03/01/2022
Landshark321
522 Reviews
Landshark321
2
Edgy and sweet coffee with booze, tobacco
Sampling Strangers Parfumerie Roasted Coffee Cigarette Whisky Come and get your Suede Honey Baby, generally shortened to just “Roasted Coffee.” Its long name is a helpful descriptor, as the fragrance does start out with a hefty dose of dark, roasted coffee, followed by an emergency of whiskey, and a further dry down into a blend of a few other notes—most notably, tobacco, hay, musk, and what, to me, has a bit of a makeup/lipstick sort of quality. So there’s a little funk from the hay, a bit of cosmetics, but a strong center of coffee, booze, and tobacco, making for a provocative blend that nonetheless has some familiar, comforting points.
Comparison-wise, I find connections to both both Kerosene Follow (the coffee gold standard, featuring a blend of dark coffee, amber, and vanilla) and 4160 Tuesdays Take Me to the River (a bit of a rock and roll mix of rose, leather, wine, and tobacco).
Roasted Coffee is a bit of a rock and roll coffee scent with some pep, less the woody/spicy coffee blend that SM Café is, and less the more sugary Caffeine Honey. This is a great scent, even though I’d still say that Caffeine Honey is my favorite of the three, but together, they’re a great coffee variety within one house, and I would happily own bottles of all three if money were no object.
Roasted Coffee is in extrait de parfum concentration and is priced at $110 for 30ml, which seems to the current standard pricing for extrait, vs. $80 for 30ml for EDP (scents seem to be made in one concentration or the other, not both). It is sold online at Luckyscent and Indiescents.
8 out of 10
Comparison-wise, I find connections to both both Kerosene Follow (the coffee gold standard, featuring a blend of dark coffee, amber, and vanilla) and 4160 Tuesdays Take Me to the River (a bit of a rock and roll mix of rose, leather, wine, and tobacco).
Roasted Coffee is a bit of a rock and roll coffee scent with some pep, less the woody/spicy coffee blend that SM Café is, and less the more sugary Caffeine Honey. This is a great scent, even though I’d still say that Caffeine Honey is my favorite of the three, but together, they’re a great coffee variety within one house, and I would happily own bottles of all three if money were no object.
Roasted Coffee is in extrait de parfum concentration and is priced at $110 for 30ml, which seems to the current standard pricing for extrait, vs. $80 for 30ml for EDP (scents seem to be made in one concentration or the other, not both). It is sold online at Luckyscent and Indiescents.
8 out of 10
