Disabling autocomplete in <textarea> in Chrome

Question

Has anyone found a way to achieve this? I tried adding autocomplete="off"to my <textarea>and my <form>, but to no avail. Google Chrome continues to offer me addresses in one of my text fields:

<div class="col-md-12">
    <div class="row">
        <label class="col-md-4">Permanent Address</label>
        <div class="col-md-8">
            <textarea class="form-control"></textarea>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

The only thing I can find on the Internet is how to stop Google from autofilling usernames / passwords, but has nothing to do with the elements <textarea>