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alex36164 – :
I finally tried Xocoatl and I must say.. I HATED it! To me, it smelled of urine and old lady perfume. Yuck! I know everyone’s sniffer is different, but this really made me wanna gag. It’s perplexing to me because of the high reviews, maybe I sampled a bad one.
kukla1973 – :
Xocoatl has been on my ”to-try-list” for a while since I heard that is a great boozy gourmand, so I had to try it. For me, Xocoatl opens up with a strong rum note followed by very sweet cocoa and vanilla. The rum dissipates quickly, and you’re mostly left with the cocoa (could be with the addition of praline) and some milky note to smooth it out. It kind of reminds me of Feve Delicieuse, in the characteristic of the scent rather than being a copy or anything. It is enjoyable, but a bit too sweet for me, and feminine. I suggest trying this in the winter for those who love a strong performing scent. The longevity is 10+ hours with strong to moderate projection.
tralbizz – :
Boozy vanilla in chocolate haze!
You can’t define cacao quite clearly in here other than vanilla mingles with chocolate and rum. It is quite boozy and in pressive, but i don’t remember that’s what i have smelled few years back!
I remember i did reviewed this fragrance 2 to 3 years back but i just don’t know where my review have gone to! a user sent me a message regarding my review for this fragrance few months back and i still don’t know where it is! all i remember is that i have bashed it a bit harsh somehow, but now i believe it was a mistake, it is quite an interesting fragrance since i developed a love relationship to gourmand. A bit on the wait side, i get now (10 minutes in) fizzy boozy chocolate vanilla blend, weird and impressive.
perekup – :
If you are looking for booziness and cocoa then go for Guerlain Coquin. Right amount of Rum blended with cocoa.
Sevad – :
The booziness of this reminds me of Jazz Club, but this is sweeter and almost jammy. I don’t think I myself could wear this, but, like Jazz Club, I bet this smells AMAZING on the right guy.
sven23 – :
I don’t get chocolate from this much at all.
It opens up dry and peppery with a vaguely vanilla hint, a bit like baked desert earth with the scent of gravel ghost flowers wafting up, and then it dries down into a sweet fruity rum with a peppery bite, (I was surprised to not see either pink pepper or fig listed as a note, tbh)
tonik69 – :
This smells so much like john varvatos to me and I didn’t smell any cocoa unfortunately. Just rum and vanilla and woody notes.
garasio – :
Like many have said before me, this is very boozy. And it not only opens up boozy, it stays boozy throughout. In the opening, there is a sharp alcoholic note, that turns into a creamy but nevertheless alcoholic rum note that lasts until the end. Warm, vanillic, boozy and a bit woody, kind of like the whole concoction is sitting aging in an oak barrel.
SerdjioStrel – :
Powdery vanilla-cocoa with some orchid, spice and rum notes. Love cocoa based fragrances but not a fan of this mix. It smells very synthetic, bland and bitter-sour for my nose.
BuZZukin – :
I believe that Fueguia, somehow, is the South America Jo Malone with a better and luxuous presentation and fragrances between the same style of the british brand, creations that seems linear and made to be combined, and creations more complete and complex. I had doubts if the notes they released were simple on purpose or if they reflected what was created, but from what i sampled briefly at saturday the are faithful to the scent. Xocoatl is inspired on the Aztecs drink that gave origin to our chocolate, with the word used to name it having the meaning of bitter water, which reflects the dry and dark roasted taste of cocoa. Apparently the Aztecs also used the vanilla orquid to enrich the cocoa drink, but wine and also spices were used. The focus here is on the chocolate and vanilla, which makes Xocoatl quite literal on skin. Sometimes i get the impression that i’m wearing a very straight version of Very Irresistible Homme idea of cocoa and coffee, since something on the cocoa in Xocoatl reminds me a lot of cocoa powder and roasted coffee at the same time. This is the main focus for me, with the craemy sugary of vanilla work as a background to provide it some smothness.I also notice something very masculine on the rum smell, as if they used a mint licquer to give it the beverage notion to the cocoa and vanilla combination. I think that Xocoatl hits perfectly the concept, but for me it could have been a little bit more dynamic and complex.
vasyakin – :
I have decided to re-evaluate my previous lukewarm review of “Xocoatl”.
Jovoy Paris supplied me with a nice full 3ml sample, which has given me a much clearer picture of the scent since my last encounter with a troublesome plastic sprayer, from which I could only extract tiny dribbles of the stuff.
It’s actually lovely; Much smoother than I’d previously thought. The cacao is also more perceptible; Not bitter or dark, but soft warm and lush. The vanilla has a fruity nuance which is accented by the sugary rum. There are hints of a subtle, floral powderiness, but quite indistinct. It’s not cloying at all, at least not compared to the likes of “Un Bois Vanille”. Rather, it feels quite sheer and satin-like in texture, with a delicate trail.
It’s true that it doesn’t really evoke the traditional Mayan cocoa drink; You would expect that to be spicier, darker and milkier, and that is what originally let me down when I smelled it first. Still, it’s a damn good vanilla scent that’s fairly unisex and is sure to make heads tilt as you walk past.
lebedevvv288 – :
Oooh, sexy deep vanilla! I tend to love vanilla in all its forms from girly-girl light and fluffy to dark and sexy. This is the latter.
It has depth, spice, and a sultry glow. It all flows together beautifully and I can’t pinpoint cocoa or rum in particular, just a strong backbone for the vanilla. It isn’t the sort of fragrance that is extremely dessert-y.
That being said, it smells very, very similar to Guerlain’s Spiriteuse Double Vanille. Very. I like this one a bit more, it is a little more sophisticated IMO, but they are very alike. And so I don’t know if I can justify a full bottle.
The vanilla gets a bit sweeter and softer on dry-down. It has good lasting power and sillage.
(My perfume-hating cat loves it, oddly. He keeps sniffing from across the room, gradually pinpointing my wrist as what he is fascinating on, and asking to sniff me some more, then forgetting we just did that and repeating all over again. Hilarious!)
cac795Bessinepome – :
Superb mix of cocoa and rum in a sensual and elegant blend. Not overwhelming, and has the right level of sweetness. The high quality of the materials can be noticed immediately. Recommended to those who like elegant, sweet perfumes, but not sugary ones that are common among commercial brands.
igor1979k – :
It’s a fragrance described as floral, in the official catalogue of the brand, which in my opinion has a floral-gourmand aspect.
This review will address the Parfum version, which is the one I own, whose result is fabulous on my skin. Although unisex, I consider it more masculine than feminine. Still, I believe that in the female skin may present another facet.
Composed by notes of orchid and vanilla, in the output; cocoa, in the heart and rum at the base, this fragrance was created to remind a beverage made by the Aztecs to the warriors and nobles, called Xocoatl.
Yet, according to the history of American civilization, the cocoa trees were cultivated by the Maya and later, by other people (among them the Aztecs), and the word chocolate is derived from the word “xocolatl”, original of the Nahuatl language, which is an Aztec dialect, that means bitter water.
Returning to what matters, the scent hits the skin intensively, slightly fruity and alcoholic in the first moments. Almost immediately, the bitter cocoa takes over and, on several occasions, this nuance in conjunction with the rum, gives the idea of something raspier, which let me thinking in leather. About the vanilla, forget the creamy aspect. Here, we have a slightly bitter aspect, although rich and with quality.
In addition to exotic, the aroma is delicious and exudes, consistently, for more than 4 hours. This made me receive various compliments and see people around commenting on the fragrance they feel in the air (after 2 hours, I went to dinner at a restaurant and had a table full of people celebrating a birthday next to me, and I could see 2 men and 1 woman talking about the fragrance). The lasting surpassed 10 hours on my skin and the first impression couldn’t have been better.
It is a great scent, from a brand that has ecological consciousness and a nice story as background.
edvard7373 – :
This scent lingers. It’s sweet, yet fresh and modern. Not green-fresh, but I wouldn’t call it warm, maybe at the very end of the drydown. Beauuuutiful, will be saving money to get a large bottle. Smells nothing like Anima Dulcis. At all.
A strange side effect from this application is that it amplifies all the other scents around me. If it’s a bad odor – it’s twice as bad! Very annoying…
Lenka – :
First blind buy purchase from the house of Fueguia 1833. I didn’t know what to expect. The accords look appealing so I thought, “Why not”? My first impression was the nice packaging of the homespun wood chest with roping around the casing….As for the fragrance, this starts out very sweet, however the whiskey is the scene stealer here. Prepare yourself for a DUI(Delivers Uber Intensity) while sniffing. Xocoatl smells exactly like Swiss Miss hot chocolate being spiked by Gosling’s Black Seal Rum. Never mind the 4 notes, this smells like premium imported cocoa. I get about 6hrs out of this. Spend those 6hrs with a woman you’re trying to win over; she won’t regret it. A scent for all Clark Kents looking for their inner Superman.
FatInjennyFap – :
This is definitely a love for me. The very best chocolate scent I’ve come across yet. I wore my sample to bed and had the most delicious sleep ever. I usually don’t like the dab samples, spray ones seem to work perfume magic easier for me, but this one has such a powerful sillage with just a couple of dabs and lasted over eight hours. It starts off rather dry and acrid but develops over the next half hour into a beautifully warm cozy scent ( I think the rum note is responsible for the coziness in this). The chocolate note is not overly sweet thankfully, this is definitely an Oriental and not a Gourmand. The combination of chocolate and vanilla mixed with the powdery aspect of vanilla orchids and the warmth of the rum note, makes this as snug as a downy quilt on a rainy afternoon. Nobody will feel like having you for dessert but they will very likely want to hug you for the whole day. This goes onto my want list, it was a definite plan formed in my happy dreams last night! 🙂
EnesFuern – :
Cacao is probably my all time favourite note in perfumery so I was superexcited to try Xocoatl.
It is a very unique interpretation of cacao. Dry, spicy and has a certain kind of “raw” feeling to it.
I have never had a chance to try that Aztec/Mexican beverage that inspired this fragrance, but I often buy unprocessed raw cacao beans and Xocoatl smells just like those slightly crushed little nibs out of the packet, underlined with some dry vanilla and spice to balance out the bitter earthiness and it becomes more and more spicy as it develops.
It is certainly not a sugary sweet gourmand scent. I find it very elegant and unisex.
Would I buy it? Considering the sky high pricetag on this fragrance and the fact that longevity is medium on me and the sillage is quite low, I`m not sure I would put it on my wishlist, but I would encourage all chocolate lovers to try this scent, you really are in for a unique treat.
csshot – :
To anyone who has ever drink a real mexican/prehispanic hot chocolate would agree with me that this smells exactly like that, you can almost taste it, chocolate,bit of vanilla, bit of cinnamon and bit of rum, to me this is an outstanding gourmand
Alice111111 – :
Xocoatl (Linneo Collection): Vanilla, rum, cocoa. RUM & cocoa almost immediately upon application, then vanilla creeps in, quieting the boozing drunk to a lovely, glowing hummmmm. This stays seated, because if dared to stand and move about – it would pass out. It’s drunk, but not quite in a stupor. But wait…is that cinnamon… and a whisper, waaaaaayyyy down below, of a creamy mint (Yerba Buena) flirting with some naughty musk? Xocoatl is FAR from a chocolate rum ball, so it cannot be classified as a gourmand, per se. But it IS quite tantalizing and seductive. Excellent sillage and moderate longevity.