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I forgot to mention that this perfume is very strong - just one spray or dab is enough for me. I have an older bottle though and am not sure if there have been any changes in recent times to the formulation.
It's really wonderful. I had never thought the idea of chocolate as a fragrance was one that was appealing, but Louis Vuitton Nouveau Monde has cacao, and the LV is one of my faves. After my experience with that fragrance, I'm much more into cacao or chocolate when done well. Olivier Polge has done a very nice job with Dark and the rest of his Akro line.
Yeah, I had always thought that dominant chocolate and cacao notes in a fragrance would take the perfume into totally gourmand territory, but depending on how it is composed, that is not necessarily the case. In fact, cacao imparts a sort of dry, dark quality to perfumes - at least that has been my experience with the couple of fragrances I have tried with that note.
I think that Akro Dark is definitely a gourmand, but it's not sickly sweet at all. It's spicy at times and even a bit dirty. I often catch myself getting whiffs of it and thinking "What IS that?” It is a really interesting fragrance. I also got a sample of another from the line: Smoke. That one is also really very good and very interesting. Dark and Smoke seem to be the faves from Akro that I can tell. They are both complex and well done.
You know, I really haven't tried very many gourmand perfumes. A gourmand that is well done, complex and not too sweet does sound great - I think I'll order a sample sometime soon of Dark and perhaps Smoke as well.
