Milano Café
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The original blast of coffee-chocolate melts quickly into woody-spicy notes. The body of ‘Milano Café’ is an elegant male fragrance worthy of the sophisticated fashion that characterizes the city: Warm, dry, woody, sober, and at the same time rich, with a determined, confident character. Continue …
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Description
Milano Café is the first perfume of the new “Italian series”. The series will feature 5 great Italian cities: Milan, Venice, Florence, Napoli, and Palermo.
This first fragrance, named for Milan, is centered on the omnipresent and most characteristic smell of the city, the aroma of coffee. It pervades the streets and workplaces; it is part of every event and encounter, professional or leisurely; and is present on every social occasion.
I have blended coffee with chocolate because that is the Milanese way: the residents of that marvelous city add Cacao powder to cappuccinos and place a single square piece of chocolate next to your cup of coffee.
The combination of coffee and chocolate is your introduction to the city of Milan, but it is merely the start. The original blast of coffee-chocolate melts quickly into woody-spicy notes. The body of Milano Café is an elegant male fragrance worthy of the sophisticated fashion that characterizes the city: warm, dry, woody, sober, and at the same time rich, with a determined, confident character.
A subdued spicy accord alludes to the multi-ethnic aspect of the city, as manifest in the Somali and Arab restaurants that have flourished there in recent years.
Milano Café is not your usual masculine, composed of trite notes to appeal to a mass audience. It is, instead, a new and unexpected accord that will appeal to people who make trends, not those who follow them.
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Luka –
A luscious, opulent fragrance with a beautiful sombre edge. It does everything one expects from it based on its name and description, but also much, much more. Not only does it fulfil the wish of someone buying a coffee fragrance, it also fulfils what is implied by this wish, be the wearer aware of it or not. This is perhaps why I needed so much time to appreciate it, as I was so caught up in what I was expecting it to be I missed all the other parts. Make no mistake, this could easily be fitted in the “gourmand” category, were one inclined to simplification, but Milano Café really goes to show it is indeed a vast oversimplification, which serves no purpose beyond its simplest function of categorization.
On to the smell – this is not just a cup of coffee, it is a coffee spa, a coffee forest and a coffee cake, all at once. Upon application you are hit with this beautiful earthy coffee smell and initially it is not very sweet at all. It has an energizing yet enormously calming effect, similar to the “drop in the ocean” meditative experience, except that in this case, it’s a drop in a pool of coffee. Only later do you realize it was actually a drop of milky vanilla. Indeed, the beauty of this fragrance is the gradual emergence of a fine, milky, frothy sweetness that becomes more and more apparent as time passes by. It starts out as the raw beans themselves, expanded by the beautiful bitterness of cocoa beans, which then becomes a cup of strong black coffee with a hint of sugar. After that it starts transforming into a cappuccino and later occasionally also into a café au lait. On my skin, it jumps back and forth between this sweet, milky and creamy froth accord, and the darker, bitter aspects of coffee and cocoa until the dry down.
Once the perfume has really dried down, the above-described aspects integrate into one truly delicious whole that is virtually impossible to describe in simple terms. It smells like Pocket Coffee, that wonderful memory from childhood when you weren’t allowed coffee except for this occasional confectionary transgression. It smells like a scrumptious piece of cake where the coffee enhances notes of chocolate, except that in this case there is also a hazelnut accord invoking nougat, probably from the tonka bean, as well as a fruit-jam accord, presumably produced by the citric notes of vetiver, which beautifully clash with the harsh bitter chocolate notes to procure that unbeatable effect of a true Sacher torte. The vanillic and fruity/spicy accords in the late dry down even remind me of tiramisu, which is made with a touch of rum in my country (more like a tiramigiu), in a little sweeter format than the traditional Italian version.
Because of the clever use of ingredients, this perfume is always in the balance and never too sweet, and just when you think you might be smelling like something to be put on a plate, one of the notes pulls you in another direction, giving the association of a forest, the earth or old wooden furniture. It is neither for those who want nothing but sugar, nor is it for those who cannot handle some opulent delight. In other words, it’s just about right, hanging in balance like a circus artist whom everyone observes with disbelief, yet also utter delight. Besides the coffee and gourmand aspects, Milano Café is also a beautiful, almost archaic old-world smell, invoking memories of a world where marble chess sets were displayed on ornate old cabinets and chiming mantle clocks were not an antique rarity but a part of everyday life. (Not so) incidentally, a world where desert was a magical experience to be savoured bite by bite… But I digress. I warmly recommend this perfume to those who appreciate the unrepeatable nuances of those special moments and experiences that make our life more beautiful.
Curious Nose –
Finally a coffee fragrance I really love! Inspired by the city where the aroma of coffee and chocolate is ever present, this frag is both delicious and elegant. More woody and less musky than Iris Macchiato by Auphorie.
First seen on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/B5pYOA9hEol/
LESCUN –
Jérôme
La première note, envoûtante, liquoreuse, résineuse, ambrée, très subtilement épicée, est magnifiquement composée.
On sent bien sûr le café d’emblée, associé cependant à la note veloutée et cacaotée du gingembre, lequel rappelle (comme Dominique Dubrana l’indique) le chocolat.
On peut imaginer aussi (en filigrane) le tonka, la mélasse de canne à sucre, une pointe de vanille, une once de patchouli, un zest de benjoin.
La fragrance, fortement masculine, est très originale : sombre, exotique et, en même temps, très raffinée.
Après, la senteur devient plus sèche et verte sur la peau, avec des notes un peu plus pointues, et surtout plus épicées (peut-être la cardamome, une touche de vétiver).
C’est une magnifique composition de parfumeur.
Un parfum de séduction aussi, pour les hommes (mûrs) qui veulent plaire aux femmes (mûres).
Malik –
Milano Caffé is together with Heart of Naples my go to for spring events. When you like Milano and the North of Italy, when you like coffee with a cigarette, then this scent will provide it for you. Immediately you sit in Café bar in Milan and when you leave this Café the wind breath and the sun let continue the experience of north Italy in its most authentic way. Immediately in love with this jewel.
Invisible Garlands –
Despite the city inspiration behind the composition, Milano Caffé by La Via del Profumo carries me further out to distant desert lands…
With dark coffee brewing over an open wood fire, its aroma co-mingling with heavy dry spices being prepared and cooked in the same space; a robust yet unobtrusive vetiver keeping you firmly rooted to the dry terrain all around, and finally a dulcet duo of vanilla and patchouli reflecting the warm sweetness of the company you’ve found yourself in.
I’ve been wearing it non-stop for over a week :) I’m admittedly hooked!
First seen on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CKDW6BfhlZO/
Isaie –
Unexpected is the word here.
Although it was inspired by Milano, this scent reminds me of the first time I had an Italian coffee -and the first time I took a liking in coffee. The day was scorching hot and we were meandering the streets of inner city Rome, when we got a whiff a coffee that smelled like heaven. A few minutes away from the Pantheon and its might, we entered a coffee heaven that looked absolutely ordinary.
I remember having ordered a cappucino that day. Milano Caffè brings me back to that first sip of real coffee. I suddenly understood why Italians had fell in love with it centuries ago. For Milano Caffè isn’t bitter at all : it boasts all the warmth you can expect from the smell of a coffee shop, adding that to a layer of dark yet round chocolate and there you have it.
Built upon what seems to be a vetivery base, I found that Milano Caffè works well paired with spicy or fougère perfumes. A one of a kind scent, a defiantly manly scent which could be very beautiful worn by a confident woman who knows who she is and what she wants. This perfume has the haughtiness of Milanese minds : it knows where to go and what to do, its path is straight and no one nor nothing will ever bend its way.
Milano is as strong as a crossbow bolt. The very scent of willpower.
Slobodanka Poštić –
‘The top notes of scented coffee-cocoa – usually detestable in perfumery – are the rich, well-known, beguiling beginnings of something that turns into a serious perfume with a beautiful magnifying heart and ending with immaculate dryness and transparency.
(Originally posted at http://www.naturala.hr/)
Tinctureall –
Smoky and delicious
Just one sniff and I am already madly in love.
Have you ever walked down the street on a cool but sunny morning and walked by the bakery and then the coffee shop but cannot find to eat or drink the one thing that has that smell? It is here in this fragrance.
A huge and heady mix of all those wonderful smells you get from the coffee shop and the bakery combined.
As it warms up on the skin, the cinnamon and incense vibes emerge. Almost a gourmand but doesn’t go anywhere near any sweetness to ruin this magical perfume. Just completely scrummy.
I am transported to those streets in Milan with the warmth of the old buildings and the juxtaposition of the coffee and the incense.
(Originally posted at https://www.parfumo.net/Perfumes/La_Via_del_Profumo/Milano_Caffe 07/19/2013)
ColinM –
Delightful!
Milano Caffè opens with an almost gourmand accord of cocoa beans, coffee (real, bitter, earthy and round coffee smell – forget the Nespresso absolute several so-called “coffee” scents deliver), with also woody-earthy notes of patchouli, vetiver, oak moss, dry resins, spices which initially are quite light, hiding behind the “gourmand” initial feel. Overall is a really peculiar, edible blend with a leather accent, really soft, cozy, aromatic, dark and dry but also sweet and rich, which effectively reflects its name – a sort of exotic, but also “civilized” austerity and refinement, with a mysterious and tasty elegant smell of coffee – an ingredient which I love (mostly because I love coffee), but it is really rarely used properly in perfumery.
After a while the spices emerge more clearly, notably cloves, which for a while bring Milano Caffè closer to some “No. 88” scents. Also the dusty, dry but soft and warm vetiver note is now more detectable.
Basically, in broad terms, it is a dark, spicy, woody and warm scent, really masculine and classy, with a warm heart of sweeter notes – a light, elegant sweetness, also quite earthy and organic since it’s given by cocoa and coffee.
Top notch style and quality as we can expect from Dubrana’s standards. Surprisingly, Milano Caffè has also a bolder projection and a longer persistence if compared to others of this line.
Mystical and sophisticated, refined and cozy, a nostalgic reference to an “old Milan” which sadly (speaking as Milanese…) is not there anymore.
8,5/10
(Originally posted at https://www.parfumo.net/Perfumes/La_Via_del_Profumo/Milano_Caffe
06/05/2015)
Jean-marc Skalecki –
Un très bon parfum, agréable, avec de la tenue et beaucoup de subtilité dans l’évolution. Je détecte bien l’odeur d’expresso, avec un soupçon de lait et de la cardamone. Sur la fin, une touche de vétiver…?
Author Jean-marc skalecki – 12/02/2014 17.19.59