Vanille Café

Wow! Wow! Wow! I love!!! This scent is so yummy!! There is def a cafe vibe to it, as it smells warm, sweet like burnt sugar and like a biscuit. I think it might be the almond that makes is smell like a biscuit. A beautiful cedar woody note that isn't too dry (some wood notes make my throat dry or are just too strong). I can totally picture being in a cutesy local cafe with wooden walls and a fireplace. This scent would be better for the colder months. A really cozy nighttime scent, it could be worn during the day as long as you didn't spray too much. It's a unisex scent leaning a tiny more more masculine due to the wood note. The sweet biscuit smell fades a bit after the dry down. The silage is arms length/close to skin. The vanilla Comptoir uses always reminds me of Jingle G xmas perfume by Gwen Stefani. The coffee note isn't like YSL Black Opium, it's more like smell fresh brewed coffee. It lasted longer than I expected, I could smell it on my wrist about 10 hours later. This company usually makes nice nature inspired smelling perfume, so far I find that they lean a bit more on the sweet side than the fresh/bright side, but I've only tried 3 other perfumes for this company so far...more to come!

I love Vanille Cafe! No, it's not the most highfalutin, avante-garde wunderkind of the coffee scents, but dammit, it's a super fun, sugary caffeinated ride that I'm fully enjoying! I hear many people complain about some of the Comptoir Sud Pacifique's scents having an artificiality about them, which I understand, BUT, I still think their scents are really well done, FUN (which is sorely needed these days), super crowd pleasing, and the price points are unbeatable in this day and age. That said, I genuinely enjoy this one and was excited to learn it was created by Vanina Muracciole -- she's created so many I love, it's no wonder this enchanted me so. Vanille Cafe is for coffee lovers who like their milk and sugar with a splash of coffee. And this, like so many others in my collection, layers exquisitely with KYSE's Delizia di Marshmallow! I layered these two yesterday and my partner asked if I was making hot chocolate ;-) I said "No -- it's me you're smelling!" He replied: "That doesn't smell too bad!" Coming from him? That was actually a huge compliment! 😂😂

When I first received this fragrance, it made me so furious because it was so delicious but literally poofed into oblivion before I could even get the cap back on. No longevity. The worst longevity of any fragrance I've ever owned. So I did the thing, I put it up and had zero expectations for it. I went on a declutter tangent and sprayed it one last time before listing it or giving it away, and she bloomed. She blossomed. She is now what I wanted Intense Cafe to be, and she lasts. I never really thought of applying the "let it sit" rule to anything other than ME scents, but, it fixed this one as well. So glad I didn't get rid of it, it's now one of my favorites and great for layering when you want to amplify or add a coffee note. Sweet, yummy vanilla frapp with whipped cream and chocolate sprinkles. Then, of course the hints of cedar and musk keep it grounded. I feel like it's still light enough that it can be worn year-round, it's sweet but not sickly so. Coffee note stays with you for the life of the application.

I used to wear Comptoire Sud Pacifique Vanille Coco many years ago. I have been trying to find a new summer fragrance, so I decided to order from them. I ordered a full bottle of the Vanille Coco, but they also have two "sample" sets with most of their fragrances included in one or the other. Vanille Cafe was one of the samples, and I just fell in love. In the sample, I couldn't really detect the coffee, but in the large bottle (I went back online and bought a large bottle) you can really smell the coffee when you first spray it. I don't like most "coffee" scents, but this is perfect. I smell the vanilla, the coffee, and the cedar right away, and as it dries down, I smell the vanilla, cedar and the musk. I love this fragrance. It is warm, and cozy, and on me it smells almost like kindling that has been sprayed with vanilla... in the best way possible. I love it. I was going to save it for fall, but I couldn't resist wearing it today, in the heat of summer. I love it.

This is the coffee scent I've been after. Pure coffee? Pure Tonka? New Haarlem? Cafe rose? Literally all the other coffee scented frags I've tried? Nah. Don't like them. They're either not coffee enough, or have a weird floral note that I don't think goes well with coffee. Enter the new player. This is not your traditional "coffee" scent like that pure roasted, nutty, acidic, bean. Nope. This is that vanilla latte you order that smells mostly like a cake with some coffee in the background. It's sweet, it's dense, but the coffee isn't completely lost. I wish this scent had the slightest bit more coffee in it- but this is so close to perfect for my personal tastes, I don't see it getting better than this for me. Performance is great on my skin, last the day with heavy projection as well. If you're looking for a coffee scent that is sweet, rather than floral, look no further.