Roasted Coffee Cigarette Whisky Come and get your Suede Honey Baby Strangers Parfumerie 2020

This fragrance captures a rich, mature sensuality, masterfully weaving together the bold aroma of dark-roasted coffee beans, the character of aged whiskey, the smokiness of tobacco, and the smooth, supple texture of suede.

It is a scent that embodies the profound richness of roasted coffee.

With the deep, whiskey-like intensity of coffee accented by a touch of honey—and underscored by the smokiness of tobacco—the fragrance takes on a distinct, matte, smoky quality. At the same time, it possesses a lustrous, liquid-like depth and richness, reminiscent of fine coffee or whiskey.

These contrasting textures intertwine to create a unique sense of depth—much like the sophisticated charm of someone savoring a complex, full-bodied cup of coffee. It is this very richness that gives the fragrance its sensual appeal.

The notes of this perfume are quite chaotic but very wearable nevertheless.

At first spray, I picked up on a burnt popcorn smell, rubber, leather and something like gasoline. To me, it smelled like a gas station parking lot. But, thankfully, the harsher notes of rubber, gasoline and popcorn faded after only about ten minutes. It immediately came alive from the tobacco, dark alcohol notes and honey. Boozy, sweet, earthy and almost fruity from the richness of the tobacco and honey combined.

The leather is still there lingering in the background for a while, fading after about two to three hours. The 'fruitiness' lasts for most of the wear before the vanilla emerges about four to five hours into it, elevating the sweetness. For the latter portion, all I could detect was the tobacco, honey and vanilla.

Overall, this is heavenly to me and reminds me of summertime in the South—warm and familiar, boozy sweet, earthy and rich. It's a hot summer day, smoking a cigarette at a gas station before transitioning to enjoying an evening glass of brown liquor on the porch of a tobacco farmhouse.

Normally, I'm a little disappointed/upset when I can't pick up on any coffee in perfumes that list it as a note (especially when it's in the title); however, though I couldn't distinguish any in this perfume, it's sooo good to me that I didn't even really think about it. This can read as a somewhat 'masculine' fragrance if that matters to you but, as someone who prefers to wear 'feminine' scents, I absolutely love this and think it could suit just about anyone.

Sampling Strangers Parfumerie Roasted Coffee Cigarette Whisky Come and get your Suede Honey Baby, generally shortened to just “Roasted Coffee.” Its long name is a helpful descriptor, as the fragrance does start out with a hefty dose of dark, roasted coffee, followed by an emergency of whiskey, and a further dry down into a blend of a few other notes—most notably, tobacco, hay, musk, and what, to me, has a bit of a makeup/lipstick sort of quality. So there’s a little funk from the hay, a bit of cosmetics, but a strong center of coffee, booze, and tobacco, making for a provocative blend that nonetheless has some familiar, comforting points.

Comparison-wise, I find connections to both both Kerosene Follow (the coffee gold standard, featuring a blend of dark coffee, amber, and vanilla) and 4160 Tuesdays Take Me to the River (a bit of a rock and roll mix of rose, leather, wine, and tobacco).

Roasted Coffee is a bit of a rock and roll coffee scent with some pep, less the woody/spicy coffee blend that SM Café is, and less the more sugary Caffeine Honey. This is a great scent, even though I’d still say that Caffeine Honey is my favorite of the three, but together, they’re a great coffee variety within one house, and I would happily own bottles of all three if money were no object.

Roasted Coffee is in extrait de parfum concentration and is priced at $110 for 30ml, which seems to the current standard pricing for extrait, vs. $80 for 30ml for EDP (scents seem to be made in one concentration or the other, not both). It is sold online at Luckyscent and Indiescents.

8 out of 10