Chocolat (1997)
by Il Profumo

Chocolat reminds me more of a less complex Hanae Mori EDP than A*Men, with the dark chocolate overwhelmed by an awfully sweet cherry note.

It’s most certainly what I was not expecting.

This is one of my favorite perfumes (haven't tried Angel yet though). It is cocoa that is not overly chocolate. It is deep and spicy that mellows well. It is expensive and I wish I could find some other scent that I loved as well. So far, I haven't found it.

A more subtle and reticent A*men. The chocolate presented is not as sweet as in A*men — it’s more like cocoa powder with vanilla and some smoothing agents. It certainly is a smooth chocolate accord and I like the fact that it isn’t too in-your-face. It’s very linear — I really don’t determine any variation from beginning to end except for the dispersal of the short citrus blast in the opening and the gradually weakening of the scent with time. I imagine that, as a niche fragrance, it really is not designed to suit everybody; with all the variations in skin types and olfactory interpretations, there are likely a few people out there who might find this the perfect chocolate scent — not me — but someone. Definitely a unisex fragrance, probably more inclined toward the masculine.

Well, it's chocolate. Bittersweet, not milk, and very accurately rendered. So, if you really want to smell like chocolate...

Quite nice/ not bad chocolate scent with mandarin and vanilla notes but if (and when) you have Angel, why would you want or need a substitute? A complete waste of time and money, IMO.