I blind-purchased Cafe Avellana 50ml bottle because the ingredients and notes speak to me. I'm exploring gourmands that are slightly more complex vanilla-centric creations.
Cafe Avellina is niche perfume done to perfection! To me, this perfume is absolutely, positively, full-on gorgeous.
Café Avellana opens as a straight-up, warm, creamy, steamy, milky coffee macchiato. The opening emerges with beautiful and discernible, chocolate, coffee and hazelnut notes that are warm, milky, creamy, smooth and very lactonic. On my skin however, the chocolate and coffee notes are MOST prominent only in the perfume's opening. I do NOT detect prominent coffee and chocolate notes once the fragrance develops.
Within 10-15 minutes, EXCEPTIONALLY SWEET, smoky, floral and woody mid-notes emerge, which I identify as sweet tobacco leaf, tobacco flower, rose and oud. And creamy, smooth, ethereal, lactonic, vanilla base-notes also present. And like magic, all the notes effortlessly blend. And for hours afterwards, I'm left with a delectable and lovely fragrance of very sweet but dry tobacco leaf, lovely mature rose, sweet ancient oud, creamy vanilla and wafts of creamed coffee, pepper and cinnamon.
The ingredients are really top-notch. The perfume is exquisitely and perfectly balanced and blended. And I'd say Cafe Avellina is an intimate wear, with little silage and good performance.
To me, the sweet tobacco, rose and oud base-notes pull the fragrance AWAY from a full-on, gourmand experience. This perfume is really UNIQUE and EXQUISITE! Cannot imagine being without it!
There are wafts of coffee, chocolate and some nutty goodness. But notes of 1) fine, unburnt, pipe tobacco w/rose, 2) very aged oud wood and 2) lactonic, sweet, milky, vanilla creaminess linger most. And the supreme blending of these notes make Café Avellana a lovely and memorable fragrance.
I ADORE and LOVE this perfume. Cafe Avellana is really beautiful and I'm delighted I own a 50ml bottle!