Cocoa Wood
Note Profile
About
Dry bitter timber carrying an unsweetened cocoa cast
Scent Profile
Cocoa Wood is dry, bitter timber with an unsweetened cocoa cast running through it, wood and cocoa powder almost equally matched. A smooth, creamy sandalwood softness keeps it from reading as plain sawdust. Any sweetness stays bitter rather than sugary, closer to raw cacao than chocolate. A warm, mineral edge runs through the wood itself.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
No supplier catalogue, datasheet or analysis of a 'cocoa wood' material could be found. Both documented uses are composed accords, not an extract. Pierre Guillaume's Anti-Blues (2019) names Cacao Wood as a heart material and describes 'the woody bitterness of Cacao Wood, Saffron and Amyris'. Nest's Cocoa Woods (2018) pairs cocoa with a sequoia-wood accord. Nothing found treats the timber of Theobroma cacao as a fragrance material in its own right, so this note should not be read as an oil of the cacao tree.
Usage in Perfumery
Parfumo's note page claims 5 perfumes, first used in 2008 and most recently in 2026. A count of the Parfumo data finds 4 placements across 3 brands. Two unrelated houses eight years apart reach for the same idea: a wood that carries bitter cocoa.
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