Color:	medium dark brown cast in cool violet
Surface:	soft brush
Temper:	matte
Snap:	heavy basso; cliffs of Dover on the edge-wall

regal & reserved: light wood-inflected chocolate (white cedar, cascarilla) around concentrated fruit center (peachy & litchi w/ a beautiful headnote of perfumed woodruff blossom & ylang) -> aerates into mingled herbs/spices (slight vetiver, bay laurel)

Texture:	sizable; takes its lumps & clumps in massive doses
Melt:	staggered / ponderous

caramellow rolls into grapefruit mist then langsat sprays -> chocolate w/ background mushrooms (pixie rings of mycelia fungal threads getting down & dirty on grass) & spices (cardamom, clove & cinnamon) -> stone-ground cocoa w/ gotu kola nuts, sassafras, vanilla, & mace -> walnut brownie (slightly ashen) + choc frosting -> clears away w/ sorrel & dandelion greens

Good blueprint of a blend; well-constructed if a bit too sequential rather than seamlessly integrated, as well as overly-articulated on the Carenero. Could’ve favored a little more Madagascar upfront & Ocumare (detected toward the brownie ending) for wider range.

Once past that stripped Madagascar fruit-tease, the length grows progressively thicker, heavier, & dimmer as Venzy takes over the profile (mostly in the guise of spice-racked Carenero that feels artificially-flavored ala Soma’s Dark Fire).

Leave it up to Ghana then to provide the chocolate base that miters it all together.

ING: cocoa mass, sugar, cacáo butter

Reviewed Autumn 2009