Mexican Hot Chocolate Vintner's Reserve 2008

Mexican Hot Chocolate by Vintner's Reserve

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7.6 / 10 75 Ratings

A popular perfume by Vintner's Reserve for women and men, released in 2008. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Smoky

Oriental

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Ravansara

White thyme

Plunzaktir

Heart Notes

Carnation

Clove

Nutmeg

Saffron

Jasmine

Base Notes

Frankincense

Precious woods

Indian sandalwood Oud

Oud

White musk

Perfumer

Amélie Bourgeois

Ratings

Scent

7.675 Ratings

Longevity

7.557 Ratings

Sillage

6.559 Ratings

Bottle

8.166 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 06/03/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Odori d'Anima collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Rose Infernale

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/03/2025

ClaireV
958 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Brash, modern - the scented equivalent of strip lighting

A thin, almost watery floral musk with enough saffron or cardamom to give it the feel of a Fairy Liquid bubble. The musk is tainted with an unpleasantly saliva-ish note, like a sneeze dried into the cuff of a sweater, but not enough to scare anyone who wears, say Miel de Bois or Bois Lumiere. Ultimately, though the woody-iris-ish floral topnotes (I smell tons of ionones), the smell of freshly poured paint, and the brash shake of black pepper give it an interestingly spacey, 'clean alien' vibe that I can see working on people who love Diptyque's Fleur de Peau or Ilio Hair Mist, the moment the Norlimbanol in the base rears its ugly, all-encompassing, sulfurous fart-in-a-glove head it is game over for me. For such a 'light', airy perfume, it only comes off with a Brillo pad.

04/15/2015

7.5
Bottle 5
Sillage 2.5
Longevity 5
Scent

Drseid
821 Reviews

Drseid

2

Yet *Another* Black Pepper Focused Composition...

Alfa opens with a touch of floral jasmine before quickly moving to its heart. As the composition enters its early heart the mild jasmine fades to the background as a heavy black pepper note emerges to take control of the composition with significant aromatic saffron spice and synthetic vague woody support. During the late dry-down the relatively weak base is near solely derived of semi-dry sandalwood, with faint traces of the black pepper remaining well in the background. Projection is on the low side of average and longevity below average at about 5 hours on skin.

Alfa's black pepper driven heart accord has been done more times than I can even think about, and quite frankly much better. The combination of the black pepper, saffron and mild jasmine with the synthetic woods (can anyone say "norlimbanol"?) somewhat resembles the primary heart accord of Declaration by Cartier in spirit (and a number of other similar compositions). Probably my favorite part of Alfa's development is its simplistic stark sandalwood late dry-down, but the base is so weak you barely can smell it except up close. I am afraid there is no getting around the reality (at least to this reviewer) that Alfa is just not particularly distinctive and lacks the solid base structure needed to succeed. The bottom line is the 185 Euro per 100ml bottle Alfa just can't separate itself from others in the field with its overplayed peppery heart and poor performance metrics, earning a very "average" 2.5 stars out of 5 and a neutral rating. I would look at far superior compositions like the great Tzora by Anat Fritz before buying this one.