The Best Cocoa Perfume Comes from a Chocolate Bottle

When a fragrance artist teams up with a chocolatier, the results are simply delicious.

September 28, 2015, 5:45pm

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If there's a chocolate flavor in your mouth, chocolate in your eyeline, and maybe already even chocolate in your hand, the new perfume fragrance artist Peter de Cupere and chocolatier Patrick Mertens is the sensory overload you've been waiting for.

This sweet and dark brown flavor explosion is called Cocoa 5 Senses, and it just last week made its debut at the Milan Expo 2015. It's perfume that smells like chocolate, tastes like chocolate if you spray it in your mouth, and even the bottle in which it comes in is made from, you guessed it, chocolate.

Making the scent takes three weeks, and only the best cocoa beans pass through to the production phase. But removing the smell and taste is a unique, secret process. "After many testings via extractions and distillations there were taste and odor tests in order to achieve the perfect combination where both the flavor and the aroma of Cocoa 5 Senses is optimal," Cocoa 5's website explains. "The best cocoa ingredients were pre-selected. Cocoa 5 Senses consists of pure natural products. An Eau de Cocao with an alcohol percentage of 20% ensures a stable shelf life for several months. To discover the optimal flavor, we recommend Cocoa 5 Senses to be used as fresh as possible."

de Cupere designed the bottle itself based on a drawing from 2011 of a cocoa bean. "Everything about our perfume is made by hand," the creators explain.

For 69, you can order your own Cocoa 5 Senses here. The perfume even comes with a special white glove that ensures that the bottle does not melt in your hand while you spray it on, making it, perhaps, the most adorable scent ever.