The Story
Why it exists.
The beginning
Hazel Split is Snif doing what it does best, taking a familiar comfort and turning it into something you want to wear. Named after the classic ice cream sundae, the fragrance translates that combo of chocolate, hazelnut, and banana into a wearable scent. Perfumer Patricia Choux built it from the ground up around those food-inspired notes, cocoa and Nutella leading, banana adding a fresh-fruit brightness, coconut softening everything into something tropical and warm. It launched in 2025 as part of The Pancake Collection, Snif's lineup of playful, dessert-coded fragrances that read like a menu and smell like a treat.
What makes Hazel Split interesting isn't any single note, it's the combination. Cocoa and Nutella are both chocolate-adjacent, but they bring different textures: the powdery depth of cocoa against the sticky-sweet spread of hazelnut. Banana bridges them, adding a fruity freshness that keeps the whole thing from collapsing into pure sugar. The coconut doesn't add flavor so much as it adds air, a soft, tropical roundness that stops the composition from getting too heavy. It's a dessert fragrance that actually smells edible rather than just sweet, and that's a narrower lane than it sounds.
The evolution
The opening hits fast and sweet, Nutella and cocoa arriving together, dense and immediate. The banana shows up in the first minute, bright and almost green against the chocolate, then retreats as the coconut swells. By the midpoint, the composition has softened into something creamier, the sharp sweetness rounding into a warmer register. The drydown is where Snif's clean oils show up, amberwood and musk settling close to the skin, adding a subtle woodiness that keeps the chocolate from going flat. On paper, the evolution reads straightforward. On skin, the banana note can ghost, present for some, nearly absent for others. The drydown tends toward a sweet skin-musk that some wearers describe as Tootsie Roll-adjacent, and a few report the coconut leaning slightly synthetic in the final hours. Lasts most of a workday on most skin, though dry skin can cut that short.
Cultural impact
Snif built its audience by making gourmand fun again, taking notes like pancake, cookie dough, and banana split and treating them as valid perfume territory. Hazel Split lands in that lineage, leaning into the dessert-inspired naming and accessible positioning that first put Snif on the map. The brand's whole angle is anti-gatekeeping: no obscure ingredient lists, no stuffy marketing, no exclusionary pricing. Hazel Split is Snif doing exactly what it said it would do, taking something familiar and making it worth wearing.
