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_vitaha_ – :
I read all of these reviews and was excited to order my wonderful bottle of Cocoa Tamarind. To my disappointment it was straight up sweet gardenia with no other notes detected. I’m pretty good at picking out other notes (most of the time)…NOT WITH THIS ONE! I’m not sure how everyone else sniffed out something other than the gardenia, but my hat is off to you if you did! I didn’t get cocao, clove, vanilla, orange…nothing but sweet candied gardenia. Gardenia is nice, but not my 100% favorite floral scent. I figured since the gardenia wasn’t shown as the main top note (which it is now) that it would be more deeply hidden within the notes. WRONG! Sweet gardenia right straight out of the gate and stayed the WHOLE time without one note change. I would say that it could have just been the way my skin took it if I hadn’t of sprayed it on a tissue too. Results were the same, pure sweet gardenia through and through! As I wore it, I kept sniffing hoping for some sort of change in notes as it dried down. Didn’t happen! It was nice, just not really what I thought it would be or wanted. If you are a gardenia lover then this is definitely for you! Will I wear it again? Yes, because I don’t hate it, just not my fav, I will wear it some here and there until I finish my bottle, but I wont be purchasing another.
ss_baurzhan – :
A delightful soft, sweet fragrance. Perfect for me to
treat myself to the scent of luxury.
CHUBA – :
A delicious dark gardenia. I do detect a little tuberose in Cocoa Tamarind also.
Dry cacao, mature white floral notes, warm gentle spice and a tart, yet sweet backlit amber glow.
The final accord reminds me of an Italian dessert: have you ever eaten spumoni ice cream? Nutty, cherry-pistachio flavorings, bright yet earthy, somewhat floral. A little reminiscent of Jo Malone Sweet Lime and Cedar too–both employ tamarind which is a common ingredient in Thai cooking, and also the lovely gardenia note. Only here, it is much better balanced.
Borderline too gourmand to wear–at least for my fussy liking, but the floral notes are prominent and beautifully rich enough that this makes for a unique full-bodied floral perfume.
intakto – :
The concoction of cacao, citrus and tamarind blast out in a candy-sweet blend upon first spray…The cacao is most certainly easy to pick up, unlike other perfumes with choclate/cacao that are heavily masked by vanilla or other gourmand notes…
There’s a touch of clove simmering in there, and the sweetness of vanilla swirls upwardly in unison with the other notes until it unfolds in gourmand fashion…
As the notes burn off during the first hour or so, the floral notes gently bloom as the gardenia and musk notes interplay…
A must for those who love sweet scents…
caspi – :
Soy hombre y me gusta,es un olor poco comun, muy original; es dulce, pero no escandaloso, tiene buena longevidad y proyeccion.
9/10
andreykill – :
This is big, buttery gardenia petals, bitter cacao and sweet/sour tamarind. It’s a bit of an odd combination and I could see many people disliking this fragrance.
Me, I was never able to conclusively decide how I felt about Cocoa Tamarind. I think it may be because I was traumatized by Tamarindo candy and it’s mouth burning sweetness.
xvt750speagoessenda – :
I came home today to my first open daffodil and my Voluspa samples. I’m not sure which is a more welcome first part of Spring. This is a pretty pure white floral with lots of excellent gardenia and (I smell it too, Sherapop) tuberose. What makes this smell special to me is the tamarind, which has a strong acidic note that balances the gardenia beautifully. The cocoa doesn’t last all that long but it’s lovely while it lasts. This scent pulls the neat trick of being very glamorous and very warm. Highly recommended.
Sillage: very good 3-5 ft
Persistence: excellent
Fabulosity: gin rickeys on the lanai
Price to value ratio: excellent
9/10
Vityanchys – :
I’m probably just trapped in the vestige of a long-refuted belief in meritocracy, in spite of more than ample empirical evidence found everywhere in recent political history. Nonetheless, there’s always this question which arises whenever I encounter a product which is very inexpensive: Is it also cheap? Basically, it’s the old “fifty-cent whore” problem. We begin with a negative assumption when something does not have a high enough price tag, wishing to believe that you really do get what you pay for–no more and no less.
When I first learned of Voluspa, I steered clear for another reason as well, thinking that they were primarily geared toward home fragrance and candles. But then I remembered that those were the humble origins of Diptyque as well, and I figured: why not?
I am always fascinated by the fact that some all-natural niche perfumers sell dilute bottles of their wares for triple-digit dollars, while others sell strong, viscous perfume-like edps for a fraction of that cost. Enter Voluspa, whose COCOA TAMARIND I am happily wearing today.
COCOA TAMARIND is a big white flower fragrance with a twist: the white petals have been dusted with cocoa! This is a rich, thick, voluptuous (Volu(ptuous)spa!) perfume that I have to say is a genuine pleasure to behold. I was sure that I smelled tuberose here, but maybe when gardenia mingles with tamarind and cocoa it becomes tuberose-like. In any case, this really does smell like a big gorgeous bouquet of very fresh and natural white flowers scented lightly with cocoa.
The cocoa actually fades quite a bit in the drydown, but it makes for a very unique opening. COCOA TAMARIND is wonderful creation, with good longevity and the big sillage typical of this genre (white floral, not fruity, and gourmand really only in the opening minutes, before the cocoa starts to fade…). I highly recommend this composition to white floral lovers. Others need not–and should not apply!
кошкин – :
This one was a great wonder for me. I never tried it before and today I got decant! Although I have my favorite scents and this one is could never be there, still, there is something great and interesting about mixing cocoa and flowers!
Beginning strikes with cocoa and clove bud and slightly you can feel mix of flowers. Later, everything calms down, but nothing fades away…
This one is for very woman with great courage 🙂 this perfume is very special and dominant!