Cafe Noir Ava Luxe for women and men

This is seriously gorgeous! It's a very very coffee fragrance. What I love about it is that it starts out as smelling like the most delicious coffee you've ever smelled, then after it turns even more interesting and woodsy. I first got 5 ml extract and now I ordered 15 ml oil. This immediately went on my favorites list, what a gorgeous fragrance, hands down the best coffee fragrance I've ever smelled. I wish they made more than 15 ML bottles, 30 ML would be better.

Ava Luxe shipping takes quite a while, but it's because they make each fragrance to order, I actually love that, because you are getting a fresh bottle each time.

If you love coffee this fragrance is the best!

I will start off by saying if you haven't tried this scent yet and you are a coffee fan......YOU ARE CHEATING YOURSELF !! This is THE most amazing coffee scent period. It has a freshly roasted coffee bean aroma with a nice hint of lavender in the background. The longevity is anywhere between 8-12 hours on my skin! This is beauty in a bottle.......period.
Thank you Serena for such a quality scent!!

It begins smelling wonderful like a coffee shop, but then it transforms on my skin into the aroma of flea-and-tick pet shampoo

Okay so the beans have been processed from Ethiopia, the farmers close the bed of the truck. The shipment is now headed to a coffee distributor somewhere in France. The warehouse worker has just left his garden where he was removing weeds from his Patchouli garden. He washes his hands and cleans his face; however, he pulled the weeds from his patchouli garden in his work clothes. He immediately jumps out of his car (he is running late) darts through the warehouse and begins to unload these beans, as he is doing this the big roaster is hard at work getting the beans ready for distrubution. All of these aromas are now in the young man's clothing. On his way out, he is thirsty and needs a pick me up so he grabs a cup of hot steaming coffee and goes over and adds just a two spoonfulls of sugar and a drop of honey for some sweetness.

This my friend is Cafe Noir, raw to roasted dark coffee beans coupled with dirty patchouli with a drop of sweetness (I think amber also) to make it not so earthy. Very earthy, very coffee like, nice pathouli base and a tinge of thick sweetness to soften this whole experience up.

Best on the market. Makes Pure Coffee smell like Instant Sanka!

ok i been looking for a fragrance with a great coffee scent , New haarlem is great but is not really a coffee scent in m eyes , so i bought this one and it does have a really good coffee note in it like dark roast coffee , but theres something else another note that i just didnt like , btw it has great longevity and sillage

OMG, love at first try! Although I love the SMELL of coffee I don't drink it unless it's just a few grains of instant with lots of milk, as I can't stand the bitter taste. And I love the smell of this. It's the coffee-est perfume I've tried, and I would love to smell like this! Vanilla and sandalwood, which are notes I don't like, are very, very subtle here, and I can't detect much in the patchouli area either. It's a very gourmand blend. Now to get hold of a full bottle! Thanks you so much Yamba1, another success story in our swapping history!

A contemplatively constructed cafe aroma fragrance full of twists and turns.

Sniffing directly from my sample vial I notice the familiar aroma of coffee. Strong sweet and black. Very Impressive. An underlying camel dung breeze wafts in and out repulsing me and delighting me simultaneously. I think this may be the patchouli note.

On my skin Cafe Noir presents as a clean crisp straight up lavender cologne with absolutely no coffee in sight, and the camel has fled the scene (ran off - for now) without a trace also. Very strange.

Someway into the evolution I can detect a subtle coffee note, but the medicinal lavender note kills this for me.

My experience is a hot/cold one, rural plains zoo poop aromas competing with an antiseptic lavender.

As far as testing experiences go, I can say I have enjoyed this one. I am left feeling like I have just washed my hands after patting a camel!

Much fun has been had.

I'm a massive coffee addict. A guilty pleasure of mine is heading to my favourite coffee shop for my mid-morning fix. Cafe Noir gives me that same rush when I wear it. It's an intense olfactory experience.

Cafe Noir opens with that dark, rich and invigorating coffee bean accord that resembles the scent of a busy coffee shop. Spices and syrupy vanilla also top off a rather strong and unique opening.

The glorious richness of this fragrance continues into the heart, where a warm and aromatic blend of lavender, coffee and patchouli play with your senses. I love how the lavender and coffee interact with one another, one being a herb to aid sleep and the other, a substance used to keep one awake.

While I love the coffee accord, it's the woody-spicy blend that seals the deal for me. It gets quite smoky towards the drydown, which I adore as I'm a big fan of the incense-based orientals. It's also something that I could easily call a gourmand.

Cafe Noir lasts an incredibly long time on my skin, and the sillage radiates quite well. I'm so glad to have discovered this little gem. I am really impressed.

Ashy at the opening. But not too offensive. I get the spices which I think lend the smokiness. A tinge of cedar too but still some sweetness like coffee with a little sugar and cream added to it. Drydown continues with the cedar which I'd prefer was a little less apparent since I don't necessarily associate coffee with cedar wood. I think the flowers are a bit lost in the base notes and cedar. I don't find the fragrance sweet in the drydown. Still a bit ashy with that little bit of cedar and earthy patchouli tinged with just a bit of warmth. On low-middle end of like for me. Definately works for either sex.

I just got a bottle of extrait today. And IT almost honestly made me faint how LOVELY this one smells = like REAL sweet coffee...!! best of all you can get this precious niche-scent for an amazing price directly at ava-luxe.com ($25 for perfume oil, $27 for the extrait, both VERY potent, or $35 for the edp bottle).

"nights of dance clubs and after hours coffee shops ~ the inviting scent of black coffee, smoke, lavender, musks, woods , vanilla and spices. Sensual and dreamy with an exotic sandalwood drydown."