Dark

Description

Dark opens on cocoa powder — dry, dusty and bitter, the way cocoa smells before sugar touches it — with dark chocolate underneath adding weight. Cinnamon bark and hazelnut warm the heart, the cinnamon sharp enough to stop the whole thing collapsing into dessert. Vanilla rounds the base and gives it the smoothness the opening deliberately withholds. A chocolate fragrance that stays bitter longer than most, which is exactly why it works on skin rather than on paper. Cold weather and evenings.