Chocolate Fudge
Note Profile
About
Chocolate fudge is a confectionery accord, not a material. It is cocoa over a boiled sugar-butter base with a nut through it. It is built from chocolate, a caramel-cream-vanilla body, and hazelnut. It is sweeter and creamier than the published chocolate and dark-chocolate notes, and unlike white chocolate it keeps the cocoa.
Scent Profile
Chocolate fudge smells of rich, dark cocoa sitting over a boiled sugar and cream base. A clear vanilla sweetness runs through it, sweeter and creamier than a plain chocolate note. Hazelnut and toasted almond give it a nutty edge. Butter and cream add a soft, lactonic richness that thickens the whole thing.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Built, not extracted. There is no fudge material. Both descriptions found are fragrance-oil listings written for candle and soap makers: CandleScience gives 'top notes of vanilla... softened with cream and hazelnut before sinking into a gooey batter of chocolate, sugar, and praline', and Nature's Garden gives 'rich, dark chocolate swirled with ribbons of buttery caramel and vanilla creme, sprinkled with toasted almond slivers and creamy hazelnut'. No aroma house publishes a chocolate fudge base and no fine-fragrance trade source describes one.
Usage in Perfumery
A gourmand base accord used whole, as the subject of a fragrance rather than as a modifier. Attested on 8 Fragrantica entries and 2 Parfumo entries across 1 brand. Fragrantica files it under Sweets and gourmand smells. CandleScience's own alternate names for the same oil - 'Chocolate Brownie', 'Chocolate Hazelnut', 'Homemade Brownies' - show the trade reads it as a baked-confection accord, not as cocoa on its own.
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