Black Vetyver Cafe Jo Malone for men

I manage a coffee shop and some days I feel like this is the one fragrance I own that truly fits with my work environment! The coffee note is pretty authentic, but I believe the best coffee fragrance I've ever smelled is Bond no9 New Haarlem. Sadly, they stopped selling it in my city when I finally decided to go and get it!!! Anybocy has a bottle that they wanna get rid of? I'm in Canada.

The "Jo-Malone-ness" speaks throughout this perfume - a certain feel, a certain weight a certain base blend that equates to another calm, refined & sensual JM scent.

I love the smell of freshly extracted, hand ground coffee. Deep, dark, rich, fruity & earthy - each bean has it's own delicate perfume & flavour story to tell.

I love nutmeg. It has that airy, piquant character that is so hard to pin down (warm-spicy-metallic-peppery-camphorous).

BVC is like viewing these two scent stars through a very gauzey veil. Vetyver, black pepper, soft woodsy notes & a very, very bland incense support from the wings & combine to form a very polite, very pleasant, calming, luminous scent.

BVC is a lazy morning in a terribly trendy health food cafe. A well-kept artsy lady in soft drapey fabrics is sitting drinking a cup of coffee, reading Wallpaper & nibbling on a low-sugar, lightly spiced, home made organic oat biscuit. The espresso machine steams away, the light streams in & warms up the reclaimed wooden tables. Flour dust dances in the sunbeams. In the kitchen, extremely healthy food is being prepared for lunch by a hemp-loving, incense-bathed beauty & a light, savoury coriander note mingles with the coffee & cakes. The lady finishes her coffee & leaves....

Sadly, the best bits of BVC last about as long as it takes to drink a coffee on my skin. I am also slightly disturbed by the savoury coriander note that lingers in the dry-down.

So, BVC - pretty while it lasts, but far too tame, pale & calm to be added to my want list.

I love coffee, nuff said.

K guess I should say more.
It's starts with the dark clouds of the coffee essence itself and sweetens of later, just like the cappuccino I always get.
I don't love the scent, but i love that it's an interesting scent and definitely unashamed and fearless. It's a coffee scent pure and to the point.
I have a golden rule that when I try anything niche that I try not to like it rather than try to like it, because niche is quality over sales, and the effort is really put in, so it's a market I'd much rather support, so I have to remind myself that I might not like a fragrance because it's quite different from the mainstream market.

I love coffee. Sitting in a good coffee shop, drinking, smelling, relishing the taste...

Vetyver Cafe is definitely a fragrance that could as well be part of this experience. The strong coffee note is the dominant one, I personally do not get citruses at all. Then it becomes more spicy, and makes me think of Christmas period. My associations take me (as usually) a bit too far, but for methere is a somewhat festive aura around this fragrance. I blame the nutmeg.

The final phase belongs to woody notes entirely. A woody coffee. A coffee served on a wooden table. Smoky incense coffee with a dose of vanilla.

In a way it is similar to Bond no 9 New Haarlem, the latter being far more complex and long lasting, but for the coffee note lovers such as me, who do not necessaity have the means to splurge 100 pounds on a bottle of perfume, really worth considering.

I liked the coffee note: not too bitter right away, lingering and soft. But the lasting power of this perfume is surprisingly minimal. I sprayed and sprayed and no matter what I do, the sccent is gone in minutes. I guess that is why this one is only available in the large bottle.

So glad to see this finally in the data base. It's one of Jo Malone's best fragrances so far. If you loved Givenchy's "Organza Indecence" or Victoria's Secret "Secret 88" you will adore this one. It has many similarities of the two aforementioned scents as it has a smoldering base notes of incense, vanilla and sandalwood. All those notes are intensified by the vetyver and nutmeg. I find this fragrance will last a long time if I apply a non-fragranced oil or body lotion before the perfume. The top note of citrus in the listing confusing to me, as I don't get any of that when applied. The coffee is definitely there immediately but soon becomes wrapped in the warmth of all the other notes. It is perfect for evening wear and especially in the cooler months, but I wear it whenever I need a comforting fragrance. This wraps me in warmth and coziness the moment I put it on. It's simply a must try for those who are attracted to spicy-woody fragrances.

It's unique coffee fragrance and absolutely not sweet, first is coffee, then like a forest after rain, vetyver distributes a fragrance of a wood and a moss. It's a bit masculine.
Just one thing... the scent doesn't last more than 20 minutes, at least I don't feel it nor on me not on my cloths or you have to put a lot a lot!
I'm sorry for money I spent, I'll try to finish a fragrance as soon as possible and forget that purchasing.

As for me - New Haarlem is more masculine and active because of strong lavender echo. BV&C is more cosy, unisex and meditative. may be the difference between them is like the difference between the steal and bronze.