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Intense Café Ristretto Italiano

Gourmand · 2022 · Pierre Montale

CoffeeRoseVanilla

Notes carried over from an earlier source and not independently checked.

Reported longevity
Long
Reported sillage
Moderate
Typical occasion
Casual
Typical season
Autumn / Winter

These describe how the fragrance is generally reported to behave. Skin chemistry, weather and how much you apply all change it, so your own experience may differ.

Reviewed profile

Intense roasted coffee leads, dark and rich, sweetened by vanilla and softened by rose. Warm and gourmand, it reads like a concentrated espresso, comforting and full while staying close to the skin.

Taste Profile

The Romantic archetype

The Romantic

The Familiar Place

Found something that feels like home and never left.

Connection to home and your people is what you are all about. The fragrance found you as much as you found it. May those connections remain firm.

How Intense Café Ristretto Italiano smells, measured

On Zenyra's five taste axes, Intense Café Ristretto Italiano is openly sweet, in gourmand territory, and reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory.

Reviewed profile. This profile has received a focused catalogue review.

Warmthwarm, close0.76

Intense Café Ristretto Italiano reads warm and close to the skin, in amber and resin territory. That is 85th percentile for warmth across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Projectionmid-range0.48

Intense Café Ristretto Italiano sits mid-range on projection.

Riskmid-range0.38

Intense Café Ristretto Italiano sits mid-range on risk, neither a clear crowd-pleaser nor clearly divisive on the evidence available. That is 63rd percentile for risk across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Texturebalanced0.52

Intense Café Ristretto Italiano carries some body without feeling heavy. That is 57th percentile for texture across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Sweetnessgourmand0.84

Intense Café Ristretto Italiano is openly sweet, in gourmand territory. That is 94th percentile for sweetness across 5,283 scored fragrances.

Projection, risk and texture describe how a fragrance behaves in a room and on skin. Where wear reports are thin, those scores rest near the middle by design, so a mid-range reading here is a statement about the evidence as much as about the scent. Warmth and sweetness are derived from composition and do not carry that caveat.

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