Intense Cafe Montale 2013

I just got up and am still slightly dazed from sleep. The first thing I do is brew myself a coffee. A very strong one. It smells intense, almost a little bitter. There's a tin of vanilla biscuits in the cupboard. I take the cup and the biscuit tin and sit down with them in the conservatory. On the small side table is a large, colorful bouquet of flowers. The roses in it smell wonderful. Their scent mingles with the one rising from my cup. I take a first big sip. After a while - my cup is almost empty by now and the coffee scent has become a little quieter and softer - I can smell other flowers as well. I open the tin of vanilla doughnuts. Sweet, warm vanilla scent rises to my nose. I enjoy a piece of the pastry with the last of my coffee. Then I sit for a while and let myself be enchanted by this potpourri of scents. Sometimes rose and blossoms predominate next to the coffee notes, sometimes vanilla sweetness. Musk and amber provide depth and hold everything together. I close my eyes and dream myself for a moment into the timelessness of a holiday morning in a summerhouse. Invigorated and unhurried, I soon start my day. For hours, the scent of Intense Café accompanies me and lets the relaxed silence of the morning into the bustle of the following hours I can imagine this Montale more on women than on men. I think it goes on all the time, except maybe on hot summer days. It fits during the day and for casual wear. Only to the evening dress I would rather choose another fragrance.