Café Cabanel

Coffee is my jam. I drink coffee all day, have worked as a barista throughout my college years, my father drank the darkest roast coffee he could find when I was a kid, and he'd pop handfuls of the beans into his mouth and eat them like candy. I know, clearly that last bit is overboard coffee love borderline addiction but suffice to say it's a family tradition to love the smell, taste, and yes even the bitter and oily flavors of the richest, darkest roast of beans. It has been nigh impossible to find my holy grail of coffee fragrance. To be fair, I've not yet tried 'Follow' by Kerosene which I've read has a strong and realistic coffee note but I've tried quite a lot of perfumes with a coffee 'note' including Intense Cafe and Intense Ristretto Cafe by Montale both of which are highly rated in the community/Fragrantica. But, hold everything, Cafe Cabanel is my holy grail coffee perfume. There is a perfume-like quality, it isn't all about photo-realistic notes and smelling like actual food. There is a very, very creamy caramel latte with a freshly pulled shot of espresso and rose petals that floats around you in a haze while wearing this perfume. It's there in the opening, and the espresso/caramel/milky notes retain throughout the dry down. Not to say the perfume doesn't change or progress, it would really bore me if that were the case. This perfume does darken and get very ambery in the dry down and more rose pops through so the coffee note and cream/caramel are there but it's a perfume that is luscious, delicious, and elegant. I wore side by side with Killian Black Phantom which is more rum, and white sugar. This is *much* better, the coffee note is more alive, more present, and the rose is creamy, milky and the amber is gooey but not in a rum/crunch sugar way like Black Phantom. A winner. I'll be buying a full bottle today. Thank you, Teo Cabanel for this gorgeous scent!

What a delicious stunning perfume! It opens smelling like a hot cinnamon roll and quickly morphed into an orange cream cheese Danish. I'm surprised there's not more people talking about the orange cake . Next it smells like sugar cookies! After that it smells like buttery lemon cake. In the last stages it smells like roasted tonka beans and vanilla and the very end after hours and hours of going through stages it ends with a buttered creamy vanilla cake. I'm mesmerized by this perfume and I cannot believe how many times this perfume morphed into something else! My husband even notice how the scent keeps changing! Most perfumes only go through two phases on me and are very linear.. even my expensive niche perfumes have an opening and after a couple minutes of sitting on my skin I get the base and it stays like that to the rest of the wear. Not with this! If you love Gourmand you will love this. It does smell Edible in some phases and other times it smells like a sexy classy vanilla oh, still sweet but like smoky roasted tonka bean. This perfume is so smooth and silky from beginning to end . I think because it goes through so many changes on my skin I'm able to smell this without going nose blind. I'm able to smell this perfume for about 8 hours. I can continue to smell it on my clothes all day. The sillage is great. It lingers in the air every time I move . It works excellent on my skin and with my chemistry. It does smell like a cafe in Paris and like buttery pastry. I adore this!!

My favorite fragrance that I’ve tried from the entire house! This is truly delectable. A spiced caramel latte that is soooo smooth and milky. During my freshman year of undergrad I worked as a barista at Starbucks. I’ll use some of my experience of working there to help describe Cafè Cabanel... When it comes to an actual beverage, a high quality latte should be so well blended that you cannot pick up on a separation between the sugar, milk, caramel, and coffee. A striated latte will lead to angry customers which in turn will lead to an angry manager which will all lead to a very gloomy day for a barista. Lattes are not a macchiato in which the pride of the frothy milk is the mark of espresso poured on top and left unmixed. This house understands how to craft a proper latte. The espresso is stirred into whole milk, and there is density that perhaps comes from the note of butter and creates the effect of a steamed and saturated drink. The caramel is folded into the drink carefully so as to preserve the creaminess. Rose petals and cinnamon are the final addition, they ensure that the drink does not rely on only a caramel note to provide sweetness. This distribution of sweetness gives Cafè Cabanel a sophisticated structure that I love! A truly drinkable ensemble (though I do not recommend actual consumption, this is perfume and is therefore inedible)

This perfume has a medium-high intensity A duration around 10 hours I tried it in a few samples of Teo Cabanel, I liked it and my daughters loved it. And that made me decide to buy it. Also say that I love the image of the brand, its metalizing flasks, and in this perfume I love the print. This perfume has a warm aroma, now autumn is when I enjoy it the most. The aroma of this perfume is coffee with warm milk, on your way out we feel a coffee with milk with a touch of cinnamon and caramel, little by little the vanilla is present. But its aroma of coffee with caramel milk is so clear that even my teenage daughter was able to distinguish its aroma. In the middle of summer with very hot weather it can overwhelm if intensity, it is best to wait for autumn to arrive and that is the best time to enjoy it, because it is warm and very pleasant. In me it has very good fixation and has come to feel it in me about ten hours, if you put it in a coat or a scarf much more. Conclusion, a warm, delicious perfume that makes you enjoy the aroma of delicious coffee

Cafe Cabanel smells like you're in a fancy yet quaint neighbourhood cafe in Paris, eating a freshly baked warm all butter croissant with caramel drizzle, dipped into a strong white coffee. The bitterness of the coffee are beautifully balanced with the sweetness. The opening is quite overpowering, heavy on the coffee, rich dry roasted coffee beans. It dries down to a powdery sandalwood with hints of sweetness from caramel. I get the buttery note too. This is a sumptuous and cosy cold weather scent. It is late November and I live in London, for me it has felt like the first day of the year I could wear this. It has an understated allure, sexy in a snug way. People will tell you you smell delicious (as in baked goods), performance is pretty beast mode. Cafe Cabanel is to a luxury coffee shop what Jazz Club from Margiela's Replica line is to a dimy lit bar. This is like Jazz Club's daytime sister, the caffeinated version of it's boozy rum fuelled counterpart, but with the same Autumnal warmth, sweetness and spice.