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This is a beautiful winter fragrance. It’s described as a turkish coffee on their website and I really think they nailed it. I wish there was a more prominent coffee note, but it is spicy and heady and beautiful as is.
It is a beast mode perfume, extremely heavy and extremely long wearing, so beware for the office and casual occasions. It gives my mom a headache, so maybe save for date nights.
Intoxicated isn’t as intoxicating as I had hoped. Don’t get me wrong it’s a nice scent, pleasant and enjoyable but considering the price I can’t help feeling as though it’s rather bland and basic unfortunately. It’s a sort of sweet, spicy smoothness which develops into nothing really. The overdose of cardamom is front and centre. It’s smooth, yet very dry and a touch smoky with subtle green facets. The note of coffee elevates the dry bitterness, with warm spices and sweet vanilla to counter. Looking at the note breakdown there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it, but on skin it doesn’t seem to come alive as much as I had hoped. It’s one of those fragrances I will likely find pleasant to wear my sample of, but wouldn’t buy myself a bottle. Considering the high price tag of Kilian fragrances, I was hoping for something far more interesting and ‘intoxicating’.
I'm not surprised that I arrive at this page and there's already a flurry of comparisons to AMen. The young lady at the Kilian counter didn't know what to make of me as I reeled off notes and comparisons to AMen Pure Coffee. She was Like 'Ahhhh yes this does contain Bolivian coffee beans...' or something like that? Well I have to say when it settles the coffee is more realistic and well rendered even than that of Pure Coffee and you'd expect that. To me though the whole accord just rings with that complex patchouli/caramel vibe with very little difference. The differences that are slight to me were a dry woody scent and some pepper which sets it enough apart from Thierry Mugler not to be a straight up copy. Couple that with the very nice coffee dominant opening and no out of place notes like in the original AMen you've got effectively an up scale version. The drydown is apologetically, exactly the same as AMen or Pure Malt or something and pretty long lasting too. Hey I love A*Men and I can't knock the smell of this but you'd have to be very rich and very ignorant of Mugler's creation to even give this the time of day.
