Croissant Café

Honestly, I don’t know how this happened, but this really grew on me. I liked it from the beginning, but it took me a while to start fully loving it, but now I wear it almost every day! On me, I experience a very woody drydown that doesn’t lose the coffee bitterness/general aroma in the air, but the coffee scent definitely fades with time. Both me and my family also smell sandalwood in this very strongly, not in a way that takes over but in a way where I’m surprised it’s not in the notes. It’s also pretty much a skin scent, which makes it nice for wearing to classes where everyone is packed in close in the lecture hall :) I definitely still smell it on myself and I think others do too, but it isn’t overwhelming and I don’t have to worry about giving other people a headache. The drydown also reminds me of the opening of Guele du Bois quite a bit because of the woodiness. I think that the sandalwood drydown that I experience makes it almost a nice sandalwood-heavy musk for me after some hours of wear. I also have to say that at least to me it smells very accurate. I live near a cafe and the opening of this smells almost exactly like the scent that wafts up to our windows in the mornings!

Oh my. I've been SO excited to try this for so long, but backed and forthed a little because I was a bit put off by having to ship to the UK. So glad I bit the bullet and blind-bought a full bottle. First sniff I get pastry all the way. A beautiful, buttery, almost nutty, freshly-baked croissant. This doesn't last too long because the tonka and coffee notes start coming in and taking over. There's still a pastry undertone to the scent, but a milky vanilla coffee comes through - not a super sweet vanilla coffee, but definitely gourmand. There's a warm toasty note beneath the coffee. It's like you're sat at a cafe eating a croissant and your coffee has just arrived to the table! This settles into the most beautiful woody gourmand smell. Sits close to the skin and is absolutely unisex. There's no saccharine sweetness to be found, just a beautiful buttery toasted vanilla. Cannot sing this perfume's praises enough. I wish it had more of a sillage, but I can't fault the smell! PS - I bought the sample set and every one of the smells is beautiful. I don't think this will be my last scent from Versatile!

I'd wanted this one for a long time, but the mixed reviews made me hesitate; that, plus, I find the limited projection oils usually offer to be a bit frustrating. BUT, I finally ordered it, and I'm so glad I did! This is a super sweet, very much vanilla latte experience - definitely giving more sugar and vanilla flavoring than straight up coffee, and I'm totally fine with that ;-) What really delights me, though, is - this actually projects quite decently!! I do not need to bury my nose in my arm to detect it - hallelujah! Croissant Cafe is a super fun reach, and blends wonderfully with KYSE Delizia di Marshmallow (to REALLY up the gourmand), or Vanille Cafe from Comptoir Sud Pacifique (vanilla latte on steroids!). I appreciate the more realistic coffee scents, like Akro's Awake or Montale's Ristretto Intense Cafe, but for me, personally, I prefer my coffee scents with a hefty amount of sweetness. This is a gem!

This was a blind buy. BUT LOVE. -> Once I bought this, I was craving croissants for days. Someone here wrote that it smells like that smell the paper bag has when the fat of the croissant or pastry is left on the paper, that greasy stain. This is true, but mostly when you sweat, that was a little weird. I instantly smelt the mix of coffee and a buttery, warm sort of bakery smell. I feel the tonka and coumarin, which also smells like vanilla, but not exactly vanilla. Which is nice! I am an avid gourmand, vanilla, sweet perfume girl, and having one that smells a little different was good. It doesn't stay very very very long, a good 3 hours at least. But it comes out slowly so one doesnt go throgh it fast and its more of a intimate smell, you hug someone theyll smell it. Even if its a hello hug to a random acquaintance. I recommend, for sure. Reapplying it is easy because it is a small bottle. Try it :)

Croissant Café was initially my favourite from Versåtile; it’s sweet and deliciously inviting, and doesn’t venture into that territory of weird and wonderful that they like to do so much. The only downside is, it’s as weak as a fart in a tornado. The scent is lead by this beautifully soft, milky, frothy coffee - hot frothed-up milk, coffee beans roasting in the distance, with perhaps a dessert wafting through the hot air of this cafe you’re sat in. I’m not a big fan of coffee fragrances so i really appreciate the subtlety of it here. Creamy tonka and vanilla help to round it all of amazingly. I love the scent profile - I find it incredible warming and comforting, almost my ideal rendition of a cafe atmosphere in perfume form. My only gripe is the performance, I’m talking pretty much zero projection and a longevity of 90 mins if you’re lucky.

this is a cafe scent done different! this isn’t overly sweet or insanely spot on gourmand, it’s a super woody, aromatic and creamy vanillic coffee scent. You get the coffee right at the opening, a dark roast with sweet vanilla bean creamer with milk and caramel cubes. Then comes the comfiness of a small dimly lit cafe. You get a toasty and warm sesame with woody and earthy florals, an aromatic air here. The cafe has wooden walls, cabin style, with freshly picked wildflowers sitting at every table as a centerpiece and the air of freshly roasted coffee wafting in the air. Then comes a warmly spiced tonka bean with a sweet musk and vetiver. This feels like a memory of the cafe you’ve just left, its remnants leaving behind its sweet aromas and cozy atmosphere. This scent is a beautifully immersive gourmand!

Love this one! Lasted on me all day! This is a straight unisex. There is an obvious parallel with Maison Margiela's Coffee Break (which i also have and use), but where the MM one is underpinned by the contrast of lavender, this one sticks firmly in the gourmand space and really does vibe buttery croissant with a little sesame twist... suffice to say I will big bottle buy this one too. If you are a Margiela fan, I seriously recommend the Versatile Paris Discovery set which you can currently get from their website for about 20 euro i think. There are Margiela note similarities, but the fragrances are very different (not copies or dupes!) and are just wonderful in their own right imho!

It is a very beautiful sweet cappuccino smell. I blind bought this and do not regret it. I enjoy layering this or using it alone as a soothing night time scent. The smell is still on my pillow and pyjamas the next day. It is a perfume you can easily grab and put into your bag to reapply all day long, I don’t have much time to do that but used it this way a couple of times. The bottle is small but the juice is strong enough you don’t need to reapply every 30 mins. Good quality and quite enjoyable. Pleasantly surprised ! Totally gourmand and unisex, it would smell delicious on a guy ;)

I recently bought the newest versatile paris discovery box . I have to say I am very suprised with all of the 8 scents. This parfume at first smelled just like a caramel cappucino (which is obviously very pleasent and unique ,i personally never smelled anything even close) and now ,after 4 hours of wear i can't smell much of the caramel but more of like coffee beans inside of a flower shop Very good scent if you love your coffee ,8/10 ,definetely up in my top 3 from Versatile

I feel this is the French equivalent of D'Annam's Vietnamese Coffee. As soon as it hit my nose, I was transported back in the 90s, in the troquet du coin for a morning coffee. It smells smoky, coffee-y, but not so much croissant-y. It doesn't project much but will entertain your own nostrils for a while. Out of the discovery set this was a firm favourite. The full bottle is on its way!

Love the beginning, sweet bun and cappuccino but that doesn’t last long, after that I don’t know why I smell mostly coconut ? The final part muted and musky tonka. Maybe I should try it in a different weather (it was 30 degrees that day). Nonetheless I really like it and could see myself buying it :) The big downside is the projection and longevity which is barely there.

oh this is GOOD. I thought that coffee addict was my perfect coffee scent and it definitely is up there, but this one is giving it a run for its money. coffee addict is more of a chocolate caramel mocha whereas this is you sitting at a cafe with a coffee and a croissant (as the name would suggest).it's roasted coffee but somehow not bitter, very well done imo

I am getting a super realistic almond croissant from this more than coffee or anything else. I want to smell like this on a moody day, sipping on hot chocolate while having another Gilmore girls marathon. It is rather a comfort intimate scent for a gourmand lover, but I think it has a good layering potential.

This fragrance opens with the deep, earthy aroma of freshly ground coffee. A dark, robust richness that feels both comforting and invigorating. But just as you settle into its bold warmth, a surprising note of wheat emerges, adding an airy, golden softness !

It feels like you're having your breakfast in a cafe. Slowly dipping your croissant in to a hot cappuccino enjoying it with all those yummy and comforting scents from the cafe's fresh grind coffee beans and buttery pastries lingering in your nose.

It smells like coffee butter cream to me instead of a full-on breakfast cafe. Standard gourmand and long-lasting, how wonderful this milky vanilla sillage just comes to me from time to time within arm distance. Love it!

Smells almost like shea butter on the dry down. Big coffee with creamer opening. Like to use it as a hair oil and that’s when I noticed the shea butter aspect I enjoy so much.

buttery warm croissants and hot coffee in the morning Please make a spray version, i can't stop wearing it. Longevity on clothes is really good, on skin it is more intimate

I love this oil. Reminds me of my trip to Paris. Sweet, strong coffee. I just wish the scent to be stronger.

I can just echo — wow... if you like cosy winter café gourmands, this might just be it. What a gem.