اصولا فن بوی گل مریم تو عطرها نیستم اگه بصورت محوری باشه . ولی باید اعتراف کرد که مارکهای نیش بسیار عالی از پس ساخت و نمایش این نت بر اومدند و شاهد عطرهایی ممتاز با غلبه بوی گل مریم هستیم . عطرهایی که به طبیعت رایحه گلها نزدیک و نزدیکتر شدند و این واقعا زیباست . یکی از اون عطرهای ناب کاکائو آزتک از پریس مونته کارلو هست. عطرهای این برند وضوح و خلوص و کیفییت بسیار بالایی دارند. کاکائو آزتک شروعی بسیار زیبا از بوی هل داره . بدون هیچ طعمی فقط عطر هل با حسی بوزی که به سرعت آکورد وایت فلورال میاد بالا . غلبه فضای گلی با بوی گل مریم هست . دقیقا بوی غنچه تازه شکفته گل مریم که بینهایت زیباست من تو این عطر بوی یاس و نرولی هم احساس میکنم . ولی کلییات بوی عطر رو هل و مریم می‌سازند . تو قلب عطر بوی فلفلی تیزی همراهی می‌کنه که بعد از نیم ساعت محو میشه و اونچه در نهایت خودنمایی می‌کنه بوی ناب گل مریم هست با هایلایتهایی از بوی چرم با حس واکس مانند درای داون عطر درحالی به فضای چوبی نزدیک میشه که ملکه مطلق این عطر گل مریمه کیفییت بینهایت عالی و عطری زیبا با پخش بویی ملایم و ماندگاری مطلوب اما ملایم

Cacao Azteque is a stunning and very surprising fragrance. It's like a spicy, boozy mix with florals: orchid, tuberose and pittisporum. The mix of Pittosporum and tuberose is a match made in heaven. Add some sandalwood and cacao powder sprinkled on top of it for the final touch! Gorgeous gourmand, perfect for lover of florals scents with spicy facets. Complex. Very alluring and sexy type of scent. Feminine for sure and more warm seasons appropriate. Moderate performance, lasts up to 5-6 hours with soft projection. Needs over spraying to get noticed, but it is beautiful. I really love the juxtaposition between the rum-cocoa pod contrasted with the white flowers in here. It gives the scent a very edible quality! Extremely well constructed and balanced. I’d be bathing in it if I had a full bottle. Edit 29.11.24 I got a bottle of Cacao Azteque at a great price during Black Friday sales. Smells amazing, a beautiful, powdery, floral gourmand!

I don't get barnyard at all. To me this has a spicy, uplifting somewhat aromatic feeling opening. This feeling stays for the duration of the fragrance for me while eventually the cacao joins in perfect harmony. The cacao is not sweet at all and maybe not be recognizable to some because of that. This is not a gourmand. Perfectly unisex in my opinion. I find it refreshing, intriguing, and sexy all in one. It is far from beast mode, but I like having fragrances like this in my collection that are more for me and by small scent bubble. Update: Previous review was from a spray sample, I just got a FB and find that the opening is much more peppery. I am not sure why there would be a difference but it still had the same gorgeous dry down.

I must agree with antonpan: there is no chocolate or cacao scent; as Calvini and Sir Charles say below, this is a floral. On me, it's a spicy, herbal floral. If you are intrigued by our reviews, definitely get a small sample from Lucky Scent first. I would not suggest a blind buy on this one. May 19, 2019: Sadly, I have used up the rest of my sample. While I found this perfume lovely and really easy to wear, no one else but me could smell the scent. If you don't mind a scent with barely any projection (even when you first spray it on) then try a sample of this perfume.

I have tested it in store. To me, this is a dry, aromatic pepper - cardamom - cacao scent in the opening and then gets to a lovely creamy cacao - tuberose, with the opening notes more in the background. It is really elegant and well balanced, in my opinion, and I would really like to buy it. I think it maybe appropriate all year round, but maybe not in hot hot summer days, and it can be worn everywhere I think, since I don't find it to be too strong and projecting.

@Marck Menke - I have not yet tried Aldebaran so I can't comment on any resemblance, but FYI this was released 8 years prior to Aldebaran, so it's definitely not a case of PMC jumping in on a trend set by that still relatively new release.

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It is nice. To me the most prominent note by far is sandalwood. I also get some cacao and tubereuse. The rum emerges at the drydown and is the last note to disappear.

This smell is addictive for me🥰🥰, I did not find this attraction in any other perfume, I wish it performed better😢

Quirky, perky, poky, puzzling thing that's somehow BOTH a lot more interesting than it might seem AND a little disappointing. Big bang of red and black spice peppers you agreeably at first - and there's an awkward jolt into a phase which is almost a standard-issue mens' woody-spicy-autumnal mode, with a nearly-BOish vetiver cast. Not noxious - far from it, an almost pimento-y mellow burn, even hinting at Hermes Poivre Samarcande ... which is highly unexpected, but never a bad place to be. Still baffled rather than seduced me. Not a gourmand either, so chocoholics may feel robbed - dark, slightly earthy/sweaty cacao is there to be found, but it's low in the mix, a powdery-soft bassline rather than the main event. Sadly the bottom end is not rich or piquant enough to back it up, ( I mean COME ON! Call it "Cacao Azteque" and I want to smell chili and jungle leaves and unknown delicacies and find it BOLD. This is just ... vague?) And meanwhile... something really odd is going on in the soprano section, with the florals punching their way to the top and smelling ... quite dominant and very weird. (Might be an over-aged sample, but I could have sworn my scent nemesis immortelle lurking in there; there's something kind of acrid/herbal going on somewhere, but damned if I know what.) Sandalwood and musks sweetish, anonymous, generic, but not robust enough to benefit from being as synthy as they are (meow...). Reminded me most strongly of Arquiste's Anima Dulcis, but less sweet and somehow fustier and rougher round the edges. Wears as softly and fleetingly as most of the rest of the Perris stable; initially pretty bossy, projecting up to 6ft, but then it shrivels to skin-scent-only within an hour. Might have been unusually lucky to have it last in that very delicate mode for up to 5-6h. Overpriced. Still pleasant (especially in cooler weather). Maybe the "Aztec" thing about it is that it makes me zigzag sharply between enjoying it a lot and finding it kind of frustrating. Can't get my bearings at all. So: it's worth a go. But if you want real dark edible chocolate try Atelier Materi Cacao Porcelana instead; if you want weird jungly forest-floor niche cacao adventures, Lutens Borneo 1834 or PG Coze might do it with more character, or Zoologist Elephant provide more interest. For a gently skin-musky-spicy cacao, Anima Dulcis does it better for my nose. Still, cacao completists should probably check it out - it's bound to hit someone's sweet spot - and it's certainly a lot more interesting than Perris' generally rather conventional line. A cacao curiosity.

I percussed this second hand and blind bought it. I know that's a Really bad idea in general, but i thought; "i've seen a lot of documentaries on the Azteque and was hoping for something like the cacao explained in the doc's. I can't say i got what i was expecting. But i'm not entirely unsatisfied either. It does smell like something ancient, and isn't unpleasant at all. I just don't know if it's something i can wear in public. More of an experience and an olfactory journey then a fragrance. I'll wear this when watching historical documentaries or movies about ancient times. Other than that, it's going to be good for layering. with a 21% oil concentration and a robust base, this will add an interesting nuance to darker fragrances. Like Oud or dark wood fragrances. The opening is spicy indeed. Has a good kick to it. On my skin it becomes very floral after the first 30 minutes, and from then on smells little of other notes then the floral once. I can't call this masculine at all. But it doesn't really have a overly feminine scent either. I'd say it's unisex, but leaning feminine on my skin, due to all the florals. I wish i could say i got Any kind of cacao, cardamom or sandalwood. But all i get is flowers and maybe a hint of rum. It's quite unique. I have never smelled it's like. I don't love it, but i don't dislike it either. Do i regret the percues? No, but i probably wouldn't have bought it if i had tried it before buying. Score: 6.75/10. As far from blind buy safe as it gets. Not for young people either. This is a mature person's scent. When you want to be interesting and different. You'll stand out, for better or for worse. Broken down: Scent: 6/10. Bottle: 10/10. wearability: 3/10. uniqueness: 8/10. performance 8.5/10.

It's an interesting scent. There is a vibe of mexican spicy chocolate in here for sure. It mostly stays linear on my skin with cacao, pink pepper, cardamom, and a touch of musk/sandalwood/leather. The fragrance goes straight to a skin scent for me which normally wouldn't earn a penny of my money but something warm and sensual pulses through this scent that I foubd magnetic. This is not a fragrance to wear if you want to get noticed. It is too soft and quiet for that. This is the scent you spray on your torso or legs before you get intimate with someone to add a subtle air of warmth and spice, to create a scent memory. Totally unisex, and if this was beast mode, it would be backup bottle worthy. I haven't tried the "absolute" concentrated version but I don't think it can get to where I need it. Scent: 7.5/10 unique and memorable certainly. Well done. Projection: 1/10 for 15 minutes. 0/10, straight up skin scent by the 30 minute mark. Longevity: 3/10 it has a lifespan of approximately three hours on me. Sillage: 0/10. 'Nuff said. Would I buy another bottle? No. I have it, and I'm not going to return it, and I will probably use it up because there is literally *no* way to overspray this: but at $180 retail for this light of a scent, I can't really justify it twice.

شروع ای نرم و اسپایسی با همراهی آکورد ای بوزی که نوید بَستر ای مناسب برای نشستن گُل مریم بر مَسند کار رو میده و هِل؛که در ابتدا بسیار پرقدرت و شیرین ظاهر میشه که البته دوست داشتنیه ترکیب بوی هل و رام در ابتدا با نیمچه حس چوبی و حتی دودی آمیخته شده بود که دلنشین بود و این مراسم ده دقیقه ای ادامه داره تا گل مریم خیلی آروم و با وقار جای خودش رو تو دل عطر باز کنه و کنار نُت های پودری مثل صَندل و مُشک؛ظرافت شکننده ای پیدا کنه گل مرم به شامه من کمی حالت ایندولیک داشت که شاید ترکیب اش با مشک،توهم ای از چرم رو به مخاطب القا کنه کاکائو زیر سایه مریم قرار داره و عملا تحت فرمان اونه.به طور کلی از فضای مرسوم کاکائویی هم فاصله داره اما وایب گرم،خوشمزه و زیبایی داره وجه گلی عطر صرفا معطوف به مریم نیست و نت های گلی دیگری هم تاثیر گذار هستند که گاهی خودنمایی می کنند و همراه هم به مشام می رسند شیرینی کنترل شده ای از جنس چوبی_گلی_پودری داره که روی مخ نمیره و به اندازه است -تست شده از نسخه تولیدات اولیه- ****************** scent:8/10 longevity:8.5/10 sillage:9.5/10 purchase value:5/10 ******** overall:7.8/10

I really like this! This is quite unique in the usual niche kind of way but really does work and blends beautifully. Wonderful spicy opening which quickly gives way to a rich and non-sweetened realistic cacao as the heart of the fragrance. The white flowers mixed with cacao is where the interesting uniqueness of the perfume lies. The tuberose is not powerful but is distinctly there, mixed with the orchid which mellows it out. Orchid and vanilla combinations are not unique in other fragrances but I believe this was the inspiration behind this, substituting vanilla with cacao for something different. I wish this projected slightly more - although not completely an intimate scent, I do have to come in close for a sniff. For the niche price I wouldn’t purchase this, but it has inspired me to explore more cacao scents that are not typically gourmand.

It's very nice and interesting, quite rare for a cocoa scent. The cocoa here works more as a spice than a sweetener, well, like real cocoa. The idea of leaving unsweetened ingredients that are usually associated with sweets is great. I would like to see this more often than once every 10 years. But... it's too simple, flat and seems unfinished. Something is missing here. If there was at least more rum - it would be great. It definitely doesn't smell like a perfume with 10 notes, but like a perfume with 4-5. It would work better as a spicy enhancer than a standalone perfume.

Pepper, cardamom, cocao, rum, tuberose, sandalwood. Brown, green, cream, spice. It's not sweet. It's strong in character but intimate in sillage, even with the extrait I have. With the name this brings to mind the smell of a hut in a hut in Yucatan forest, where chocolate is ground and brewed. Cacao Aztecque isn't gourmand, though. It's the fragrance of the room, the ingredients and tools before the drink is ready. Naturally beautiful, balanced and limited in performance.

It's so not typical for my nose to like pepper but I actually love it in this fragrance. The spicy opening is stunning and actually my most favourite part of how it develops. The cacao not is not sweet at all and it fades quickly. This is definitely not a sweet perfume so it's easily unisex. It's so different from what I usually wear and yet I like it and find it beautifully crafted and intriguing. I'd consider buying if it lasted longer.

Spicy, pleasant, muted, elegant, dry. On my skin the cacao takes about 30-40 min to be detected, and only slightly, more like a supporting note than the protagonist of the fragrance (this is not a gourmand). The longevity is ok, about 4h on my skin, with an intimate projection, i.e. people won't notice unless they get very close to you. Totally unisex. A like, but not a love for me.

I fell in love with the opening of this, spicy, peppery and exciting. Unfortunately it didn't get much futher. Skin scent within twenty minutes. vanished within two hours. No middle no end. Maybe it's just my skin chemistry, it was a cool day, but honestly I've had £5 EDTs I've bought on a whim that lasted longer.