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.
