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This is how I remember Lush stores smelling in 2005, when I was still in school and having my mind blown by the creativity of a moisturising bar with dried mung beans in it to massage you while you moisturise, like adidas massage slides for your bathroom routine. Warm gourmand vanilla is the predominant and overarching experience, but this isn't so warm that you couldn't wear it in the heat of summer. The fruitiness is reined in well by the light coffee note, making it read more 'cafe meeting' than 'raspberry vanilla shortcake bomb'. The coffee is sweet and light but not lactonic to my nose, evoking more the flavour of kopiko hard lollies than an actual hot cappuccino. I don't smell any lavender in this so far, and since it's a top note in the pyramid I don't have high hopes of it emerging late in the drydown - that's a disappointment to me since lavender is one of my favourite notes, and I was keen to experience it in a sweeter gourmand context. Hints of patchouli rise from the heat of my skin to coax vanilla out of it's borderline hysterical entrance, backed up by a delicious amber and sweet sandalwood (which I expected to be a creamy note but it really isn't in this). I'm still not getting lavender, or any citrus or cedar, however the white florals and sweet rich coffee-cake are mellow and airy. The price of this compared to its quality (and lack of 'synthetic' fumy, cheap ethanol, melted vinyl couch accords I often sense in under $45AUD options) is an astounding bargain, even if performance turns out suboptimal. This isn't really my style, but I think it fits well into almost any collection. I do think it's unisex, except for the fact it's marketed for men and it's a recognisable scent so people will know what you're wearing and I can imagine that could deter some women. The bottle is iconic! I only have a sample so I don't know if the iconic bottle is good quality and well engineered, but I do see that it's a unique and aesthetic design which may reviewers have been very harsh about! It must be doing it's job then, as 'art is meant to make you feel something', as they say.

For the price, you can't really beat this. I paid less than 30 including delivery and taxes, and for it I received this absolute gem of a fragrance. I feel like this comes from a long line of scents that came in the wake of the highly successful Thierry Mugler A*Men, which might just be the most influential fragrance of the last 35 years. This doesn't really smell like A*Men, but it does go in a sweeter direction the way that A*Men does, and unlike any other fragrances that came out before it, or at least to the extent that A*Men did. This is lighter, sweeter, whereas A*Men is a complete beast mode powerhouse of a fragrance that some may even consider to be challenging with it's notes of leather and patchouli, yet it has a gourmand coffee accord that makes it seem almost edible, and this is very much in the same style. It smells like dessert, or breakfast as some have said. This is so wearable, you could wear this anywhere and I feel like I've been saying that a lot lately, but it's one of those things that you can wear almost anywhere and it just fits, and I think you could even wear this as a Netflix and Chill type of scent with your significant other, I feel like this is almost the perfect Valentine's Day scent in that regard. To me, anybody 25 and up would probably really like this, it has a little bit of a maturity/sophistication to it that makes me feel like younger than 25 probably would be less likely to enjoy this, but this definitely isn't an old man's scent even though it came out in 1999.

to be honest the bottle design is what drew me in (it really looks like a buttplug and i think thats funny), the notes are what really made me really curious. So I blind bought it. I dont typically enjoy gourmands on me or others because of me associations to cheap body sprays and candels, but this is an exception. In the best way possible, this smells like one of those body sprays or candles but on another level. It doesnt smell exactly like a coffee but more like you're sitting in a cafe. Sweet and airy, warm and enviting. Start with a lavender and coffee blend but then dries down into a spiced vanilla. I don't get the raspberry that everyone talks about which is sad. After about 4 hours of testing it the coffee and lavender nuance has passed, leaving a musky and sweet vanilla behind.

I don’t smell coffee, at all. I can smell the raspberry though. Overall it smells clean, like some fresh soap but not shower gel per se. I’m kind of disappointed I was looking for a coffee vanilla type cologne, I still like this though. I must’ve either got an old bottle, scammed or y’all over exaggerated the scent. Su though, it smells good definitely a cheapie to throw on if you’re lounging around the house or got some quick errands to run. The silage leaves more to be desired, I have yet to see the longevity. Scent is definitely a 4.5/5, overall factors have me rating this at about a 4 though. I’d buy for cheap, unsure if I’d buy another bottle just cause of how many colognes I currently have in my collection.

i like it but it kinda smells like walking into 2009, and why they gotta shape da bottle like that 😭. i get very little coffee from this fragrance i get wayyyyy more vanilla and lavendar which is fine because those are two of my favorite scents of anything. never tried any other "coffee" fragrances because ive just recently been getting into fragrances so i dont have anything to compare it to but idk maybe im just noseblind to what coffee even smells like. projection also kinda sucks i wore 6 sprays of it to school and then to work the other day and not a single person noticed it. not dissapointed in my purchase tho cuz it was only like 20 bucks, makes my skin smell quite nice and is a fantastic room spray