Over The Chocolate Shop 4160 Tuesdays for women and men

Photorealistic chocolate. This perfume is dry and nutty and chocolatey. Absolutely delicious scent that made me crave chocolate. Unfortunately, as much as I love chocolate, I don't actually want to smell like it.
For reference, I absolutely hate how chocolate greedy smells. This is much, much better of a chocolate scent.

All I get is coffee beans. No chocolate or hazelnut to sweeten it up. The dry down is a little better when the vanilla comes into play but this is my least fav scent from 4160. Silk, Lace & Chocolate is soo much better for those wanting a chocolate experience!

Wow. Opens with rich dark chocolate. More complex than Chocolate Greedy (the two chocolate scents I broke down to sample). I am getting a bitter nutty background (hence the dark chocolate).
Ok now that I have looked at the notes. I am guessing some of that bitterness is from the coffee note. I can also now feel the vanilla coming through. Letting the drydown continue…this is a rich nutty dry chocolate scent. It’s beautiful on this snowy winter day. IMO it would be alot (as in TOO MUCH) in warm weather. Leans a little masculine but definitely unisex. More complex than just another chocolate scent.

As with every perfume I have tried from this brand, this smells like paint by numbers. Very poorly composed, just smells like a lot of notes mashed together with no thought for blending. Really amatuerish. Awful!

Tested this completely blind (along with two others that had a chocolate story) having no idea what I was given. This was the third. While the first one had no recognizable coco, and the other started off as rancid vegetable oil, only to dry down as mirage of coco and incense, this one was far more, well chocolaty! From initial opening till it's skin level hints 12 hrs later, I recognized the dessert-like chocolate immediately. While not over-the-top gooey and over done (thankfully) it is still very chocolate syrup-like, not cocoa powder, or earthy, etc. Yet, while I enjoyed its nostalgic sense of child-like craving for anything chocolate (fighting over who's going to lick the chocolate frosting bowl) I still yearn for a more mature, more musky, and simply more enchanting chocolate scent that doesn't get caught up in desert or earth soil. This may have the chocolate side down, so I guess if I can't find my muse, this might be a good base to layer.

This is EXACTLY the scent of walking into a chocolate shop in Italy or Switzerland. I mean -exactly-, photorealistic European chocolate shop. It's not just a chocolate shop, but a cafe a la Sprungli (the Swiss chocolatier) so that you get a hit of espresso with your little truffles and pralines. The light, almost milk-chocolate cacao, the nutty freshness (almost woodiness) of the hazelnut and espresso and lightness of a sweet vanilla somewhere in the background. It really does smell exactly like these places to me, which is a huge compliment and it is weirdly...light and clean and fresh for a chocolate fragrance. Not as gourmand as you might imagine and I almost get a note of freshly cleaned linen with my cacao. It stays complex on my skin and I get all the notes even hours later and there is something so unique and enchanting about this one for me. I looove this one. My skin does very well with gourmands and this isn't different...it smells exactly in the bottle, as freshly sprayed, as hours and hours later. Longevity is fantastic, as is sillage. I, for one, love smelling like a Sprungli cafe. Probably best suited for fall and winter, but honestly is there a bad time for a chocolate cafe? 10/10 for me.

The strongest perfume ever tried, the only one I’ve ever over sprayed. The hazelnut note is powerful and isn’t my favorite but I see now it would appeal to people wanting the chocolate shop vibe. It’s a good fragrance if you want a very chocolatey fragrance. Get a sample, you only need a little at a time so it’s a good value.

I'm definitely getting the tobacco scent some of yall are talking about. unfortunately it kinda ruins it for me as I HATE tobacco notes. oh well. if you're into sweeter chocolate fragrances by this brand check out silk lace and chocolate.

I got this in the confectionery sample box from 4160 Tuesday website. It literally smells like a rich cocoa. It's been hours and I am still catching a whiff of it when I move. I layered it with the creamy vanilla crumble which has given it more of a milky hot chocolate scent

A huge blast of chocolate and hazelnut on initial spray. Quickly mellows into something far more spicy and much less chocolately, similar to a craft store in fall. Which is still lovely! The chocolate is not very long lasting, but the spices certainly linger nicely and evoke the same feeling.

My friend recently gifted me a partial bottle and I tested it today. On initial spray, I get a strong dark chocolate and a lot of coffee. Once it starts drying down the praline and nuttiness from the hazelnut comes out. I also get a hint of booziness to it. Like others have mentioned.. a chocolate liqueur. I really like this. But it's something I will *only* wear in the cooler weather. It's very warm, cozy and photorealistic. I think this would layer really nicely with a cherry fragrance too.

It smells like one of those hot cocoa powders, with a bit of praline or toffee added to it, for some reason my skin makes some herbal notes come out as well but barely. On my husband it smells like a nice wonderful hot slightly sweet cocoa, love it on him. If you want photo-realistic hot cocoa powder this comes extremely close or even becomes 100% that on certain whiffs.

Big tip and advice if you want the photorealism to come out more: don't wear a lot of it, less of it goes a long way to give a better more realistic hot cocoa scent, it is strong enough to radiate from an arms length and lasts a good deal of time on the skin. If you add too much of it, it will become overpowering (very chocolate liquor/coffee type scent) along with other notes, losing that rich sweet smooth photorealistic cocoa scent at the top notes and initial middle notes.

Something unique an amazing about this scent is it actually - feels - like inhaling or smelling hot cocoa powder (like Nesquick or similar), like - physically - it feels like the sweet chocolate powder goes up in my nose which is crazy and amazing that a perfume can do that.

Linear scent of cocoa absolute that overpowered all the other notes

Just received my sample today. Unfortunately, the initial blast of strong dark chocolate lasts maybe 5 minutes then it mellows quite a bit. I could then smell the coffee, hazelnut, & praline come through very slightly. Turned into a vanilla skin scent quickly with just a hint of chocolate. Pleasant & inoffensive! Will continue to wear my sample so I can better decide if I want a fb!

Update: Woke up this morning & could still lightly smell this on my wrist, so that chocolate note is much stronger than I initially thought!

chocolate, coffee, chocolate liqueur, hickory smoke, coco puffs chocolate cereal

Medium projection, 4-5 hours

I received a batch of samples yesterday, and tried out Over the Chocolate Shop this morning. I bought this one because there are a couple notes in common with my much-adored Black Velvet Cafe (also by 4160 Tuesdays). This is in no way a substitute for BVC. OTCS has a bitter-ish, nutty feel, due to the dark chocolate, coffee, and hazelnut. (Or filberts, as we Oregon natives call them!) But OTCS is a much sweeter, less low-pitched perfume than BVC is. I am troubled by the Iso E Super, though. I can smell it sometimes, and other times I can't, and I've only had this perfume on for less than 30 minutes. I sprayed 3 sprays from a sprayer vial. I mostly just smell the chocolate by this point (it's definitely dark chocolate with frosting, as another reviewer aptly stated), but I feel like my sometimes-inability to smell iso e super is preventing me from really fully smelling this perfume. I had this same experience with the iso e super base of Captured by Candlelight. I feel like neither perfume ever develop beyond a certain point, due to my inability to keep up, so to speak. I think my nose was so overwhelmed with aromachemicals in both this and CBC, that I just couldn't fully experience them. I am thinking I'll spray some more, but I shouldn't have to put my nose directly onto my wrist in order to smell 3 sprays from a half hour ago. And I bet my family can smell me, although I can't smell myself very much. I imagine I'll use up my sample quickly, and not repurchase. I don't think it smells unpleasant, and I'm really glad to have finally had a chance to sniff this one. But I love Black Velvet Cafe, Eau My Soul, and even The Dark Heart Of Old Havana more.

Can’t say that this reminds me of any chocolate shops where I’m from in the Midwest, maybe in the UK. I found it unpleasant. Great title though. I lived over an ice cream shop called Graeter’s once and they sold chocolates too. Their dark chocolate chunk ice creams were to die for.

The coffee note gives this a horrible cigarette bud smell, it’s so strong it overpowers the chocolate

i ended up disliking this over time because of the damned cherry, at first my sample went over the cherry start quickly and turned into decadent milk chocolate, but now all i smell is this common cherry aroma they flavor teas, candy, candles etc. with. the cherry in here is to add maturity, i guess, a sort of booziness, but i hate it, it's misleading.

this doesn't give chocolate shop to me bc it lacks the raw fruitiness of roasting cacao that is present in good chocolate makers. kind of powdery/vanilla, semisweet. bouncy and hershey's shiny/bendy.

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It smells like a bitter coffee chocolate tootsie roll. It doesn’t smell like a European chocolate shop. Kind of musky and bitter. A little dirty smelling. Powdery musky sweet vanilla dry down.

7/10-it’s okay, mocha,
no hazelnuts

Sounds like a mix of Black Phantom and Musc Maori.

Strong cocoa, coffee and praline. I wish the coffee was a bit more subtle though to let the nuttiness shine through more. 4160 tuesdays does well with gourmands that aren't too sickly sweet. Lasted ages on my skin, vanilla comes through more on dry down but I didn't find I lost the cocoa, coffee and nutty notes as some reviewers found.

Lovely coffee and chocolate powder for about 2 minutes, then it turns into a barely-there vanilla skin scent, as I'm finding that everything from 4160 Tuesdays does.

You know, it’s possible in my old age I am becoming less rigid, and more flexible in expanding my horizons when it comes to my former hard-passes. Over time I had come to believe that I was just not a gourmand kind of gal. So maybe I’m just running into some really well-executed compositions, full of thoughtful nuance and all kinds of interesting facets…or maybe my tastes are changing all together. Does it matter? It’s good to keep yourself open to stuff, at any rate, so either way, it’s not a bad thing. Over The Chocolate Shop by 4160Tuesdays is, at first, basically a cake straight to the face, bittersweet dark chocolate crumbs on your chin, rich, creamy milk chocolate frosting right up the ol’ schnozerino. But after a moment or two, there’s more to it. Now, this is gonna sound gross, but there’s a certain…scatological element that I am picking up on. I don’t know how else to say it I don’t want to think about it too much but there’s definitely an indolic something or other that makes this cocoa less delicious and more funky and weird. And I’ll be honest, that’s one of the reasons I like the scent. There’s nothing like that listed in the notes, though, so I’m not sure what I am smelling. There’s also a sort of Escentric Molecules velvet woodsy sandalwood/cedar undercurrent to the fragrance, which is really pleasantly elegant and understated, especially next to something so decadent as all that chocolate. So if the idea of a bottomless chocolate buffet + a mysterious and inexplicable poopy element + a squirt of ISO E Super rings your bells (and I mean you know why wouldn’t it) then this is a definite must.

Imagine walking into a Coffee shop and inhaling the sweet and bitter aromas of cocoa and coffee beans....fmmmm....ahhhh!! 😍😍😍

Bittersweet dark chocolates with dry cocoa powder. Not very sweet, not very milky, just the right amount of everything. Simply delicious and delightful. 🍫

This smells like the chocolate coffee beans that I give my hairdresser for Christmas. My husband loves it. I'm a bit less enthralled. It's nice but it doesn't capture me. I guess I'm just not a gourmand person. As much as I sample different gourmand perfumes from different houses, I am left disappointed. I guess this genre is not for me and I have to accept that. I have a few more to go over in the next couple of days so we will see.

Edit: 3/29/22 I forgot to mention in my review yesterday that performance is poor on this, at least for me. I might be a bit "nose blind" to the Aroma chemicals used in this one but all I could smell was the coffee after about an hour in. Not very impressed w/ this line.

Smells just like sweet cocoa powder, which isn't a bad thing by any means. It's not over powering and subtle enough to be wearable. It's not overly powdery so don't let that scare you away. If you're looking for a chocolate fragrance this is a good one to sample to see if it suits you.

Smoke and coffee beans. I have a bag of dark chocolate flavored coffee beans that I'm going through, and this smells like when I open that bag of beans. Not too sweet at all, I definitely get kind of a powdery cacao vibe from it, but also some smoke. Like yes you could be "over" a chocolate shop, but in reality it's more like you're in a wet alley behind a chocolate or coffee shop in a quaint romanticized European alley. While it's powdery I also get something that gives me a bit of cigarette butt/wet cardboard, or underground cellar? That may not sound like a flattering description, but it really does kind of transport you to a time and place.

I had this on my list to obtain and I was going to blind buy it since it's not expensive. I then decided I need to be more selective in my acquiring bottles and purchased a decant instead. I feel like the chocolate in this must have fallen into a pile a fresh garden soil. The chcolate in here is dark, damp and dirrrttty so I am shocked that patchouli isn't listed as a note. Do I like this? Yes, I do but I feel like " Under" the Chocolate Shop would have been more fitting of a name. The scent does warm up quite a bit on he skin but it never becomes decandant to me. I am tempted to put this on my husband's skin as I wonder what it would be on a man. If you are a lover of chocolate scents then you need to have this in your collection because it is very realistic yet still imaginitave.

I fucking love this perfume! It smells exactly like cocoa powder, think Nesquik or Ovaltine. It's pretty single note, nothing else going on, but the powder and sweet and true, basic chocolate smell is spot on. I mix it with other spicy or masculine scents to create soft, unisex scents. It's NOT too sweet. It's perfect.

Finally a real milk chocolate scent! I’m so fed up of the bitter chocolate and coffee note, it’s so lovely to find one with enough vanilla and hazelnut to turn it into a milk chocolate praline scent. Wonderful, although maybe not for a full day! This one I spray on one wrist, just for me…
This is just chocolate to me, but I can’t smell iso-e super or ambroxan so if there is any of that in here I totally miss it.

I came back to edit my review because I've just discovered that this smells amazing on my fiancé! There's something about his skin chemistry that sweetens it and brings out the vanilla. I said before that on me it smells like a dirty, overused coffee machine, which was why I gave it a bad review. Well, now I like it because I love smelling it on him!

Delightful, woodsy, nutty chocolate. Opens as a realistic Snickers candy bar and settles into a more grown-up gourmand. The woods really make it wearable and the dark undercurrent balances the sweetness. I get about 6 hours wear time. Perfectly unisex if you're into woody chocolate.

Review of full bottle purchased after sampling.

NOTE
The sample from LuckyScent.com only gave me 2-3 hours and was lighter with more vanilla so I was unsure if it was worth picking-up but the full bottle, (bought directly from 4160 Tuesdays website), has atleast twice the lasting power so I'm satisfied.

Full bottle also keeps it's darker scent story overtime. Even though it has no cherry note, I think that "Black Forest" would be a better fitting name for this frag. It wears as a dark cocoa and woods scent for most of it's time.

This is gorgeous. This is gourmand done the right way IMO. It's sweet and delectable without being too foody or cloying. It is chocolate and coffee without a doubt but to my nose it always reminds me of Guerlains Angelique Noire too. For some reason I relate the Angelica note in AN to a softer accord in OTCS, even tho Angelica is not listed. It's a softer intimate chocolate powdery scent with the dark roasted coffee lifting it all. Maybe it's the vanilla I am thinking of as in AN, (thinking aloud at this point) They are not copies of one another by any means just maybe like distant cousins.
Some complain of sillage but I find if I overspray and spray on my clothes I can get whiffs of it all day.
Safe blind buy if you love Angelique Noire🥰

This is rich and decadent but not sweet. Opening is a dark chocolate. A lot of the darkness comes from the coffee which is paired with the chocolate. It is opulent pairing, so lovely on a fall day. As the scent dries down, I’m getting a woodsy vibe. I know wood notes are not listed but the effect created by the overall blend is that.

At points during the dry down, I’m transported. You know the morning after you go camping, the camp fire has a very specific aroma, right? Like, burned wood, warmth, cooled by night and misty air, and again that very specific freshly burned, deep, woodsy smell. Periodically during my wear of Over the Chocolate Shop, I get that vibe. Maybe because the nuts are roasted or there is a smoky effect? Anyway, seconds later, I’m back to the coffee/chocolate pairing. I get ebbs and flows between these two aroma profiles as I wear OTCS. Magical.

Another thing I love about this scent is how natural it is. I’ve tried other chocolate scents but they often come off synthetic. Not this one.

Full bottle worthy.

Shokolit Chocolate Powder.

The smells EXACTLY like a kid's hot-chocolate mix they have in Israel called שוקולית. I used to have it all the time when I was young so it's hard to smell this for what it is, but here goes; Powdery dusty cocoa with white sugar and some nut-like facets. The cocoa here isn't dark at all, it's very reminiscent of hot chocolate where they put in too much milk so it's very light? but the cocoa is still super rich!! The sugar here is vanillic and the vanilla itself comes out way more in the dry-down. Lastly there's something nutty here that's *mostly* the hazelnut and it plays on top of the cocoa so so well.

It's hard to give an unbiased review since this scent is so deeply ingrained in my nostalgia but this a great gourmand. Sweet hot chocolate in perfume form. Try it out!

Over the Chocolate shop?

Well, more like over the mocha cafe latte shop. ☕️ It is very much strong coffee with chocolate drizzle and woody sweet cedar (isoEsuper) scent. I get the roasted hazelnuts in this too. Gets more chocolatey nutty as it wears, but never loose the coffee and isoEsuper cedar notes. Very long lasting. VERY. 12 plus hours.

I love it.

This is not melted chocolate on skin, so if you are looking for just chocolate, you have been warned to test first.


Quite reminiscent of Akro Awake, which I love.

This scent opens with a dry cacao and chocolate aroma you get when you open a bag of chocolate flavoured cereal or a tin of cacao powder. A light sweetness comes up to greet you but you're reminded that you're an adult by the strong coffee accord that appears within the first 10 minutes. The coffee note is very realistic, smoky with a bite like a freshly made cup of espresso, but not as rich as the coffee note found in Akro Awake. Speaking of the latter fragrance, it does not bear much resemblance to Over the Chocolate Shop, as the Sarah McCartney creation is much more dry and bitter, where the Olivier Cresp creation is much sweeter and creamier.

Upon the dry down, the cacao powder takes a back seat and coffee begins to dominate the scent but on my skin, becoming stronger and stronger until it eventually turns too bitter for me to enjoy. While it is very long lasting, it isnt quite the type of chocolate scent that I am looking for, and so the hunt for the perfect chocolate scent continues!

I love anything Chocolatey. This is a very dry dusty cocoa powder compared to most. I see it got a lot of votes for smelling like Oui Plus, I think they are very different. It may just be b/c of the dryness this one exudes, & Oui Plus is very sweet, I adore that one. I can see where many people think they smell alike. I have the nose of a hound dog. I would choose Oui Plus over this, for me.

I don't have the most refined, experienced nose on the block. However, here I smell something chocolatey and vanillic with maybe musk, even though musk is not in the notes. Of the four new (to me) samples I tested tonight, I think this is my favorite. (The others were Xerjoff Lira, Hilde Soliani Buonissimo, and Montale Chocolate Greedy). It could be that my impression of Over the Chocolate Shop is being somewhat altered by comparing it with the other three. Overall, this impresses me as vanilla first and chocolate second, anchored by something a little deeper or musky or woody. I don't get any coffee or hazelnut or praline. To me, it is quite sweet. It is lovely, but steer clear if you don't like sweet perfumes.

Nice fragrance! I called it before I looked at the notes. Nutella like with coffee. Well balanced. Drydown is similar to opening a packet of hot cocoa. Very nice.

Very simple and liner but very delicious. Chocolate that's enticing but not cloying. A sprinkle of hazelnut for warmth. lasted about 7 hours then turned into a skin scent.

Beautiful dry chocolate. A must try if you're looking for a good chocolate scent. I believe there is a smidge of Iso E but it doesn't overwhelm or distract.

SWEET cup of chocolate like what you get in Spain with your churros. A chocolate pudding. Strong and lovely similar to En Voyage without the boozy quality and a little floral note.

I love the way this smells on my skin. It smells like smoky cedar and chocolate. Projection is soft and the longevity is moderate. Great fragrance.

Over the Chocolate Shop reminds of a spiced Hot Mocha that you'd be drinking by the Fireplace in a cute Cottage somewhere in the woods.☕🍫

The notes that I can smell predominantly are: Cacao & Coffee.

When the perfume dries down, you'll get the vanilla ever so slightly. Gorgeous!

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I really enjoy the relative simplicity of this perfume. I have trouble with a lot of gourmand perfumes because the vanilla (often) causes them to have a sickly sweet smell to me, and some dry down too powdery. This has none of the sweetness. It's dark roasted coffee and an 80% chocolate bar. After a bit it settles into a tobacco-y scent because of the mix of the nuts, coffee, and vanilla.

I think this would also be fun to put as a base layer to a fruity scent (Blackbird by Olympic Orchids, especially, I'm thinking) for a mature chocolate-covered berry air.

Very cloying and linear. The cacao and coffee notes are equally strong. This combination creates the illusion of a tobacco note and gave me a headache. Perfect for fall and winter, leans feminine. Moderate sillage and longevity.

I am a big fan of gourmand fragrances - especially chocolate! On my skin, it is bitter, dark and even smokey. But then when I breathe in all the way, it gives sweetness of vanilla and milk chocolate. I like it a lot, but not 'love' because of the overpowering bitterness.

---- I would like to add a couple of things from my previous review. I think this fragrance is quite versatile. Today is a bit warmer (it was 7°C yesterday and today is 15) and I get more sweetness, vanilla and milk chocolate from this. I still get bitterness of dark chocolate, but it is not overpowering. It blends really well with sweet and creamy vanilla. I LOVE THIS!

It starts off with boozy cocoa and vanilla and full of promise. Lovely transitions but does not last long enough in it's various phases. Very pleasing fragrance that could use some tweaking to become a blockbuster and memorable fragrance.
As a postscipt, I layered this with the tiniest bit of Patouchill Intense (Parfums de Nicoli) and now I am happy. Gave it depth and staying power.

If you are a coffee or chocolate lover you NEED this in your life :)

The dry down is soft and lovely.

Not sweet, but gourmand.

Sarah mcartney is very clever!

opens with an ooze of booze, like a chocolate liquor of the best kind; then dries up into pure cocoa delight.
I wear it to bed after moisturizing with Palmer's cocoa butter and I feel so good I could eat myself up. If you use Palmer's cocoa lotions, buy a full bottle of this blindly right effing now and thank me later.

This is a milk chocolate, as opposed to dark. It has none of the bitterness you expect from dark cocoa, it's a light and milky chocolate.

It's powdery and dry in the coarse and grainy sense, reminding me of Iso E super, with its woody facets. I attribute this to the hazelnut, as I have noticed it behaves in similar ways in other gourmands, for example Praline de Santal. It also reminds me of the same dryness in Jeux de Peau and Bois Farine.

The coffee note sure is there, but it's hard to separate its naturally dry, coarse, warm and chocolatey aspects from the rest of the composition. It takes a secondary and supporting role, and is well rounded. I imagine there could be the smallest trace of tobacco somewhere, but maybe I'm reaching.

It has just the tiniest hint of some kind of kick, some spice, which could very well just be the nature of the cocoa.

Overall, a dry chocolate milk powder.

I'm very happy to find a gourmand this literal and with a real gourmand aura - no earthy patchouli or vanilla or any other figurative chocolate - this is the real deal. Highly recommend. I even reach for this more than my signature chocolate Oui Plus, that is a whole other deal - it's big on the graham cracker and is waxier. Anyway, you CAN'T miss this if you're a chocolate fan.

I got a sample of this fragrance and i love it. It's COCOA powder, chocolate and a hint of vanilla, that's it. ❤❤

The opening of this fragrance is the most realistic chocolate I have ever smelled. Like opening a canister of dark cocoa powder. Not sticky or creamy, rather dry and dark. Not very sweet and I think that is why it is very unisex. I actually quite like it. I wish the opening lasted longer because the dry down seems to take a bit of a sour turn. I still enjoy it but it is definitely a different scent than when I first applied. If you enjoy gourmand fragrances, I highly recommend trying this.

This is a nice one! I'm not necessarily a super gourmand lover, but when I want to smell something just for myself and enjoy on a relaxed, rainy day at home I'm into the foodier smells. This is a great example of something foody but not sickly. There is a definite dryness to the chocolate. There also feels like a note of amber at the backend that keeps it from smelling JUST like an opened milk chocolate bar.

It isn't bitter, it isn't deep, it isn't vanilla-y or cakey, or creamy - it is more or less sweet chocolate as a fragrance. I'd love this as a candle! It isn't the sort of thing I'd wear day to day, but it is a relaxing and well interpreted scent. If you love chocolate fragrances I can't see how you could go wrong with this one - and since it is a bit simple, I think it would be lovely to layer.

It seems the secret to preventing a good gourmand from turning the corner into “cloying” is dryness, and this fantastic beast might as well be astronaut food because it has dryness in heaps. Delicious and wonderful.

Thanks to my frangrantica swap partner, I’m finally able to sample Over the Chocolate Shop, a scent I have beeen curious about for months. Without looking at the notes I pick up unsweetened chocolate leading into an incense drydown. Looking at the notes, I realize that’s most likely a Tabacco note combined with vanilla.

Yum. I like it. Over the Chocolate Shop feels like a comfortable weekend “hanging out at home” scent. It’s still cool weather in the PNW, I imagine this works best in Fall.

Stars with a blast of rich but DRY cocoa powder (the kind used in baking). This fades down into a less powdery and dry cocoa scent, where the vanilla begins to peek through. Unfortunately, the performance of this scent on my skin is fairly weak. It doesn't project off of me at all. Despite the other notes listed, I really only smell the cocoa powder.

Straight up brownie batter , yuck

It smells like a chocolate flavored cigar. I don't like it due to that cigar/ tobacco scent.

Smells like chocolate box-cake mix batter, all stirred up, chewy, and ready to pop into the oven. Freaking love it!

Smelling this, I can picture the Galaxy advertisements with rich, thick, milky chocolate swirling across the screen. Tooth-achingly DELECTABLE!

Queen of chocolate fragrances. It's stunning. Try layering Indult Tihota with it. Dreamy.

This has to be one of the best chocolate scents there is! its a milky creamy yummy chocolate, sweet and delicious! not bitter or dark! love wearing it and will get a bottle very soon! 9/10

4160 Tuesdays Over the Chocolate Shop is perhaps the best-advertised of Sarah McCartney's numerous gourmand or near-gourmand fragrances, so with a month of anticipation, I had high hopes upon receiving my sample and giving it a first try.

The note listing is humbly small, a simple-ish nod to gourmand lovers like myself: only cocoa butter, the nuts of praline and hazelnut, coffee, and vanilla.

Fittingly, the chocolate takes center stage from the onset, not a more familiar dense semi-dark chocolate but rather, almost exactly as another has put it, like milk chocolate cocoa powder, somehow at the very intersection of sweet and dry. It's plenty sweet but not over the top, and the sharpness of the cocoa powder is somehow there. Another similar analogous experience is the smell of a milk chocolate bar when first being unwrapped. A brilliant capture by Sarah.

The praline/hazelnut mix starts to emerge in the background quickly after application. Hazelnut alone is more familiar, and I like to think I would've pointed it out without knowing about it ahead of time, but the addition of praline makes for a more nuanced and alien blend, albeit very desirable and certainly not taking much away from the cocoa-dominance of the fragrance.

I can't really pick out the coffee and vanilla individually but certainly they could, respectively, enhance the sharp and sweet touches of the fragrance.

Overall, I'm delighted that Over the Chocolate Shop gives me something new, slightly unexpected, and not just a near-copy of another chocolatey gourmand I've smelled before.

The "dry cocoa powder" aspect of it makes it unique among the chocolate fragrances I've smelled, and as often, I'm impressed by how polished the finished product is.

It's definitely a standout entry in the 4160 Tuesdays lineup and an all-star gourmand, a must-try for gourmand lovers, especially lovers of cocoa.

In addition, it performs very, very well, I dare say exceptionally, even among other similar cold-weather-leaning fragrances in the house that are generally strong, its dark juice selling its strength fairly convincingly. Its boastful projection of a few feet for at least a couple hours followed by a good scent cloud thereafter, suggests high value.

Fortunately, the pricing is rather in line with most of her offerings, at $110 for 50ml, and is sold in the US at Luckyscent.

In conclusion, I'm dazzled. Over the Chocolate Shop is a fragrance that I smell and want to keep smelling over and over again, among my favorite of Sarah's creations. Bravo!

8 out of 10

I get a thick chocolate. It is pretty much all chocolate on my skin and I love it. I think this will be great alone and layered with other fragrances. There is also a underlying softness that I appreciate.

Very rich and dense, like biting into a darker, more amped up Ferrero Rocher. Not terribly complex, just migraine inducing chocolate for hours on end.

Should rename it, 'Death by Chocolate'.

Creamy, sweet delicious chocolate! Incredibly luscious like swimming in a pool of melted chocolate. All the notes combined just gives a totally edible concoction. If you want chocolate, this might be the ultimate!