MONTALE Intense Café Eau de Parfum 100 ml

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Sillage and durability are also top! Sprayed on at noon, I could still guess him in the morning the next day :-) But how does Intense Café actually smell? Well, to put it simply, it is a sweet, vanillic, coffee-infused gourmand rose fragrance. And if you don’t know what a gourmand fragrance is – don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. As far as gender goes, I think this fragrance is perfectly unisex, but the sad aversion most men have towards rose fragrances will probably make most people skew this towards the feminine end of the spectrum. And it’s definitely true that I would want to devour any woman wearing Intense Café with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

Since its founding in 2003, French niche fragrance brand Montale has established itself as one of the most popular and successful niche producers in the industry.

The bottle for Intense Café is pretty nice. In terms of color, it’s a dark, rich purple (older bottles were coffee brown, but that is no longer the case) with gold accents. The name of the fragrance is printed in a little box at the bottom of the bottle, and the name “Montale Paris” is printed in gold in the middle. So: different than expected, but after testing the fragrance and wearing it several times, it will definitely be on my wish list, just the association of the cosiness I get with this fragrance because of the café atmosphere is enough for me to buy this perfume as a work of art in itself.

The value for money for Intense Café is pretty good, similarly positioned to other niche fragrances at retail.

The cozy nature of the scent makes it seem perfectly apropos for the cold, dark seasons where all you want to do is pull on a warm sweater and curl up with a cup of coffee and a nice book.

Sto se silaze tice ova parfemcina je toliko jaka da moze da vrati pola jugoslovenskih firmi iz stecaja! Kidanje! The opening is a blast of very intense pink, jammy rose, accompanied by somewhat sharp white musk (a hallmark of Montale fragrances) and vanilla. But pretty soon, the sharpness of the opening calms down considerably.

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I now come more specifically to the fragrance: what do I get with Montale intense Café? In the beginning definitely the full blast coffee! But the fragrance continues to evolve :-) the coffee remains consistent with me all the time, but becomes more delicate and it also comes out a wonderful rose (which I actually can not stand) but never becomes too much! No dry stale rose, but rather a rose syrup! The fragrance is in my opinion not too sweet and thus very much unisex, which I can not say of Sensual Instinct so! The is much more feminine for me! But of course everyone should wear what pleases! This is a very, very pleasant fragrance that has gotten me a number of compliments. Unlike Vetiver Patchouli, this is pretty much a crowd pleaser that I think almost anyone could like. Delox by the house of Tiziana Terenzi is also very similar to Intense Café and smells a bit more natural as well, though it is also more expensive.

Roses Vanille from Montale’s sister brand Mancera is also in a similar vein, though Roses Vanille omits the coffee note and is a bit sweeter. First, let it be said that I love Intense Café. It’s one of my favorite rose fragrances. However, as with most Montale scents, it is very, very easy to overapply. If you spray two or three times MAX, you will have a lovely, and still quite strong olfactory experience. If you spray more than that…You had better bring an aspirin with you. Intense Café is an absurdly long-lasting perfume, almost too long-lasting. Two to three sprays will easily last on skin all day or more, and for weeks on clothes. This is the kind of fragrance that lasts through showers and survives even rigorous scrubbing.

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Intense Café is very popular for a niche fragrance and has been around since 2013, so it’s spawned a host of imitators over the years. It's hard to describe... For me an absolute work of art, which you should test on the skin (not on the test strip) and which you have to give several chances, because it gets better every time you wear it... I am in any case very much in love with intense Café and this will probably my autumn and winter fragrance! At the very beginning I feel the coffee, it is present and sweet (actually exactly the way I do NOT want to drink my coffee). After only a few minutes the coffee, in my opinion, has already gone and the sweetness remains, which also brings roses into play.