MONTALE Intense Café Eau de Parfum 100 ml

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I've spent hours now trying to understand how does this smell like 'coffee' to me, and the closest I can come to describe it is: Latte macchiato with a touch of caramel. As others have mentioned, rose plays quite a starring role as well, and again I appreciate the restraint of not making it too sweet.

If you drink a lot of coffee, your breath smells like it, it's not pleasant, I don't think that smelling as if you spilled coffee all over your clothes is pleasant. I love how it starts with a strong dark coffee note (it packs a punch) then smooths out to the most yummy jammy rose. But to me, the coffee note smells more like sweet coffee drink, such as a vanilla latte, than like a fresh brewed cup of black coffee, especially after sampling Atelier Cologne's Cafe Tuberosa.Personally I much prefer this fragrance to Intense Cafe - which in my opinion, is overrated and fades to a weak, rose musk in the matter of minutes. Ristretto Intense Cafe Extrait is nearly identical, but there is a burst of fresh dark coffee beans in the beginning. It is very loud, very sticky sweet, and verrry espresso with extra caramel Torani syrup spilled on a t-shirt sprayed heavily with Mancera Roses Vanille.

If you're on the fence regarding Montale Intense Cafe and Montale Ristretto Intense Cafe, go with Ristretto.This unexpectedly complementary arrangement gives way to a heady sillage of vanilla, amber and white musk. The Eau de Parfum Spray loses nothing of its fascination, which is why it’s so encouraging that Montale uses top-quality ingredients in high concentrations. Later on the vanilla starts to come through as well and it turns into a nice and pleasant scent, nothing particularly interesting, but wearable and pleasant. That said, as the original IC dries down, some of the more feminine aspects tend to ease off as the notes merge and the scent becomes more melded and unisex.