Color:	murky brown
Surface:	a schlub
Temper:	absorbent
Snap:	thrumping crunch

aromatically challenged (closed fig & fennel struggle to escape cocoa-cobwebs) that areates to anything but: almond synergizing huge plumes of pepper spray & caraway

Texture:	dry bits & pips
Melt:	fractured & gummy

spiced fig -> fennel w/ slight lemon underpin -> almond contributes bittersweet edge -> dulled chocolate fig -> fuses up wine-grape raisin-goo; chillin eucalyptus mint the after-length

Where Theo’s boxed chocolate version of this comes off as signature material, alchemizing a psychological curry, this bar format underwhelms. Shades & degrees of difference between the elements nearly minimal, a sign of both seamless construction & over-complementarity, where every flavor accent feels incorporated, hence stifled.

ING: cocoa beans, sugar, cacáo butter, almonds, figs, fennel