#abdes salaam attars

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Abdessalam Attars Milano Caffe

Abdes Salaam Attars Milano Caffe

Nose: Dominique Dubrana

notes: coffee, woody notes, chocolate, spices, opoponax, cappuccino, tonka, amber, iris

Milano Caffe is supposed to be one of the best coffee scents out there.

coffee? a bit. but the opening also has brandy and rich dark chocolate, which I initially find a bit nauseating and over the top.

a few minutes in, it settles down into a not-too-sweet, chewy-spicy amber with a dark chocolatey nuance.

Most “chocolate” notes in perfume are actually patchouli and Milano Caffe is probably a patchouli in disguise; rich, warm, dense to the point of gooeyness, set off with a bit of aquiline sharpness and golden glitter from the spices and woods. (Cardamom? Sandalwood?)

once it settles, Milano Caffe is actually growing on me, even though I’m not a chocolate person and the weather’s really too hot for heavy amber perfumes. The woods and spices are truly beautiful and give it a lift that other heavy chocolatey patchoulis (like Jovoy Psychedelique) lack. In the far drydown it’s more of a deeply ambered wood-and-spice scent than anything else.

Nominally masculine but feels potentially unisex; you just have to like dark/sweet scents.

Milano Caffe has a certain nobility of spirit, a dignity, which moves me. I’m won over despite myself.

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Perfume mood boards: Amber Chocolate by Abdes Salaam Attar

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Perfumes for the  Bombshell Scholar/Student/Librarian

Jazz Club by Maison Martin Margiela

1888 Xerjoff

Library by Solstice Scents

Milano Caffe by Abdes Salaam Attars Perfumes

Whispers in the Library by Maison Martin Margiela

O, Unknown! by Imaginary Authors

Coco Eau de Toilette by Chanel

Oeillet Pourpre by Guerlain 

Nirvana Bourbon by Elizabeth and James

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Abdes Salaam Attars Arabia

Notes: damask rose, castoreum, cinnamon, cardamom, nutmeg, narcissus, violet, tuberose, ambrette

Abdes Salaam Attars Arabia is beautiful, and I’m still struggling to wrap my head around it.

It’s another rose that doesn’t smell rosy to me; my first guess was frankincense. It has a bit of a lemony, woody, or even alcohol-like tenor; clear, light, pure, dry, fragrant. It has an almost solemn purity.

There’s a soft swirl of spices around it, and a lush, dark castoreum; in the second hour I get a flurry of delicate mixed florals; there’s a *lot* going on.

I’m in awe.