This smells oddly meaty and sour. Tasting it, it isn't aggressively creamy, but to does have its own perspective. It tastes sort of like chocolate mixed with sour evaporated milk which is not a good outcome. The overly sweet Van Meer's is still obviously overly sweet, but this has a host of other issues. It's a bit sour, which is not a flavor associated with chocolate when it has a cheesy umami sense to it, so the result is an ineffective attempt to combat Van Meer's syrupy sweetness. Compared with Tolon Tolon Chocolate, this is less aggressively bitter and also less spicy. Despite the rotten flavors here this is tastier than Tolon Tolon Chocolate.
This looks more like chocolate than Tolon Tolon Chocolate does: it's way less green. The palate is smoky like a nice campfire with sweetness and creaminess that balance well. The smoke has this odd sort of Ghirardelli quirkiness to it, but it isn't bad. It does taste a bit artificial like Van Meer's does in that regard. It's a reasonable chocolate flavor mixed with kind of sweet smoke and maybe some toasted marshmallows. It's sort of a toasted marshmallow fudge flavor. Has anyone tried such a thing? Tolon Tolon Chocolate has a slightly creamier mouthfeel, but it has these weirdly bitter herbal flavor and some out of place spiciness. Godiva's out of place smoke, on the other hand, is more hedonistic in a fancy sort of way. This fights to be better than Van Meer's Chocolate, but the fact that it's fighting indicates that it is way overpriced.
26.5
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