Alexandria Fragrances - Cacao Dreams

I was fortunate enough to win a giveaway from this fragrance brand.  In my package, the perfumer also included samples.  Cacao Dreams was one of the samples.

Aptly named, Cacao Dreams is the stuff gourmand chocolate dreams are made of.   An original creation by the brand, Cacao Dreams is a fairly linear fragrance that celebrates the best that is chocolate.  You’ve heard me say it before, chocolate can often go very wrong in a fragrance.  If mixed incorrectly, it can pull almost like plastic.  If overdone (in my opinion) it can become cloying.  Neither is the case with Cacao Dreams.

The fragrance opens as something akin to a vanilla cocoa powder blend.  It has elements similar to a delicious hot chocolate but without quite becoming sticky and dense like a hot chocolate.  The notes seem to float in a delicate chocolate waft.  If you’ve ever been to the Hershey Chocolate Factory in Pennsylvania it could be compared to the chocolate aroma pumped in through the ventilation system; it retains that ethereal lightness.  In the same vein, as it wears, the fragrance seems to acquire some of the soft floral that a quality piece of chocolate has by taste.  All the while through wear there is also a light creaminess.  The edge has been taken off of what could have been overpowering and the fragrance wears with a comfortable, inviting ease.

Cacao Dreams wears on me with soft moving to skin scent (5 hour mark) projection for roughly 7-8 hours.

Perfumer: Hany Hafez

*Thanks to the perfumer for his generosity with his giveaway!