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Ristretto Intense Café
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Montale Ristretto Intense Café is an oriental vanilla fragrance for men and women. Launched in 2019, this composition features coffee and Turkish rose in the top notes; roasted coffee beans, French rose, and woody notes in the heart; and vanilla, caramel, white musk, and amber in the base.
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Now, it’s truly worthy of having coffee in the name. I won’t ramble describing it because there’s not much to say. Take the original Intense Café, double the coffee dose, and voilá: you have Intense Café Ristretto. It’s a gourmand coffee, creamy, not bitter, and the coffee notes are present in the opening and a little beyond the heart phase, then they disappear into the rose and vanilla. The fixation, as always, is beastly. If I had to choose between its predecessor and this, I’d stick with Ristretto, which at least smells like what it says it smells like.
I’ve liked this Ristretto; aromatically, it’s superb. Strong presence of freshly ground coffee in the opening, a very realistic and well-executed note that, in my case, is clearly noticeable for about half an hour. After that, the vanilla, rose, and amber cover it up quite a bit, and this is the only gripe I have with a creation of this caliber. More complex, especially in the initial phase (where I also perceive caramel). If we compare it to the normal Intense (which lasts a fortune and has notable presence on my skin), it does quite well in longevity and projection, considering the summer heat. It’s pleasant to walk around feeling this delicious aroma that envelops and accompanies you step by step. I see it as perfect for dates or dinners in sweet company. If you already have the Intense, remember that Ristretto is clearly superior in the opening; afterwards, in the heart and dry-down, they go the same route.
I agree with John Milton’s review: this perfume is the Intense Café but with more coffee, without being crazy, and therefore with a slightly attenuated rose. They are very similar; the difference lies in whether you’re more of a coffee person or prefer to smell more like roses, but also, no less importantly, in the price.
A while back, Jerry Drake gifted me a sample of this amazing perfume, which I deeply appreciate. I hadn’t been pleasantly surprised by a scent as much as this Ristretto from Montale, with its delicious high-quality freshly ground coffee and slight vanilla touch. The sillage is also surprising, very noticeable, and the longevity is over 12 hours. No wonder people pay what they do for it; it’s worth it. Very elegant, no doubt you’ll turn heads with it. Recommended for Autumn and Winter. I’ll try to get a bottle as soon as I find one at a price that fits my budget.
I’ve really liked Ristretto Intense Café. It has brutal potency and a beautiful opening of coffee that you can feel for a short time, but it doesn’t dominate too much. To the point that if you’re looking for a pure coffee perfume, this might not be what you’re seeking. The coffee here is a complement that lasts about ten minutes, and then you only notice it if you have a very trained nose. For me, it’s a vanilla rose with a different opening, but then it develops the same way (in my humble opinion). Although I’m looking for a fresh, natural, green rose, this isn’t exactly what I have in mind, so if anyone wants to suggest rose options… I’m all ears. Scent: 8, Sillage: 10, Longevity: 10, Versatility: 6. I think it’s great, but I would have liked the coffee note to be more intense and present throughout its development. If this is the ‘intense’ version… I can’t imagine how long the coffee lasts in Intense Café.
A black coffee, please. Here, the rose doesn’t stand out as much as in Intense Café; in this one, it’s more subtle. It’s warm and cozy. Not as loud as Intense, but the coffee lasts longer and feels more natural. It’s like you’re not wearing it until you move, and then the coffee scent hits. If you like coffee and Intense, you’ll definitely like this; personally, I prefer it. I find it more versatile and interesting, not as monotonous and overwhelming as Intense. This should have been the only Intense Café.
Wonderful coffee aroma! As soon as I smelled it, I soared to the heavens. Rich for my nose, probably because I love coffee so much lol. Nothing more to say: glorious ☕☕☕☕☕☕.
Love at first sniff. I love how the black coffee stands out, paired with rose and wrapped in vanilla with a caramel dry-down. It’s warm, appetizing, and sensual. I don’t know the predecessor, Intense Café; I just went by the notes and reviews, and I was spot on blind. It projects for 12 hours on skin and clothes, and since it’s an extrait, the perfume gets where you’re going before you do. I haven’t been pleasantly surprised by a scent in a while; I’m really enjoying it this Chilean winter. Highly recommended. 10/10.
I’m Colombian and a coffee addict, so I had to try one of the two Montales: Intense Café or Ristretto. I grabbed a decant and asked the seller about the difference; he said Ristretto is sweeter. As a big fan of gourmand scents, I didn’t hesitate and went for it—and I nailed it. I haven’t tried the Intense, but I went big: it’s a creamy, vanilla-infused, caramelized coffee that dries down to delicious musk and amber. The scent, sillage, and longevity are EXCELLENT! Montale nailed it.
Delicious!!! It cost me to accept gourmand scents because smelling edible didn’t seem attractive to me, but I admit I’ve fallen hard for several perfumes of this type, and this was no exception. It smells like creamy, vanilla, and caramelized coffee, an exquisite cappuccino. It has a moderate to high trail and lasts 9 hours on my skin; I love it!!! If you want a less noticeable coffee, Intense Café is also exquisite!!!
I love the scent, but I must say I’m glad I didn’t buy the big bottle. I tested this perfume in a country with cold, dry air and fell totally in love. Now I’m in the Canaries with my small 20 ml bottle and I’m very disappointed: with the climate here, it simply stopped working. It lasts very little on the skin and has almost no trail; it feels weird to say that about a Montale, especially since there are many reviews saying the opposite and because it used to last me a lot with an impressive trail. Warning: if you live in a tropical country, don’t buy it blindly. Fly to love it, though. I like it more than Intense Café for a touch of cappuccino with caramel.
A linear fragrance where a coffee note dominates, reminiscent of famous coffee-with-milk candies. It’s not versatile; it’s more of an olfactory experience that can be suffocating or overwhelming because it projects and is very long-lasting. I slightly dislike the rose floral note; it’s not one of my favorites and it feels in the background at some point. Otherwise, I want to highlight that this perfume goes no further than personal enjoyment or living the experience of smelling like you bathed in a coffee-with-milk candy.
The perfume feels very linear; it doesn’t evolve. It’s a very sweet coffee with a rose extract note that dominates the whole time. I can’t use more than one spray because it overwhelms me; it’s very rich and sweet, hard to wear, totally for winter. If you’re looking for the experience of smelling like a sweet coffee with roses, this is your perfume.
I own Intense Café and I LOVE it; I discovered there was a version with more coffee and I was dying to try it. After months, I found it today at Druni. I sprayed it on my skin and it smells 90% like Intense Café, just with more coffee. 🙃 It’s a great perfume, but there’s no point in buying both; I idealized it too much.
The opening starts with coffee beans and joins with rose, ending in caramel and woods. It’s a very gourmand perfume that lasts well and has a great trail. Ideal for cold seasons.
They sell some incredibly delicious coffee-flavored candies for diabetics, and their smell is similar to this perfume. It’s overwhelming, but since I adore coffee and don’t mind excess sweetness, it’s a pleasant aroma that smells like smoked golden honey on my skin with flashes of roses. The longevity and trail are quite extensive.
What a delicious perfume! I had already tried Mancera’s Roses Vanille and Zara’s version, but they never fully convinced me, even though rose is my favorite note and gourmand vanilla usually appeals to me. Until I ordered a decant of Ristretto Intense Café and found what was missing. The opening is unequivocally coffee: it’s not the metaphysical coffee of Black Opium or the cappuccino of Good Girl (though it did remind me of Zara’s Warm Rich Addictive). It smells like sweet coffee beans and a delicious caramelized rose. As it settles, you notice the clean musk, it becomes less annoying, and much more wearable. I was afraid it would smell like spilled coffee on clothes, but it doesn’t. The most impressive part is its trail and longevity: over 12 hours on the skin (even after exercise and showering) and more than a day on clothes. A few drops are enough to be noticeable all day and for people nearby too. I imagine if it were atomized well, it would be a bomb. It’s totally unisex. I loved wearing it. Although it’s gourmand and warm, I think it works for summer nights or mild days, not in heat. It’s a great perfume and quite original.
I bought a decant of Intense Café looking for a black coffee bean aroma. After reading reviews, I decided to go for it and it arrived yesterday; I’ve already worn it. I had to buy a tester because the atomizer came weird: Montale’s safety clip was tangled with the applicator. Removing it was difficult, and when I reassembled it, the spray isn’t as wide as I’d like, but I’ll transfer it to another bottle. The scent is very similar to the original Intense Café but sweeter. At first, you smell coffee and rose; then it settles, gets sweeter, and vanilla and caramel appear. It’s soft, sweet, romantic, and feminine. It doesn’t smell as much like coffee as I was hoping for (a strong espresso), so be careful. This happens with Mancera too: it doesn’t feel potent at first, but you notice it with wear. Here it’s the same; I don’t know if it’s the spray or the bottle. It’s noticeable, but not a sharp bomb like other reviews say. I like it, but I recommend testing it first, especially if you’re looking for coffee intensity.
I’m in love; it’s exactly as their notes indicate, pure coffee and rose, and those are the two you feel from start to finish. If you have a trained nose (which isn’t my case), you might perceive the others clearly, but coffee and rose is what I feel clearly. It sounds simple to feel just two notes, but it’s made with great balance and perfection, in my opinion. At first, the coffee comes out strong and the rose is in the background. It’s like a coffee that’s neither too sweet nor too bitter, but from my perception, it leans more towards bitter. As time passes, the rose and a sweetness increase, I imagine from the vanilla, amber, and caramel, but the coffee doesn’t disappear. At that point, for a graphic description, it’s like having a fresh, fully bloomed rose next to you and sprinkling it with dark coffee and a little sugar, caramel, or vanilla, but no milk. Literally, it smells like a rose bathed in coffee that’s just a little sweet. What I like is that despite everything, it feels like a fine fragrance; people won’t think you smell like coffee because you drank coffee; they’ll know you’re wearing perfume. It’s a delicious and comforting scent for me, not necessarily warm, but comforting, addictive, like when you smell your coffee in the morning and feel comfort from it. I don’t know how it will behave in summer; I’m currently in the season change to autumn, it’s already getting cool, and I feel it’s perfect for now, for all of autumn and winter, maybe even spring. It has great sillage for several hours, honestly I couldn’t say exactly how long it projects because I haven’t asked anyone near me, but I perceive it for many hours, without bringing my nose close to the skin maybe 7 or 8 hours, and close to the skin it lasts a bit longer. I’m thrilled, it’s one of those fragrances that feels like it was worth buying.
So rich, smells like sweet coffee and is super cheerful, nothing annoying. Crazy how long it lasts on the skin and how much it projects!
Totally head-over-heels from the first spray… what a blast, please! The truth is, at first I was scared because I love the scent of coffee but doubted if I really looked good smelling that all the time… but this perfume hit me right in the face, because from the very moment you can perceive a coffee with a juicy rose that makes you crave it, and as it dries down, I notice a lot of caramel too. I’m in love. It’s a scent I associate with this cold season because it wraps you in warmth beautifully. It lasts and projects for a life and a half. Also, it feels super elegant and addictive, quite well-crafted and balanced. I’d also add that it feels more feminine to me. Very sexy, I love it! 💖💖
Smells incredibly good. However, only at the beginning did I catch a cappuccino-style coffee that fades quickly and resembles MANCERA ROSES VANILLA, which has no coffee at all. I haven’t smelled the Montale INTENSE CAFÉ, but I see people say it’s similar to ROSES VANILLA too. In my opinion, both this RISTRETTO INTENSE CAFÉ and the regular INTENSE CAFÉ, the coffee should be the dominant note without getting lost.
THIS IS WHAT INTENSE CAFÉ SHOULD BE FOR ME. What a pleasure, such a velvety and beautiful scent. The olfactory image is identical to ChocoChan: a fresh rose covered in slightly sweet coffee. What coffee, folks! It’s dark, specialty grade, with nuances… like the ones costing 25 euros a kilo. The caramel touches are delicious. All the notes are in perfect balance. I have a very low tolerance for rose, which usually seems powdery, too sweet, and gives me headaches. Its presence here is just right to add sweetness and that velvety, floral touch, but that’s it. Without a doubt, the star is that high-quality coffee, which wants to be bitter but vanilla and caramel regulate it perfectly. For me, it even has a hint of cocoa. This is my first impression. As soon as I can, I’ll give it a second try, because the price doesn’t allow for impulse buying. But what a marvel.
So delicious. Super warm, smells like a cappuccino. I don’t usually like perfumes with rose, but for some reason, in this one, backed by coffee, vanilla, and caramel, I absolutely love it. It will shine better in the colder months, but I wear it all year round. 10/10
You can smell a lot of coffee, then the roses, then all the sweetness, and you get sick of it. I recommend trying it before buying.
At first, the coffee is strong, then the roses and the caramel sweetness appear; in the dry down, those two dominate with the musk base. The coffee is noticeable throughout the evolution, just more diluted. It has moderate sillage and long-lasting longevity. It’s a more affordable option than Xerjoff K’bridge Club or Tiziana Terenzi Delox, which are very similar.
Today I almost bought this but didn’t, because of that dominant rose note that I don’t like, even when I try it. I’ve been looking for a sweet, creamy coffee scent, like walking into a Starbucks, and this isn’t it; for me, it’s a Mancera Roses Vanille with coffee. That said, my love for coffee might make me buy it in the future since I don’t have anything like this, but I’ll keep thinking about it.
This is the only one that smells like coffee from the very first moment… and it’s addictive. Yes, it’s pricey, but it’s not overbearing; it lasts about 6 to 8 hours. Very gourmand, you can smell a bit of rose and vanilla, but nothing ‘grandma-like’.
This perfume is absolutely amazing! Just arrived and left a wonderful first impression. It’s my first Montale and I can’t stop thinking about it 😍😍
Coffee and roses. If you don’t want to smell like that, don’t bother. Potent as a nuclear bomb, but many people like it. Still, don’t overdo the sprays because you might kill someone.
It’s a VERY POTENT and delicious perfume.
It’s the only gourmand I own and I don’t know how to feel; I’m more into florals/woods, but well, it’s never a bad thing to have one like this… It’s too potent; just two sprays and that’s it; if you use it in the heat, you can suffocate someone.
I love the first hour. It reminds me of coffee candies (like Capuchinos) that I can no longer find. After an hour, the coffee fades and the rose rises. It’s a juicy red rose, but it feels more feminine than unisex. Then it resembles Intense Café more: a dominant rose with an affogato coffee and vanilla ice cream. It lasts over 10 hours and the sillage makes you notice it. I’m hoping for a sample of Mancera’s Amore Caffe to see if I find the definitive one. At least there they don’t mention rose. We’ll see.
Among all the praise for Montale, I think differently. These are overwhelming and shrill perfumes. I bought Pearl, Roses Musk, and then Ristretto, and they all smell of that dirty, potent, and overwhelming rose because yes, they are potent and exhausting. Ristretto has little to no coffee; the rose steals everything and it’s a rose with stems, leaves, and earth. If you like subtle scents, this isn’t for you, same as Pearl and Roses Musk, which smell identical.
Oh my god! I tried it yesterday; at first, it smelled of intense coffee and I thought I’d found what I was looking for (sinking into a ristretto); but over time, the rose takes over: a foul rose, as if it were rotting. It smells like you sprayed a rose perfume into a sealed bag and left it there for 10 years. On top of that, it has a brutal sillage and beast-mode longevity. As usually happens, those who don’t like it are the ones that last the longest. It happened with Tom Ford’s Café Rose, but there the rose was more pleasant.
Delicious coffee with caramel and rose notes reminiscent of honey. It’s a rich, unisex perfume with great projection; just don’t overapply.
Montale’s Ristretto Intense Café is a masterpiece by Pierre Montale that nearly perfectly replicates an espresso with caramel touches. As it dries, an excellent rose emerges, adding another dimension. Although similar to Intense Café, Ristretto is more gourmand. The performance is atomic, typical of Montale, with incredible longevity and projection. I recommend trying it before buying because the gourmand profile isn’t for everyone. I absolutely love it.
Smells like Intense Café but with more coffee and caramel that close the rose and vanilla blend. It’s potent; I understand many won’t like it, but I’m looking for coffee perfumes and this has made me addicted.
It gives me nausea, like vomiting coffee while driving down a mountain pass with a passenger smelling of horrid roses. This happens with Intense Café alone and with Mancera’s Roses Vanille. It makes people vomit this shrill mess; it should be a crime.