Cacao and chocolate

Perfume ingredients

Theobroma cacao

• Aroma Family: Gourmand

Cocao Absolute distillation is highly recommended for chocolate lovers as the aroma is like that of fine dark chocolate.

The cacao tree is native to the Amazon rainforest.

Also Cocoa beans are technically not beans or legumes, but seeds

Cocoa absolute is extracted from the roasted beans of Theobroma cacao. It has a warm, bittersweet, and earthy aroma with characteristic chocolate notes.

Roasted smoky, sooty sweet/cocoa bitter, powdery, milky, liqueur like : coffee, earthy

For Perfumer:

Cacao absolite; Completely oil soluble 'For attar perfume oil making'

Cocoa Colourless Absolute; Completely Alcohol soluble - Extraction of cocoa with a blend of ethanol and triacetin, with an additional step of molecular distillation 'For alcohol-based perfumes'

Cold pressed other cosmetic products

Cacao oil:

Combines especially well with: Tonka, Coffee, Almond, Hazelnut, Sour cherry, Jasmine, Vanilla, Guaiacwood , Tuberose, Osmanthus, Agarwood, Lily, Musk, Heliotrope absolute

Cacao perfumes:

Chocolate Greedy Montale

Santal Majuscule Serge Lutens

Cuir de Nuit Yves Rocher

Good Girl Carolina Herrera for women

A*Men Pure Havane Mugler for men