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wamir – :
Controversial.
I sprayed first on paper. Cacao burst, raw, dirty. When we read Cacao, we usually think of chocolate. Big mistake. Chocolate is Cacao mixed with lot of other ingredients that make it rounder, softer and mouthwatering. Cacao gives really off rauch effusions that makes you think of uncleanliness. In this composition it must be helped by civet and by earthiness aroma of patchouli.
No flowers detected.
It went then on skin. On me it behaves differently than on paper.
Patchouli plays predominantly, Cacao lays underneath and it stays there for a couple of hours. Then it emerges and remains subtle, forever.
I don’t have the same rauchy feeling as on paper. It is dirty but to a lower extent.
The note of Cacao melts with the note of my skin making it Ike a bespoke fragrance where the perfumer chose also my sweat as one of the main ingredients.
It feels very sexy, I would have asked me out if I wasn’t me 🙂
Sillage and projection are poor. I have had to spray 5 to notice it while moving.
No one asked if and what I was wearing.
I was the only one able to detect whiffs of it coming from my chest, up to 16 hours after application.
I like it, but I must understand it better
Diabet7777 – :
This opens like a mushroomy patchouli, then it goes dusty patchouli with osmanthus, then tobacco with a dusting of cocoa and vanilla. It’s never sweet. I like it a lot but I think it would suit a man better.
chechen27 – :
I grew up in rural Tennessee and the smell of a used barn is infused in my memory with the sickly sweet combined fragrances of hay, drying tobacco and of course, manure. This is that smell. It’s not that it’s a bad smell- it’s amazing how clearly it conjures up a warm fall day playing on my cousin’s farm when I was a kid. I can actually see the farm, I can feel the sun and crisp breeze- it’s that evocative! I love that smell because of what it means and represents, BUT… I don’t want to smell like it. I will keep my sample so that I can revisit that sunny, carefree time any time I choose, but I won’t be buying a FB and definitely would not wear in public. Oh but what a lovely time machine this is…
edt880speagoessenda – :
Pure tobacco. Not a chocolate.
Unsusesit – :
Oh my goodness that OPENING!!! If you are a gourmand lover which I’m not truly, and you are beyond bodyshop type vanillas and fruit bombs, maybe now you’re ready for CHOCOLATE. Not nice chocolate. Not sweet, good little milk chocolates. Nuclear chocolate, backed up with wallops of patchouli, fortified by furriness and animalic accord.
I simultaneously recoiled and then doubled-down when I first sprayed this. This is amaaaazzzing. It is more noir than any Tom Ford Noir. This is a noir chocolate. I think it’s quite like Serge Lutens Borneo 1834, but that one lasts longer, is smoother, and less chocolatey on my skin. I think that one is more wearable. This is a bit rough, and as a woman I think this might smell even sexier on a man. While unisex, it tilts heavily toward the masculine.
The chocolate-patch is so intense there is a bactine/band-aid smell I pick up in perfumes like this, some might even say mentholated, but now and again I get whiffs of tobacco, leather, and cocolate band-aids with that medicinal patch, so this is an odd gourmand, almost edible, certainly medicinal.
I HIGHLY recommend trying, as it is such a trip, so interesting. Don’t blind buy thinking you’re going to indulge your sweet tooth. I think this is an excellent perfume with an operatic opening that quickly dies down. My two quibbles: average to good longevity, low sillage. The low silage might be a strongsuit for some because the opening is so “loud” initially–stunning, but over the top. However, I would like this to remain a little more amped up.
Finally, if you’re not a gourmand lover, try this. It really pushes “gourmand.”
Lefthander70 – :
This is interesting.
Tobacco is one a main note not listed here but listed on the web site of Sammarco. In fact the aroma of this scent it is really pipe cigar. Make you feel in a living room of English lords.
Woody sweet dark.
Rembember me in a certain way Sables de Annick Goutal.
Preacher of Anarchy – :
Okey! I understand that perfumer did a chocolate based fragrance with patchouli which is a good mix. But why would you add castoreum to this kind of a scent. It just messed the scent up. I can’t pass that note because everytime I smell it, I smell the castoreum inside the chocolate and patchouli. I wish Perfumer didn’t use it.
Peryshko – :
Bond-T
This is what the chocolate river would smell like in Willy Wonkas Chocolate Factory. Only the best would do for Mr Wonka, and of course there would be surprise twists within it.
Its a magnificent dark chocolate-patch-tabacco scent. Almost as if you smell the chocolate oiliness of a fine maduro cigar. The osmanthus adds a fruity floral lilting within the cocoa.
The castorum note begins to peek out and the chocolate fades, adding an animalic twist to the composition. Animalics arent often found in modern day releases. Ok Mr Giovanni, you have my attention with this sexy scent.
Leather, Vanilla and Tonka add to the experience. This is not a sweet gourmand, but rather a mature, knowledgeable perception on the gourmand idea. This fragrance stands on its own in its own identity, but as we age, we are reminded of former lovers qualities with the new people we meet.
I wish Sammarco dared to go all in on the dark chocolate/patch opening and never relented as it fades now into a happy ending. Maybe I wanted a sexy nightmare. I dont know..Im merely dreaming of the ultimate, but for what is presented in its current form, Bond-T is fantastic compared to its current counterparts. There is no synthetic off putting notes anywhere to be found.I look forward to layering Bond-T. Put a full bottle on the purchase list.
Well done indeed and not to be missed.
8/10
valera21021985 – :
I remember this fragrance was made by Giovanni as a result of the experience he had when he visited a chocolate factory somewhere maybe in Italy! & this info i heard was by a gentleman who sells in a fragrance shop in Milan before Esxence 2016, & when i meet Giovanni at Esxence 2016 he said the same.
It is quite simply full of chocolate, a boquet of chocolate! as it has a super silage and extremely lousy longevity & that’s of course beside it’s color that might make terrible stains on white clothes, so be-careful about that.
Also they (Giovanni & Bettina, his sale’s manager) believes in mixing their fragrances – The mix and play concept – so she mixed Bond-T & Alter on my skin, but unfortunately it wasn’t that good back then because i guess i wasn’t sure what was running on my skin as i liked them both separately rather than mixed.
So try it before buying as his fragrances are quite expensive for only 30ml.
tatjana – :
hmmmm…Not my bag I’m afraid. I knew nothing about this fragrance or house for that matter before I tried this.
I had a sneaking suspicion from the juice and it’s thick amber hue that it might be something heavy, and I wasn’t wrong.
This is a dark patchouli fragrance which is moody and dense in the opening, slightly burned and rubbery. Then a huge dose of positive cacao, not patchouli masquerading as chocolate but the definite and deliberate attempt to make this fragrance a gourmand. In fact as it dries down and settles the cacao is the main player with one added kicker…an animalic quality which is potent and raw in the opening but again settling to a bassline hum far too quickly.
Three distinct notes which in perfumery terms are actually very complimentary and for those who enjoy this sort of thing Bond T is probably a really good fragrance. However, on the flip of that patchouli lovers maybe alienated by the chocolatey feel and castoreum lovers will likely crave more power.
I don’t know if it’s my changing tastes after sampling so many niche fragrances that have a patchouli base but there’s something here. Still I wouldn’t wear this and after a strong start projecting heavily, Bond T has petered out pretty quickly.
Женя13 – :
Sammarco’s fragrances are great examples that you don’t need much complexity to deliver something noteworthy. None of their offerings is particularly complex as they all revolve around very few accords and essential notes list. This doesn’t mean they’re simplistic…au contraire.
Bond T makes no exception and deliver a top quality earthy patch paired to a dark, unsweetened cocoa note. It has an overall headshop-vibe and yet, somehow, it avoids speaking of bongs. The pairing with the cocoa, despite not being very original, is handled with class and avoids the gourmand aspect of this combo by enhancing the general darkness of this fragrance. Subtle and yet remarkable animalic notes serve as an essential element of disturb while the fragrance shines in all its brooding earthiness.
Think about a unlimited budget, high-end version of Borneo 1834 minus the opening and with smooth leathery animalics thrown in the mix and you’re there.
Very good.
Rating: 8-8.5/10