Caramel Macchiato Fragrance World 2024

For once, I am having a completely different experience than everyone else reviewing this. I have really bad luck with Arab gourmands, some of the chemicals used don't work for my skin, but this lovely thing...Caramel Macchiato doesn't really smell like a perfume, actually. It smells like you left a half-milk-half-coffee caramel-flavored drink out to cool and forgot about it. As I walk around and keep catching little wafts of it, and going "hmm, something in this room smells good, did I forget to close a container of something?" and then I remember it's ME.
It's very airy and sort of floats around you. If you use it sparingly, people won't realize it's perfume. This is a good thing. Don't ruin the magic with overspraying.
Also, I cannot stress enough that this isn't exactly...sweet? The caramel kind of smells like Wherthers taste. It's a sweet, sure, but you could eat like a dozen of them before your mouth starts puckering.
All in all, delightful, subtle, cheap as hell, and migraine-sufferer approved.

The initial dry down is really screechy, earthy, woody, and incredibly disappointing. After about 10 minutes, the caramel does start coming through, but it definitely feels less like a caramel flavoured coffee and more like a vaguely caramel scented tree. Overall just way too masculine for me. It has moderate sillage and lasts about 4 hours. It at least isn't as bad as Irish Coffee which makes me gag.

Caramel Macchiato opens with a burst of medium roast coffee, caramel, honey, and vanilla with just a hint of synthetic undertone.

I've had a déjà vu feeling when smelling this stuff because it immediately reminded me of Zimaya Sharaf Blend (aka an oriental interpretation of Angel's Share) this is basically the same stuff but with some coffee and a very distinct caramel note.

As it dries down, the coffee note takes a backseat, and what we end up with is mostly caramel, honey, and vanilla, not bad, but as I said, you get a very similar experience to Sharaf Blend, Khamrah, and all the other clones of Angel's Share made in arabic fashion.

Overall, this is a well-made, decent-quality offering (apart from the somewhat synthetic first few minutes), with solid performance: medium-strong projection for at least 2–3 hours and around 8 hours of total longevity.

Truth be told, I'm not the biggest fan. The coffee note is only upfront for around 2 hours, maybe, and the rest has been done before a quadrillion times. Still, if you're looking for a unisex, Angel's Share-adjacent type of gourmand with moderate amounts of coffee and a big emphasis on caramel, this might be a win for you.

Or Beauty Queen vs. Superhero!
Yes, I can also see a similarity to Lattafa's Khamrah Qahwa. And my husband promptly said, "You could have skipped that one," when Caramel Macchiato moved in with us.

But I love Caramel Macchiato and wouldn't want to miss it in my collection anymore. Surely, because I have a penchant for coffee scents, and it may be that for some people the two fragrances are too similar. Nevertheless, or perhaps because of that, I want to try to describe what makes this scent so indispensable for me.

The coffee in Khamrah Qahwa lies soft and velvety, nestled in a bed of flowers and spices, gently smiling at you and saying, "Look how beautiful I am!" It is a captivating beauty queen who knows how to play with her charms.

In contrast, the coffee in Caramel Macchiato is the superhero. With a proud chest and held high head, it stands before you and needs no words. You are simply impressed by its presence and can’t close your mouth in awe. Its sidekick Caramel only looks sweet at first glance. You can tell it has been roasted a bit longer. Not the type that little girls go for. However, real guys find it appealing, and of course, women who are looking for tough men with a soft core.

While Lattafa's Qahwa already has a certain popularity due to its older sibling, Caramel Macchiato and its siblings (yes, it has a few from the #Coffe Collection) are still undiscovered treasures, of which I have already managed to unearth two.

Just a quick note on longevity: I can still perceive Caramel Macchiato on textiles the next day. Khamrah Qahwa lasts even a bit longer.

I ordered the scent as a winter fragrance a few months ago. I expected a freshly brewed coffee with a juicy note of milk and caramel added. However, when I tested it for the first time, I was more than bitterly disappointed. The scent: piercing and biting. Totally unpleasant, to the point where my stomach turned. I was so looking forward to my new gourmand and then this. The coffee was hardly recognizable, at best a synthetic imitation of coffee that had been sitting in the sun for too long. And now I have stored the scent away. Just written off. Now, after about two months, I tried it again. And lo and behold: coffee, caramel. I immediately felt the urge to wear it. And I am not pregnant, so I don't believe my sense of smell has changed. Rather, the scent has. Maybe it needed to marinate?? What do I know, anyway, this biting note is gone, and finally, you can smell the underlying facets. It gets another chance with me.