Montale Intense Café is a rich, warm, floral gourmand fragrance featuring notes of rose, coffee, vanilla, and musk. Offering world class performance, unique presentation, and decent value for money, Intense Café is a great option for lovers of gourmand rose fragrances. One very similar fragrance would have to be Ristretto Intense Café, a flanker of the original that amps up the coffee note, after numerous complaints that Intense Café wasn’t really that much of a coffee fragrance. I haven’t smelled Ristretto myself, but I’ve heard it’s quite good.

Roses Musk and Sensual Instinct, also from Montale, both hint at Intense Café by being rosy/vanilla creations, but aren’t exactly the same. I had already written in another commentary that I am a Montale fan...and one of the reasons is Intense Cafe! Quý khách vui lòng liên lạc với Vperfume thông quaHotline: 096 599 8668 (Zalo, Msn, Fb,Viber....)để được hỗ trợ.There are numerous other dupes and fragrances in a similar ballpark to Intense Café that I won’t list here, but suffice it to say that there are tons of similar fragrances out there within striking range. Pros & Cons Pros

However, that doesn’t mean that confident men (like myself) who have an appreciation for roses couldn’t pull this one off with panache. After all, if your masculinity is so fragile as to fall apart if you smell like a flower, perhaps it’s time to reexamine how masculine you really are. When To Wear It I am in any case very much in love with intense Café and this will probably my autumn and winter fragrance! Sto se silaze tice ova parfemcina je toliko jaka da moze da vrati pola jugoslovenskih firmi iz stecaja! Kidanje! Overall, the presentation of Montale Intense Caf é is unique, though it won’t be to everyone’s taste. Performance But why do I love this scent anyway...? I'm OWNLY not a fan of scents you can smell all over the street, that maybe everybody likes because they smell so boringly good...you know what I mean? The best example is La vie est belle.......it does NOT work! Please donŽt be angry but what is this boring smell without character....okey i digress...Two to three sprays on skin and clothing give me ten to twelve hours of longevity, longer on fabric. I don’t have a box on hand to show you, but really, they’re pretty much straightforward fragrance boxes that get the job done. As far as gender goes, I think this fragrance is perfectly unisex, but the sad aversion most men have towards rose fragrances will probably make most people skew this towards the feminine end of the spectrum. And it’s definitely true that I would want to devour any woman wearing Intense Café with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

The bottles are also opaque, so you can’t see into them to gauge how much fragrance you have left or to show off some cool looking juice. On the other hand, though, the opacity means that less light is being let into the bottle, which is a net positive. After all, light is one of the enemies of perfume, along with air. An opaque bottle is much more likely to preserve your fragrance for years and years to come. Later, the fragrance becomes sweeter and more vanilla. The rose is constantly there and fits wonderfully into this delicious composition!This is a potent brew. As I’ve cautioned you already, any more than two or three sprays with this is overdoing it. Even three sprays is pushing it. If you go beyond that boundary, my friend, I can only say to you: “ Vaya con Dios“. Value For Money It's hard to describe... For me an absolute work of art, which you should test on the skin (not on the test strip) and which you have to give several chances, because it gets better every time you wear it... The cozy nature of the scent makes it seem perfectly apropos for the cold, dark seasons where all you want to do is pull on a warm sweater and curl up with a cup of coffee and a nice book.

I have perfume-eating skin, but Intense Café gives me no problems on the longevity front whatsoever. If you want a long-lasting gourmand rose fragrance, this is the one that you’re after. Projection & Sillage As far as occasions go, you could conceivably wear this anywhere. Casual hangouts would be A-OK, as would be the office (so long as you go easy on the trigger). This would be a great option for a date night, and could even work for a semi-formal occasion, though I think that it would work better in more casual, “fun” scenarios. Similar Fragrances Roses Vanille from Montale’s sister brand Mancera is also in a similar vein, though Roses Vanille omits the coffee note and is a bit sweeter.Intense Café is an absurdly long-lasting perfume, almost too long-lasting. Two to three sprays will easily last on skin all day or more, and for weeks on clothes. This is the kind of fragrance that lasts through showers and survives even rigorous scrubbing. Finally, Grape Pearls by the House of Oud is quite similar to Intense Café, though it adds a fruity element in the form of grapes and blueberries. It also comes in an absolutely amazing bottle that looks like a swirly dragon egg. It is, of course, a bit more expensive than Intense Café at retail. In my opinion, due to the strength of the fragrance this is a cold weather only scent – fall, winter, and early spring. Wearing this during the summer would be like releasing sarin gas through the ventilation systems and could get you dragged before an international tribunal. But how does Intense Café actually smell? Well, to put it simply, it is a sweet, vanillic, coffee-infused gourmand rose fragrance. And if you don’t know what a gourmand fragrance is – don’t worry, I’ve got you covered. This fragrance is really very, very well done by Montale! For a Montale, it is even suitable for the masses! It is not often the case with this label... :)