Room 1015 Kokoa Bang Eau de Parfum

Room 1015 Kokoa Bang is a cocoa fragrance built on rosé champagne, pear and magnolia over vanilla, tonka and myrrh. It was composed by Jérôme di Marino, launched in 2026, and is sold as a 100 ml eau de parfum. Fragrantica classes it as an oriental vanilla and rates it 4.10 out of 5. The house's own line is blunt: this is not a gourmand, it is a mood.

What It Smells Like

Kokoa Bang opens with a fizz. A rosé champagne accord leads — dry, sparkling, faintly yeasty — with pear and lemon beside it, and the effect is bright and celebratory rather than sweet. It is an unusually light opening for a fragrance whose subject is chocolate.

The heart is where the cocoa arrives, and it is handled as a material rather than a dessert. Cacao here is bitter and dusty, closer to raw powder than to a bar, with magnolia giving it a creamy floral lift and Mugane underneath. Mugane is a captive woody material — an ingredient developed and owned by a single fragrance house — dry and faintly milky, and it gives the cocoa a wood grain to sit on so the accord never collapses into sweetness.

The base is warm and resinous: vanilla, tonka bean, Siam benzoin and myrrh. Benzoin is sweet and balsamic, myrrh dry and bitter, and the two together hold the vanilla in tension so the drydown stays interesting rather than comfortable.

Fragrantica's community ranks the accords amber first at full weight, then vanilla at 98 and warm spicy at 97, with cacao and sweet level at 85, fruity at 57 and floral at 40. It is rated 4.10 out of 5 there from 31 votes. The house lists the formula as vegan and describes the intensity as medium.

Who Made It

Kokoa Bang was composed by Jérôme di Marino, the perfumer behind most of the Room 1015 range and the closest thing the house has to a resident nose.

The brief, as the house tells it, was the creative conversation between a perfumer and a creative director — the moment an idea turns into a formula. That is a conceit rather than a note list, but it does explain the champagne at the top: the fragrance is built around a spark rather than around chocolate.

Who It's For

For people who want a cacao fragrance that is not a dessert. The bitter treatment of the cocoa and the dry myrrh underneath put this closer to an amber than to a gourmand, which is exactly what the house claims for it.

It suits wearers who already like warm, resinous ambers and want something with a sweeter face, and anyone curious about chocolate in perfumery who has been put off by the sugary versions. If you want a straightforward sweet cocoa, this will read as too dry.

Unisex — the house describes the formula as genderless and Fragrantica files it for women and men.

When To Wear It

Cold weather. Fragrantica's seasonal voting puts autumn first and winter second, and the benzoin, myrrh and vanilla all gain from cool air.

Day or evening both work, with the votes leaning slightly to day. The house calls the intensity medium, which matches how it wears: present without dominating a room, and long-lasting from the 100 ml bottle.

About The House

Room 1015 is a Paris house named for the Continental Hyatt House room where Led Zeppelin stayed on tour, and its whole identity is built on rock-and-roll mythology — Hollyrose, Electric Wood, Cherry Punk, Wavechild. The bottles are faceted and jewel-toned, and the range is vegan.

Kokoa Bang is a 2026 release and one of the warmer things the house has made. Browse the rest of the range in the Room 1015 collection at Redolia.

Updated October 2026