Cocoa Tree
Note Profile
About
The chocolate tree read as chocolate: bitter cocoa mass, powdery and sweet, over a thin dry bark.
Scent Profile
Cocoa tree reads as chocolate: bitter, powdery and sweet, with a dry bark underneath. A faint fruity hint of cherry shows in the heart, and a light sugar sweetness carries through the cocoa dust. The wood is thin and dry, more a frame for the chocolate than a note of its own.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Theobroma cacao, the tree the bean comes from. No supplier sells a material called cocoa tree. Every source that gives this tree a smell describes the bean or its solvent extract. Osmoz files the raw material as chocolate, powdery, sweet. Hermitage Oils describes cocoa absolute, pressed from the beans rather than the powder, as dark bittersweet chocolate with a kirsch-cherry heart. The one part of the tree that does not smell of chocolate is the flower. Premiere Peau says cacao blossom smells nothing like chocolate and is waxy, musty and barely fragrant.
Usage in Perfumery
The term appears on note lists as a botanical framing of cocoa, not as a separate material. Fine'ry's Sweet on the Outside body mist prints it. The single Parfumo review of that mist reads the scent as light tonka and vanilla and never mentions chocolate, so how much cocoa a buyer actually gets from the term is not settled.
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