Chocolate Queen Navitus Parfums 2022 Extrait de Parfum

... and I have to ask myself why I even test chocolate scents, because while I do like to eat "pure" chocolate, I don't like it in processed form: I don't like cocoa, neither hot nor cold, no chocolate ice cream (not even as a child, it always had to be vanilla ice cream), for a long time I didn't like chocolate cake AT ALL, but well-made brownies are okay now. As a child, I always left out the cocoa batter in marble cake and only ate the light batter, didn't like Nutella on my bread, and even now I would never want to eat a donut with chocolate filling, but would rather choose vanilla or milk cream instead.
And does anyone remember that pink shampoo from "got 2 be" with a chocolate scent? It was around during my teenage years in the 2000s, and I found the concept ("chocolate scent, so special!") somehow exciting back then, but I always perceived the smell of chocolate as "dull," while vanilla always smelled positively sweet and "bright" and lively to me.

Nevertheless, here I am now, having tested a few chocolate scents, and yes, I ordered the Chocolate Queen blind and tested it with a sample.
I can say upfront: the fat chocolate cake caramel bomb, as Gabby eagerly emphasizes, is indeed not it. Personally, I don't like overly heavy gourmand scents, but I can imagine that many had different expectations.
"Sorriso | Profumum Roma," which I tested a few months ago, didn't appeal to me personally; goat pen-stinging orange-multivitamin notes- bright, exaggerated vanilla.
Here, with the Chocolate Queen, I primarily smell Baileys in the opening; slight hints of "Venom of Love | Navitus Parfums," just without the dark cherry. The chocolate initially smells like powdery nougat, not bitter at all (like, for example, in "Venom of Love | Navitus Parfums"); the consistency is like playdough, without smelling like it. It somehow reminds me of "chewy-creamy" nut chocolate spread, with something sweet that is hard to pinpoint; vanilla, caramel, toffee? Maybe a combination of everything. The scent tends to be somewhat woodier, rather than a heavy gourmand, an "indirect" brownie (more of a baking idea than a completely real pastry) actually comes to mind, along with a praline filled with vanilla egg liqueur.

Something bright and juicy lies over the scent; where Wicked Good is dark-bitter-dry-chocolatey in the opening, this one is "moist and juicy," like caramel sauce flowing over a (cooled) brownie. Yet, with all that, I don't find it overwhelmingly edible like "Nerocacao | Zeromolecole," which smells completely like a bakery and waffles & coconut chocolate; the warm, heavy-cake quality that I perceive in "Casamorati - Lira (Eau de Parfum) | XerJoff" or in Nerocacao is missing from the Chocolate Queen. I also smell a bit of Barbie hair like in "Eilish | Billie Eilish," but less penetratingly artificial, if that makes any sense.
"Venom of Love | Navitus Parfums" by Paulina is sexy and dark, while Gabby's Chocolate Queen is going on an innocent date where a chocolate milkshake with vanilla ice cream is being enjoyed.
It will probably stay for now; I can also imagine combining it with my "Venom of Love | Navitus Parfums" :)
Regarding longevity: it is less intense than "Venom of Love | Navitus Parfums," which I can say from my first impression.