Cuir Cafe

Interesting reading the older reviews. I wonder if the fragrance has been updated to bring out the leather scent more. I get smacked hard with leather at the opening, in a good way. Coffee is not as prominent, but there. After ~30 minutes things change, oud & saffron scents appearing increasingly and the leather smooths out to balance with the coffee more. I get a little bit of Supremacy in Oud, but dialed back to soft level. I like it a lot. At the second hour I get more coffee on top of the leather/oud/saffron. Overall, this is well refined and nicely blended. The sillage is an arm length, very wearable, very enjoyable. Long lasting, all-day scent. I think Happyland Homme for the Holidays is a smoother, more coffee focused fragrance. But Cuir Cafe is a wonderful scent (seems there is more leather than coffee) and more appealing to me, especially in the middle and into the dry down. Bottom line: great leather & coffee frag that is full bottle worthy for me.

WOW. This! I never heard of this brand, but it caught my eye on the right hand side of the website- recently reviewed. Leather and coffee are among my fave notes. I blind bought the 50ml. And I HIGHLY recommend if you are reading this-- you should go buy it too. If you love leather and coffee- get this. It's uncomplicated. It's perfect. At first the coffee/expresso is strong- with a bite of brown leather. Then as it dries down, the leather gets darker- more like a black leather jacket (somewhat smoky-oily). The coffee dies down until you find yourself in a house with leather furniture and a pot of coffee that brewed earlier. The drydown seems to add some vanilla/woods making this slightly more "generic" and sweet. I also seem to get tobacco vibes. Sillage and longevity is insane. Get this now. My next $60 of unattended money will be spent on this brand's Signature scent. I'm now a big fan.

Sadly, Fragrantica lists the wrong notes above, and so misses much of the fragrance. Happyland website lists: coffee, leather, apricot, jasmine, musk, & labdanum. Great fragrance. Very wearable leather. On my skin the apricot comes out as much as the coffee in the opening giving it a sweet fruity twist. This makes the leather much less dark than the notes above would make you think. And the jasmine is strong through the mid and dry down even as the coffee is receding. The fruit-leather-jasmine trio gives it a strong resemblance to TF Tuscan Leather. In no way a clone; more like a cousin. To be clear, an equally good cousin at a way cheaper price. I don’t like everything EJ does but this one is niche quality. Well done!

This fragrance is composed in the same manner as Tom Ford's Tuscan Leather is. Several types of leather and suede combined with a dark coffee note. This is a more masculine version of it. I prefer this over Tuscan Leather. The coffee really gives it a new dimension. One of my favorite from the Happyland line. The performance is insane. I get around 10-12 hours from it with room-filling projection for the first 2 hours. This is not a quiet fragrance by any means. Now, I did say the coffee note makes it more masculine on men, but this fragrance can be worn by the ladies as well, just like Tuscan Leather can be. An absolutely beautiful creation. E.J. Wells is a master of making fragrances we have never thought of before.

This is about the least misleading fragrance I've ever smelled. It's exactly what its name says it is and it's fantastic! I can't imagine being unhappy with this if you know what "cuir" and "café" mean. The coffee dominates on me early (2-3h) then the leather starts coming forward for the duration. Performance is quite good in every way. I sampled four or five HL fragrances and this was the immediate purchase for me. A nice bonus with the coffee up front is that it's never too early for it on a nice, cool/cold morning where a boozy or tobacco-heavy scent could be quite off-putting at an early hour. This has a firm place in my cool-weather rotation.