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DoollagOp – :
This scent manages to capture the christmas spirit. Fireplace, warm blankets, pyjamas, snow outside the window and cups of hot chocolate and chocolate cake. A must have for all gourmand lovers. To my it’s all about cocoa powder. LOOOOVE IT!!
eaguy – :
The smell which felt the match selling girl through a small kitchen window in Christmas eve, dried fruits.
The mirage of the lost safe home, vanilla.
Falling snow, Tonka beans.
The bitter-sweet embrace of the unrequited first love, coffee.
Nostalgia of the Chocolate
Greed of the heart.
cheugevara – :
this is a love at the first sniff i adore this chocolaty more of cacao powder smelling fragrance . its warm cozy and smells expensive.it smells like a chocolate cake out of the oven.
yos631Diobtetty – :
I wanted to like this. Lucky Scent mailed this sample 2 separate times to me. Both times, it smelled rancid. There was a strong bitter, metallic, mosquito repellant note that was overpowering the chocolate. I wish I could smell the full-on chocolate that others are experiencing.
ekza1993 – :
This is yummy.
Unfortunately, I don’t get any cacao out of it, only lots of vanilla cookies, which is good, but wanted so much to catch that chocolate feeling.
Anyway, it is worth buying, for those who like really sweet gourmand fragrances, like I do. It feels like you can almost taste the cookies in your mouth.
Wood – :
This starts off well but after half an hour I just get dark chocolate cereal. I’m talking actual crunch chocolate cereal, not ‘cereal’ notes like wheat or oats etc. Sadly I don’t really love cereal, I was hoping for more of a chocolate maybe with a bit of patchouli. Quite disappointed actually as the real cocoa oil i got from Pellwall for perfumery has a serious chocolate smell that’s lovely and strong (only issue is that it’s solid at room temperature so difficult to work with really but the smell is amazing,so guess I’m gonna have to do my own solid perfume to get my chocolate fix.
senya985 – :
You get an undoubtedly potent yet enjoyable chocolate wafer vibe here – the kind of potency where I applied this at 7:30 in the morning and at 6:30 PM my friend, sitting next to me in a car, told me he’s probably got a few chocolates in his bag that he put there and forgot about. Unfortunately for him he was only smelling me.
The opening is piercing, with a significant dose of orange. Once that wears out, you primarily get chocolate with a hint of latent vanilla somewhere.
As the fragrance goes into the heart notes though, something strange happens. This might be what others are referring to as body odor/nastiness – if you smell it up close, there’s a bizarrely off putting clove like smell to it apart from the chocolate. You only get this on smelling it closely, though. If you’re a couple of feet or beyond, this isn’t gonna be a problem.
Ultimately I quite enjoy this fragrance but, due the aforementioned funkiness, I would suggest extreme caution if you choose this for a date/close encounter scenario.
Longevity – phenomenal. Won’t rub off before a bath.
Sillage – a little beyond an arms length is a fair estimate for the majority of its lifetime.
pip734speagoessenda – :
Chocolate cake batter in the most wonderful way! Love it!
konokrad – :
An instant scrubber for me. Nuts and a hint of cocoa, nuts and a hint of something awful, nuts and a headache…bleurgh!!
OCTPOB – :
I was so curious about this scent because I had yet to find a scent that smelled like chocolate and wasn’t mixed with florals. One spray and I was hooked. Oh my this smells so good! Very very similar to comptoir sud Pacifique amour de cocoa, which I love! This is a little more intense and is a little longer lasting. This is like a warm chocolate cake!
yuriysailor – :
On first spritz it made me smile, chocolate biscuits, then came an orangey sweet coating, yum… !!!
Then the fragrance very quickly blends to a broken chocolate biscuits batch scent, the kind the milkman used to sell on his weekly rounds in the UK back in the 80s early 90s before they phased out. Starts to smell a little bit stale but still wonderfully nostalgic! Childhood nostalgia!
And then nope, baby sick on my arm I was soooo disappointed. Not for hot weather wear!
I have to say that even if it didn’t have a baby sick dry down I still wouldn’t wear chocolate orange biscuit perfume it wasn’t worth it for me.
Body shop chocomania is a lot better. I’ve heard aquolina’s chocolovers is superb if you can find it ( as it is discontinued, actually both are!)
Mzurilove
rewat – :
I was surprised with its impressive projection. When I first tried it on after receiving it, I just sprayed twice on one arm and every person who would approach me would say that they smell a creamy milk chocolate or vanilla chocolate 8 feet away and they absolutely love it! The projection lasted more than 6 hours.
divrocis – :
My nose might be really messed up because all that i can smell after 2 hours of this being sprayed on my wrist is milk. Overpowering milky notes. When I first sprayed it on me, it smelled like a bolder, more intense version of CSP Amour de Cacao and I could smell the orange really well. It was not as dark of a chocolate as I hoped but I was really pleased nonetheless. But then it turned into sweet, hot milk one me, which I find really surprising as milk is not listed in the ingredients…
So in the end, I feel like I’m wearing CSP Matin Câlin which I don’t really like on myself (kinda smells like baby formula to me…). I would say the main difference between those two is that i find Chocolate Greedy’s milky scent a bit less repulsive. I will try this again but I still haven’t found my rich dark chocolate fragrance.
EDIT: Okay, forget what I said about the milky notes. The thing is, I smelled that from my wrist the Montale SA had sprayed CG on. But he also gave me a sample… And Lord… I’m just a perfume enthusiast (a newbie one) but this is one of the most satisfying gourmand I’ve smelled so far. I sprayed CG on my wrist, compared it with CSP Amour de Cacao and sprayed all over myself (clothes included of ) too. The scent lingered on my clothes for 2 days and I think it would have stayed longer if I hadn’t cooked with them on the day after. As I said before, the orange note was very distinct on my sking in the opening, mingling with delicious dark chocolate cake batter notes. The coffee was so subtme on me i can’t smell it everytime (unfortunately). After a few hours, a sweet, creamy vanilla kicks in along with a sweet and soft dried fruits scent… The chocolate scent remains there but gets softer, less dark but still really enjoyable. By the end of the day, it lets the vanilla shine, but the scents gets quieter and more delicate.
I think I love this stuff. It’s not a dark chocolate scent all the way but I’m not complaining if everytime is like all of my tries except the 1st one. I’m getting a full bottle.
EDIT 2: Got my ful bottle. Can’t wait to wear this sweet delicacy in cold weather.
Loyadia – :
The fragrance features coffee, cacao, tonka bean, bitter orange, vanilla and dried fruits.
I like this…less sweet and deeper than CSP Amour Cacao.
Has a “cold” feel to it.
If you like this, you should try:
~CSP Amour de Cacao~
~Serendipity Serendipity 3~
Klei – :
Soooo… I got around to sampling this today. Was actually my first time sampling a montale perfume. I’ve read a few reviews that have said this smells like (coco puffs) you know what? It actually does, it’s straight chocolate coco puffs. It also smells like cooking chocolate that you melt, and just inhale the sweetness of.
All in all I think it’s a great smell, if you love sweet scents like pink sugar or Britney Spears fantasy, it’s definitely not along any of those lines.
This is a scent I would wear in front of a fire place, as I sip on hot chocolate❤️
It was something totally new to my nose, I liked it quiet a lot! And it’s definitely going to be my next purchase!
Warm, cocoa, chocolate GOODNESS!!!
dokEmedsHooda – :
Ok, this is a masterpiece. Starts out as pure,rich milk chocolate and dries down to baked pie, with the flour, sugar, eggs, baking powder, even the pinch of salt, I can’t explain how can this smell so realistic, but it does, and for realistic gourmand lovers, I can bet this is heaven.
ryl105speagoessenda – :
The opening/1st 3-4 minutes is amazing! Like chocolatey-nutella magic! I was ready to buy then and there but then the smell turned and became unrecognizable, not only that but somewhat gross. Like a sweaty body-odor kind of smell. I re-tried it on my other wrist and the same thing happened: magnificent opening only to morph into something nasty.
So disappointed.
Meoza065Negeltzex – :
I’m so confused by this one. It lures you in with top notes of heavenly, indulgent chocolate. But then it turns into something else entirely. I’m not always great with identifying notes (especially when what I personally smell is not listed) but I’ll try anyway: I smell something like tanned leather, wood, and bug spray. It’s very chemical and masculine. Maybe it’s my personal chemistry that doesn’t harmonize well with this scent. Disappointed because the beginning is so wonderful!
Wayne – :
I totally see why so many of you are saying this smells like CocoPuffs breakfast cereal! I mean, Chocolate Greedy… really does smelly like cereal. LOL It is very chocolatey, smooth, creamy and I get hints of hazelnut and buttered toast too. This scent is very much a FOOD scent. It is not offensive, but it for sure smells like something you would eat. Longevity is pretty good too. With 3-4 sprays, I get a good 4-6 hours, and then it is not gone, but a soft skin scent! If you like creamy chocolate scents…you will probably love Chocolate Greedy!!
Biakinwaf – :
Yep, cocopuffs through and through..and I love it for that. Great sillage for the first 2 hours and then calms down a bit.
BathRoomStormr – :
This was very interesting.
From the stopper (where you sometimes find a tiny bead / droplet of the scent after you do a spray), I got Terry’s Chocolate Orange wafers or waffles. But mainly a biscuit / biscotti or wafer. The orange is the candied / vanillic bisciuted gourmand type and really, I don’t like this smell, it comes across cheap to me; unlike the tangy appetizing mysterious aroma of jaffa.
Right now this is nosediving. But on 1st spray on my skin; a bit of magic happened.
1st I got tat same orange for a fleeting minute; quite prominent but there’s a very strange thinness or element of being ‘barely there’ with it. But then; it started. 1st a very intriguing dried fruit started welling up; slowly, even gently at 1st, still tinged with that dopey orange-a-million you find in orange-cremes.
But the dried fruits start quickly ‘thickening’, becoming deeper during the next 15 minutes. You get sense of a sweetened malt loaf; hints of raisins, cranberries, plums and candied orange peel – almost like a moist rich fruit cake or malted fruit-brownie.
It has been very slightly dipped in some sort of sweet liqueur.
Then, a milky cocoa finally starts emanating; wave like puffs radiating from this moist, syrupy candied-fruit brownie. There’s still a hefty malt-bread note in there all way.
Think the way incense wafts and tendrils it’s way through the air, but swap with vanillic, malted-milk chocolate.
I have to admit Chocolate Greedy is very Niche in how it is not presented as a straight up dark-cocoa / vanillic gourmand at 1st (and that in a way may still be disappointing) but ends up with it’s own box of unexpected treats.
I cannot say I hate it or even dislike it, but have strange mix of some admiration paired with wanton disappointment.
Intriguing. It barely misses a 7. My 100ml bottle cost barely $50 and that of course sweetened the deal quite the bit(!)
My rating: 6/10
morozik – :
Not unpleasant, but nothing I’d buy a full bottle of… I really just got coco-puffs from this…
Prunderiplene – :
Smells like chocolate sponge cake with chocolate cream filling and chocolate glaze to me. It’s a very gourmand fragrance! It smells too real and edible! Not very sweet, but very chocolate-y! I thought I’d like this but…it’s not for me. I will give it to someone else or will layer it with something else so it will smell more like a perfume than something I don’t even like to eat because of the chocolate overdose.
makaroff-82 – :
Have received my 5ml decant, this is my 1st Montale , I really don’t know what to think of this one , I didn’t like it at all for the first 15 minutes I got a strange metallic smell, after that I got biscuits, all of a sudden chocolate appeared, 1 hour later and it seems to keep changing between those 3 smells although the metallic smell doesn’t pop up so often, the smell fascinates me , it follows me around as I walk, I think I shall wear this when out on Saturday night, as yet I don’t know if I love it, it’s certainly interesting, I’ve never smelt anything like it before, I definitely need more time with this one .
serjrojnov – :
I have been testing this one the past three days and I have to say this: I love it! It smells like chocolate cookies (think: oreos) and German chocolate cake.
This is very intense when you first spray it. It initially smells overpoweringly of powdered cacao (think: smelling a tin full of cacao powder). It will almost choke you; it’s so robust. It’ll take about 25-30 minutes to calm down, but at that point the mixture of vanilla and tonka bean will become very apparent. I also get the impression of powdered milk. I think that impression mixed with the cacao powder create an impression of warmth and softness; can something be dry yet leave a “creamy” impression?? I feel like that almost exits here.
Anyway, I think the vanilla and tonka bean mixed with the cacao powder give it that edible, dry (in a good way) chocolate cookies and chocolate cake smell. It’s delicious! As for the dried fruits and orange, I can’t say I smell those distinctly. I also am not getting coffee or spicy. *shrug*
Overall, this scent is crazy edible. It’s so good. I actually love smelling this and Montale’s Intense Cafe together. I’m not a huge lover of Intense Cafe alone though; I appreciate it, but I’m not in love with it. However, put Intense Cafe and Chocolate Greedy together: HEAVEN, HEAVEN IN TWO BOTTLES.
sa111ha – :
I sprayed it in a shop, and my first reaction was: wow, this is perfect, that’s exactly what I was looking for! It smelled like a very realistic chocolate cake. But five minutes later it dried down to a cheapy vanilla/cookie smell you can get from a lot mass-market stores (my discontinued Sephora Chocolate spray smelled like this). It is a nice perfume, but not for the price. A bit disappointed.
strannikls – :
If they took out the dried fruit note id think this was a perfect scent for me, but I prefer the far less expensive Choco musk for the reason, no dried fruit in Choco musk.
This is a great fragrance, it’s undeniable, super long lasting, far superior to choco musk when it comes to the quality but it’s only a strong like and not a love for me in regards to the actual scent.
sveta28 – :
Smells exactly like yummy biscuits or cookies to me. The very opening also has oranges. Lovely, but I don’t get any chocolate from it! Like, none at all.
Goldhear – :
Blimey this is a powerful scent. Imagine going to the Dairy Milk factory and peering into the large vat of churning melted milk chocolate, with all the chocolate aromas enveloping your senses… now imagine having that ALL DAY! It’s chocolate all the way, I don’t get a lot of development, for me there is no top, mid or base notes. It’s just sweet chocolate, it’s got tremendous sillage too.
This one is not for me, it makes me feel nauseous, I end up feeling hungry and then a bit sick, it’s just too much. I love chocolate and I love gourmand scents, but I cannot stomach this. I really wanted to like it too.
Miss каприз – :
My boyfriend told me I smelled like toasted marshmallows. I asked if he was sure he didn’t mean chocolate, and he told me chocolate was there too, but he still smelled marshmallows.
To me it is a remarkably chocolatey, sometimes bitter and dark and sometimes creamy. The silliage is big and I wondered if I’d over sprayed a couple times. At 12 hours I could still smell it before bathing.
Impressive.
Эрус – :
I thought that I would absolutely hate this fragrance. On paper, reading the notes it depicts everything I despise in a fragrance: I dislike sweet and I dislike gourmand scents – I rarely appreciate vanilla. So, why have I fallen in love with this fragrance?
Chocolate Greedy is crafted in such a way that the orange and the coffee perfectly balance out the sweeter notes; eliminating any nausiating qualities. To me this smells edible and delicious.
I do not detect any coffee; I experience real milk chocolate and orange, then a ‘chocolate crispy’ cereal, thus fading to a milky chocolate skin scent.
I wear this fragrance when I am feeling low and it really gives me a big smile. I never wear Chocolate Greedy when I am out of the house. I wear this when I am at home – it is so comforting and it is almost like wearing a big fluffy sweater whilst eating a big bowl of chocolate orange breakfast cereal. I’ve never eaten such a delight, but it sounds good to me!
A little goes a long way. It lingers on the skin for hours with the dry down of a soft milky chocolate skin scent. Definitely a winter fragrance. This would be a great gift for a friend who is on a diet who LOVES chocolate, a young person – a niece or a nephew; they would feel so ‘grown-up’ receiving this as a gift and it is something they would love and wear, a woman who suffers from PMS, a man who needs a comforting de-stressing warm hug.
I recommend trying a sample before buying; personally I would not wear this in a hot climate – or in a work environment.
Zizea – :
The most “edible” scent I’ve ever encountered. The opening is so foody, it’s almost sickening. It smells exactly like the biscuits from the Soviet era (which are still in production, btw) with a touch of orange. As time goes on, it gets more bearable and even more delightful as the salty note kicks in. Chocolate Greedy is neither very chocolatey nor all about the cacao, so the name is slightly misguiding, although the scent is very unique and it’s a must try, if you consider yourself a “gourmie”. It’s a treat that one can enjoy without any guilt. Go ahead, indulge yourself! I usually hate overly “edible” scents but guess what? Even I like Chocolate Greedy, and it doesn’t get more “edible” than this. Go figure!
IVANUB – :
I bought a decant of this. I do like it especially the opening, but on the dry down, another note creeps in, not sure which it is, and then I don’t like it as much. If it stayed like opening I would love it. Still a great scent, but I don’t think I could wear it due to the change during the dry down.
tolik-714 – :
It’s edible, for sure. It smells pretty much exactly like a particular kind of chocolate and coffee flavored biscotti we happened to have in the house. There’s definitely some kind of cookie/oat/pastry note, which someone on youtube described as making the chocolate “nutty”. It is in my opinion not a dark chocolate, coming from someone who enjoys stuff like Coppeneur and Valrhona. If your definition of a dark chocolate is “anything that isn’t candy” then sure, it’s dark, but if you like full, rich and deep chocolates that invoke flavors of raisins, you won’t consider this a dark chocolate. I’d place this closer to a 40-60 % cocoa content chocolate.
I percieve that the drydown heads towards the dried fruits, which add some nice complexity to an otherwise fairly straightforward scent.
In my opinion, this is definitely more of a feminine scent. Don’t let that stop you from trying a sample if it interests you, though.
alexbk2009 – :
In my opinion the beginning is too sweet- makes me nauseous. After two hours the scent becomes more bearable. Rather feminine than masculine
n_9 – :
Fragrance -Chocolate Greedy Montale
Bottle from – 2015
Chocolate Greedy is a delicious,gourmand,sweet and warm mix of cacao,vanilla,coffee and tonka bean with a hint of orange and dried fruits.This scent is magically blended.It gives the illusion that you are surrounded by more chocolate than you could ever imagine,holding a cup of hot cocoa in your hand.There’s nothing quite like warming up with a cup of hot cocoa for all that chocolate.This is a paradise for chocolate lovers.
Longevity – 10/10(10+hours)
Silage/Projection – 9/10(excellent projection and silage for the first 3-4 hours)
Weather – best in early spring,autumn and winter.
Age – 20+
Compliments – 8/10
Scent – 8/10
Main notes according to me –
cacao,vanilla,coffee,tonka bean,dried fruits.
The drydown is nice and i get some sweetness,tonka and vanilla.
Emotions – delicious,sweet,warm,intoxicated,chocolate factory.
Occasion – best for nights out,date and romantic evening.
You’ll get compliments with this one.Chocolate Greedy smell so delicious you’ll want to eat it.
kykla1ru – :
Received a small sample of this with another purchase. Initially from the vial I loved the smell, put once on the sickly sweet became too much. I can identify with the “cocoa crispy” comparison. I feel this sent would be better offered at a drug store next to Love’s Baby Soft, marketed to tweens along with the cotton candy and vanilla body sprays.
Haemul – :
Received this for my birthday, after juggling between Chocolate Greedy and Mancera Roses & Chocolate. I also purchased Choco Musk oil couple weeks ago, and honestly, comparing the two, Choco Musk wins every time.
I have yet to discover the beast mode of Montale Chocolate Greedy! I get 3-4 hours the most, and although first blast is so so yummy (Cocoa Puffs with hot milk-and i am a good judge because i ate plenty of these in my lifetime), the rest sometimes turns not-so-pleasant.
I recently sprayed one spray on my neck and one on my wrist, and as soon as i sat in the car, my husband asked “What smells like fire?” I smelled my wrist, and for some odd reason, chocolate disappeared and all i could smell was Oud? That is a bit weird, since there is none listed.
It may be our monsoon, humid weather we are currently having;i noticed years ago that our fragrances are not performing well in humid weather, so i will wait for cooler months here in Arizona, and edit my review then.
For now, too bad, that first blast of pure chocolate is so yummy that i have no words to properly describe it. The similarity to Choco Musk is amazing, so i would recommend Choco Musk oil (NOT PERFUME), which costs 5 bucks!
Edit: OMG!!!!!!!!
It’s December in Arizona, gave this another go, and i am just blown away. Hubby told me i smelled like cocoa puffs in hot milk, which is what we ate for breakfast for years (in Europe,we used to eat cereal with hot milk, so we do that in USA too). It’s a whole day adventure with Chocolate Greedy; just when you think it’s finally gone, another Cocoa Puff hits you in the face. This is worth every dime.
dimon55555 – :
First sniff: Really yummy. Cocoa Pebbles, milk, honey, chocolate syrup on top. Smells totally delicious. It’s not something I’d wear, but if someone wore it around me I’d find it alluring and appealing.
Nick_name – :
People get different things from this… but what we can all agree with is that its a gourmand… What I get in the air after freshly spraying this is not chocolate per se, but more of a baked cookie smell. Its soft, its sweet, but its beastly at the same time. Projects like crazy but in a soft way and lasts on the skin a very long time. To me this is the ultimate gourmand. I did a review on it about 7 years ago on my youtube channel. I tried to start a hype but it didn’t catch on lol.
to me… To put it simply….This is a willy wonka masterpiece. It is a carnival in a friggin bottle.. First you get the smell of baked chocolate chip cookies, then as this sucker dries down I get the exact smell I have gotten many times throughout life at ocean side board walks, festivals and carnivals.. I can smell the buttered popcorn popping, the cotton candy spinning,, the toffee pulling…I just get that overall sweet and savory smell I would get walking down the board walk in seaside smelling the air.. All they had to do is add a slight aquatic salt note and call it the board walk.. Oh yeah and also i forgot the candy toasted cashews.. the whole shabang.. I am not usually the artsy perfume guy, but this one certainly takes me on a journey. I close my eyes and I am a kid again with my mom (rest in peace) at seaside heights at night.. Those were good memories.. this is edible stuff.. and it brings me back to happier times.
Scent 5/5
Performance 5/5
hrd830intitytek – :
I absolutely love it when sprayed in the air! To me its is more an ice-cream smell, chocolate milk shake or freshly whipped cream desert smell. On my skin however it turns into some weird smell of crayons and plastic. I wish so much the smell stayed unchanged on my body…
mcgenn – :
Oh, my GOD! I’m in Love! I start giggling whenever I smell this!
I received a sample of this a few days ago along with 29 other samples and decants. As soon as I opened the package, I smelled the most delicious beautiful nutty, chocolaty aroma ever, and I just knew this must be the legendary chocolate greedy! This is a very edible and realistic gourmand hazelnut dark chocolate lava cake decorated with chocolate wafers and sprinkled cacao and coffee! More than moderate sillage, and also long lasting. Indeed a fall and winter scent. It’s so warm that it would make you sick in the summer; You wouldn’t stand in the middle of a hot bakery kitchen in the summer, would you?
It’s the kind of smell that makes you instantly happy as if you have just eaten that cake! Friends would ask you if you have chocolate with you or if you have eaten some recently! Because of course, they want some! …
It’s dangerous to smell like this in public because people would want to eat you literally and no one can blame them! Beware! LOL!But in all seriousness, I think this is one of the most un-versatile fragrances that I own and I think I only would wear it around the house or in very friendly casual environments.
My personal rating for Chocolate Greedy is 9.5/10. And that half points is reserved because how would I rate something in the future if they are even better than this?! So, 10/10! 🙂 But if you’re not a cacao/chocolate fanatic like me, definitely get a sample and expect a linear delicious smell with great sillage and longevity.
SergLesy – :
Chocolate and cacao are not the same thing, as I’ve been reminded by this. This is cacao like cocoa powder, but if you’re seeking the smell of bar chocolate, this isn’t it. There’s a fascinating toasted hazelnut smell on top, which may indeed be like certain cereals. Then we have a warm milk type vanilla. The scent is persistent and performs better with only a little spray. Too much and you get a chemical blast initially, and the whole thing is overdone. This is my second test, after I honestly thought my sample was duff, but I now realise this is cacao, not a bar of Dairy Milk. The drydown becomes more biscuity and yes, you smell foody, but I wouldn’t pick this as my go-to chocolate scent. That toasted hazelnut note is my favourite bit, whatever the origin of it. Not a blind buy, but a gourmand must try xx
vast – :
I have aqualina chocolovers and so rehab choco musk love these gourmand foodie perfumes do I need this 1 ? I am curious for sure and need this 1 in my collection.
bigdan193752 – :
Over 40 male reviewer:
Remember back in early grade school, those gold coin chocolates where you had to peel back the foil to get to the artificially flavored, artificial chocolate that pretty much made you sick after eating, but that you would eat anyway because you loved chocolate so much that you were hoping to get your fix from what little resemblance to real chocolate there was in the coin?
Then remember eating the much higher quality chocolates as you got older, and learning how to appreciate the difference?
This unfortunately is the former.
I’m sure they spray this stuff unlabeled inside Cocoa Pebbles cereal boxes.
Problem: I was a Cocoa Krispies fan, not a Cocoa Pebbles fan.
This is def the former.
Seekritdude below (Clayton I believe his name is) introduced me to this via his youtube video. I always remembered the “Cocoa Pebbles” reference, and I should’ve listened. He nailed it.
I am a fan of the few Montales I’ve tried so far, absolutely no slam on the house, they do some great fragrances of their apparently several hundred thousand to choose from.
But this won’t be one I’ll ever choose again.
I’m learning the hard way that not all gourmands/foodies are going to be appealing.
Though I do think this would be a hit in my niece’s rural kindergarten class.
Dmitriy Rodionov – :
Not really chocolate. More like opening a box of rice Krispies Cereal. I love gourmand but this is a little too foody for my taste.
Marko – :
Chocolate Greedy is not a chocolatey smell. It rather smells like marie biscuit, which basically smells like a vanilla cake. Other users have noted this as well, one saying Greedy smells like “Mariekex”, which is one of the brand names for marie biscuit.
The biscuit smell is throughout, initially accompanied by orange & later by the bitterness of tonka beans.
An alright fragrance from Montale.
pirania – :
per me è davvero troppo, questo profumo che sa di biscotti al cioccolato, con cioccolato e poi cacao, e poi ancora fave di tonka e nocciola. insomma come spalmarsi addosso la nutella. un must per tutti gli amanti del genere gourmand; io, in tutta sincerità, da montale mi sarei aspettata un’interpetazione meno ruffiana del cioccolato. poi, vabbè, vira sul legnoso, ma non brilla per complessità e, con quello che costa, si può facilmente sostituire con un qualunque profumino di sephora al cioccolato o simili.
roll – :
Love it….I love chocolate smells and have choco and the Guerlain chocolate. I just went on a quarterly spree and got this. I love it! On its own it is pure chocolate. I can’t wait to layer or let it dance with another.
I don’t see it being offensive solo either. I work finance in a major corp and don’t hear anything about scents unless someone burns candles. To me, if someone dares complain, I’ll start complaining about the offensive BO that is tolerated. So far, not a word with tasteful scents. And smelling like this vs people eating canned smoked tuna…not concerned.
When my husband smelled me he said, “You are lucky I am not a chocolate loving zombie”. LOL will update with successful play dates with this scent. Delish!
staiker20 – :
I am not sure if this is best layered or worn on its own, at least for a man.
I don’t like the opening, it smells a bit stale but improves a lot after some time.
The beginning is more of cocoa powder but at the dry down it smells like baked chocolate muffin. There is a hint of spices too, but I need to wear it again to tell what it is exactly.
Very good projection and longevity, like the other Montale perfumes I tried.
The only thing is do you really want to smell like a chocolate muffin?
nipGueveEndup – :
Definitely a salt element in there that brings together the chocolate and slightly fruity flavours so well. Sea salt or even maybe salt caramel. Like a chocolate chip cookie, the american type with big chocolate chips and a good pinch of salt in the batter.
igor_golovan – :
I’m a newbie to Fragrantica and adored Chocolate Greedy so much had to attempt my first review. On my body chemistry, sillage with nearly all perfumes is at most modest, as is longevity. Not with Chocolate Greedy. It lasted more than 36 hours while traveling in a different city and through a long hot shower. Beastly longevity but fantastic gourmand fragrance.
If you want to start a conversation, wear this scent! Got so many comments, mostly “Who brought chocolate in here?” Or “I smell a deli