Nest Fragrances – Cocoa Woods EDP

Cocoa Woods is a new release (2018) from Nest.  It is a woody spicy fragrance with hints of being a gourmand.  The best way for me to describe Cocoa Woods is as an analogous tale.  The images of the story of Little Red Riding Hood immediately came to my mind as I was wear-testing this fragrance.

As Cocoa Woods opens, we have Little Red Riding Hood on her way to visit Grandma.  She is carrying a basket full of luscious goodies.  The goodies are all, still warm, rich cocoa cookies.  The smell of the Dutch bittersweet cocoa fills the air as she walks on.

As Little Red Riding Hood continues on her way, she passes some lovely white flowers springing up along the path.  She stops and gets a quick whiff of the flowers (which have a creamy, lightly spiced coconut tinge to them).  Little Red cannot pause too long as the scrumptious smell of her cookies has beckoned a wolf from deep inside the forest. 

Little Red senses the wolf is creeping up to her.  She drops her basket of goodies and runs through the woods.  We are left with the memories of her cookie-laden basket as the woods deepen and darken around us.

Cocoa Woods wears on me for roughly 6 hours with soft projection.

Notes: Bittersweet cocoa, sequoia wood, white sandalwood, tiare blossom, Thai ginger

Photo Credit: Nest Fragrances