Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream

Mint Choc Chip Ice Cream is a literal gourmand. The maker says it took nine attempts to get right and describes it as a cool, uplifting mint with creamy chocolate undertones. The structure is simple: spearmint, peppermint and menthol with cream and coconut at the top, caramel, violet leaf, pistachio and cardamom in the middle, and cocoa, chocolate, vanilla, tonka and cedar underneath. Reactions are polarised. Buyers describe it as smelling just like mint choc chip ice cream, a cool minty ice cream with the sweeter notes arriving after a very present mint opening, and one calls it a really great unusual gourmand. Wearers elsewhere report more variable results. One found the ice-cream effect in the sample spray but only spearmint and chocolate on skin, another thought the notes did not blend and that the chocolate turned spicy, and two others smelled mint with an odd, oily citrus-like edge and could find no chocolate at all. If the cream does not come through on your skin, expect a sharp, herbal mint. The maker rates longevity as moderate and sillage as good, which matches the votes: moderate wear and a moderate trail. The votes lean heavily to winter, which is surprising for an ice cream. Daily wear and evenings both appear. It suits mint lovers who enjoy sweet, edible scents and are happy to test first. It is not a sophisticated or subtle perfume.