Chocovan

What Chocovan smells like

Fraterworks describes Givaudan's Chocovan as a powerful powdered-chocolate profile that is surprisingly versatile: traces add a natural powderiness to orris accords, it blends with resins for oriental forms, and it pairs with coffee, hazelnut and lactones in creamy dessert accords. It advises working from a 10% dilution. The Good Scents Company lists it as a rich cocoa note over a warm vanillic background.

Leading note

Cocoa powder

Supporting facets

Powdery

Character

Powerful

• chocolate
• cocoa powder
• powdery

What makes Chocovan distinctive

Powdered chocolate that also gives orris accords a natural powderiness, in Fraterworks' description.

How Chocovan is used

Used in chocolate and dessert accords, and in traces to add powderiness to orris accords.

Typical role: modifier (used in small amounts to change the character of a blend).

How Chocovan differs from similar materials

5-Methyl-2-phenyl-2-hexenal

5-Methyl-2-phenyl-2-hexenal is one aldehyde that smells of cocoa powder; Chocovan is a whole powdered-chocolate base with a vanillic warmth.

Each difference compares the published descriptions of the two materials. Smell varies with grade, supplier and dilution; compare them side by side on blotters before substituting one for another.

Formulation considerations

A proprietary mixture: its maker does not publish what it contains.

Identity and classification

Type

Specialty base

Origin

Composition not published

Odour family

Gourmand / Powdery

Note position

Heart to base note

Physical form at room temperature

Liquid

No CAS number is shown: Chocovan is a proprietary blend, and a blend has no registry number of its own. Its maker does not publish its composition, so none is given here.

Safety and compliance

This page is general information, not a safety assessment or a specification. Confirm identity, composition, IFRA status and allergen content from your supplier's documents for the lot you hold.

Materials it works with

• Cacao Absolute

  Absolute · Gourmand — chocolate, cocoa, roasted, bitter

• Filbertone

  Aroma chemical · Gourmand — hazelnut, nutty, metallic, buttery

• Vanillin

  Aroma chemical · Gourmand / Amber — vanilla, sweet, creamy

Used in formulas and accords

Used in 3 published formulas

Chocovan is an ingredient in 2 perfume formulas and 1 accord in the Formula & Accord Library.

Community formulas

• Chocolate Accord

  Community Formula · Accord · listed as “CHOCOVAN AB 7244C”

RUŌOD House Originals

Original compositions by RUŌOD House.

• Cocoa Moss

  RUŌOD House Original

• Praline Smoke

  RUŌOD House Original

Further reading

• Building a Gourmand Accord: Vanilla, Caramel and Beyond

  The materials of gourmand perfume — vanillin, ethyl maltol, coumarin, lactones, roasted notes — how to keep them wearable, and color and crystal problems.

Questions about Chocovan

Sources

• Fraterworks — Chocovan — distributor's description.
• The Good Scents Company — Chocovan (Givaudan) — odour database.
• Olfactory profile: the RUŌOD Lab team's synthesis of the published descriptions above, reviewed 26 October 2026. Evidence: more than one published description. Classification and the short description: revision 1. Descriptions of odour are judgement, not measurement.