With the exceptional perfume “TIRAMISU” by brand THEODOROS KALOTINIS you get exactly what the name says. A creamy and delicious portion of classic tiramisu, where you better do not count the calories. No strawberry tiramisu or other strange new ways of making good things worse by trying to improve them, just the perfect old-fashioned famous Italian dessert.
The perfume starts with a sweet gourmand explosion of cocoa and rum, followed by a wonderful realistic note of espresso without sugar, slightly bitter, and all engulfed in that creamy perfection of mascarpone and sweet biscuits.
To smell it means the immediate vision of a portion of tiramisu before your inner eye. Wearing it means to smell very tasty. As I am a gourmand addict, I can find not fault in the scent and would, if possible, bath in it. When I wear it, I have to be careful not to overdose. Not everybody has the same positive attitude to someone smelling like a huge bowl of tiramisu whilst working or doing other serious business. To give a warning, this is a brand that ticks all my boxed and pushes all my buttons. Probably a lot of people think the fragrances are too gourmand and food-like, for me that is just as it should be on a good day.
The scent notes, according to the website of THEODOROS KALOTINIS are mascarpone, vanilla, savoiardi biscuits, sugar, espresso coffee, cocoa and marsala wine.
As for the marsala wine I am not sure, the one from Sicily does taste a bit different. Often amaretto is used for tiramisu in my country. What I smell in “TIRAMISU” by THEODOROS KALOTINIS is a dark rum mixed with cocoa.
There is not much more to add. The scent notes are what they are and stay as they should. The silage and durability of the perfume are good, like with all perfumes of the brand THEODOROS KALOTINIS, be them extraits de perfume or eau de perfumes.
The colour of the perfume is a creamy white.
When I first bought a perfume of the brand THEODOROS KALOTINIS (it was “COFFEE ADDICT”), I was a bit surprised by the price of below 50 euros for the eau de parfum. One tends to wonder if it can be really a good perfume for that price. Yes, it can.
“TIRAMISU” is one of the extrait collection and costs approximately 150 euros. The price level is – especially when taking into account the quality – low according to today’s exploding perfume prices.
Greek gourmand niche brand THEODOROS KALOTINIS was in my mind for a perfume review for a long time. I own many of his perfumes, and almost all I deem more or less perfect. Few perfume houses stick so clearly to their chosen path of a scent group and even fewer make it really work. The perfumes of the brand I did not buy usually have fruits or plants as scent notes that I generally do not like. Still, one day it would be interesting to see if he made them into really nice fragrances as well.
Learning a bit about the man behind the perfumes, “nose” Theodoros Kalotinis, his brand’s website explains that he was born in Heraklion on the island of Crete and started as a self-taught perfumer fist. In time he did study chemistry and cosmetic science and professionalized his skills. All his perfumes are created and produced in Greece.
The most interesting information about him is the patent he registered. It is called: “Method for Producing Realistic Gourmand Fragrances Using a Pastry Gastronomic Approach” protected by Patent No. 1011083, granted by the Hellenic Industrial Property Organisation (OBI) according to his website.
Whatever that might mean in detail, it makes clear that he is dedicated to gourmand perfumes and hopefully will continue to create more and more.
Theodoros Kalotinis seems to appreciate a close contact to his online retailers, as he created exclusive editions for some of them. After noting a special edition at one of the online shops for end customers, where I purchase from time to time, I checked at the parfumo platform if there were more special editions. To get them, I did indeed buy at some other online retailers in the USA and Italy, just out of curiosity and because I wanted to have the fragrances.
The perfumes of THEODOROS KALOTINIS seem to have a special addictive ingredient for true gourmand lovers like me. To give an example: “ALLURING FIG”, an eau de parfum, does have a gourmand twist that most other fig perfumes lack. There are by now many fig perfumes on the market, and very good so, but to make fig smell like a dessert not many brands manage to do.
“TIRAMISU” by THEODOROS KALOTINIS gives me positive vibes. The brand is one of those out there that ring a chord with my nervous system or brain as soon as I smell a fragrance created by them. For other people it might be completely different. I hope that the brand THEODOROS KALOTINIS continues to stick to its roots and expands carefully, without ever forgetting that dessert approach in the perfumes!