Cocoa Tuberose

Cocoa Tuberose smells exactly like spiced chocolate cake, or a chewy chocolate spice Christmas cookie. That said, Cocoa Tuberose is only a tiny bit sweet and maintains a beautiful transparency despite the heavy nature of its individual notes- an impressive feat that is actually typical of Providence Perfume. You have to seriously love true cocoa to enjoy this because the cocoa here is deep, rich, and bitter. It reminds me a little of ganache and Mexican hot chocolate. The depth of the cocoa and lack of over-sweetness makes this unquestionably unisex to my mind, though definitely unconventional. Cocoa Tuberose is the most realistic chocolate I have ever smelled in a fragrance from beginning to end, which makes sense because Providence Perfume uses 100% natural ingredients. I don't mean Pacifica-style natural, I mean ACTUALLY all natural. In fact, if Pacifica's Mexican Cocoa smelled like this, I would have bought the bottle (instead of running to the nearest sink), but I also would have been slightly suspicious as to why it smelled so amazing. Needless to say, Providence is in an entirely different arena as far as quality goes, natural or not. For a true cocoa fix, forget about Jo Malone Bitter Orange and Chocolate, Montale Chocolate Greedy, Bond No. 9 I Love New York for All, Comptoir Sud Pacifique Amour De Cacao, and Aquolina Chocolovers. For an authentic, cozy, spicy dark chocolate experience, give Cocoa Tuberose a shot. It is so comforting that I prefer to wear it before bed.

Wormwood, tuberose and bitter chocolate....all this scent needs is coffee and it would be PERFECT (other than its propensity for staining). It smells as if I was drinking absinthe and spilled some on my blouse,while eating gourmet chocolate and wearing Amarige. A very strange gourmand indeed, and not for everyone! If I could get a full bottle of Cocoa Tuberose,my signature scent, Ciara, MIGHT have a contender for her throne! On me it smells sweet, boozy, slightly animalic (that's the tuberose, believe it or not)with a touch of dusky, smoky bitterness. The grapefruit is an interesting opening, which does not last long but adds an element of surprise. A very longlasting and strong perfume, with decent sillage (seems to have more sillage in humidity). This is what I want for my birthday!

As a cocoa lover, in all forms and applications, I looked forward to testing Providence Perfume Cocoa Tuberose, and I am not at all disappointed with the cocoa presentation here! Strong and rich and not sweet but also not overly bitter, the cocoa note in this composition is perfect. As a tuberose lover, in all forms and applications, I looked forward to testing Providence Perfume Cocoa Tuberose and found very little in the way of florality whatsoever. So I do believe that this little potion is misnamed. However, for what it is, the smell is quite nice: a rich, complex, earthy, oriental, all-natural perfume. These sorts of creations require some getting used to, and my nose has been training on the Sama all-natural and mostly organic perfumes. The closest from that house to Cocoa Tuberose is Amber Rose. Both are dark and deep and rather intense. In fact, Amber Rose reminds me in wafts somewhat of unsweetened chocolate, though cocoa is not listed among the notes. Anyway, I do recommend Cocoa Tuberose for dark oriental perfume lovers. I am quite sure that amateurs of some of the Serge Lutens oriental perfumes would like this one as well. Love of cocoa is a requirement, but those who shun white flowers need not shy away, for there is very little in the way of tuberose here--or if there is, it is completely shrouded by the richer oriental notes, which include amber, wormwood, and patchouli, in addition to the dominant cocoa. The drydown is gorgeous.

Have mercy, this is something extremely tasty, seriously it smells like the best chocolate, but there is one slight problem with me and this perfume - it just feels weird, the opening was delightful - mix of warm, comfy sweetness, seductive, inviting and simply delightful. The problem for me starts when I start to get wormwood, I enjoy it in perfumes usually, but here it is a bit too much, though I might add that over-applied a bit as this perfume is very strong, so that might be the reason why I can't enjoy this as much as I wanted to. It reminds me a bit of Black afgano by Nasamoto when wormwood starts to play around, so I guess if you love that perfume you might want to get your hands on the sample of this one. The drydown is lovely, I still need to decide how I feel about this and do I love it or simply like it. P.S. I did not get any flowers.

This comes across as a very high quality perfume. The scent is powerful and direct with an obvious, masculine cacao. I'm torn over these gourmand scents. They're interesting and I like them. This one I find closer to something I'd wear as it's more complex than simply smelling like a chocolate layer cake. Still, even with its high quality ingredients and sophisticated job of layering the cacao within other scents I'm not so sure I want to smell like this. For me, the jury is still out on the gourmand - do I like the smell as a candle/air scent or do I want to smell like it?