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Café Vert Il Profvmo 1998

7.1 / 10 81 Ratings

A perfume by Il Profvmo for men, released in 1998. The scent is green-fresh. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Green

Fresh

Floral

Citrus

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Mandarin orange

Pink grapefruit

Heart Notes

Geranium

Cyclamen

Jasmine

Base Notes

Coffee

Perfumer

Silvana Casoli

Ratings

Scent

7.181 Ratings

Longevity

6.560 Ratings

Sillage

5.650 Ratings

Bottle

5.554 Ratings

Submitted by Andi136, last update on 09/08/2020.

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9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

05/31/2015

7Scent

Aura
89 Reviews

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Aura

Top Review 33

Gaffer’s Delight

“Caution on the A9! After an accident, onlookers cause a traffic jam and hinder emergency services. Please drive past the accident scene quickly!”
I would never hinder emergency services! I drive past quickly, take the next exit, drive back a bit, and find a spot that doesn’t obstruct emergency services from which I can gawk.
So yes, I am an onlooker. But no, I certainly do not revel in the misfortune or suffering of others. As soon as pain is involved for humans or animals, I’m out.
I prefer natural disasters. Tornadoes, sinkholes, avalanches, volcanic eruptions, etc. - the explosive power simply fascinates and captivates me. Like a particularly nasty, long-simmering pimple that suddenly bursts, and… by the way, there are videos of that on YouTube too. I tried it once, but it wasn’t for me.
I’m a fan of Abigail and Brittany Hensel, the conjoined twins with two heads and one body. I watch Grey’s Anatomy less for the endlessly annoying back-and-forth between Meredith and Derek and more for the onlooker-friendly staged emergencies like “impaled by a branch” and the like. It’s all just acting here… I think the desire to gawk comes from the fact that it offers a change for the eye, something extraordinary. But there are also things I can and will not look at. For example, wildlife documentaries where crocodiles catapult their massive bodies out of shallow water to snatch a bite of gazelle. I switch away.

So there are two kinds of disasters: those I look away from and those I gawk at.
Similarly, there are two kinds of perfume disasters: those I wash off as quickly as possible and those I have to keep sniffing despite all their disastrous qualities.
Café vert belongs in the second category. It has been mentioned here several times: it is incomparable, a real change for the nose.
If you have a headache and no aspirin on hand, you can just squeeze lemon juice into a coffee. It’s the same: caffeine and vitamin C. My boss made that for me once during my training. Creepy, but it works.
I actually find Café vert creepy too, and it certainly doesn’t help to chase away headaches (quite the opposite). This mandarin-grapefruit note is disharmonious, initially promising a refreshing summer juice, only to be topped off with green, unripe coffee when served. But hey, a rhubarb and onion tarte flambée is at the top of my to-cook list, so I’m open to new and unusual things.

The scent is thoroughly green and unripe. Especially when spraying it on, I recoil. But then, as it develops and mingles with the warmth of the skin, when the flowers gracefully decorate the disharmony, I revel in this disaster, and my nose is in a blissfully indulgent gawking mode.
Above all, it gawks at the coffee, which I don’t smell as dominant, but rather like the spectacular disaster that one unfortunately has a poor view of due to the oversized grapefruit. That’s what makes it exciting: you don’t get to see/smell everything; it remains implied. And just like with a 150-pound stripper on a pole dancing (also a kind of natural disaster), that’s a good thing. And indeed, once you’ve gawked enough and lean back to relax, everything becomes smoother and more pleasant, the outburst subsides, and the flowers begin to grow over the battlefield.

Café vert is certainly not for every day; you have to be in the mood for it. But most of us have so many fragrances anyway that none of them are used daily - that’s not a disaster either.

05/01/2015

10Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Kugeldistel
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Kugeldistel

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Creamy Coffee Delight with a Green-Bitter Twist

Cafe Vert is a non-sweet creamy coffee delight with a green-bitter twist, free from bitter roasted aromas. The concept of this unusual fragrance impressively harmonizes two seemingly opposing elements: on one side, the aromatic citrus fruits in the top note, which receive a wonderfully green-bitter touch from the geranium and alpine violet, and on the other side, the wonderfully creamy coffee base, which fortunately lacks the bitterness of roasted coffee and rather reflects the green-bitter note of the coffee plant. Together, these two counterpoints create an original, even extravagant scent that cannot really be categorized into any of the common schemas. Lovers of gourmand fragrances will likely find less joy in Cafe Vert, as coffee is indeed at the center, but not in the overly sweet manner that many coffee-focused gourmand scents possess.

07/06/2012

9Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Palonera
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Palonera

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the culprit

For decades, I have suffered from an incurable condition: chronic perfume addiction.
No bottle was safe from me, and at least once a week, I would visit the perfumery I trusted, back when I lived in Essen and the shop - how convenient and ruinous at the same time! - was right across the street.
No newly released fragrance was safe from me for long; over the years, my experience grew as did my collection, and although I repeatedly parted with one bottle or another, I eventually began to worry that I might become a perfume hoarder.
Back then, I owned maybe fifty fragrances.
Those were the days!

Naturally, my main focus for many years was on mainstream fragrances, aside from brands like Creed, Etro, and Comptoir Sud Pacifique, which my dear friend eventually added to her offerings.
That was avant-garde, it was out of the ordinary, it couldn't really be sold well at that time.
The term "niche fragrances" was still unknown back then, and I couldn't have imagined what it could mean.
I probably would have thought of the respective perfumers as hobbyists and wrinkled my nose.
"What the farmer doesn't know..."

Then came 2009.
In an issue of "Cosmopolitan," there was a feature on fragrances - I rarely read women's magazines, but this issue found its way to me through somewhat winding paths.
This article introduced perfumes I had never heard of or read about, and one of them was "Café Vert."
Now, I am not only a perfume enthusiast but also a coffee junkie; the description of this fragrance made my mouth water, and I was delighted to find that "Aus Liebe zum Duft" was also listed as a source.
And thus, my fate was sealed.
Today, more than three years later, my collection has multiplied tenfold, and "perfume hoarder" comes quite close to the truth…

What must this fragrance be that has so completely captivated me?
"Café Vert" was unlike anything I had encountered before, and even today, I find this scent quite unique.
Immediately after spraying, fresh-sour grapefruit and dark-spicy, deep green coffee merge on my skin to create an incredible overall impression that combines the "Schweppes" effect with the "Wake me up!" of freshly brewed morning coffee.
There is warmth and spice, green meatiness and slightly bitter fruit - all at once and so perfectly balanced in its apparent contradiction that I can't keep my nose off my wrist.
And although "Café Vert" is anything but a light fragrance, I find it perfect for high summer temperatures - just as people in the Orient always drink hot tea with mint in great heat, the warmth of the green coffee feels balancing and soothing to me, refreshing and invigorating, yet never intrusive or loud.
And it is loyal - once I have chosen it as my companion, I can be sure to fall asleep with it.
A benefactor wanting to atone for its misdeed?

10/30/2014

7Scent 7.5Longevity 5Sillage

Karli

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Karli

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Excuse me, are you perhaps Mario and come from Elmschenhagen?

Mario was one of the few children in our street who did not share a past with us. He moved in with his mother and little sister when he was about 6 years old. For both children, there were two fathers, but they did not live with the family. This circumstance was not well received in our neighborhood at all. Mario's mother was lucky; she was still young, she was pretty, and she worked at the only bakery for miles due to good connections. And even though there was whispering and gossiping behind her back, she never let it show. Anyone who could support 2 children without a husband back then was confident and stable enough.
Mario had less luck. He was small and frail, often wore worn-out clothes, had no scooter or bicycle, and he stuttered. He was rarely allowed to play along, and when he was, he usually ended up being the first to die in cowboy and Indian games. In tag, he was the most sought-after victim, and when candy bags were passed around, he either got nothing or only the leftovers that no one else wanted. He was not invited to birthdays unless our parents threatened us with house arrest.

At school, he also had a bad standing. No one wanted to sit next to him in class, and during breaks, he often stood alone. I remember that we promised him 1 mark if he would run naked through the gym during PE class. Mario took off running, the girls screamed, and the teacher was beside herself. When confronted about it, we boys of course denied all responsibility, which only got Mario into more trouble. To our “credit,” I can say that Mario did get his mark. A treasure he guarded for months and proudly presented to us time and again.

But Mario had 2 great qualities; he was not at all resentful, and he could draw excellently. He caricatured the teachers during class and passed the drawings around the room. This often resulted in loud laughter, without the teachers ever finding out the reason for it. Or he would draw cars, airplanes, animals, and all sorts of things that we found cool as kids with just a few pencil strokes.

Over the years, our behavior towards him relaxed, and we became more and more friendly. We stole apples together, ran after cows in the pasture until we were chased by the bull or the farmer, played doorbell ditch, and did all the other nonsense that you do at 12 or 13. It was also Mario who organized the first cigarettes or the then-common apple schnapps. He had the first magazines with photographs that we didn’t know whether to find disgusting or cool. And he knew where the couples were lying at the Föhrde, which we then observed from a safe distance with binoculars.

I had long forgotten all of this until one day I spotted Mario at the Christmas market in Hamburg. He had a stand with mulled wine and hot chocolate. Although he wore glasses and his hair had thinned, his stature and frailty remained. To my surprise, he no longer stuttered.
After school, he told me he had spent several years at sea. He lived for a few years in Argentina and New Zealand and tried his hand at cattle and sheep farming. But home is home, and so he came back. Now he lives in Kiel again with his girlfriend and her daughter. We stood there for 3 hours, telling each other old stories and reliving the past years. We laughed until people stared or occasionally looked down silently to avoid letting the feelings of memory rise to our eyes. It was beautiful, it was good, it was valuable.

But it was a single and unique moment. Becoming friends with Mario or seeing him regularly now does not work. We live in different worlds today. Occasionally, yes, and then it’s certainly great. But every day?

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Cafe Vert is like Mario: loyal, familiar, cozy, and his presence is comforting. And just as I reconnected with Mario in winter, Cafe Vert fits wonderfully into the cold season. Surely it has bright, fresh, and green notes, but also something deep, heavy, warm, and rich. The sillage is not overpowering, but not discreet either. The longevity is, in my view, above average; I can still clearly perceive the scent after 10 hours.

What else does Cafe Vert have in common with Mario? You can't have him around every day; that would simply be too much of a good thing. There is familiarity, but familiarity also needs distance and breaks. The scent is like that too; too often is not good. You would simply get tired of it too quickly. Until it becomes off-putting, and then all the beauty would be gone. Cafe Vert is not mainstream, but that also makes it special.

Mario will always remain in my memory; so much was unique, formative, and special. Cafe Vert does that in its own way too. I am glad to be able to revive both time and again.

In this sense: Excuse me, are you perhaps Mario and come from Elmschenhagen?

04/09/2015

8Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

DaveGahan101
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The stark opposite of mainstream...yet still appealing!

Cafe Vert clearly falls into the categories of character fragrance and extravagant. In both categories, there is always a quiet danger lurking in the background: annoyance factor! Such character fragrances can be extremely fascinating on one hand (like Interlude by Amouage), because you have something truly special under your nose that stands out, but they can also become quite bothersome with regular use.
Cafe Vert is an extremely unusual scent...incredible...requires some getting used to...and is anything but ordinary. Parfumos who love fragrances with edges and facets will revel in this scent. It is damn hard to capture it in words. I like fragrances that have clear opposing elements. Here, in the first minutes, we have slightly sharp citrus notes, more grapefruit or blood orange than lemon. It smells very natural and untreated. As a counterpoint, we have a violet and lily of the valley note, which comes across as powdery and creamy, alongside the bitter coffee note, also untreated. The top note is dominated by the citrus notes and light coffee (not Starbucks, I Love New York for all, or Cafe Intense by Montale), unsweetened and free of roasted aromas. I like the middle part the least, as the flowers dominate here...it borders on being overly floral and reminds me a lot of MFK's Aqua Universalis and Universalis Forte. This is where the annoyance factor sits, though it doesn't push it as strongly as with the MFK fragrances. After half an hour, this note fades well, and the bitterness from the increasingly prominent coffee scent comes forward more and more. For the first time, I perceive the scent as masculine, and women may not like it as much in this phase.

Conclusion: Unisex fragrance with feminine and masculine facets, extremely extraordinary, cannot really be pigeonholed, longevity of 7 hours for a "fresh scent" with depth is great, sillage is strong in the first 2 hours but then decreases, though you are still perceived very well. A fascinating scent that prompts many inquiries. Not a scent for every day, but a highlight each time! At times, it reminds me of Bosque...especially regarding the sharpness and the slight prickliness at the beginning.

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