Manie du Café

Smells like a hot cup of black coffee. Recommend for people who like the smell of coffee

I was gifted a bottle of this by one of my best friends and kind of forgot about it because my limited experience with coffee in perfumes hasn't been great.... But this is really special and really beautiful... It's NOT SWEET and it's NOT GOURMAND... But the coffee is still prominent and real... Like extra dark roasted until they're ALMOST scorched but not quite... What a unique take on coffee .... The vanilla isn't what you might expect... It's only role is to give some balance to an otherwise unwearable firestorm of roast... animalics... woods... Perfect for brunch and I usually never say this but.... It's honestly more suited for a guy... Obviously wear what you like... I wear JOY and Chanel No 19 so I'm not bound by nonsense but I think the heavy roast combined with castoreum would appeal to few females... Really unexpected and I love it. Get a sample- NOT a safe blind buy.

It definitely tries to capture a strong smell of freshly roasted coffee, but like the rest of them who tries to do the same, a strong coffee note in perfumery is just way too sharp. Aside from that, this one is more animalic with castoreum.