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Luwa
Very helpful Review
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Has the search come to an end?
There it is. The best coffee scent I've had under my nose so far. After really many fragrances that I tested specifically because of the coffee note, quite a few different variants, this one really hit the spot. Exactly what I was hoping for from a coffee fragrance. A really intense coffee note, a strong roasted aroma, spicy and warm, slightly dark and delicately balanced by the right notes. No flowers, fortunately no flowers, as I have already smelled in several other fragrances in combination with coffee. Whether rose, jasmine, orange blossom, lavender, tuberose or floral notes, as such not further defined, this is unfortunately less for me, with one or two exceptions, which I prefer to smell on others rather than myself. Many of these combinations have been used in well-known and popular fragrances and have always been described as an insanely good coffee note, for me there was always something missing or too much disturbing.
Then there are the very sweet coffee fragrances, which are almost always associated with strong gourmand notes. There are tops and flops among them. Including some that I still like very much today and own bottlings of, but it just wasn't what I was hoping for.
If there were fragrances among them that had a correspondingly authentic and not sweetened or flowery coffee note, then my western taste unfortunately suffered from finding them too oriental or spicy, here too I had problems.
But no, I don't have any of these "problems" with Cafe Ambre Noir. Here I get authentic coffee from start to finish, strong, intense and well-spiced coffee, but no coffee crema, no Star Bucks drink or all kinds of sweet stuff. Starting with a rather tart note, warmly spicy and also smoky like roasted aromas, the Cafe Ambre Noir is exactly what I was hoping for. In addition to coffee, I also have some rum, but not as long-lasting in the top note. Although I think I can still smell the rum in the base. There is also a little smoky tobacco, like a tasty cigar, with fine aromas. With labdanum and amber, the fragrance becomes softer and more resinous, even a little creamier, while the bitter notes recede further. The oud is recognizably fragrant, not too invasive or animalistic for my nose, but quite dark and woody. These dynamic woody notes complement the coffee very nicely. What is particularly pleasant is the fact that the sweet notes are barely present here and I don't miss them. A beautiful gourmand without sugary sweetness or an overly sweet coffee note. The sweetness that is present comes together with the resinous side, which goes incredibly well together. I also get some patchouli, not earthy, relatively woody. When I test it more closely, I think there is also some dry cocoa coming through. It can hardly be compared with other coffee fragrances, it is far too individual and creative for that.
And this one isn't even too oriental for me, strangely enough, the "Coffee Break - Golden Dallah | XerJoff" was much more oriental with its spices and intense rose note, for example. But I don't have to understand my nose, the main thing is that I have finally found a coffee fragrance like this.
The whole concept fits here. The progression, the intensity of the coffee, the coffee note itself, all the notes used, gourmand without being too sweet, as well as the performance, none of this disappoints me. I haven't been too enthusiastic about a fragrance for a long time, but of course it has to be such an expensive rarity again.
I can warmly recommend this Sultan Pasha to anyone who likes coffee fragrances and wants to smell a little less floral or sweet notes.
Once again, a big thank you to Schalkerin for the testing opportunity!
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