02/28/2022

Landshark321
280 Reviews

Landshark321
1
Dark coffee with a spicy, woody, leathery blend, nicely done
My second sampling from Strangers Parfumerie is SM Café, another coffee-named/laden entry (like Caffeine Honey, which inspired me to look into the brand), except, unlike the very sweet Caffeine Honey with, SM Café is more of a woody, spicy, leathery blend, certainly with some sweetness and coffee, but not so much a gourmand. The woody/spicy aspects are fairly well balanced against the dark coffee, too, with standout notes of leather/suede, cade, lavender, cedar, and resins.
It vaguely reminds me of 4160 Tuesdays Black Velvet Café, but spicier, maybe leaning more toward the leather chairs and spicy foods of the café, rather than the inner oaky ambience. Certainly SM Café offers something for coffee lovers who nonetheless want to stay out of gourmand territory. The sweetness in it is pretty faint. There’s a maraschino cherry note, but to me this only exists in a cherry wood concept that is subtly part of the cedar.
Overall, I think SM Café is very well done, and performs quite well, also, slightly more strongly than Caffeine Honey, and even if CH is a little more my speed, SM Café would be nice to own, I dare say.
SM Café is priced for $80 for 30ml in EDP concentration, and is sold in the US via Luckyscent and Canada via Indiescents, both great sites that ship internationally.
8 out of 10
It vaguely reminds me of 4160 Tuesdays Black Velvet Café, but spicier, maybe leaning more toward the leather chairs and spicy foods of the café, rather than the inner oaky ambience. Certainly SM Café offers something for coffee lovers who nonetheless want to stay out of gourmand territory. The sweetness in it is pretty faint. There’s a maraschino cherry note, but to me this only exists in a cherry wood concept that is subtly part of the cedar.
Overall, I think SM Café is very well done, and performs quite well, also, slightly more strongly than Caffeine Honey, and even if CH is a little more my speed, SM Café would be nice to own, I dare say.
SM Café is priced for $80 for 30ml in EDP concentration, and is sold in the US via Luckyscent and Canada via Indiescents, both great sites that ship internationally.
8 out of 10