Cocoa Sandalwood

This is like a 100% natural version of Coco edt, one of my all-time favorite perfumes, with just a hint of bitter cocoa. They are certainly different enough for me to own a bottle of each. This is not a Chanel copycat, it stands on it's own. Smells wonderful for a natural perfume!! I've been sampling a lot from House of Matriarch lately, and those outrageously pricy perfumes can't hold a candle to the natural work of Laurie Erickson. This is a warm, cozy, glowing, spiced peach fragrance. Could even remind one of Mitsouko, just not so green. This and her new Spiced Citrus Vetiver are the perfect natural additions to her incredible repertoire of olfactory art. Bravissimo!

This is interesting fragrance. I made a large order from Sonoma Scent Studio because I was so impressed w/ their perfumes, and I was gifted 8 samples. This is a creamy blend of peach, sandalwood, vanilla, coffee and woods. I've never been big on using coffee in perfume. If you have read my reviews of Black Opium and Extreme you will know I hate those 2 perfumes and think they are unnecessary and reductive. This perfume is a coffee fragrance done right, the coffee is there but it smells real and not synthetic, plus the coffee is not overdone and just adds a darker and richer depth to the overall composition of the fragrance. This is a very musky perfume, probably from the peach and the ambrette musk. I love musky fragrances, so this perfume is right up my ally. If you are looking for a creamy, musky perfume w/ richness and depth give Cocoa Sandalwood from Sonoma Scent Studio a try.

Cocoa—> sandalwood—> peach —> even more peach —> endless peach. The cocoa powder is sprinkled with another salty peppery spice, sort of like hot chocolate with sea salt. These two ride on the white horse of cool tone sandalwood, which has a rosy edge. It gradually becomes a delicious creamy peach, adding a dash of fresh ginger. Then the peach lost the creamy sheen, become a slightly “rusty” canned peach, perhaps tinted with clove. Eventually, the peach lost every companions, we’re only left with a long lasting, abstract peach-apricot flavor, goes on and on and on and on....(I can continue, so can the perfume). Not bad for an all-natural perfume, bordering on boring in general.

This was, unfortunately, a scrubber for me. It smelled like rancid butter on my skin. I got it as a sample from a kind fellow perfume lover, so I guess it's always possible that the perfume had turned, but I think it's likely that I just don't get on with the way this line does sandalwood, as I got something a little similar in Champagne de Bois too.

Great dry smooth opening, then devolves into sickly sweet peachplumapricot on my skin. Coco by Chanel is also one of my all-time favorite perfumes, but I do not at all get its spices and rich sweetness from this fragrance.