Brand: Nocturne Alchemy
Scent Description: Green Mint Fairy Essential Oil, Benedictine Absinthe Anise, Egyptian Anise, a Brown Sugar Cube, Bavarian Chocolate Cocoa, German Wermuth, Hyssop, Chocolate Nibs, Star Anise, Meadowsweet, Basil and Sweet Fennel.
Released: Goblins
Right away Chocolate Absinthe smells like Andies Candies (a dark chocolate mint candy) on my skin. Around the 10 minute mark my skin is starting to develop a tingling cooling sensation from the mint. This reminds me of my Grandmother, she used to keep a steady supply of Andies Candies in the freezer. As time goes on I can smell anise and other assorted herbs giving a medicinal yet aromatic edge to this and taking it away from gourmand territory. Chocolate Absinthe and Nemisynthe have a somewhat similar scent profile but Chocolate Absinthe wins by a landslide in my opinion. The longer this wears, the more CA grows on me. I’ll give it a few more tries but for now this is a like and not a love for me. After about 3 hours the herbs majorly fade out and I’m left with a close to the skin chocolate/cocoa scent that does NOT smell like Tootsie Rolls thankfully. Personally for my perfumes, I prefer dark to milk chocolate. Pretty much every “milk chocolate scent” I’ve tried ends up turning into Tootsie Roll on me. Again, for me this is a like but I have other absinthe based perfume oils that I prefer. I’ll give it a few more tries before I make a final decision about Chocolate Absinthe.