Dead Leaves, Molten Lava Cake, and Raw Cacao

[doomsday_disco]

Dead Leaves, Molten Lava Cake, and Raw Cacao.

[Invidiana]

Deep chocolate evokes the deep shadows of autumn. Decadent molten chocolate is the thick and unapologetic heart of this scent, with a dusting of dark cacao that creates an earthy backdrop where dead leaves flutter down. If there was ever a way to make chocolate autumnal in another way besides adding spices or more gourmand elements, this would be it. 

Edited October 20 by Invidiana

[theredkilt]

I strongly believe this blend needs to rest a couple of days before making an accurate opinion.

I noticed some cacao sludge floating in the bottle, which is a good sign for chocolovers.

 

The dead leaf note here is the bell pepper variety and i was afraid it was gonna clash with the gourmand cocoa notes. Thank God this wasn't the case.

The molten lava cake note comes out stronger backed in the background by the dead leaf dusty crunch. Little by little i can smell the gooey rich dense texture of the molten lava cake sprinkled with some raw cacao powder around the edges. Really mouthwatering if you like your dark chocolate on the beefier side.

After 4 hours i get a faint whiff of the dusty dead leaf (without any bell pepper residue) smudged in dissipating cacao powder. Very pleased with this blind buy ❤️❤️❤️

 

[bunnicula]

I definitely smell the sweet and slightly bitter richness of a dark chocolate lava cake, but it is decorated with that dry, vegetal, slightly peppered smell of the dead leaves. As it dries down, the dead leaves note fades a bit, and the chocolate lava cake gets stronger, somehow this really captures that sweet richness of the inner lava soaked part of the cake, yum!!! Sometimes it leans into that gourmand realism, and other times the dry peppery leaves fade back into the picture, like you're enjoying a lava cake under a tree and the dead leaves keep falling onto your delicacy and you keep having to pick them out. Longer into weartime, the chocolate is losing its lava cake-iness specifity, and becomes a bit more generic cacao plus dry dead leaf. I'm happy I tried a feltie of this, to sate my curiosity, however I'm still not much of a chocolate-scent person. It was my favorite of the dead leaf feltie decants I tried though!

[LavenderCoffee]

help I love this!! it just makes me go HNNNGGG and I WANT TO GO TO THERE, among other less useful notes for a perfume review. So instead: A cascade of dry dead leaves, a dusting of dry cacao, and then an ooozingly realistic molten cake center that mellows into a lovely chocolate cake scent in the leaf pile. I vaguely regretted not grabbing a FS of DL/Chocolate/Hazelnut from years past but at the end of the day, I just don't love hazelnut. This one may be my one true chocolate leaf!