Cafe Black Label

This is clearly the best and most unique from the cofinluxe café line. The Cognac and Licorice are present from the start, the red apple and woody notes, along with the amber you can smell in the background. I don't get coffee at all, anywhere, not sure why a previous reviewer said that, it's not in the ingredients so perhaps the combo of licorice and cognac are confusing them. This scent is mostly cognac and licorice, the apple is present but it's far from fruity, if you get a chance to smell this or you own this scent. The scent is nothing short of amazing, no problem with it being a straight forward scent, it doesn't change much on the drydown, it is extremely good smelling throughout, it's definitely not a young, or teenager scent. This scent is too sophisticated and different for a kid to even understand what the combination of cognac/licorice mixed with cedar/apple smells like. This cologne is extremely unique, there's honestly nothing like it I've ever smelled. I've had one other cofinluxe café scent, the espresso, and while the scent was nice, it faded after 30 minutes to just about disappear completely. Longevity on this café black seems to be 4 hours on clothes, 5 hours on skin as I wore this scent out last night, it was high 60's in temperature last night, it fit perfectly with the temperature and for nighttime. If you have oily skin, it may wear off faster on your skin. Not sure you'd want to wear this during the daytime in 80' - 90' temps, it seems to work much better as a nighttime scent with 50's to 70' temps. Well worth the pricetag to me, but honestly I should buy another bottle of this, it doesn't seem readily available everywhere, and I've never smelled this scent on anyone before. My ratings are: Scent: 9.5/10. Longevity:6/10 Sillage/Projection:5/10 Unique/Industry First:10/10 Quality:8/10 It's just so different. I love cognac so this one was easy to wear. This is probably the first and only time I'll say this to a cofinluxe café product, but job well done. This one I'll definitely keep in my rotation and use regularly. I never base my scent reviews on the bottle design, price, brand or advertising. I only rate it on how great or bad the scent is, the longevity, the sillage as different occasions call for stronger or milder sillage, how unique it is, and the quality of ingredients.

I was gifted a bottle from a generous Fragrantica member and I dig this juice. The first few minutes are a little dusty due to the heavy Licorice, but after about 30min it mellows out and the Orange, Cognac, Apple and Wood notes come forward balancing it out nicely. Cafe BL has a really great woody dry-down and I feel it's the part and really shines, especially in cooler Fall/early Winter temps. Performance on me is more like an EdC with moderate longevity and soft sillage (similar in performance to CKbe) but as a skin scent it lingers for a good while and I will get wafts of it 6-7 hours later. I think it's nearly impossible to over-spray Cafe BL, spraying on clothes will improve performance some. This is a great little fragrance that's worth checking out.

I wish licorice always smelled like this because i smell a buttery coffee nutty dark spicy creamy pastry that has cooled down to room temperature.....very interesting potion/scent here which i give an 8.4.....silage/longevity 6.0...its rather weak in my experience with it but i still like it and it was inexpensive...... so spray on!!! ciao!!

Very nice perfume. start bright and shine with orange. after 5 minutes it become warm and elegant, very similar to XS.Black by paco rabbane. and cost 10 time less. it stay on me for 4-5 hours I just enjoy it.

Beautiful liquorice, coffee and cognac, and divine apple. Oooh it's gorgeous!! Sweet and beautiful. Very feminine and sensual. Warm and inviting. Soft, yet strong and luscious. I love it!