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platonia – :
I was so prepared to be impressed….eh..the opening is unappealing to me. To much bergamot makes it almost like a bug spray. I know I’m in the minority,,but I’m not all that impressed. The drydown is nice,but not the chocolate dream everyone raves about.
I find Choco Musk much creamier and sweeter. The drydown is just a bland vanilla with a hint of sweet and coco. I will test this again..but I’m glad I got it on discount. Sorry for the negative review but I’m just giving my experience. It may work better on another day,,,I hope to come back with that kind of edit!
Maybe letting my bottle sit in a cool place for a few days will help..one can hope!
Ok…new day new review. It’s much better today…isn’t that always the way?At least for me it is,,ive had a few growers and this is one. It’s growing on me! Not a powerhouse tho,,maybe if I overspray..lol
This is a LOVE! Goes to show that you must test a perfume more than one or two times!
Just so yummy!❤️❤️❤️
Mmmmmmm!
ffortep – :
Received this a couple days ago and gave it at least 2 full wears before this review. Everything about this fragrance is amazingly pleasant. The atomizer is great, the scent is great but linear. It doesn’t change at all throughout the life of the scent from beginning to end. I get a nice chocolate and vanilla. About 2-3 hours of projection and then it begins to sit closer to the skin. Even though it’s an extract concentration it doesn’t come off as strong or overbearing. Well worth the money in my opinion. Will def check out other fragrances from this house in the future.
trcsorgulamaAnakul – :
Are there more than 1 note? I am sure there is but the perfumer is reluctant to give up that info as stated in the description. I think it has some orange and bourbon vanilla notes but who knows. This is gourmand heaven without being cloying and over the top sweet. It’s also not powdery like let’s say Chocolate Man by Dame. The performance is out of this world! For the first 5 or 6 hours you get a nice scent bubble and then it lingers on for a few more hours. 100% unisex.
nortgreetle – :
Why is the only note shown chocolate? It is not JUST a chocolate scent on me. This is spicy is a slightly manly sort of way and on my skin it’s more of a vanilla than chocolate. I’d say it’s like a really luxe milk chocolate in the background of this scent. Really, super pleasant, I wish more guys wore this type of fragrance.
Neatmeddepeak – :
This is an incredible fragrance. It is a powdery chocolate scent that projects and lasts. I don’t know how long it lasts on me because I’m usually showering 6 hours later. I do know after hot sweaty dancing, this is still going strong… it’s almost a bad thing when my still wet shirt smells yummy a day later.
karamel-ka – :
Absolutely amazing! This one is sure to be top out of many Alexandria signatures, a very unique and satisfying fragrance! The dry down is a like hot cocoa in a cup with marshmallows! Yummy!
Unrerodooli – :
A lovely gourmand fragrance! I would wear it, but I can’t, because my wife claimed my bottle for her own summer scent. I guess I’ll have to find something else.
There are notes of chocolate, vanilla, bergamot/lime, and probably some benzoin. It’s almost a key lime pie accord, especially when the sandalwood note starts to present itself like a graham cracker crumble.
The projection and longevity are incredible. My wife puts this on and I can tell you exactly which rooms in the house she’s been in, because the scent lingers. We’ve sat outside in the breeze, sitting 15 feet apart, and I can still smell it.
Delicious! Just go easy on the trigger because a little goes a long, long way!
vetl151515 – :
OOOOOOOHHHHH, GOD THIS IS GOOD.
This isn’t just a chocolate scent, there’s some other stuff going on in the fringes, dipping in and out of the chocolate, like fruits on a stick being twisted and drizzled with liquid chocolate in the stream from one of those fountains I’ve only ever used on one occasion; I felt like I’d died and gone to heaven.
I’ve read through the comments here about some other chocolate fragrances. I have Montale Chocolate Greedy, Al-Rehab Choco Musk, Body Shop Choco Mania, 4160T Silk, Lace and Chocolate, Haught’s Chocolate Wasted, Chocolate Ganache, Missoni Gianduia, and Angel Taste of Fragrance. I think that’s all of them…(?) Suffice to say, I love chocolate – I love eating it, smelling it and smelling OF it.
Cacao Dreams starts off with a BURST of rich chocolate, then starts to dry down. I am getting a hint of citrus and something which smells almost like a powdery rose, like rose petals preserved and crystallised in sugar.
I know what it is! It’s Fry’s Turkish Delight! THAT’S what Cacao Dreams reminds me of; the lightly scented taste/smell of Turkish Delight, encased in a rich chocolate coat.
Further into the drydown, I am getting little hints of citric booze. Not sure which it is: Grand Marnier? I think I may have died and gone to heaven. Or am I lost in the Matrix?
I don’t know, don’t care and… Excuse me. I have to go gnaw off my own arm.
uro439intitytek – :
This is yummy! Edible!I do get some orange and a drop of vanilla with the chocolate, just enough to break the cacao, to lighten it up! There is a common ground with chocolate greedy by montale but very very briefly initially, but whereas I am not a fan of chocolate greedy ( I find it heavy, OTT in the quality and quantity of its chocolate usage) ..this one I love! As time progresses it loses more of the chocolate and gains on the vanilla note. It gets lots of compliments which confirms its excellent sillage, and lasts a long while. Not complex, but a sheer delight!
RadioXyLigaN – :
Chocolate greedy is definitely similar to this (the chocolate-orange accords in particular), although I prefer this. I feel that this however lacks the overt coffee/cracker note that I described for Greedy.
Vanilla is definitely present. It’s difficult to make light chocolate without vanilla in real chocolate, and perfumes seem to follow this. White florals (jasmine?) are also present, though appear to diminish.
Funnily enough, as I write this, it has dried down to something that could be considered cracker-like. It’s almost spicy, though. I thought I had on a previous wear perceived some of Alexandrias Oud in this, which someone else described as a “sweaty” note, but it is absent as I write this. Or perhaps that is the “spicy cracker” note that I am percieving. Or maybe it’s just sandalwood?
Dries down within circa two hours, lingers pleasantly on skin for longer.
I’d reccomend this. It’s a sweet gourmand, almost a bit on the feminine side of unisex, bu mostly unisex.
Bexinceme – :
Cacao Dreams is a must have fragrance from Alexandria. This is an awesome fragrance, one of my favorites. Everytime I wear Cacao Dreams my wife gets that look in her eye like she’s going to tackle me. Its absolutley irresistible to the opposite sex. I get 4 compliments every single time I wear it.
Longevity is tremendous on this fragrance I get 8-10 hours every single time I wear it. If I spray this on my clothes I can smell a hint of it on them even after it’s been through the wash. That’s insane.
I love this fragrance so much I actually ordered 2 bottles after I ran out of my sample. This is an absolute homerun from Hany.
kirya – :
Terrific, luscious and very addicting chocolate based perfume.
It took me a week of full wearings to observe how my skin would
feel with this fragrance.
First, I do not see it’s full similarity with other choco based scents.
Cacao Dreams is a simple smell but not linear.
I did notice a light transformation which is good.
So to my nose, the initial burst is alcohol and chocolate powder smell.
It may cause you to sneeze if you sniff it right after spraying.
Imagine sniffing a chocolate powder straight from its can and you accidentally shake it. The essence causes me to sneeze or almost.
A few minutes after spraying I smell a straightforward creamy chocolate aroma added with a soft orange and a very faint floral nuance.
Citrus and floral notes are not in the list but I detected hints of them.
The projection is above average for an hour.
I was noticed from 10 feet away, top to heart.
People around me commented positively; that it’s attractively sweet, creamy and vanillic or chocolatey.
I thought I smelled dark chocolate but I was wrong. It is a creamy gourmand.
After an hour, the scent exuded just a little hint of a “sweat-like” aroma going along with the chocolate smell. The soft citrus maintained its hold while the floral nuance quickly losing it’s touch.
The projection and sillage are closing out by the 2nd hour. The dry down shifted faster than most perfumes. Due to it’s shortcoming in projection and sillage, I thought this is merely an Eau de Cologne just like the captivating, vanilla based Les Couvent des Minimes, Cologne de Missions. But the best part of this fragrance is it’s performance over dry down.
Once it becomes close to skin, it sticks, held and never quit.
The base lasted 8 hours on my skin. The quiet and awesome choco scent last days on my shirt. It will leave a sexy statement on intimate moments/close quarter department.
I received many compliments. A female friend said; like an expensive smell of high quality creamy chocolate. A lady teacher friend praised and thought I was wearing Angel Taste of Fragrance.
A couple I know even asked me (the wife) where she can purchase this and that her husband should wear it. That is truly an unsolicited scent praise. Plus more great feedback even from men.
Cacao Dreams will be a hit to wear on parties, dates, dining, casual (even work) settings and colder seasons. It is kinda like a “unisex” version or a softer Aquolina Pink Sugar minus the mallows. Less nutty and more refined than the expensive Aquolina Chocolovers. More creamy and people pleasing than the great hard to find, Dark Extacy by La Perla.
Cacao Dreams is purely, a sweet sensation and a “temptation” in a bottle.
Bravo to you, Alexandria Fragrances.
kos62 – :
A chocolate lovers delight. BIG BEARD BUSINESS wasn’t kidding with this gem. Smells like a tootsie roll and a hint of coffee beautiful date sent.
SergDe80 – :
I have yet to smell this one but I thought I would comment as a lot of people are comparing it to montale chcoclate greedy, which btw I thought was disgusting! Chocolate greedy smells nothing like chcoclate on my skin, it’s more like a really milky biscuit smell, far too sweet as well so I can tell already I would prefer cacao dreams as people do say it smells how it is potrayed.
Грифон1974 – :
It smells exactly like the discontinued Chocolovers by Aquolina. I happen to like that scent a lot, so I enjoy Cacao Dreams. I agree with the reviewer who says this smells like tootsie rolls. I get that tootsie roll- chocolate scent, plus a little bit of orange. It’s simplistic but yummy.
velikan – :
This smell delicious almost edible. Ill have to say silllage is pretty moderate on me and then sits close to the skin after 5 hours . It is pretty long lasting.
jhonny – :
Agree with the previous poster. I prefer Chocolate Greedy as well. This still smells good thought. It smells like tootsie rolls to me while the Montale smells like chocolate puff cereal with milk.
znerg – :
I have owned this fragrance for about 1 year. Overall, this is a very good fragrance. However, I purchased this fragrance looking for something similar to Montale’s Chocolate Greedy. I knew before I purchased that Cacao Dreams was an original creation. However, I was hopeful that it would be similar, or better, than Chocolate Greedy. Honestly, I prefer Chocolate Greedy to Cacao Dreams. Chocolate Greedy is a darker fragrance that is heavier and stronger performing that Cacao Dreams. With that said, I do love this fragrance. It is slightly on the feminine side. This limits how much I wear the fragrance, and the opening is more feminine than the dry down. But the fragrance smells almost edible. It does not suffer in performance, sillage, and projection are great. Your co-workers and significant other will thank you for smelling like warm brownies all day!