Homme de Café

Wow. I love it. Very classy. Very unique. And I love the cloves. If you like Dunhill Edition I think you will really enjoy this but they are not overly similar. The mysteriously invigorating wet moss/clove/pepper/citrus hit is the overlap but homme de cafe is darker and more surreal nostalgia where as Dunhill Edition is refreshing proper Green Irish Tweed ambiance. Some fire pit vibes with Homme De Cafe. The haters on this one are simply embarrassing themselves. NOW about the sillage and longevity. I got mine at $10 for 3.4 ounces so for something this stirring the performance is just fine. The sillage isn't strong but it does reach out like flame lit scented fuel fume tendrils. The longevity is comparable to Cuba offerings but you get a slightly longer skin scent. So don't pay a lot of money for Homme De Cafe new or vintage and you will love it. I just bought a bottle of Black Point yzy brand $10 clone of Armani Code. Now that one is not unique and there are MUCH better shaving cream fragrance choices like Armaf Legesi and Afnan Modest Une for $20-$30 so I would always recommend those instead. Dunhill Edition does have a lot better performance and is a very logical choice but I think the sensation of being magically transported to a 1981 buzzing shopping mall where even the new wave punk rock people are more or less freshly scrubbed and bright eyed optimistic browsing at Spencer's gift shop... for this I think it deserves a place on the elixir shelf. I will at least sample Givenchy Xeryus to see how similar that is and to check its performance level. I trust SPNKr so I won't put any real $ on that unless I discover something amazing in it. The last thing I want to mention is that in my first career life I was in retail and something about Homme De Cafe just smells like a retail store. Maybe a slightly dusty new linen note or the smell of new business suits-I will contemplate further. Dunhill Edition is classic but it does not have the shopping mall time machine alchemical property to it.

Epic Journey Into the Bottled Yonder, 073 ------------------------------------------------------- Purchased June 2019 [Originally posted on the blue bottle page in 2019 before this proper Cafe was available on Fragrantica] I have the brown bottle (Homme de Cafe) apparently first made in 1978, unless the fragrance house started back then, otherwise this is also from 2002 like the blue and green bottles on Fragrantica are. I really like it. It smells like the '70s, '80s, '90s and 2000s bundled together. The warm spice of old and the opening warm but bright fruit at the beginning. It ends up smelling like a coffee bean almost. It's maybe an acquired taste, but it's growing on me so I'll be enjoying this more and more over time. A real mature scent. In fact, this is a more obnoxious perhaps even more strong in general alternative/cheapie to Givenchy Xeryus. If you're known for being a bad mofo you can get away with Homme de Cafe and also save yourself a lot of money skipping on Xeryus (which is a great scent still). 2024 Update: I absolutely adore this scent. It's very much a pine thing, not much coffee/cafe going on. Excellent day and night year round. There are some places in the world where most scents are 4 seasons, I live in one of those places and this scent fits me and my location. It's an autobiographical deal - enough said - say no more scent. No apologies, Homme de Café wants you. Batch: 15570EV please PM date decoding. Though allow me to guess this is a 7th May, 2015 bottle.

I received this a long while ago to fill out an order, as it was extremely inexpensive. I had no idea it was a vintage bottle, as it turns out to be (not sure if they still make this-perhaps they all are?). Anyway, I forgot about it and just got around to testing it today. Holy moly. This stuff is awesome. It reminds me of Dunhill Edition, almost to a T. I can imagine this is how the vintage Dunhill smells. It is full, rich, nuanced, and smokey. I get a lot of cedar and carnation leaves, but Fragrantica's pyramid leaves out the clove note, which is the most prominent. If you like cloves, get this. The version I have is quite strong. Your experience may vary if depending on when it was made, but this one is a keeper. A tie with Quorum Silver for best Bang-for-Buck in my collection! Long live the great cheapies!

This is a gentleman version of Quorum but way nicer overall, the rasberry note really sticks arround and it does conjure an image of breakfast in a diner, which was the point. This was never meant to smell like a coffee. This is old school so fair warning it is extreamly woody and dry with the rasberry note taking center stage, it is not a strong rasberry but beacause everything else is so woody and dry the subtle rasberry shines. This fragrance is almost academic in a way and it takes some time to love it, I didn't at first now it's amazing

Cloves bomb with Wood and Carnation Leaves - all other notes are harder to detect. The citruses are there, you can feel their presence together with the subtle (reeeealy subtle) sweetness of the raspberry. I like it, it gives out a very Oriental spices vibe - drydown is very nice. Performance moderate, but as expected for the price point and concentration. Recent batch 24A5K320A from Cofinluxe.