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alex77777 – :
This is so delicious, mysterious, cozy and sexy scent all at the same time!
It’s dark oriental vibe brings me right back to India. Its buttery, slightly bitter chocolate-y scent combines nicely with the faint florals, fresh, bit tangy smell of pink peppers and more dark and masculine base of patchouli and incense.
I just love this dark oriental babe so much it’s unbelievable!
10/10
kulibin1958 – :
How very disappointing to pay $45 for a tiny roll-on bottle in which I get no cocoa, and certainly no turberose.
All I smell is patchouli and amber. That’s it.
evro1943 – :
There is a contrast between the bite of citrus in the opening into a very rich deep bittersweet dark chocolate. It thickens from a lush full tuberose into a warm woody strong vetiver base. I would like to see how this presents in winter on my skin, right now it feels more masculine than I go for personally. Would love to wear this if it had more tonka and minimal vetiver – find the vetiver overpowers the delicate other notes, taking over the dry down and making them indistinguishable. Then again, I am no pro 😉
I have kept a sample and like it to smell when I need to feel grounded- has helped in that way.
дсгг – :
Yes, I’m sure, I’ve got several bottles, all smell the same. I certainly get some animal. But we all perceive things differently.
appossese – :
Are you sure your l’Interdit is ok? I never smelled anything animalic about him, just aldehydes and flowers, specially roses and jasmine.I am talking vintage L’Interdit used when I was a child in the 60s 70s.
karennnnnnn – :
I found a sample that has been in my sample drawer for a while. I suppose it’s possible that it’s gone off, but it smells great. The thing is, it isn’t the least bit what I was expecting. From reviews I expected a lot of cacao, but I get no discernible cacao at all. What I do get is a very vintage, rich, animalic type of scent which reminds me a great deal of Vintage Givenchy L’Interdt. It’s not exactly the same, but the similarities are remarkable. The pepper note stands out and I am sure some sort of animal lives in the basement. From the note pyramid, all I can identify are the pink pepper and the vanilla. Not a floral in site, just this earthy, dense, rich vintage fragrance that says I am a grown woman who knows what she’s about. I love it, but gosh am I surprised! Hours later, I do get the cocoa finally coming to the surface in dusty glory. It’s a great finish.
n_komarovskiy – :
it’s the kind of buttery chocolate that you can find everywhere. the kind of chocolate that is too heavy rather than the delicious assorted high end chocolate. the kind of chocolate that once you hold it with your fingers it starts to melt because of the too much butter it’s been cooked with. after few minutes the medicinal tuberose that you can smell in Tubereuse Criminelle by Serge Lutens begins to rise a bit. im smelling a very slight of saffron as well and i guess it’s the pink pepper and the amber mix that created this effect. something salty comes up after few minutes right after the saffron but after 10 minutes it becomes quite sharp because of the pepper note as it turned to be the chili chocolate cake smell rather than tuberose.
i had high hopes for this to be one of my favorites but unfortunately it turned to be not, not even close.
serg727 – :
I’m usually very open-minded about scents and it is rare that I smell something that I have an immediate unpleasant reaction to. Unfortunately Cocoa Tuberose is one of those scents for me. At least with a fragrance that you dislike, it gives you an opportunity to explore your likes and dislikes and the reasons behind them. The main thing that you will smell in this fragrance is the extremely prominent wormwood note, which is intensely bitter and completely overwhelms the composition. Underneath that you will smell chocolate, but it is not any sort of luxurious, gourmand version of chocolate. It smells like unprocessed cocoa powder served on a brick that’s been sitting out in the hot sun. I left the fragrance on my skin just long enough to interpret it, and to see if the drydown changed enough for me to like the fragrance. I ended up scrubbing it off, which I have only done a couple of times in my life.
I do not perceive tuberose at ALL, which is disappointing, as I think combining chocolate and white florals sounds like a great idea. This is just badly done, clumsy, and unflattering. If you’re looking for a spicy/chocolate/patchouli fragrance, try Kokorico by Jean Paul Gaultier or Hungry Hungry Hippies by Smell Bent. Don’t waste your time and money with this one.
pro100loku – :
The opening reminded me a bit of Aftelier’s Cepes and Tuberose but very quickly the tuberose dropped out leaving a more straightforward chocolate note. Mmm chocolate truffle! Over time the cocoa became less chocolate-y and more masculine. I’m not sure what it is that I’m smelling that makes me think “men’s cologne” but I wouldn’t be comfortable wearing this. It just seems too masculine. So while I enjoy it very much and am impressed with the staying power and complexity, I’m going to leave this one for the guys.
erudyuk – :
This comes across as a very high quality perfume. The scent is powerful and direct with an obvious, masculine cacao. I’m torn over these gourmand scents. They’re interesting and I like them. This one I find closer to something I’d wear as it’s more complex than simply smelling like a chocolate layer cake. Still, even with its high quality ingredients and sophisticated job of layering the cacao within other scents I’m not so sure I want to smell like this. For me, the jury is still out on the gourmand – do I like the smell as a candle/air scent or do I want to smell like it?
VerDi44 – :
As a cocoa lover, in all forms and applications, I looked forward to testing Providence Perfume Cocoa Tuberose, and I am not at all disappointed with the cocoa presentation here! Strong and rich and not sweet but also not overly bitter, the cocoa note in this composition is perfect.
As a tuberose lover, in all forms and applications, I looked forward to testing Providence Perfume Cocoa Tuberose and found very little in the way of florality whatsoever. So I do believe that this little potion is misnamed.
However, for what it is, the smell is quite nice: a rich, complex, earthy, oriental, all-natural perfume. These sorts of creations require some getting used to, and my nose has been training on the Sama all-natural and mostly organic perfumes. The closest from that house to Cocoa Tuberose is Amber Rose. Both are dark and deep and rather intense. In fact, Amber Rose reminds me in wafts somewhat of unsweetened chocolate, though cocoa is not listed among the notes.
Anyway, I do recommend Cocoa Tuberose for dark oriental perfume lovers. I am quite sure that amateurs of some of the Serge Lutens oriental perfumes would like this one as well. Love of cocoa is a requirement, but those who shun white flowers need not shy away, for there is very little in the way of tuberose here–or if there is, it is completely shrouded by the richer oriental notes, which include amber, wormwood, and patchouli, in addition to the dominant cocoa.
The drydown is gorgeous.
Shram79 – :
186) I’m not hungry anymore
Parfum pure Cacao sans aucune tubéreuse.
Le rendu est complétement similaire à celui d’une ouverture d’une tablette de chocolat Noir au poivre rose, avec même l’aspect poudreux et l’amertume du cacao. Oui très bien fait et puis?
et bien vous sentez le chocolat et puis le patchouli au bout de 2 heures, ce qui est déjà suffisant pour vous ecoeurer sérieusement du chocolat.
Je suppose que ça doit être fait pour amuser les enfants et les parents qui les déguisent en Cup Cake.
J’y vois une cure de régime originale pour tous les obsédés qui veulent arrêter le chocolat.
Pure Cocoa perfume without tuberose.
The result is completely similar to the opening of a Black with pink pepper chocolate bar. I smell Even the powdery texture and the bitterness of the cocoa. Yes well done, and then?
well you smell of chocolate (a good one) during 2 hours and then patchouli, which is already enough to disgust you seriously.
I guess it must be done to amuse children and their parents who dress them in Cup Cake.
I see a original regime cure for all obsessed who want to stop eating chocolate.
ded59 – :
Cocoa Tuberose smells exactly like spiced chocolate cake, or a chewy chocolate spice Christmas cookie. That said, Cocoa Tuberose is only a tiny bit sweet and maintains a beautiful transparency despite the heavy nature of its individual notes- an impressive feat that is actually typical of Providence Perfume.
You have to seriously love true cocoa to enjoy this because the cocoa here is deep, rich, and bitter. It reminds me a little of ganache and Mexican hot chocolate. The depth of the cocoa and lack of over-sweetness makes this unquestionably unisex to my mind, though definitely unconventional.
Cocoa Tuberose is the most realistic chocolate I have ever smelled in a fragrance from beginning to end, which makes sense because Providence Perfume uses 100% natural ingredients. I don’t mean Pacifica-style natural, I mean ACTUALLY all natural.
In fact, if Pacifica’s Mexican Cocoa smelled like this, I would have bought the bottle (instead of running to the nearest sink), but I also would have been slightly suspicious as to why it smelled so amazing. Needless to say, Providence is in an entirely different arena as far as quality goes, natural or not.
For a true cocoa fix, forget about Jo Malone Bitter Orange and Chocolate, Montale Chocolate Greedy, Bond No. 9 I Love New York for All, Comptoir Sud Pacifique Amour De Cacao, and Aquolina Chocolovers. For an authentic, cozy, spicy dark chocolate experience, give Cocoa Tuberose a shot. It is so comforting that I prefer to wear it before bed.
AARNIG – :
Providence Perfume deserves to be among the top flight niche perfumers. Every scent of theirs that I have tried is distinctive and well-blended, even those that haven’t particularly appealed to me. (By the way, they offer online a nice sample variety pack that covers most of their perfumes at a reasonable price.) Cocoa Tuberose is my favorite so far – deep, dark, and complex, with a base to die for. The notes given seem about right to me, with pink pepper, cocoa, patchouli, and tonka more prominent than the others. There is a touch of tuberose in the middle, and I suppose what might be a soupcon of champaca (a sharp honey floral note). Patchouli is a major part of later middle notes, but blended enough that few would peg this right away as a patchouli perfume. The base is a mildly sweet, rich and balanced blend of all the listed base notes. What a pleasure!
The cocoa and patchouli make Cocoa Tuberose somewhat similar to Serge Lutens Borneo 1834, but it is also quite distinct, with pepper and tuberose and less patchouli. They are both terrific, and sometimes I even like Cocoa Tuberose better, which is nigh on sacrilege for a Lutens-Sheldrake lover like me.
One minor complaint is that some of Providence Perfumes, including this one, go on your skin slightly sticky. I could not care less whether their perfumes are “all natural” (whatever that means), and if they could get rid of the stickiness by replacing the culprit with … gasp … a synthetic, that would be nice. I like my skin to feel soft or slightly oily, which most perfumes seem to enhance. The honey scene in 9 1/2 weeks was very sexy to watch, but trust me it is not sexy to participate in unless you are already in the shower.
Providence Perfume folks – maybe you read these reviews since you are still a small operation… how about dropping the “100%” part of the natural and instead being mostly natural, so you can still say on your banners that you are “natural”. Or get the offending sources to redistill away the stickiness. Okay, just a thought. You make great scents!!
gompournomi – :
This is interesting in the best possible way! I’m not a gourmand fan, but this is wonderful. It is listed as unisex, but I strongly feel that this is a male scent. The chocolate and wormwood almost has a suede note. I picture this on a fresh shaven man, wearing a wool sweater in the fall, while brewing coffee. It is incredibly comforting.
potapo4kaya – :
Wormwood, tuberose and bitter chocolate….all this scent needs is coffee and it would be PERFECT (other than its propensity for staining).
It smells as if I was drinking absinthe and spilled some on my blouse,while eating gourmet chocolate and wearing Amarige.
A very strange gourmand indeed, and not for everyone!
If I could get a full bottle of Cocoa Tuberose,my signature scent, Ciara, MIGHT have a contender for her throne!
On me it smells sweet, boozy, slightly animalic (that’s the tuberose, believe it or not)with a touch of dusky, smoky bitterness.
The grapefruit is an interesting opening, which does not last long but adds an element of surprise.
A very longlasting and strong perfume, with decent sillage (seems to have more sillage in humidity).
This is what I want for my birthday!
Misha26 – :
I received a sample of this as a gift – one spray is all it took. Note, as rorygory mentioned, the liquid is dark brown and I would hesitate to get it on light clothing for fear of staining.
Initial spritz was like sticking my nose into a cannister of very nice dark cocoa powder – very intense dry cocoa smell within a patchouli/herbal cloud. I detected no citrus on me.
The cocoa was nice but gone in less than 10 minutes. What I was left with was, quite bluntly, “head shop.”
On me there isn’t much tuberose, despite the name. It is eclipsed by patchouli and a very incens-y smell. In college in the 90s we used to go to this little shop in a dry, dusty repurposed upstairs hallway of an old building – they sold all kinds of dried herbs, candles, “novelty only” pipes and paraphenelia, and incense of all kinds. We would always go there to buy our Nag Champa incense. For me, one sniff and its like someone time-warped me back into the store and put a bundle of Nag Champa in my hand! I can’t but think the “champa” flower lends the incense note here?
4 hours later, still going but mellower and close to the skin now; still head shop. I don’t mind the smell, but it’s not what I want to smell like to others.
I’ll be selling, swapping or gifting this sample.
ScorpionMC – :
Providence Perfume’s Cocoa Tuberose definitely lives up to its name: it is a blast of tuberose over an intense base of dry cocoa. The bizarre fresh grapefruit top note is quickly overwhelmed by a dark, smoldering base of smoky cocoa, vetiver, tuberose and tonka. The liquid is extremely dark (I wouldn’t be surprised if it stained fabric) and feels almost sticky on the skin. This perfume is like a caricature, perhaps too much for most but definitely not boring. On the right person this unisex gourmand could be quite interesting.
BlIzNeZ – :
Have mercy, this is something extremely tasty, seriously it smells like the best chocolate, but there is one slight problem with me and this perfume – it just feels weird, the opening was delightful – mix of warm, comfy sweetness, seductive, inviting and simply delightful.
The problem for me starts when I start to get wormwood, I enjoy it in perfumes usually, but here it is a bit too much, though I might add that over-applied a bit as this perfume is very strong, so that might be the reason why I can’t enjoy this as much as I wanted to.
It reminds me a bit of Black afgano by Nasamoto when wormwood starts to play around, so I guess if you love that perfume you might want to get your hands on the sample of this one.
The drydown is lovely, I still need to decide how I feel about this and do I love it or simply like it.
P.S. I did not get any flowers.