Description
Milano Caffè is the first perfume of the new “Italian series”. The series will feature 5 great Italian cities: Milan, Venice, Florence, Rome and Naples.
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 in 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 Caffè’ 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 Caffè 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.
REVIEWS
Fragrantica Elena Vosnaki
Men’s Journal
Naturala (in Croatian)
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