Freshly brewed coffee with a lot of milk in the morning – is there anything better? Not for me, I love the scent and the taste and the beans and everything about my morning coffee.
The perfume “Coffee” from Sergio Nero is the first really cheap perfume I write about. It shows perfectly well that the price tag alone says nothing about quality. The scent is fantastic if you want to smell like a strong, freshly brewed coffee with milk. Not like the cheap over roasted coffee you can buy at the local discounter. It smells like an expensive and exclusive Ethiopian or Central American Arabica blend, slowly roasted at your hip local roastery to bring the chocolate / nut / cacao notes out.
I love coffee notes in perfume in general and have quite a few luxurious ones like Perris Monte Carlo “Arancio di Sicilia” and others. Here coffee is mixed with orange and the end product is addictive. Still, the Sergio Nero coffee is the strongest and purest of all my coffee scents. It happens that people look searchingly for the cup that must give that wonderful smell when I wear it. I wondered if people would find the scent weird, so I tested reactions from unknowing colleagues and friends. No one said something negative at all (as did happen with some of my oud and patchouli perfumes).
Mostly I wear the perfume at home, especially in the morning when drinking a cup of noble coffee that tastes exactly like the perfume smells. It is a wonderful feeling; it gives harmony and comfort. I am then ready to take on the world, but not in a red-hot fighting mood, more in a relaxed Jamaican Reggae kind of way. Whatever happens, happens. Hakuna Matata. Let them all run around like headless chickens – I stay cool.
I found the perfume when randomly searching for coffee scented perfumes. Not sure how I came to amazon, not my usual hunt for perfumes, but I bought it there. It was so cheap I thought I couldn’t do any wrong buying it, even if I’d throw it away immediately after smelling it for the first time. The brand Sergio Nero also didn’t ring a bell. The description of the perfumes on Sergio Nero’s amazon store is not very well translated. Seems the brand belongs to “Rene de Grace” with the domain parfumsdegrasse. The company is family owned and not located in Grasse, but closer to Orange in France. That’s all I could find out. The company has many perfumes on offer. It seems to be one of the big unknowns in the perfume world.
As I didn’t expect much, I was totally happy when I got a perfect perfume delivered! I had also bought the Sergio Nero scent “Chocolate”, as I love chocolate scents as well. It was better rated and in the same price range as the “Coffee” one. Also not bad, but to far away from real chocolate for me. None of those two perfumes are of the dreaded “hairspray” or “bath cleaner” kind. Not even remotely. They are well balanced, long lasting, pure and when it comes to “Coffee”, outstanding in my opinion.
The brand itself writes in the description of “Coffee” that the notes of the perfume are cane sugar, caramel, coffee liquor, roasted and grinded coffee beans, cream, honey, tiramisu, vanilla, sandalwood and musk.
I smell a little less different scent notes, but really a lot of those roasted and grinded coffee beans… Wonderful. And indeed honey. At first, when reading the description, I had though no, but the honey scent is there. As always in perfumes, a milk note is difficult to construct. Here it is a chocolate milk note. Cane sugar is also clearly distinguishable, those top sweet sugar notes that can sometimes be very boring when not attached properly to other notes. Here all of them are on display in a delectable mixture. Very real, very gourmand, very special.
In descriptions of “Coffee” in some of the perfume’s platforms people also detected flower notes. I say there are none – but as always, scents and noses are very individual.
The colour of the scent is a strong milk-coffee brown.
And can’t find anything negative to say about the scent. Certainly not everybody wants to smell like a cup of coffee, but if you do, you have found the perfect way to do so.