Roasted Coffee Cigarette Whisky Come And Get Your Suede Honey Baby

Sampling Strangers Parfumerie Roasted Coffee Cigarette Whisky Come and get your Suede Honey Baby, generally shortened to just “Roasted Coffee.” Its long name is a helpful descriptor, as the fragrance does start out with a hefty dose of dark, roasted coffee, followed by an emergency of whiskey, and a further dry down into a blend of a few other notes—most notably, tobacco, hay, musk, and what, to me, has a bit of a makeup/lipstick sort of quality. So there’s a little funk from the hay, a bit of cosmetics, but a strong center of coffee, booze, and tobacco, making for a provocative blend that nonetheless has some familiar, comforting points. Comparison-wise, I find connections to both both Kerosene Follow (the coffee gold standard, featuring a blend of dark coffee, amber, and vanilla) and 4160 Tuesdays Take Me to the River (a bit of a rock and roll mix of rose, leather, wine, and tobacco). Roasted Coffee is a bit of a rock and roll coffee scent with some pep, less the woody/spicy coffee blend that SM Café is, and less the more sugary Caffeine Honey. This is a great scent, even though I’d still say that Caffeine Honey is my favorite of the three, but together, they’re a great coffee variety within one house, and I would happily own bottles of all three if money were no object. Roasted Coffee is in extrait de parfum concentration and is priced at $110 for 30ml, which seems to the current standard pricing for extrait, vs. $80 for 30ml for EDP (scents seem to be made in one concentration or the other, not both). It is sold online at Luckyscent and Indiescents. 8 out of 10

The notes of this perfume are quite chaotic but very wearable nevertheless. At first spray, I picked up on a burnt popcorn smell, rubber, leather and something like gasoline. To me, it smelled like a gas station parking lot. But, thankfully, the harsher notes of rubber, gasoline and popcorn faded after only about ten minutes. It immediately came alive from the tobacco, dark alcohol notes and honey. Boozy, sweet, earthy and almost fruity from the richness of the tobacco and honey combined. The leather is still there lingering in the background for a while, fading after about two to three hours. The 'fruitiness' lasts for most of the wear before the vanilla emerges about four to five hours into it, elevating the sweetness. For the latter portion, all I could detect was the tobacco, honey and vanilla. Overall, this is heavenly to me and reminds me of summertime in the American South—warm and familiar, boozy sweet, earthy and rich. It's a hot summer day, smoking a cigarette at a gas station before transitioning to enjoying an evening glass of brown liquor on the porch of a tobacco farmhouse. Normally, I'm a little disappointed/upset when I can't pick up on any coffee in perfumes that list it as a note (especially when it's in the title); however, though I couldn't distinguish any in this perfume, it's sooo good to me that I didn't even really think about it. This can read as a somewhat 'masculine' fragrance if that matters to you but, as someone who prefers to wear 'feminine' scents, I absolutely love this and think it could suit just about anyone.

Not sure where all the “old person” comments are popping up, but I can see why this scent is controversial. I was searching for realistic coffee fragrances that didn’t smell like someone had just spilled their cup onto my blouse but also wasn’t in the coffee scented candle from HomeGoods category. The three I chose were Cafe Tuberose by Atelier; Coffee White Flowers by Bohoboco; and this one. Surprisingly, this one is the fragrance I grab the most. I have yet to get a negative reaction from others. It’s definitely strong and attention-getting. Some people pick up the wood and leather, and others only smell the sweet gourmand notes. My own nose really picks up the coffee and honey, which is a combination that reminds me of my best friend who sweetens her coffee with raw honey instead of sugar. I personally love it, especially in fall and winter. Unusual but totally gorgeous.

Roasted Coffee Cigarette Whisky Come And Get Your Suede Honey Baby Strangers Parfumerie (Store test, skin test, Rebellion). This is very beautiful done, my kind of Gourmand. I test this along with SM Cafe(?), I do enjoy this one. It open with a nice authentic espresso kind of scent. Then it transit the Honey-caramel-Suede kind of experience. The honey in this is very mild acidic, like forest honey. The suediness in this is just right amount. This one projects fairly strong and have great longevity. At very far dry down, I can smell tint of aroma chemical. Ambermax(?) maybe, I am not sure but that caramel-honey sweetness still linger. Oh boy, so ideal. Very warm, cozy and festive. This might be my first one to added to collection from Stranger perfume. 9/10

I got this as part of the discovery set. The tube’s sprayer was not doing a great job and the amount sprayed probably wasn’t up to par. Anyway I only got beautiful roasted coffee with just right amount of caramel for flavoring on skin sample. As for the on clothing sample I got a beautiful Irish coffee, whiskey laced coffee with cream and all, albeit the bartender was a bit stingy with the whiskey. All the other notes were lost to me. But with what I got it’s already a big love. Looking forward to the day I can find a full bottle.