Café Tuberosa Atelier Cologne for women and men

On first impression, this could best be described as whiplash in a bottle. I honestly can't remember a fragrance where I went from instant hate based on the top notes to immediate love as soon as the drydown kicked in. The opening is...challenging, to say the least. It's harsh and unforgiving to my nose and unpleasntly reminiscent of days-old spilled coffee. Thankfully, the middle notes revealed a warm embrace of tuberose, vanilla and patchouli that drew me in and made me grateful that I hadn't scrubbed off the scent after the first spray. The patchouli anchors the tuberose here, adding depth and dimension to what might have been a linear white floral heart.

While I normally gravitate away from most gourmands due to their overwhelming sweetness, I found this one appealing as it is neither saccharine nor cloying. Longevity is good and sillage is perfect for close quarters. Overall, an enjoyable surprise that I likely would not have discovered on my own.

the best coffee accord to me.....not mocca not cappuccino.. coffee.......I will never get bored with them even there is 1000 new relieses around the year. The best coffee I know.

Café Tuberosa by Atelier Cologne
(200 ml, USD 108)

First Impression (1 Full Wear)

Holy cow! this is so magnificent. I decided to blind-buy as I got a good deal
Cologne like that strongly reminds me of Cocoa/Coffee support by Floral nuance.
Sweet but airy and it is truly very enjoyable, sort of gourmand cologne for everyday use.

Much Much better offering, for gourmand cologne.
What in the world the decide to discontinue this scent??!?
This is also somewhat reminds me of A*Men (EDT) by Mugler.
Is this remotely reminds me of Noir de Noir (?) yeah, sort of but this is so cologne like.
While NDN is much more dense than this.

But I don't understand...?!

As first impression I can give this solid 9/10
Longevity : 6 hours then become very close skin-scent.
Projection : Moderately to soft, As cologne manner - this is perfect.
Classification : Unisex
Summary : Coffee-Floral Gourmand Cologne-like that can be reach every time you want something delicious.

It's pretty straightforward. A composition of mainly sweetened coffee, rose, something solar and not very convincing tuberose. It does not have the delicacy of real florals at all, as the flowers are swimming in sticky syrup. I suppose it lives up to its name, but the tuberose could have been a lot better. It's not lively or narcotic like other tuberoses. I wonder if coffee and tuberose were meant to be combined at all, as they doesn't really work well together IMO. Noir de Noir and L'Or de Torrente are much better.

A brash, quite sweet white-flowers'n'fruitchouli, with the tuberose and coffee as accents. I think it's the sweet patchouli that ties the two named notes together. The coffee does sometimes read as 'cold, spilled sweetened coffee' but I still like it . Fun & interesting.

I love the middle notes and dry down, it becomes a lovely warm floral, a mix of tuberose and vanilla that still retains some of the coffee/cocoa notes from the opening. It's a perfect balance between floral and gourmand. I think people who might not typically go for tuberose or white flower perfumes would like this one, it's not loud at all, it's warm and embracing. It's also quite feminine, I don't see it really as a unisex fragrance once the tuberose really pops out.
I don't know if I can get over the opening though, it's very harsh, at least on me. Coffee and what probably is cardamom and citrus according to the notes but it feels like a dissonant mix and it was almost instantly a hard pass. However, I let it develop for a bit on my arm and it completely changed. Hard to say.

This perfume has a personality all of her own. There is something classic, but complicated about it.

On my skin, it's an initial blast to the face of a cloyingly sweet, yet bitter scent of deep roses, old coffee, and stale chocolate. As it mellows out, she transports you into her world and shows you her story. It's the 1920's and you see a woman in her early 30's. She's a new and nervous performer, sitting in front of a mirror while powdering her nose in an attempt to look perfect. She has feathers on her head piece and you can see her fishnet stockings peeking out from behind the fringe on her dress. On the vanity is a cigarette burning into an unwashed ashtray, open box of chocolates, a bouquet of red roses with a few spikes of white tuberose, and half a cup of coffee that has grown cold. Breathe in this scene as the woman gets ready to perform on stage. The dry down is the remnants of that scene, long after closing. The smell that lingers in the room and mixes with the scent of the old, wooden ceiling and a boozy vanilla extract.

It's not a scent that I would wear daily, nor would I purchase a full bottle. Yet, I appreciated the olfactory teleportation into another world. If I were a writer or an artist seeking inspiration, this is a scent that I would apply to get my creative juices flowing. It's a very unique smell. I never detected the top notes of citrus, but there was a hint of cardamom in the beginning that was lost early on. Sillage was enormous at first, but died down quickly to a moderate-moderate/intimate level that lasted several hours.

Green Ethiopian coffee bean
who would have thought that tuberose and coffee would go so well together? the perfumeur has managed to find some common ground between these two materials creating a fragrance that is incredibly unusual, undeniably wearable and actually rather beautiful. Café Tuberosa is a grown-up gourmand ...The opening is somewhat surprising and photo-realistic, presenting coffee with its full spectrum of odours, including bitterness and nuttiness then the tuberose emphasises the greener, milkier and fresher facets of the coffee bean.
The effect is at once sumptuous and elegant, especially since the composition remains radiant and airy (patchouly and mandarin play a important role in this fresh effect, far better than the heavy Noir de Noir for Tom Ford)
a class of its own

Unfortunately with the full bottle I didn’t get coffee. I just smell incense. Which is fine and a comforting smell but not what I was hoping for.

I'm sorry, but this smells like straight up ashtray on me. I can't stand it and I don't understand the hype.

It opens very, very dry like a typical Italian chocolate biscotti and dry coffee grounds. I don't pick up much citrus if any. Soon after, the floral note begins to emerge. I find that the tuberose has a sort of sweet, green punchy edge to it but is otherwise a typical white floral. Around 20 minutes in, it develops into a floral, tuberose-forward scent whose slight powderiness offsets the dry bitterness of the cocoa and coffee. The vanilla and rose also round out and clean up the scent a bit. It has good projection which can be a bit much for the first few minutes before it mellows out-just enough that it is enjoyable to wear but still can be smelled easily by those around. I wouldn't describe it as deep or dark but rather as present and intriguing. It is versatile and could be worn day or night. This is a true unisex scent (although, of course, all scents are, but this one is in the conventional sense.)

The first one smell is a lot of horrible tuberoses. Fortunately, ten minutes later, that concentration decreases a lot, and the smell of coffee comes and combines with it. Of course, it can be said that here again, 70%-30% is in superiority of tuberose. In addition to the smell of coffee, It has a more caramel state than bitter coffee.
In general, after half an hour, it smells very good, but it tends to more tuberose than coffee, and instead of Cafe Tuberosa, they should have named it Tuberosa Cafe. I think this perfume is more feminine than masculine. Of course, I do not think that men who like floral and fragrant perfumes do not hate wearing this perfume. But do not think that by buying this perfume, you will have a perfume with a dominant smell of coffee.




اولش که بوی گل مریم وحشتناک زیاد رو میده خوشبختانه ده دقیقه بعد اون غلظت زیاد کم میشه و بوی قهوه میاد باهاش ترکیب میشه . البته میشه گفت باز اینجا در صد بوها 70-30 به نفع گل مریم هست. در ضمن بوی قهوه؛ یه حالت کاراملی بیشتر داره تا قهوه تلخ. در مجموع بعد از نیم ساعت بوی خیلی خوبی داره ولی بیشتر به گل مریم میخوره تا قهوه و به جای کافه توبروز باید اسمش رو میگذاشتند توبروزکافه
من فکر میکنم این عطر بیشتر زنونه هست تا مردانه. البته مردانی که از عطرهای گلی و خوشبو خوششون میاد به نظرم از پوشیدن این عطر بدشون نیاد. ولی فکر نکنید که با خرید این عطر عطری با بوی غالب قهوه خواهید داشت


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Retest in December:
The explanations I gave above; It was in the warmest month of the year. At that time, I sprayed this perfume, which was special for the cold days of the year, and the strong smell of tuberose really hate me at first.
Until a few days ago, which is December, I tested this perfume again. I was really shocked. I was expecting the same attack smell as the first flower of tuberose, While I encountered a very pleasant smell! In this case, the perfume has a caramel-like smell that when you smell the perfume deeply, in 90 percent of the time you smell delicious Caramel and the last 10 percent has the fragrance of tuberose, which is not harsh at all and is gentle and kind!

Every time which I smelled my skin; The image that is etched in my mind was a very thick, creamy, brownish, semi-sticky edible liquid.
In my opinion, this perfume can be classified in the edible group.
The smell of the perfume is very good and even though the human sense of smell gets used to that smell after a while and doesn't feel it anymore, But in this case, still recognizable. The longevity of the perfume is also very good.

I am a pharmacist, and I become so happy to have such an experience. I think that the evaporation temperature point of caramel and tuberose in this perfume is different. In the warm seasons of the year, tuberose evaporates rapidly from the skin, and this causes you to smell a very strong smell of tuberose flowers at the beginning of the work, but in the cold seasons of the year, caramel gradually evaporates from the skin and its simultaneous evaporation with tuberose. It creates a very lovely smell with tuberose.




تست مجدد در ماه آذر
توضیحاتی که من در بالا دادم؛ در ماه گرم سال بود. من در آن زمان این عطر رو که مخصوص روزهای سرد سال بود رو اسپری کردم که بوی زیاد گل مریم در ابتدا واقعا من رو از عطر زده کرد.
تا اینکه چند روز قبل که همین ماه دسامبر هست مجدد این عطر رو تست کردم. واقعا شوکه شدم. انتظار همون بوی حمله مانند اولیه گل مریم رو داشتم؛ در حالیکه با بویی بسیار دلنشین مواجه شدم! در این حالت عطر بویی کارامل مانند داره که وقتی عطر رو عمیقا بو میکشید در ۹۰ در صد زمان بو کشیدن عطر؛ کارامل خوشمزه به مشام میرسه و ۱۰ در صد آخر عطر گل مریم داره که اون هم اصلا خشن نیست و ملایم و مهربون هست!
با هر بار بویید ن موضع؛ تصویری که در ذهنم حک میشه؛ یک مایع خیلی غلیظ خوراکی کرم مایل به قهوه ای رنگ نیمه چسبنده هست.
به نظر من این عطر در گروه خوراکی هم قابل طبقه بندی شدن هستش.
پخش بوی عطر خیلی خوبه و با وجود اینکه حس بویایی انسان بعد از مدتی به بو عادت میکنه و اون رو دیگه حس نمیکنه؛ ولی باز قابل تشخیص هست. ماندگاری عطر هم خیلی خوبه


من خیلی خوشحال شدم که تجربه ای اینچنین داشتم. من فکر میکنم که دمای تبخیر ماده ی کارامل با گل مریم در این عطر با هم متفاوت هست. در فصول گرم سال در ابتدا توبروز از روی پوست به سرعت تبخیر میشه و این باعث میشه که در ابتدای کار شما یک بوی بسیار تند از گل مریم رو استشمام کنید ولی در فصول سرد سال این کارامل هست که بتدریج از روی پوست تبخیر میشه و تبخیر همزمان آن با توبروز بویی بسیار دوست داشتنی رو ایجاد میکنه

This perfume is an instant love for me. Brought back memories of being a teenager, sitting in my car and peeling off the foil of a new pack of cigarettes. I would press my nose into the fresh pack and inhale deeply. It’s the only thing is miss about smoking. I realize tobacco is not listed as a note but the vibe is there, especially in the opening. For me the rest of the notes are more pronounced in the mid and base with that tobacco part mellowing out.

Opens up with mostly coffee and cacao. The coffee isn't super bitter, i expected a bit more bite considering the cardamom factor.

Honestly do not get many top notes from this. Just coffee with a dose of cacao to tone down the bitter aspect.

I sniffed the cap (since i got this in a trade) and the tuberose is way more present when you smell the cap. On a test strip i barely get any of that bubblegum-esque tuberose i smelled on the cap. There's a rosy floral aspect if you focus hard, but i mostly just get cacao and coffee.

I think i actually prefer this fragrance with less tuberose. It's like a more coffee and cacao heavy version of Tiziana Terenzi Delox.

This perfume triggered FOMO. I regret not purchasing it when it was available at Sephoras. I saw a tester on a cruise ship but it was sold out already. Now it's nowhere to be found 🙁

I wasn't completely convinced to get a full bottle when I tested it initially, but I tested it later again indoors and fell in love with the scent. The drydown is divine. I couldn't stop sniffing it.
No similar scent is a good enough substitute. Nothing compares to this scent.

THIS is the coffee and rose fragrance I was looking for in Intense Cafe and Ristretto Intense Cafe - those both smelled too synthetic to me!

It opens a little too bitter for me, not sure if that is due to the coffee or the bergamot, but it settles down into a lovely feminine blend of coffee and flowers, with the vanilla coming in to add just the right amount of sweetness.

Edit: someone said there is patchouli in this/they smelled patchouli. I am an absolute patchouli hater and I didn’t detect any.

Cafe Tuberosa was nothing like I expected from the notes. I found the coffee to be bitter, dark, and very discordant with the floral notes. I didn't quite get the personality that usually comes with tuberose, rather a more generic loudness, melding with the rose. No cardamom, no sweetness. I'm surprised patchouli is not listed as to me it is the most apparent component. Perhaps my skin just amped totally the wrong things here. Unfortunately this was a scrubber.

As a big coffee fan, I'm always intrigued by its use as a note in perfume, but I have yet to find a scent that uses it to perfection. Café Tuberosa is an intriguing and creative coffee-dominant scent that features good-quality, realistic notes, but ultimately the combination of notes doesn't quite work for me.

CT opens with peppery cardamom and a strong, rich coffee note. It is realistic, intense and not burnt-smelling, while equally is far from being fleeting as in Black Opium or Cacharel Noa. It smells like a freshly-opened bag of ground coffee. There is a surprising orange note in there as well, adding a hint of zest, but is more Christmassy than Mediterranean, and while the overall effect is warm and cosy, I'm not sure they go well together.

Smooth, creamy tuberose emerges, bolstered by a rich rose note. This floral accord is beautiful, but is more discordant than providing a nice counterpoint to the coffee note. Smooth vanilla and rich cacao in the base provide a bittersweet gourmand finish - another nice accord that is not at all cohesive. I think the orange note in particular is an unfortunate addition. Like most Atelier Cologne scents, it is unisex, but this one is long-lasting and has moderate sillage. In a similar vein to Vanille Insensée, CT is a risky, non-citrus scent that is distinct from the the typical Atelier Cologne offerings.

Despite its excellent raw materials, it doesn't quite fit together. Still, creative, interesting and reasonably pleasant. 3/5.

I’ve been on a tuberose kick for a few months now,so after spotting this on eBay for £30 pounds for a 30ml thought I’d snap it up as it’s discontinued.On initial spray I get a very strong coffee bitter smell with florals in the background which I recoiled at but after 10 minutes it settled and seemed a lot smoother I was able to pick up coffee chocolate orange and roses not tuberose until it had been on for a few hours then I smelt tuberose very interesting perfume and not like anything I have in my collection it’s a like not a love but will enjoy using up this bottle won’t be hunting more down though as I prefer a more dominant tuberose

The rose in here is incredibly dominant for me, despite the name. It's stronger than the tuberose and most certainly stronger than the coffee. I only get a small initial blast of coffee and then I don't detect it at all.

To me this scent is a patch-rose with some amber and Hershey's special dark cocoa powder in the dry down. It's a bit peppery as well.

Not what I was expecting at all, but incredibly beautiful. Unisex leaning slightly masculine, especially in the dry down when the powdery cocoa and patchouli become more apparent. Quite bitter, quite exotic. Very sexy when I envision it on a man.

Lasts eternally but loses its sillage after about 6 hours.

gorgeous and long lasting, warm and sweet spicy, like a cinnamon mocha except not as strongly gourmand as you'd think. i generally dislike most gourmand scents but this is amazing, the perfect mix of natural and sugary. whole, delicious, cozy, and thoughtful

I blind bought this because the descriptions looked so intriguing. Coffee, chocolate, florals, like what??? Also I am an avid coffee drinker but was not convinced that I wanted to smell like coffee (when I think it people who “smell like coffee” I tend to think of coffee breath- ew.) Anyways, upon the initial spray, my brain was immediately like “omg Halloween!”. It’s a blast of coffee, chocolate, and candy (tuberose often has medicinal grape vibes which are kind of candy-esque). I feel like I stuck my head in a box of mixed Halloween treats and picked up a mixture of Coffee Crisp with grape gummies. (Except instead of Coffee Crisp it’s the high end Whole Foods fair-trade dark chocolate equivalent, and instead of generic grape gummies it’s the Sugarfina Wine Gums equivalent). The dry down is softer and sweeter- the coffee beans do become the dominant note- less so in a “cup of coffee” kind of way, more so in a dark chocolate covered espresso bean kind of way. It does keep the sweet highlight of the grapey tuberose. A couple of reviews referenced the smells of cigarette smoke- I believe this is the sharpness of the coffee bean. Sexy, unique fragrance. It’s a pity that Atelier discontinued sales in North America. I blame their marketing of citrus fragrances- why didn’t they showcase something like this instead?

Anyways the persona for the perfume: an effortlessly sexy woman. This has the femininity component from the floral, a playful component from the chocolate, and an edgy component from the coffee. It’s not a fragrance you wear to a red carpet event, it’s a fragrance you wear when you have a date and he’s picking you up and you want to make an impression when you get into the car.

Think I've already written a review so this will be a brief addition, but I go back and forth between wanting this and changing my mind. While it's not my favorite white floral or coffee fragrance, there's just something so unique about a marriage of the two that intrigues me enough to keep trying the sample again. And today, I was hit with a pang of nostalgia when I smelled this. It's like I'm drinking a cup of coffee at my grandma's house as a child. I wasn't allowed to have coffee at my house, so when I went to my grandma's she would sneak me a little as a treat, with a ton of cream mixed in to weaken it. That combined with the headiness of the tuberose note, which considering my grandma didn't grow or have any flowers around, must have been her potpourri, or some soap? Whatever the case may be, the fragrance is tugging some major heartstrings today. I wish I could procure a bottle of this now, but considering this fragrance was discontinued before Atelier even pulled out of the US market, I imagine it's near impossible to find now. My only option is to probably try and locate some more samples, or perhaps a decant off a site somewhere... as the fragrance wafts up to my nose while I'm typing this, I may have to do that today.

The coffee note is one of the most realistic coffee notes I've smelled in perfumery. It's such a shame it resembles a stale, opened bag of coffee, that and the fact that it's balanced with tuberose. What a bizarre combination that to me and on me doesn't work at all. It's nauseating and had to scrub it off. The thing is once I washed it off with just water, it "rearranged" the notes somehow and it became nice and well blended, like it smelled like tuberose still but better balanced, not stale smelling at all. I don't understand it.

I am selling my full botle of Café Tuberosa (sprayed twice). Please PM me if interested (EU only)

Opens with a strong, rose underglowing a boozy coffee and dark cacao, punctuated by the green, spicy freshness of cardamom, bergamot, and mandarin notes. After some minutes, I get the tuberose and the rose together, which in my opinion is a terrible pairing because the floral sweetness reaches an obnoxiously cloying, saccharine level. The ratio of the tuberose is simply too much with the rose, which forces the coffee-cacao to be pushed back and therefore feels like an opportunity missed as the coffee-cacao note is rather shortlived.

Over all, the composition to me smells more a sweet boozy (tube)rose, with green spices and coffee/cacao rather than warm spicy coffee/cacao. I would think this is a scent that I would quickly get sick of, and therefore definitely not blind-buy safe.

I love Atelier. I love coffee. I love florals. I love fragrances which are more challenging than easy to wear.

In descriptions, Cafe Tuberose is a scent I was pretty sure I’d love. On blotter paper, I enjoyed the fragrance as it unfolded from floral to gourmand, with that smokiness of a dark roasted bean. On my skin? A Lovecraftian stench roiled into being: Cafe Tuberose unveiled itself as a long-ashed cigarette dropping into a styrofoam cup of gas station coffee balanced on the edge of a sink slick with pearly opaque pink soap.

It did not do this on the skin of friends I shared it with, but in the pre-pandemic world, I tormented houseguests and colleagues with the horror that was the combination of my skin chemistry with Cafe Tuberose. I find it hilarious. I also recommend you sample and refrain from blind buying. This fragrance has big personality and is not for everyone.

First blast of warm creamy chocolate coffee with sweet velvety tuberose. The most appealing coffee note I've sampled to date, sweet but not overburnt like Kerosene Follow and not fleetingly fast like YSL Black Opium. If it wasn't so heavy on the tuberose, I'd consider getting this one. Luckily, the tuberose seems to be stepping back as a more traditional rose steps forward, still within that cloud of warm delicious coffee and chocolate. Weirdly, the cardamom seems to linger as the base note rather than the opening. Unisex and best for cool weather.

This is not everyone's cup of tea.

I personally find it very interesting. But it was quite a surprise, even though it smells like how it's named. Coffee and tuberose.

And rose, and vanilla, and chocolate, and orange. And spice. And it's such a mixture of clashing notes that at first impression seems like two or three different perfumes mixed in the same bottle. Not particularly harmonious.

However, it kept my attention. The first spray is toasty, bitter and citric - the coffee and orange shine during this stage, with a spicy kick. You start feeling the creamy banana scent of tuberose seconds after. Later on, the piercing, rosy-rose comes through in a very sweet, vanillic cocoa base. That is, to me, the most enjoyable part.

I find Cafe Tuberosa to be quite unusual and it seems like it tries to be everything at the same time. It's dark and bright, and energizing and comforting, and romantic and seductive, and too-much and too-less.

I'm still wondering how I feel about it but at least it has a personality. Or multiple ones.

Where is the coffee??? Its only Roses and Tuberosa 🤢🤢🤢 very cloying... I don't wanna smell like an old lady....I washed my wrist 5 times and still smelled that stinky smell.

Cafe Tuberosa is almost cloyingly sweet, but in a lovely way - like when you’re full but you’re out with friends so you order dessert anyway. The floral notes are beautiful and I wished they lasted longer. The unique top and middle notes fade on me after just a few hours, and I get a muted cocoa vanilla. Still beautiful, but less interesting. I don’t mind reapplying this one though, because the bright citrusy top notes keep it from becoming oppressive. One of the more unique scents I’ve ever smelled. I’ve made 5 different friends (including my husband) try it, and it smells slightly different on each person. Totally fascinating and beautiful. I REALLY hope Atelier brings it back because I don’t want to hunt it down on eBay anymore!

Too much bergamot and mandarin that doesn’t wear off.
A bit sickly and a bit like white wine vinegar.
I’ll try again another day as at the moment I’m struggling to detect any coffee.
Edit: ok, it’s the same day but 3 hours later, and it’s a lovely vanilla coffee scent. No floral left, no projection left. But at least I like it now.
I’ll try again to see if it’s any better now that I’m expecting the vinegary opening.

If you want to continuously smell scent of coffee in the background of tuberose and this scent step by step become more attractive, I highly recommend this perfume to you.
Immediately after spraying this perfume, you may not like it, but wait a minute to see the miracle of fragrances.
Using this warm mild sweet perfume makes the cold days of autumn and winter more pleasant.
It has an excellent longevity and sillage.

A few years ago, Bath & Body Works created a very mysterious smelling candle called Cafe Bouquet Paris and word on the street was that it was a dupe for Café Tuberosa Atelier Cologne. I found the scent at Sephora and low and behold was it ever a dupe!

Though I'm not in love with the scent, I am intrigued and that in itself was enough for me to purchase the 10ml and burn my candle very sparingly... However, if you love this scent and want your home to smell like a sidewalk Paris cafe with all the notes of cigarettes, coffee and roses then hunt down Cafe Bouquet Paris by B&BW and you will be a happy camper!

Very sad this is being discontinued. This perfume makes me reevaluate what I do or don’t like in a scent. For example, I don’t really gravitate toward “gourmand” scents, but this coffee note is arresting and special. I will also avoid rose scents like the plague — but I adore this. What sorcery is this? Stock up while you can.

I found the opening to be a bit rough. I love coffee, both as a beverage and as a perfume note, and I love tuberose, but the opening to me smelled like something from the ‘80s or early ‘90s. The drydown is more enjoyable for me, with the tuberose, vanilla, and coffee the most prominent. Over time the coffee becomes earthier, like wet grounds. It’s a very unique fragrance but I don’t think it’s FBW for me, so I’m glad I only got a decant.

The first one smell is a lot of horrible tuberose. Fortunately, ten minutes later, that concentration decreases a lot and the smell of coffee comes and combines with it. Of course, it can be said that here again, 70%-30% is in superiority of tuberose. In addition to the smell of coffee; It has a more caramel state than bitter coffee.
In general, after half an hour, it smells very good, but it tend to more tuberose than coffee, and instead of Cafe Tuberosa, they should have named it Tuberosa Cafe.I think this perfume is more feminine than masculine. Of course, I do not think that men who like floral and fragrant perfumes do not hate wearing this perfume. But do not think that by buying this perfume, you will have a perfume with a dominant smell of coffee.




اولش که بوی گل مریم وحشتناک زیاد رو میده خوشبختانه ده دقیقه بعد اون غلظت زیاد کم میشه و بوی قهوه میاد باهاش ترکیب میشه . البته میشه گفت باز اینجا در صد بوها 70-30 به نفع گل مریم هست. در ضمن بوی قهوه؛ یه حالت کاراملی بیشتر داره تا قهوه تلخ. در مجموع بعد از نیم ساعت بوی خیلی خوبی داره ولی بیشتر به گل مریم میخوره تا قهوه و به جای کافه توبروز باید اسمش رو میگذاشتند توبروزکافه
من فکر میکنم این عطر بیشتر زنونه هست تا مردانه. البته مردانی که از عطرهای گلی و خوشبو خوششون میاد به نظرم از پوشیدن این عطر بدشون نیاد. ولی فکر نکنید که با خرید این عطر عطری با بوی غالب قهوه خواهید داشت


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Retest in December:
The explanations I gave above; It was in the warmest month of the year. At that time, I sprayed this perfume, which was special for the cold days of the year, and the strong smell of Maryam flower really struck me at first.
Until a few days ago, which is December, I tested this perfume again. I was really shocked. I was expecting the same attack smell as the first flower of Maryam; While I encountered a very pleasant smell! In this case, the perfume has a caramel-like smell that when you smell the perfume deeply, in 90 percent of the time you smell the perfume; Caramel smells delicious and the last 10 percent has the fragrance of Maryam flower, which is not harsh at all and is gentle and kind!
Every time you smell the position; The image that is etched in my mind; It is a very thick, creamy, brownish, semi-sticky edible liquid.
In my opinion, this perfume can be classified in the edible group.
The smell of the perfume is very good and even though the human sense of smell gets used to the smell after a while and doesn't feel it anymore; But it is still recognizable. The longevity of the perfume is also very good.




تست مجدد در ماه آذر
توضیحاتی که من در بالا دادم؛ در ماه گرم سال بود. من در آن زمان این عطر رو که مخصوص روزهای سرد سال بود رو اسپری کردم که بوی زیاد گل مریم در ابتدا واقعا من رو از عطر زده کرد.
تا اینکه چند روز قبل که همین ماه دسامبر هست مجدد این عطر رو تست کردم. واقعا شوکه شدم. انتظار همون بوی حمله مانند اولیه گل مریم رو داشتم؛ در حالیکه با بویی بسیار دلنشین مواجه شدم! در این حالت عطر بویی کارامل مانند داره که وقتی عطر رو عمیقا بو میکشید در ۹۰ در صد زمان بو کشیدن عطر؛ کارامل خوشمزه به مشام میرسه و ۱۰ در صد آخر عطر گل مریم داره که اون هم اصلا خشن نیست و ملایم و مهربون هست!
با هر بار بویید ن موضع؛ تصویری که در ذهنم حک میشه؛ یک مایع خیلی غلیظ خوراکی کرم مایل به قهوه ای رنگ نیمه چسبنده هست.
به نظر من این عطر در گروه خوراکی هم قابل طبقه بندی شدن هستش.
پخش بوی عطر خیلی خوبه و با وجود اینکه حس بویایی انسان بعد از مدتی به بو عادت میکنه و اون رو دیگه حس نمیکنه؛ ولی باز قابل تشخیص هست. ماندگاری عطر هم خیلی خوبه.

They truly nailed the vibe of sitting in an outdoor cafe and catching whiffs of the environmental factors: your mocha, the bouquet on the table, even a cigarette smoked around the corner

Love at first sniff

One of the best, rich, unisex openings I've experienced in a fragrance. With coffee and chocolate being the star of the show. Sadly it dries down into this hyper feminine tuberose and rose scent, vaguely tinged with cacao and vanilla. Nice, but not the promise the opening promised.

On me this scent is just discordant. It's coffee and white florals that are both elbowing each other to try to be the star of the show. They don't smell like they're in harmony, they smell like they're in competition with each other. Also I just find white floral and coffee together to not really smell all that nice. The coffee here is too hyperrealistic which means I keep ricocheting between getting a gourmand feeling from this and not because the white florals are not at all gourmand in feeling. I think this will find its niche with people with very specific tastes, but that person isn't me.

This is exquisite. It starts with a strong shot of coffee. Like the first cup of the day you can't wait for after getting a whiff. And the chocolate is very present. It then starts settling into warm spiciness. As it dries down, the vanilla comes in and oh boy, is it ever nice! It's unisex and leaning quite masculine through until that dry down when the vanilla smooths it out. Now, I've tried a few other Atelier fragrances and as beautiful as they were, the longevity was terrible. I'm happy to see this one is lasting well because they are on the pricey side. Very nice.

Initial sniff is so strange, bitter, almost nauseating and mean...
Then it dries down to the most beautiful thing, a sweet, warm, christmas carol...a strong cup of coffee with a splash of something naughty. An occasional whiff of gasoline fumes...driving home on a cold night from a lover's.
The first couple times I smelled this, I couldn't handle. But yesterday, for no particular reason, I sprayed one spritz onto a tweed jacket in my closet. And then a little later I went back into my closet and there it was, it had changed! <3

A comparison review with Tom Ford Noir de Noir

I recently got Café Tuberosa. It was a blind buy, this one appealed the most to me of the line because of the performance and originality. I'm a sucker for lighter floral-gourmands, and coffee ⁠⁠
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It's often compared to Noir de Noir by Tom Ford. I did a side by side comparison. ⁠⁠
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𝙽𝚘𝚒𝚛 𝚍𝚎 𝙽𝚘𝚒𝚛⁠⁠
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More polished, more refined, more creamy, woody chocolate. Typical TF signature, added saffron and oud, but they are in the background. Florals are quite prominent, rose and white flowers including probably orange blossom for smoothness.⁠⁠
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𝙲𝚊𝚏𝚎 𝚃𝚞𝚋𝚎𝚛𝚘𝚜𝚊⁠⁠
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Opens with citrus, coffee and cocoa powder, very different opening from NdN. White florals are fleshier because of tuberose and rose is as present an is NdN. Then is dries down similar to NdN after 1 hr. Cacao and a relative freshness stay, both not found in NdN. ⁠⁠
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𝙾𝚟𝚎𝚛𝚊𝚕𝚕⁠⁠
Very similar scents after the opening, but not the same. ⁠⁠
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NdN: smoother, warmer, woody chocolate floral + TF signature⁠⁠
CT: more cacao, more realistic florals and AC signature (citrus/fresh)⁠⁠
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Both perform well. I prefer Cafe Tuberosa, but I would be equally happy with having NdN, which is my favorite TF from what I've tried so far. ⁠⁠

Smells like a newspaper with a hint of passion fruit. I kinda dig it

Stunning coffee fragrance with dark chocolate nuances, and floral touches of rose and tuberose.

The coffee is best straight in the opening. It mellows out into a powdery chocolate experience as the fragrance dries down. The floral aspect from the rose/tuberose supports the gourmand nature without becoming a full on gourmand. It’s not sweet or vanillic. It’s drier and more powdery.

The performance is stellar on this. I purchased a 200ml when i found it this was getting discontinued.

It also layers very well with other fragrances.

I layered this with black phantom and it was a mega combination.

This has a very familiar feel to TF NDN but with added bitter coffee, and intense cafe if you removed the milk and latte like sweetness.

One of my favourite coffee fragrances.

This is extremely unique.

The opening is straight up ground coffee- bitter coffee. HOWEVER, after it settles into the skin you will be SHOOK. It turns into this elegant sweet, powdery, cacao/coffee/vanilla scent with a slight clean edge to it. I have no idea where the clean scent comes from, it almost reminds me of a lavender note but that's not included in this fragrance.

I personally am a coffee lover. Be it sweet or bitter coffee - I love all coffee! So I will most likely be purchasing a full bottle in the next few months. I can definitely see myself wearing this as an everyday scent, as the dry-down in this is stunning...and almost calming, which is ironic because the opening in such a strong bitter coffee scent lol.

Imagine a cafe and flower shop sharing the same lease. On their own, they would have smelled great. But the coffee and floral notes are fighting and trying to overpower each other. The coffee disappeared from my skin earlier than expected, and dried to a less intense and more tolerable combination of vanilla, cocoa, and tuberose with a hint of rose after ~3 hours. The vanilla and tuberose could be overwhelming for those who do not like or are used to such sweet fragrances.

Begins with a blast of fruity citrus coffee. Settles into vanilla-chocolate- coffee with white floral. The tuberose is quite subdued. Sweet, mainstream style. A feminine noir de noir.

Where has this scent been all my life?!

Went to the Atelier store in Nolita yesterday (shout out to El-Aton!) and experienced this one and so many others for the first time. This was THE one. It was an instant wow, jaw-dropping, OMG, what am I smelling? Take my wallet.

It's sophisticated, feminine, sexy, incredibly unique, with a distinct point of view. You will not be smelling this on other people. I feel like if you appreciate scents like Black Orchid (sort of bold, signature feminine) but crave something less popular (the two don't smell similar, moreso just a similar energy), try this!

The closest in my collection is Serge Lutens Santal Majascule, and still, they are incredibly different. This one has a sexiness, and assured confidence I just love. Great for date night, going out -- def an evening scent.

Instant love. Strong coffee, like an espresso with a creamy combination of tuberose and vanilla, and a little wift of sigarettesmoke. Intriguing! The vanilladrydown is the most beautiful vanilla I ever tried. Spring and autumn vibe, when the air is a little cold, but you can still sit outside on cafes. This smells like parisian chic to me. Was my signaturescent for a while, maybe I bring her back there.

I received a bottle of this free with my Sephora points back in the day. It was a blind 'buy' for me and at first, being very inexperienced with fragrance, I liked it. It was different from anything I had ever used and the sillage/longevity were/are great. Now, I have come to realize that coffee is one of the few scents that I just can't stand, especially in such high concentrations as this. For me, I get a blast of a strong black espresso mixed with white floral. Both are so dominant that I smell nothing else and they almost feel combative. I can see how coffee fragrance lovers would adore this but it gives me a bit of a headache :(

To InvaderLark and others: I have gotten ahold of Atelier and they wrote me back. I was specifically asking about Cafe Tuberosa since it's my favorite, but when they wrote back they said that the fragrances that are part of the Archives Collection will not be produced anymore. Including the 30 mls. That is what they told me, but I am not sure which fragrances are part of the Archives Collection.

I sprayed four sprays of this on my wrists this morning from a little sample vial. I forgot how lovely it truly was. I’ve known for a while that I wanted a full bottle but I’ve been putting it on the back burner. Well after today I’m no longer doing that, it will need a full bottle purchase ASAP. When I spray it on I get the coffee beans, they’re rich and dark and smooth. This is a warm cup of sweetened coffee, but get any notions of a latte out of your head. It’s not a creamy coffee it’s smoky and sweet. If I had to describe it I would use the term buttery. This is buttery and sweet and the honestly whoever thought to combine the notes of coffee and tuberose together deserves and award because they both play off of each other so nicely and draw out the best qualities of each other and there’s no bitterness between either of them. As it dried down I began to get this smell association from the corners of my brain and I realized it’s from my school age years. I was very into theatre and would be found every single morning in the auditorium rehearsing for the play of the season. My theatre teacher would often bring coffee and bagels or donuts, and this smells like the smell of that coffee, pastries and waxed wood floors on the stage of that auditorium. It almost makes me emotional for what a nostalgic smell it brings me back to. I knew I wanted a bottle but now it’s an absolute need in my life, I must have this.
And even if you don’t have such a memory as this it’s still a really beautiful and high quality scent from this house. And it lasts better than most of their citrus based colognes. A must try for coffee fragrance lovers.

Definitely not a safe blind buy or a crowd pleaser, but based on the notes and reviews I knew that this is something I would enjoy. I smell the prominent coffee smell (espresso mostly) with a hint of cocoa. The tuberose is strong but smooth, and it dries down to a comforting vanilla.

I put this in the same "category" or "vibe" with Mugler Angel Muse in my collection, even though they are different perfumes -- this is coffee + cocoa + floral, and Angel Muse is dark chocolate + patchouli+ vetiver. But I feel that they both give me the same vibe: in the colder months when I want something that is unique, smooth, rich, somewhat complex and comforting, I would reach for Cafe Tuberosa or Angel Muse. They are not my picks for office/serious work occasions, but certainly very enjoyable for winter gatherings with friends/family or just to make myself feel cozy and special.

I just bought a full bottle of this, blowing through my 5 ml decant so I had to pull the trigger, and I just realized that the 100ml is no longer available online from retailers. I see the spot but it's sold out, the only one available is the 30ml. I wonder if this is being discontinued in the bigger sizes. Not trying to start a hype or panic, but hopefully someone is more intelligent than I and knows more about this. I really love this and have found nothing similar to it. Noir De Noir is similar but it isn't tuberose or coffee, or at least as obvious as this one where they both shine; NdN says "floral notes" maybe tuberose is in it.

The longevity is superb and is quite fantastic on clothes; a very romantic breezy scent and not at all heavy. The tuberose can be "grapey" sometimes, but the coffee really pushes through along with the cacao and vanilla. Absolutely delicious and a unique experience! I'm hoping to test it out with the full bottle for sillage, because based on the decant it wasn't large I will say. If you're in motion, it works best, but standing or sitting won't radiate. You need to be on the go, in my opinion. These are my thoughts so far.

I love the coffee smell in this. It also have a liquor kind of scent to it, a bit boozy.
The tuberose is a nice paring at first, but after the dry down it became a bit too pungent. I am quite sensitive to floral scents though.

If you don't get headache from white florals this is great!

-Nondescript floral scent
-Opens with interesting top notes..
-A let down for a fragrance with 'cafe' in its name- I don’t quite pick up any coffee in this.
-Dries down to be cloying (tester strip).
-This morphs into a very powdery, dry scent.
-Potentially headache-inducing.
-Not fbw. (-)

As a pesimistic gourmand fan, I kinda expected it to be overpoweringly floral. Well, unlike Rochas Man, for instance, where the coffee gives depth to the aromatics and the lavender, this one has the sweet, warm sugared coffee in the center, with just a bit of fresh tuberose and citrus, as to not be tempted to drink it. i love how they kept it delicious, fresh, warm and not overly sweet.
moderate sillage and decent longevity. It is a love for me. Very sexy on everyone I think.

این یک عطر تک جنسیتی بی نظیر است، با حجم زیادی از بوی رز به پوست مینشیند و ظرف ۵ دقیقه بوی رز کمرنگ میشه و به سمت بوهای چوبی حرکت میکنه، بعد از ۱۰ دقیقه دیگه بوی قهوه خودش رو نشان میده. عالیه. من همواره بوی توتون سیگار مرغوب از این میگیرم که دوست داشتنیه اما در جایی ذکر نشده. یک بوی کهنگی کمی بعد اضافه میشه که اصلا چیز بدی نیست و همین هم تفاوت این عطر رو با عطرهای دیگه‌ای که بوی قهوه میدهند را رقم میزنه. از نظر من با هیچ عطر دیگه‌ای قابل قیاس نیست. تقریبا اکثر عطرهای من از همین برند هستند و میتونم با قاطعیت بگم کافه توبرزا، رز انونیم و گلد لدر برای من زیباترین عطرهای این خانه عطرند. گرچه وانیل اینسنسی، اورنج سنگویین و چند تای دیگر را هم دارم و دوست دارم، اما جایگاه ۳ تای اول برای من تفاوت دارند. کافه توبرزا عطری نیست که کورکورانه بخرید و توصیه میکنم حتما تستش کنید چون بوی کهنگی را ممکنه در این دوست نداشته باشید. این بوی کهنگی برایم یاداور تعفن داستانهای لاوکرافت است و شخصیتی مالیخولیایی داره. ماندگاری اصلا کم نیست. برای تابستان مناسب نیست اما برای پاییز و زمستان تا ابتدای بهار عملکرد فوق‌العاده ای داره.؛

Intriguing - sort of gourmand floral. Sweet, warm, comforting coffee, chocolate - and tuberose! To me, this shouldn't work: like mixing two entirely different fragrance types, gourmand and big white floral. But actually, I find it quite alluring. Also reasonable sillage, and quite long-lasting - I could still smell it on me this morning. A like, leaning towards a love.

UPDATE: A love, love, love, love love. Don’t know why or how, but can’t get enough 😍

A strong, rich, sophisticated, and sensual fragrance. I talked an international client (Mali) into this scent who was not in the market for anything gourmand at all, but the sophisticated richness of the coco notes sold him. IMO, Café Tuberosa is Angel for Men without the syrupy sweetness. I highly recommend for a confident, sexy man who can hold his own at the office and beyond.

This is going to probably sound bizarre, but this fragrance, especially the opening, brings back good memories of going to 7-11 for slurpees with either my Dad or best friend when I was young. Probably the combination of their coffee machine and the sweet candy fruitiness of the slurpees (the bergamot and tuberose combined is delicious) are giving me this impression. It dries down to more of a smooth and realistic coffee scent not overly sweet but the tuberose is still there in the background, the dry down is still very enjoyable but hands down the bright opening is my favorite part.

Boozy opening, the citrus is missing most of the times. Freshly ground medium roast coffee kicks in after 5-10 minutes on me and stays for a good while. The coffee note is accompanied by a creamy rose/tuberose sweetness. A sweet cardamom note is very prominent on my skin after the dry down, mixed with cocoa. I often get a little patchouli at the end of the day if I spray this on my hair/clothes. Sillage and longevity is brilliant and can be slightly overwhelming on hot summer days. I recommend this on cooler days where you want to be wrapped in blankets of cashmere, sitting by the window basking in the winter sun rays.

Omg this smells so delicious. Hits with coffee note then cacao smokiness. Longevity is good as well

Cocoa and loud roses, orange zest and white flowers. Coffee kicks in after 15 minutes and settles into personal space for another quarter hour.
The chocolate sticks to the skin, but the citrus lingers longer on clothes.

I'd like it on a guy, too--a laid back type who wears floral print shirts and has a good belly-laugh.

A refined and comforting coffee fragrance.

The coffee note smells real to life, black coffee with cocoa. I don’t particularly smell the vanilla but it does soften the coffee and remove any bitterness. The tuberose lends a earthy nuanced sweetness and elegance. It’s floral sweet not gourmand sugar sweet.

I smell this and I’m transported to an old wooden lake house porch drinking black coffee on a dewy spring morning.

Absolutely lovely

2/10

Crap shitty longevity for a lot of money.
NO for me.

[Café Tuberosa]
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SWEET - SICKLY - NOTHING

Phenomenal opening! Fleshy Rose and Tuberose with chocolate soon following. However, this isn’t as impressive to me as it is to others. The chocolate accord reminds me of cheap advent calendar chocolate and I get 0 coffee in here. At a push I get coffee liqueur that spilt on the counter top a few days ago. I’ve been a full time barista for 4 years so I was wanting the “coffee” note to tie me to the bed and do unspeakable things to me as I’m so familiar with the smell that I was wanting something edgy and bitter to juxtapose against the sweet and soft florals. Thankfully for my Coffee & Rose fix I have Meo Fusciuni - Little Song which is more of what I was looking for.
Atelier Cologne’s Café Tuberosa had such promise in the first 5 minutes but then amounts to nothing. A spineless fragrance relying on the sweet elements to keep people interested. I would pick something like Intense Cafe over this, whilst in the same style, lasts noticeably longer on my skin and doesn’t fall apart immediately after application. Cafe Tuberosa honestly lasts 3 hours on my skin but I feel I’m just an exception as most others report decent performance.
If the opening was 100% of the life of the fragrance and lasted 8 hours I’d be gushing.

Really disappointed as I was so ready to fall in love with it. No disrespect to anybody who adores this as I envy you but this ain’t for me.

finally a real cofffee note! this smells like a very rich, smooth, creamy coffee.. theres a touch of vanilla and chocolate to make it just sweet enough. tbh i detect the rose more than tuberose in this. but both of them make this fragrance prettier, not on your face gourmand. just beautiful. but the longevity on me is only 3 hours, after that it turns into skin scent. thats the only let down. the price point for atelier cologne in my country is crazy expensive. i just hope they reformulate or something so that it can last longer :(

I had a sample of it :-) I love it! First I thought it had patchouli in it,but I was wrong.The rose oil is very prominent.Really lovely smell ans that coffee comes through nicely ❤

The drydown reminds me a lot of Sotto La Luna Tuberose by Andy Tauer, while that one lacks of the coffe cocoa opening notes of this perfume, I find Tauer's perfume more avant garde. The coffe and sweet cream addition to tuberose, makes this perfume one that could please a larger number of people.

It opens with a sweet mocha type blast. Coffee and cocoa mainly and it's gorgeous. It's not quite feminine and not quite masculine, so it works as a unisex scent.

That lasts about an hour on my skin, and then it fades to a skin scent where the coffee notes disappear and a light sweetness is left. It's a lovely scent but like much of Atelier's stuff, it just doesn't last long enough.

SCENT: 8.5 out of 10
LONGEVITY: 4 out of 10
SILLAGE: 4 out of 10

I love tuberose, and I love coffee, but This fragrance is horrid. All I can smell is an overwhelming powdery metallic smell. It is incredibly cloying and dirty smelling, like wet soil. It's a shame because I can tell there is an awesome chocolate and coffee note in there, but everything else ruins it. No tuberose to be found.

The opening of Cafe Tuberosa is spectacular: slightly boozy mocha with a sparkling sweet floral note. The mocha note deepens a bit and lingers for about two hours and then the fragrance becomes more vanillic and floral. This is much better than I expected and I wish I had bought it sooner, although I have to reapply every 3-4 hours as it doesn’t last very well on my skin. It is reminiscent of Tom Ford’s Noir de Noir, but definitely sweeter and more pleasant to wear. Noir de Noir is vanilla, rose, cocoa and patchouli and slightly more dense compared to this effortlessly delicious scent.

This one is totally addictive...!
First I was not a big fan of tuberose, and also found this combination of tuberose and coffee really unique. However, it feels more and more comfortable when I got used to tuberose.
Definitely go for a 30ml bottle.

This fragrance can be summed up with the phrase, "The whole is greater than the sum of its parts". This is really smooth and very well blended. If I weren't looking at the notes, I wouldn't pick out coffee, cacao, etc. I wouldn't automatically pick that combination out. To me, this comes across as a sweet, spicy, heady floral scent. It's just grounded enough to be able to pull off in cooler weather. In my opinion, it's a cozy and cuddlesome scent. I wouldn't try to wear this scent in either the extreme heat or the extreme cold, but I think it's otherwise very versatile.

I definitely get the comparisons to Noir de Noir by Tom Ford. In my opinion, the Tom Ford fragrance has a very dark sumptuous rose, rather than the lighter rose featured here. This is somewhat lighter in character than the Tom Ford, and it doesn't have the heavy sillage that the Tom Ford fragrance does. Don't get me wrong, Cafe Tuberosa performs very well. But, the Tom Ford fragrance is just more bombastic. So, if you thought that the Tom Ford version was a bit too strong or too heavy for your tastes, get a decant/sample of this one.

Holy moly! This is incredible. I love every single note in Cafe Tuberosa. Chocolate, coffee, citrus and cardamom right off, with vanilla and tuberose right there behind. Oh, and a bit of rose. Exactly what the notes say is there. Each one is easy to smell and this stuff is so well blended. Longevity is great, silage moderate. It reminds me a bit of Rose Anonyme, which I have and adore. Def FB for me....when my budget allows.....

Update: I finally did just go ahead and buy a FB and I am on Cloud 9! I love wearing this interesting perfume more every time I wear it. Every single note has a voice and they all blend beautifully into a perfect choir on me. And this actually lasts a very long time on me, which is quite unusual.

Cafe Tuberosa has been tied for my #2 Atelier Cologne along with Tobacco Nuit, after my #1 Musc Imperial.

So this is not a knock on CT, but I do think they were trying to clone Tom Ford Noir de Noir. They are super close, I have both bottles. Noir de Noir is deeper and richer, more complex, better quality.
Cafe Tuberosa is a fresher version of Noir de Noir. Also very good.

This one is WONDERFUL! Cafe Tuberosa has a very ‘dirty’ vibe it smells like there is Patchouli in there somewhere, that hint of cardamom spice leading into a dusty cocoa reminds me of Mexican chocolate. As the coffee and tuberose come into play I do get that bit of a cigarette vibe that others have mentioned. it isn’t unpleasant, just surprising. I absolutely love this scent, a fantastic gourmand/floral that really doesn’t smell like anything else.

I'm with marnie_g on this one - the same person can have very different experiences on different days.

The first time I tested it (on skin) I got a delicious blast of bitter espresso in the top notes, which faded to reveal the bergamot and some musk after a couple of minutes, before the white flowers kicked in which quickly morphed into something identifiable as tuberose. I was blown away and ready to shell out on a full bottle, but something made me decide wait and retest.

The second testing - different store, possibly different batch or older tester bottle - I got mocha rather than espresso. Despite loving both coffee and chocolate, I've always found the aroma of mocha somewhat unsettling. I waited patiently for the cocoa to fade, but it stubbornly refused to budge. The tuberose never appeared, and when I later tested Tom Ford's Noir de Noir, which I had previously thought was a "want", I found this nauseating as my nose seemed to be desensitised to everything but the vanilla and cocoa. The whole experience lasted for around 3 hours.

I'm already looking forward to my third test, and expect to get something different again. I really hope the coffee makes another appearance - I find it fascinating how difficult it seems to be for perfumers to recreate a realistic coffee accord given its abundance in everyday life.

If you love mocha, this one is highly recommended. In fact, I would recommend everyone to take this for a test drive - whether or not you like it, you're in for an interesting ride!

I wish I had gotten to this one sooner. She's beautiful. It opens with a gentle, fleshy tuberose, with a hint of camphorous greenery. Lovely on skin. The coffee and cacao are toned down and give the florals a toasty and deep backbone. Lasts quite a bit and is sweet and creamy on the skin throughout its development. I want to own bottles of this forever!

I'm a newbie to fragrances, and this was the first one I really liked. It keeps emitting even after many hours a pleasantly, comfortably sweet scent which gives me joy. (But I don't smell coffee at all...)

Finally a perfume where there is an actual, real coffee note! Tried (and bought) a bunch which was supposed to have coffee in it (like all the Black Opium range) - I could never actually make out the coffee in it. Not the case for this one! The pure coffee note hits you hard. Love it.

Interesting, and not exactly what I would have imagined from the notes, or the name. I get the coffee at first spray, literally as the perfume is wet or in the air, but while still present, that note stays in the background when the perfume dries and settles. This particular coffee fragrance is not coffee with cream or coffee and vanilla, but fresh ground, black and bitter. Then I get a dried tobacco/unlit cigarette scent, until the next permutation, when to the front comes a cocoa sweetened with rose and, as some other reviewers have noted, this combo is reminiscent of TF Noir de Noir a bit. It is NOT however, Cafe Rose- before smelling it myself, I wondered if some people had confused the names. I don’t find much if any tuberose, unless it’s just the lighter aspects that hover on top, like a fluffy, airy icing on a decadent cake. The rose here is not fresh and light, but liqueured and dark, as it is in Rose Anonyme from the same house. A few more minutes and the notes are blending so well at this point it’s giving me a sweet and woody scent, reminiscent of a cedar chest. Finally, I can detect a pink bubble gummy tuberose, and now the name makes sense- coffee and tuberose are the bookends of a perfume that for me bucks and swerves in a few directions. All in all, I think this is a clever composition that successfully straddles any gender lines anyone may like to draw, while still managing an interesting variation on the rose/coffee/chocolate theme.

This was a slow burn love for me. I didn't readily understand nor appreciate this frag the first few times and exposures to it, yet came around with time.

If reading many of the reviews below, you get the sense that different people have very different experiences with this one and even the same person having different experiences in different seasons, moods, and times of days. Love that multi-dimensionality! There's more here than meets the eye (or nose) on first blush.

Mostly, I get the imagery of lazy Sunday morning brunch with coffee, reading, and stimulating conversation. I do get the heady, indole aspects of tuberose on my skin. Gorgeous, unique, not for pleasing everybody's taste!

Not sure how I feel about this one. Let me begin by confessing that I have been diagnosed with anosmia. I can sometimes pick up scents, and when I do, I don't get the entire rich profile, if that makes sense. (Pardon the pun) So when wearing Cafe Tuberosa, I get a nice, warm chocolate vanilla aroma that lasts for a long time. After about twelve hours, it's still hanging around, but now I feel like I smell like a sour cup of coffee.

Tuberose killed this for me.... Too plasticy.

I'm gonna sit with this fragrance for a bit and write back.

Probably my signature “my skin but better” perfume. Café Tuberosa enhances my skin’s own natural odor, until both meld into one.

This is all about aura and impression, each note being greater than the sum of its parts.

Despite the perfume’s name displaying tuberose as the main player, it’s more about tuberose intrinsic sweetness (rose and vanilla also lending a helpful hand) than the crisp whole flower note.

Gently roasted coffee dominates the whole frag with its smooth, velvety texture. There’s an almost starchy feel I recognize from Carner El Born’s chestnutty coffee.
But here stops the comparison because El Born, contrary to Café Tuberosa, is a hard and literal perfume!
Cardamom (traditionally used to flavor coffee) is toasted and light. It complements and enlivens that roasted coffee so beautifully.

Cacao isn’t frankly discernable but further participates in the general earthy atmosphere.
No wonder why it somewhat reminds Tom Ford Noir de Noir: same truffle note (as interpreted in perfumery), enriched with soil, roots, tubers and all, from the West of France forest floor at fall.
Coincidentally, I’m a Virgo, an Earth and Fall season astrological sign ^^^

That dense, earthy and moist forest bouquet never becomes compact, pasty or oppressive.
Moreover, due to its moderate sweetness, I don’t consider Café Tuberosa a hardore gourmand either.
Just sultry and sexy ; )

Drinking a coffee and treating yourself to a bit of chocolate in bed with the paper before unhurriedly starting the day.

I feel like a lot of the chocolate scents I've smelled have been all about sensuality, but this one is super. . .relaxed? Dry down stays good is moderately long lasting, too, which is an issue I've run into with other Atelier colognes.

A joyful, cozy treat for cold weather. Coffee and vanilla open the show and then recede to the sidelines as the star, tuberose, enters the stage. They are merely her backup dancers. It's a very simple fragrance, perhaps deceptively so, but I love it. Gourmand tuberoses seem to be having a moment, as I noticed that Lancome has a tuberose/hazelnut fragrance in its premium Maison line.

YUM! This stuff smells delectable! Coffee, roses, tuberose, and chocolate! The notes are distinctive for sure, but work together so magically. Something about the roses and coffee (maybe?) intermingle to create an almost raspberry-like scent. But a rich dark raspberry. Other reviewers say raspberry liquor which seems accurate. I would call this gourmand, but a dark gourmand. Not overly sweet or froofy, and definitely unisex! Definitely my signature right now. This was a blind buy and I do not regret it.

A very nicely done rose and coffee vibe fragrance. I would love to smell this on a woman. According to the description it is a shared composition but in my opinion it leans feminine. Café Tuberosa won Perfume Extraordinaire of the Year at the 2018 FIFI awards.

Intense coffee and roses stay with this fragrance from start to finish, as it dries down the cocoa and vanilla flavors dance around, one becoming more noticeable than the other and vice versa. It stays throughout the day and reminds me of, well, the name. craving a quait cup of gourmet coffee at a quint little cafe. I like this for casual weekends.

Brilliant in its simplicity, on the surface CT is mainly about pairing these two substances, but the result goes beyond any simple formula to deliver a surprisingly new concept for a fragrance, a new quiet 'glamour', a sort of intellectual 'gourmand' hybrid.

Personally I find both Mugler's Angel & Amen as reference marks for CT, but where these two are linked to a nocturnal and binary sensuality, CT finds its appealing in broad daylight, while enjoying the small pleasures of everyday life in the great calm (buying flowers, having a coffee in a terrace, reading a book, sunbathing or doing nothing at all), and prefectly equidistant from genders and attraction rules.

There is only one rule: ENJOY!

This is a beautiful, very unique fragrance. On me, it opens up as strong black coffee, which dissipates within about 30 minutes into a cocoa and white floral mixture with a hint of rose and vanilla—it’s delicious. I only get the coffee note at the opening, however the drydown is very beautiful. I know that some people have expressed that they pick up a cigarette note, I don’t get that on my skin. The longjevity on me is well above average and the sillage is moderate. I’ve been testing this out over the last couple of weeks, and intend to buy a full bottle.

I went to John Lewis today with a clear mission in mind: Checking on all those perfumes I had short listed and see which ones I like. And boy have I spent a lot of time in the Atelier Cologne section. It was my first time trailing this brand and I was not left disappointed. In fact I was very impressed with a lot of their colognes.So much so that I decided to buy two of them on the spot. Had I more money I would have probably bought quite a few more.
So let's talk about Cafe Tuberose. In many ways it reminds me of the time I used to wear Balenciaga pour homme. Not that they have much in common in terms of notes but the booziness I get from this scent is very similar to the feeling I had then, back in the day. The opening is very pleasant and the dry down lingers on my skin for a long long time. I get some of the cocoa and cardamon too and I love it as it balances very well with the rest of the composition.

Nocturnal.
Café Tuberosa is brilliant thanks to that background note, similar to cigarette smoke. I have never smoked so what I write can be absurd. Surely, this is precisely the note that makes it intriguing and very special to me.
It makes me think of a long, long night with friends ending at dawn.

On me, this is a very floral perfume. I wish I could smell the coffee--my husband can't either--or the cardamon, but something is definitely tamping down the flowerly smell because, while it is dominant on me, it isn't sweet. It's warm and a bit spicy, although I can't precisely say what that spice is. I've been wearing this now for almost an hour, and the scent is just about the same as when I put it on. So far, I'm not crazy about the samples of this house's perfumes that I've tried--Grand Neroli smells to me like self-immolation--but I think I'll buy this one.

The problem I have (and maybe it's not just me) with dominant gourmand notes like coffee or chocolate is that they are quick to fade.
Here the first minutes are filled with a glorious, if somewhat loud, combination of coffee and cacao, yet it's quickly silenced (or at least diminished) into a soft sweet blur at the background of this scent.
What I mostly get is rose oil and strong, metallic tuberose. Once the gourmandise is quieted down, these are the real stars of this perfume.
It's very nice and I still get gourmand whiffs once in a while.
Suitable for colder weathers, imho. This perfume gave me a bit of a headache when worn on warmer days, but today it's cooler and I'm really, really enjoying this.
This scratches my coffee-scent itch just fine :)

A good friend of mine gave me a sample of Cafe Tuberosa knowing that I'm a gourmand lover and I'd love a combination of coffee and tuberose
To be honest,I can't pickup much of tuberose here which is a pity.I highly believe that a real heady,creamy tuberose mixed with coffee and cacao would make an unforgettable gourmand heaven but it doesn't mean that I don't like it as it is.I can detect a strong coffee note which more reminds me of coffee beans than a cup of espresso,a beautiful rose with a slightly fruity,raspberryish undertone,some vanilla which gives some sweetness to coffee's charming bitter scent and yes, I also can pickup patchouli and a faint touch of ashtray smell but it doesn't bother me
I wish the coffee note stayed around longer as I can't smell it anymore after half an hour but there's still this cacao-patchouli-rose-vanilla thing lingering on my skin that makes me happy
I believe that this is totally unisex and you may love it even if you're not a gourmand lover.this is the first Atelier Cologne that I like it so much that I need a bottle of it.smells good even on a heavy cigarette smoker unlike most other tuberose centered perfumes(maybe because I can't get any tuberose out of it!).it's long-lasting but not heavy in sillage
Wish they made a cafe tuberosa intense with stronger coffee and tuberose and heavier sillage but making flankers is not a Atelier Cologne style
Undate:drydown reminds me of a softer,darker,less sweet Mancera Roses Vanille,like a Mancera Roses Vanille grounded by some cacao-patchouli
شروع با رایحه تلخ دونه های قهوه،رز،کمی وانیل و یه ته بوی ملایم شبیه زیرسیگاری..بعد از نیم ساعت قهوه محو میشه و رز تمشکی،وانیل،کاکائو و پچولی باقی میمونن.بنظرم کاملا یونیسکسه و نیازی نیست که حتما عطرهای خوشمزه دوس داشته باشین تا بپسندینش..هنوز موفق به کشف مریم توش نشدم

My favorite from Atelier. The first time I tried it was in Berlin. Takes me back.

This perfume smells like breakfast to me. Everytime I wear it I'm hungry for some breakfast food, no matter what time of day it is.

Really good longevity and decent projection.

Oh my god, I have never smelled the combination of coffee and tuberose before, it is just soooooooo lovely, so inventive and just perfect for autumn, sweet but not cloying, warm but not too thick, tuberose given a sort of autumnal sophistication BUT...

I put it on my wrist and it sank almost instantly without trace. Seriously, topnotes gone within a minute, everything gone within five or six.

Absolutely gutted.

It starts with a blast of the coffee note, I love it. Later it mellows down into fresh florals. I like to re-apply again and again to smell that early coffee note. You are gonna love the opening if you are a coffee lover or even a coffee shop lover. However, the coffee note lasts from somewhere between thirty to forty minutes from application, and yes as others have mentioned resembles NdN from Tom Ford. I liked NdN as well, but sadly it does not last on me, is gone in an hour of application (I envy those on whom it lasts, it really smells great). But now I have Cafe Tuberosa to quench my thirst as it lasts on the me, and I somehow crave the coffee smell making it more likable than NdN. So cheers!

my granny used to wear various rose-and-white-floral concoctions through the years, and was never without a cuppa coffee in one hand, and a cig in the other. cafe tuebrosa smells of my granny !!! and that is a complement.

slightly over a year ago, i was offered a small promo bottle of CT right before it launched. the coffee note shot out at me, and i found it peculiar. i find all coffee notes in perfume rather stale, like when you pour the day old coffee into the sink. not nasty, but not rich and exuberant like the fresh stuff. the mix with florals confounded me more. the bottle was relegated to the shelf, and for a year sat as a novelty.

recently, with no explanation, i found myself craving it. i sprayed a hint to try it out again, and found, much to my surprise, i really liked it. i'm not sure what rewired in my head, but something must've. having the positive association to my beloved granny doesn't hurt. first spritz is all coffee and tuberose. i still find the coffee a bit stale, but not off-putting. after a little while i get the rose and cocoa in the dry down. it's lovely, it's pretty avant garde and unexpected while still being totally wearable.

one of my favorite fragrance experiences is changing my mind (toward the positive) being proven wrong about an initial impression !! i'm so glad i gave this one another chance.

The coffee blast is sharp, and kind of spicy in it's own way.
It's very fresh and enjoyable.

I find myself reaching for it more and more. It's a top 3 Atelier Cologne, together with Musk Imperial and Tobacco Nuit.

It is great in cold weather, and the tuberose is not the heady, nor is it feminine, as it blends into an accord with the bitter coffee. Great fragrance accord here blending contrasting notes.
The tuberose is like the cream in the coffee, softening the bitterness.

This is one of the longer-lasting Atelier fragrances. Too bad it's one I'm not that crazy about. I swear, this initially smelled like a vodka-mocha on me, I mean genuinely alcoholic. The bad kind of boozy. Eventually it dried down into pure tuberose, which was much more tolerable, but it's not my favorite floral. However, on the dry down... I actually received compliments. Probably because other people like tuberose more than I do. Huh.

UPDATE: Revisiting Cafe Tuberosa - when I initially got my sample, I was still fairly new to perfumery and not well acquainted with tuberose, so I didn't appreciate the note. Now, I can say that my skin likes tuberose immensely, and it is a creamy note on my skin, not too powdery. As far as the perfume itself, I can sense steamed coffee & cardamom, and tuberose, the most. Cacao is present at the beginning, but eventually it dissipates and is replaced by a soft rose. I do not get any of the citrus. When my sample finally runs out, I believe I will repurchase this.

Do you like Gourmands? Do You like Tom Ford's Noir de Noir? Does a lighter, fresher version of NDN with Tuberose and coffee in it sound like something you'd enjoy? You're in Luck coz Atelier Cologne has made just the frag for you. Basically it's the Noir de Noir DNA but the emphasis here is on the coffee, cocoa and Tuberose rather than on the Rose and Patchouli n tuber/Oud combo of NDN. Longevity and Projection are both good on my skin, bout 6-7 hours longevity with 4 hours strong projection before starting to fade.

In conclusion, I'd say if you found NDN too heavy or too feminine, get Cafe Tuberosa. You will get a fresher take on it for about half the price. A very well made frag I am happy to have in my rotation.

The opening is a dark roasted coffee bean and thick waxy tuberose. However, it soon turns into something incredibly like Tom Ford's "Noir de Noir". The rose, vanilla and cacao dominate all the way through with a velvety, chocolate sweetness. I don't detect tuberose or coffee in the dry down at all. If you like Noir de Noir, you will obviously like this.

I first didn't like the smell when I tried it at Sephora - The first few seconds I felt "chemically" attacked and whatever it was that I smelled very acidic (not a fan of citrusy scents) didn't seem like they blend well together. I agree with an earlier comment that it was choppy in the beginning. Then the coffee smell appeared briefly for three seconds. I dismissed the scent and this was definitely NOT on my LIKE list until 5 hours later I ended up loving the subtle peppery musky skin scent it left on my wrist. Very sultry and unique. Drastic change from start to finish I didn't know perfumes could be this complex. I would very likely buy just for the dry down but I have to re-sample and see if I can tolerate the top notes.

Update: tested more perfumes in other categories and tried this again. So now I smell the "start" of coffee but it didn't really turn into one but instead it took on the "ending" of the smell of tuberose = Caf-berose...but there is no complete coffee smell so it is closer to the smell of your ceramic-lined travel mug after you are done having coffee and you left it sitting all day then the ending just turned into -(tub)BEROSE. Worse tuberose smell out of the other perfumes I've tested so far.

That does not smell good. That smells like caramel latte with garlic paste stirred in. I do not smell tuberose in there at all. A very rough, awkward composition.

On paper: DAMN THAT'S INTENSE. The espresso note makes me snarl... Too bad, because I might like the other scent.

On skin: About the same. This reminds me of my least favorite BPAL scent. It smelled great on a friend, but awful on me.

There's a note in there that smells like mint. It really doesn't fit.

It lasted about three and a half hours before turning into a skin scent.

Yes, there is coffee and tobacco here. There is something a little dirty about this perfume, and it sticks around all day in the most delightful way. I smell the roses strongly in this, perhaps because I love them so. To smell like coffee and roses and like my life is a bit lived-in is a great comfort. Absolutely perfect on a rainy day. I can't stop wearing it.

This is utterly lovely, and long-lasting/strong for an Atelier. It's in the family of Jasmin Angelique, but with tuberose instead of jasmine and sweeter. It goes on a sweet chocolatey tuberose. As it dries down, there is a smokey note and musk. In the base, it is cardamom, hint of rose, tuberose floral. Though not listed as a note, there is serious-ass, sexy musk in the base.

not a bad blend.. there's something smoky going on here but not sure what...bit of nose-prickly stuff (patchouli? incense? wood?) but not in a bad way. I can see someone on here compared it to TF Noir de Noir which is probably closest, although this one's slightly ligther without the overwhelming truffle note. Think Rossy de Palma which I owned is even closer.
It's a good offering though.

@adice Thanks for your review, now I want to check out Cafe Tonka Les Senteurs Gourmandes.

I get the weird coffee & cigarettes vibe from this one. I also get the floral and sweetness. The tuberose is pretty tame - doesn't immediately trigger a headache for me like so many tuberose perfumes will do. I like the coffee note but not the cigarette one (even though it's rather subtle). First blast brought to mind bowling alleys when I was a kid, my parents were on bowling leagues, and people could smoke inside - I guess that's a weird association since it's not really THAT smoky of a fragrance but that's what I immediately thought of. My sample will be more than enough of this one.

Cafe Tonka is still my favorite coffee fragrance by far.

Finally able to test this fragrance which I have been curious about, and I'm so pleasantly surprised. It may be similar to other fragrances but I don't know or own them, and I think this is one of the best for the Atelier house. I regret not purchasing a full bottle.

Upon first spritz I get coffee and cocoa and tuberose. It's delicious and I want to eat my arm! My second test reveals that in late winter this becomes a skin scent at around the 3.5-4 hour mark, still not great longevity but one of the best from Atelier. Good projection for the first hour, fills a room with just one sptitz!

Not a fan. First, the opening note on me was very choppy and oily charcoal flame. Before the coals settle. I smelled a lot of acrid burn. I didn't recognize it to be coffee. It slowed down to a nice but bland burned marshmallow, then to a vanilla marshmallow with a tad of forest underneath. A very interesting combo, but not one noteworthy, nor strong enough, to make me change my mind.

This came in a 5-sample pack of recommendations ordered from Nose (based on their online profiling system). This was my least favourite by far. The coffee combined with tuberose clashed on my skin in a quite nauseating way: like acrid cigarette butts blasted with white flowers. First try but will give it a second chance.

Warm, slightly spicy and the initial spritz you can for sure smell the coffee/espresso. The coffee scent does not last long at all though, but you will be left with a creamy, rosy-Tuberose. For anyone that knows, likes or loves Tom Ford Noir de Noir or Cafe Rose...you will love this Atelier Tuberosa. While it has nowhere near the sillage and longevity of Tom Ford, this scent is very, very similar to the two TF scents mentioned above. On my skin, the drydown of this Atelier scent is almost identical to TF Noir de Noir that has been on my skin for hours!! For a fraction of the price, and if you love TF, get some of this Café Tuberosa!!

Snap is this amazing!! Goes on with a vintage vibe thanks to the tuberose! The cocoa and vanilla shine through seconds later. I don't really smell the coffee myself. This just meshes together so well! For a while the tuberose hides behind the cocoa and vanilla, but she comes back in the dry down. This last forever too!It is almost indescribable and I have never smelled anything like this. I love that the tuberose is so prominent for most of the experience! Tuberose has always had a sort of buttery smell to me and of course that goes great with cocoa!

Wow, this is so beautiful! Exactly the kind of fragrance I love. The only confusing part is the name. Café Rosa would be much more fitting.
I get a strong coffee note in the opening with a hint of the mandarin. Soon the cocoa and the rose join in. This rose is a fruity one, giving me the impression of berries. Rose with cranberries and dried unsweetened raspberries. The cardamom is only a small accent and the vanilla only rounds the fragrance.
Cafe Tuberosa is a wonderful dark coffee and chocolate gourmand. It's bitter and dry, sweet and juicy at the same time.
I just don't detect the namesake tuberose at all. It might be there, but the cocoa, coffee and rose are so strong that I don't smell any pronounced white floral note. Maybe a hint of creaminess, but I would never have guessed that this is supposed to be tuberose.

Nevertheless, even though I usually like tuberose much more than rose, I love this fragrance as it is.
It's intense at first and has an okay longevity, but it stops to project from my skin after about ~4 hours. It's still there, but closer to the skin. I don't mind, but if you want a sillage bomb all day, this is not it.

Coffee+rose. Gourmand floral. Strong. I won't buy a bottle but I think it is one of the most interesting perfumes in the whole line. Worth testing.

I first tried on this scent a few weeks ago and hated it. But I gave it another chance yesterday and...I am a changed woman. I don't know what it is different but I now love Cafe Tuberosa! When I first wore it, I smelled burned coffee and not much else. My most recent trial and my nose picks up a more fresh roasted coffee bean scent. Other fragrances with coffee notes tend to smell like brewed coffee with cream and sugar but CT has a stronger, more pure note of coffee. When I wore CT yesterday it reminded me of the times I drive by the local coffee roaster. So there is a bit of a burnt element to the coffee but not in an offensive way (anymore). My nose also senses the cacao and a tiny bit of cigarette but other than that not much else to this fragrance.

As I've stated for a review of Atelier's Vanille Insensee, I am not a fan of this company's offerings. But now that I enjoy Rose Anonyme, VI and now Cafe Tuberosa, I will have to try more from them.

This opened with a cup of coffee -- not coffee grounds, and not the generally dark smell that is what some call a coffee note; but liquid black coffee possibly cold and a bit stale. There is a bit of coco supporting it. The sweet creamy tuberose counteracts any unpleasantness the bitterness might have had. It is beautiful.

Three hours later it is sweet and creamy vanilla and sandalwood cacao -- if you've smelled Kyse Santal Bois it's that dusty note with silky vanilla.

I am concerned about the longevity but will be revisiting with a heavier application.

Upon revisiting in warmer months I get much less distinct coffee. Instead I get a floral with a gourmand edge. It is sort of dark and sort of rich, sometimes it is sharply citrus, sometimes more dense and "bready" and sometimes more rose than tuberose. Sometimes it smells vintage, buttypically its just interestimg and hard to place.

This is the coffee scent that Black Opium wishes it could be! Okay, seriously now. I never expected to love this the way I do. Though classified as a floral, there is enough sweetness and spiciness to consider it gourmand as well in my opinion, and I am NOT a fan of smelling like a bakery! This is perfect - rich and sexy, very modern, with a tip of the hat to the great perfumes of the past. I can almost see Guerlain making this scent. Right now I'm nursing my sample, but will eventually own this scent.

5/16/2019 - Yummy! Wearing this today and it has evolved so beautifully on my skin! I own 2 travel spray sized bottles of this, but I plan on buying a full bottle when I finish one of them. It's even more wonderful than when this first "caught my nose" about a year ago. I definitely get the tuberose now, mostly in the dry down. Love this! Just wanted to share!

Of all purported coffee fragrances, this one has the truest, richest, strongest note. It is there at the opening and remains for a long while. It is almost creamy, never sour, and quite lovely. However, it later on subsides into something thin, dusty, and rather generic, which is a shame given the beautiful opening salvo.

I couldn't detect tuberose at all, just a vaguely floral mix with a faint memory of that coffee note in the back.

How I wanted to love Cafe Tuberosa. By the notes’ votes and pyramid I was sure I would love it and blind bought it. And while it is nice, I just returned it (thanks to Sephora for an awesome return policy!)
Firstly, the name. They should have named it Cafe Rose. But wait, that’s taken, so let’s twist the name a bit and add an irrelevant ‘Tube’ before the rose. Because on my skin no tuberose ever appeared, or any other white floral for that matter.
On me it opens with a mix of Kahlua and freshly ground coffee, that lasts for a mere five minutes. A nice start. I’m hopeful and wait for tuberose heaven to ensue. But sadly for me, the rose disliker in frags, it’s all rose after the coffee is gone. Patchouli is definitely there too. Cafe Tuberosa reminds me a lot of L’Or de Torrente, it’s perhaps 90% similar. I also get whiffs of Gucci Rush in the middle notes. And yes, there are solid similarities with Cafe Rose by TF.
Longevity and sillage very moderate, cannot believe this is marketed as a parfum extrait, what a joke!
Anyway, I am being harsh here only because my expectations were set very high for this. But I’m really done with L’atelier Cologne and their ‘extraits’ for a while I think.

Update:
My bottle just arrived, won from eBay auction.
When I was able to spray it vs dabbing my sample received earlier; I am noticing the great coffee note much more, specially the first 15 minutes, then the tuberose comes in.
Some describe the coffee note as a coffee liquor, I also get that some.

This is very floral. The Tuberose is stronger than the coffee or chocolate notes.
Right off the bat, it is a Tuberose accord, 50% Tuberose 40% coffee, and 10% the other notes. With an accord you loose some of the singular identity of the Tuberose, but for me it's the dominant note throughout...

I think I recognized the Tuberose because I used to have Lutens Cedre, which is a Tuberose and cedar combo, that didn't work for me. This coffee and Tuberose accord works nicely, and though I recognize the Tuberose to be dominant in the accord, it stays pritty much gender neutral, as the bitter black coffee contrasts the heady, creamy Tuberose.
I like how Sebastian described the Tuberose as the cream in the coffee, on his YouTube review.

Woman who are pure Tuberose lovers are saying the Tuberose here is not heady and creamy enough, it smells washed, as the reviewer on "Now smell this" blog said.
I think the Tuberose here may be gender-neutral, because it has been washed from it's feminine lushness.

I'm a guy who likes to venture into floral fragrances, but most unisex floral frags are still too feminine for me.
If your like me, and like Tuberose, this may work nicely for you. Because the coffee and spices make a gender neutral accord with the Tuberose.
It works like Atelier's Rose Anonyme, fresh Rose/ Oud combo that doesn't get feminine.

From the mid-drydown the coffee and Tuberose get quieter, and it becomes a soft spicy chocolate and Tuberose, with maybe the chocolate being slightly dominant in the accord.

It does seem to have touch of unlisted patchouli, that gives a hint of warm spiciness along with the cardamom.
The citruses are not distinctly noticable, but I think the mandarine orange and bergamot, are well blended, and add a nice fruity zest; giving it that signature Atelier Cologne freshness. I think it's fresh enough for Summer.
It is just a little sweet, and has good longevity.

This reminds me of my favorite gourmand, L'Artisan Parfumeur's Noir Exquis, which has chesnuts and maple sap with coffee and florals, but is less floral and more woody and is not sweet.

This has been growing on me, the last couple days of sampling. I think I will get a bottle someday. It's an exciting and enjoyable fragrance.
I wouldn't pay over $100 for this, in a few years it will easily be found on Amazon or eBay for well under $100.


Rating: 8.5/10

God bless. John 3:16

For the first 15 minutes, this reeks of: The inside of my purse when I was a smoker.

Memory triggered: I'm 19 years old, going to art school at community college, full of angst and frustration. I'm rummaging through my leather bag to find my pack of cigarettes, which have leaked shreds of fresh tobacco among numerous fruity lipgloss containers, cinnamon chewing gum, and crumpled paper receipts. I am young, naive, and unhappy, trying to figure out how I will escape my dead-end home town. It's a nostalgia I'd rather not remember on my skin :)

With that said, after about 15 minutes of suffering.... I finally experience the joy of this fragrance. Freshly poured espresso with cream, chocolate pastries warm out of the oven, new leather, and rich purple roses (those ones that smell extra strong), and the sense of maturity and accomplishment after finally escaping my dead-end home town.

If only the top/mid notes could be as pleasant as that final dry down. But that isn't how life works, is it? Even with the initial cigarette plume, this is unique and I'm tempted to buy it.

Cafe Tuberosa is probably the first winter-leaning release that also leans somewhat gourmand, a welcome addition to their lineup given that they've not tackled coffee or tuberose, really, elsewhere in their catalog, to my knowledge.

It opens with a heavy dose of coffee, neither terribly bitter nor rich, blending with the tuberose note. The cardamom adds a certain warm spiciness and the combination of vanilla and cacao further make it a sweet experience.

It dries down more floral, overall, but still sweet. The coffee figures in more for the first couple hours but gives way to the tuberose somewhat gradually.

It's not as sweet as Montale Intense Cafe, nor as floral as Tom Ford Cafe Rose, but somewhere in between for those that find the former too sweet and too gourmand-like and the latter too floral and powdery.

I find it quite lovable, perhaps satisfying one's desire for both of the above but not mine, personally, as I prefer the individual expressions of Intense Cafe and Cafe Rose, despite the notable difference of the tuberose note, contra the rose note of the other two.

Still, a great entry from the house that merits the attention it's received.

8 out of 10

Cafe Tuberosa by Atelier is a very interesting perfume.
The opening is full of coffee, like others noted, nice rich coffee. The coffee lasts for about 5 minutes on my skin and after 5 minutes, the floral notes start to appear. It is a gourmandy-floral note where I find more than tuberose, a bouquet of fresh flowers with just little hints of cocoa mixed beautifully to give a very distinct and enchanting smell.

Personally, it is this transition that I love, where you can still smell coffee, and the flowers begin to show up. After about 10 more minutes, the coffee is gone and you are left with a linear bouquet of flowers smell.

Can't think of when I would like to wear this. Maybe you can wear it any time of the day. I would say it is unisex, but would be great for women.

Not really a meh perfume for me, sometimes I don't like to wear it but just like to spray it on my wrist and take a sniff every now and then. This is a different perfume which will remind you of your interaction will flower. At a distance I can also smell some sandalwood. Cafe Tuberosa, I am happy that I met you.

I recently received seven Atelier fragrance samples. I'm not very familiar with the brand and am excited to try these and share my thoughts.

Café Tuberosa smells mmm good. I am fast becoming a fan of this type of fragrance. I recently sampled Good Girl, which is similar, and really liked it. It also has coffee, cacao, and tuberose notes, but the coffee note is stronger in Café Tuberosa. Café Tuberosa is so warm, spicy, and cozy. Coffee and chocolate laced with florals. I love it!

This smells like Angel mixed with something vintage. A little less sick and it won't enter the room before you.

There is something so warm and cozy about this. It almost reminds me of my bubbe, but not in an old fashioned way.

To me, this seems like a "heavy-hitter" vintage fragrance lover's dream.
Those who are tired of modern fruity florals or super-sweet gourmands may want to sample this.
What others described as "coffee bitterness" seems much more like the sting (what others call "fizziness") of aldehydes. (Although it's not listed in the description)

Aldehydes generally make my sinuses burn and this one is no exception. While interesting, this gave me a heache si it's a "no" for me. And unfortunately for me, it's tenacious on my skin; a win for those who enjoy it.

If you're looking for something new but old-fashioned, give this one a try. You might love it.

Wow! This is a stunning gourmand that captures all the good smells of a fancy coffee house. The coffee, the pastry, flowers on the tables, exotic tea spices. It smells exactly how I always wanted coffee to taste, which is closer to the aroma than the flavor.

On me, the coffee note fades faster than I would like, and leaves a sweet smokiness that is closer to spice than burnt wood or bbq. I also smell a cigarette element, but it isn't particularly warm. In fact, it veers a little dusty and is my only mild complaint. I would not say it is as "ashtray" as others mention, but it is far from fresh tobacco. I get the raspberry liqueur, but it's definitely a combo of elements interacting and not a definitive note.

All in all, Cafe Tuberosa is a lovely fragrance that is totally unisex and would make an excellent addition to a fragrance collection. It's perfect for beatnik poets or tortured artists, too.

tried this tonight at sephora. I was excited about this one and it proved to be very good. it starts with something almost rubbery on me, and i recognize the rose from rose anonyme. along with that is something warm, likely the coffee/cacao, but it's hard to tell. i really like this one, especially after the drydown when the lovely vanilla comes out. one of my favorites from atelier.

YES! YES! YES! This is literally heaven in a bottle. I generally dislike almost all gourmand or sickening sweet fragrances but this, oh god, is executed perfectly! Chocolate, rose, and smokey notes (tobacco maybe?). The rose is there throughout the whole time on skin and the chocolate note gets darker as the fragrance dries down. There also seems to be a nice boozy/alcoholic vibe coming from this scent however I can’t figure out what’s attributing to that. The smokey note just wraps everything together so well. Like someone earlier said, as if someone is having a cappuccino outside a coffee shop with their cigarette. However, it’s not a stale or nasty cigarette smell. An authentic smelling fragrance. Projection is just right. It lasts and I can periodically smell myself throughout the day. Can worn day or night during fall or winter. Leans more masculine imo but can be worn by women too! Age range: >18

I don't get much citrus in the opening. It really smells more like a boozy raspberry liqueur. The scent opens up with coffee, cocoa, rose and tuberose. I can smell the cigarette thing - it's more like cigarettes than smoke though, this is not a smoky scent. The tuberose quickly vanishes, leaving the floral heart to smell more like an extremely jammy rose. The boozy "raspberry liqueur", the jammy sweet rose, the coffee and the cocoa all blend into a really lovely, complex scent. It stays pretty linear on me after that. It's a nice scent and I enjoy it - I'm not sure it's worth all of this rapturous praise though. I wish the tuberose and coffee were stronger, though that may just be my skin.

Reminds me of a more complex Montale Intense Cafe.

Edit: I've found that layering this with cocoa butter as a lotion helps to amplify the coffee and chocolate notes on my skin.

The very first minute of Café Tuberosa indeed smells like the aromatic, bitter astringency of coffee to me. But it soon gets overrode by rich cacao, and the fragrance smells more like a cup of sweet mocha with a bar of dark chocolate than black coffee. There is also a subtle boozy impression during this mocha phase, probably due to the presence of rose and sweet citrus.

I didn't expect the tuberose here to be a carnal witch, but still, to my disappointment, this enchanting flower is close to non-existent in Café Tuberosa on my skin. What I get, is a vague floral undercurrent that can be attributed to almost any common floral notes if you will, and a creamy sweetness of artificial vanilla. This sweet creaminess initially enriches the mocha and makes it more unctuous, but eventually softens and the mocha fades into the background after about 2 hours.

Afterwards, the clean patchouli and the rose assert themselves upon the vanilla and the tobacco-ish remnant of cacao, and create a somewhat ripe prune effect in a cocoon of velvet. This dry down indeed reminds me of that of Tom Ford Noir de Noir with slightly less complexity. The sillage is rather close to my skin, while the longevity is just above 6 hours.

All in all, I enjoyed Café Tuberosa, especially its initial mocha phase. As a gourmand fragrance, its sweetness is not over the top and overall I find it easy to appreciate as long as one enjoys chocolate-dominant fragrances. However, the execution of various notes, especially the tuberose and the patchouli, still has a strong commercial identity. The fragrance reminds me of a cup of Starbucks mocha, it's pleasant to drink but clearly feels standardised. I would recommend it to gourmand fans of mocha and dark chocolate, but not to those who are expecting a special tuberose or realistic black coffee.

The opening is an incredible dark chocolate & rich coffee grounds accord that made me think for once that I had finally found the coffee fragrance for me - indeed it was full bodied, and smelled unlike a slew of other 'coffee fragrances' that hope to bombard you with enough notes that the coffee accord is simply imagine by the individual wearing it.

However, this accord lasts all of about 15 minutes in the most generous of wearings, and then it fades to a more synthetic version of Tom Ford's Cafe Rose (which already strikes me as incredibly synthetic) fused with Mugler's Angel. The patchouli is definitely of the Mugler strain - strange, chocolatey, synthetic - yet there too hangs the 'rose' accord from Cafe Rose that dances back and forth with a synthetic vanilla to achieve a 'creamy floral' abstraction that wavers about behind the patchouli.

Throughout there is a odd sense one gets which is derived from yet another synthetic note - tuberose - which maintains next to none of the integrity of the note that white floral lovers enjoy so deeply, and instead a safe note that simply stands to try to aid the transition between the opening, and the fusion of Alien and Cafe Rose.

Really if you wanted Alien or Cafe Rose, I would suggest getting them over this - the opening is the only thing worth enjoying from this fragrance, and it lasts less than the smell hugging to your clothes from brewing a fresh pot yourself, except with Cafe Tuberosa, you don't even get to enjoy the beverage.

3/10

YT: Jess AndWesH

I smelled this twice and rushed to purchase it. It's one of the only perfumes I've ever found that truly smells like coffee. Many perfumes claim the accord, but this is the only one that actually smells like a fresh cup of coffee. The first 30 minutes are a true cafe experience and then the coffee note dies down to a rosey vanilla. On average, I get about 5 hours of lasting power before I crave a reapplication to get that hit of coffee.

I agree with others that there's a slight cigarette butt note through the middle of the fragrance, but it's not disgusting or annoying. If anything, it truly gives the feeling of being in the middle of a cafe where pastries are cooking and someone's having a latte and a cigarette outside.

I've also started to notice this fragrance bears a resemblance to Tom Ford's Noir de Noir which is a gourmand rose. Anyone else sense that?

One test and I bought it. One of the few "unisex" cologne that does not make me think of a cedar cigar box sitting next to a plate of fresh limes. Those are great smells, but don't work for me as perfume. The cardamom of Café Tuberosa balances out the citrus and cacao notes, a natural rose note drifts around, and it never gets too foody. On my first few tests, I could wish for a bit more sillage but maybe it will develop more when the weather warms up. The .33ml travel spray eases the sting of the price.

Oh man, Atelier what have you done....this is NOT good for my wallet!

WOW is this thing a hit, it is simply GORGEOUS! Caffe, a latte with hot cocoa in the mix with the smells combining with a cigarette smoking hot blonde in the background. that is exactly what this scent is.

Lookout for this one to blow up soon with the gourmies, this one is a surefire gourmand hit! I simply love it and i have only worn it once! WOW!

I've sampled it twice already and I gotta say, this one is a stunner. That opening, oh my goodness! Coffee and Cocoa with a touch of citrus! It literally is a coffee shop in a bottle right at the top. That's mostly what I get and you can smell hints of the florals way in the back. Then the coffee shop and the florals trade places as you can start smelling more of the Rose, and that amazing coffee shop takes a back seat and it does so pretty quickly. Then your left with a slightly sweet, vanillic rose with some patchouli at the base. A really great Fragrance. I wish the coffee note lasted a little longer. And I do prefer Intense Cafe over this simply because to me, IC is just a beastly performer. This one didn't last as long. But compared to other Atelier offerings, it does last longer than. Most. This is more of a mocha with rose, while Intense Cafe is more like a Vanilla latte with rose. Great Fragrance. Will definitely be on the lookout for this one.

I haven't been a fan of any Atelier perfumes before this one, and actually I wasn't in the store to buy this. I sprayed it on and then shopped for an hour or two. I just couldn't stop smelling my wrists!

I get the hint of cigarettes people are talking about here, but this is just so marvelously blended that it's not a big part of it. The coffee, the tuberose, I can smell those, and it is wonderful! The rose is very faint on me. I love it from the first spray to the drydown. I also find it has much more lasting power than most Atelier perfumes. I'm very surprised I bought this, but happy I did!

Edit: July 4, 2018 I went on vacation and did not bring this with me, so I had to buy another one! That's how much I love this one and crave it! It's gorgeous!

A three levels little number. An initial one of coffe and patch, fresh, a bit bitter (in a good way) and realistic, as the smell that hits you the moment you open your ground coffee can (that little bliss). Then Miss Tuberose arrives: she clearly thinks that a simple espresso is for sad people and transforms your black coffee in a glorious latte cappuccino. The end is all cigarette smoke and flowers, you’re in the cafè garden, winter day is cold but sunny and it’s nice to stay outside, until you will feel like having another coffee.
This is a lovely perfume and a solid Atelier proposal for cooler weather. Its weakness is in being truly good at its beginning, leaving you with the nostalgia for the first blast. I know I will spray and respray just to take my coffee black once more.

Love or Like: it’s a like that could have been a love. Won’t invest in a FB but happy to have my travel spray. [and btw AC’s travel sprays are really cute].
Tuberose: neither shy nor kryptonite level, it puts you in a comfort zone: very warm and comfortable, with good longevity (4/5 hours) at least on me and a nice projection that won’t scare anyone.
Unisex: yes, I think so. The smoking part really is.

This is stunning. Absolutely stunning. I bought the travel spray blind based on the notes and didn't expect much, Atelier often doesn't work for me at all. But this? Oh I'm in love. Creamy, smooth tuberose and cafe mocha. It's rich and warm and absolutely glorious. I'm in love.

Another one of those fragrances that gives me the feeling of excitement and delight!! The kind of fragrance that solicits feeling of wanting to dive deep into its goodness. I mean, really deep dive into its goodness!

I thought this was going to be a FLOWER bomb of a fragrance (not to be confused with Flowerbomb by Viktor & Rolf)...well, initial smell-A MAJOR BLAST OF BOOZINESS up front followed by cocoa and coffee combined with dark rose and tuberose.

As this dries, you find yourself in a cloud of sweet almost candy-like gourmand of a fragrance that's musky and full of dark coffee that has been nicely done!!

I think this could perhaps be unisex. My wife says to her that its very masculine!

[If I might add, even though iris and pink pepper are not apart of the note break down, my mind seems to think there are hints of these because there is the resemblance of Dolce & Gabbana's La Roue de la Fortune 10 hidden deep within the recesses of this fragrance. Those notes are found in the aforementioned fragrance...] This makes me love this fragrance that much more!

Very nice!!

Using this fragrance as a signature fragrance one day; while interacting with my kids....my 5 yr. old daughter says, "Daddy, you smell good! How do you make yourself smell that good?"

Espresso. Deep, dark, organic cocoa powder. Tuberose. Whiffs of jasmine. A hint of cigarettes smoked defiantly in front of a caffetteria.

I'm not typically the biggest fan of Atelier Colognes. They're usually too citrusy or sharp for me. For instance, Cedré Atlas, while refreshing with its blast of Iso E Super, ended up smelling too metallic on me, almost like Lysol, albeit a Lysol composed by a skilled perfumer.

And their pure citrus scents, while of good quality, can be a bit boring and lack depth for me, a lover of darker or at least more complex fragrances like Tom Ford's Black Orchid. But this new fragrance took Atelier's minimalism and put an interesting twist to it.

The notes in this fragrance shouldn't work, and yet they do, almost like orchestral strings used in the background of a heavy rock song. It's a very minimalistic fragrance composition of only 5 or so accords, yet an unconventional mix of notes that don't clash, but harmonize. Kind of like a Jean Claude Ellena creation with a gourmand twist.

My only criticism is longevity. I wish the bitterness of the cocoa, coffee grounds, and hint of cigar lasted longer. But frankly, I don't care. The beautiful opening is enough to drive me to buy a full bottle of this creation.

This has some punch, coffee, tuberose, cardamom jump at you in the top notes, it has a rather masculine beginning...it isn't shy, and as it opens up, it gets more spicy..I didn't dare spray it on my skin, as I am not fond of the top notes..the tuberose isn't soft, it doesn't really bring feminity to the scent, it remains in my opinion rather unisex..the coffee note doesn't last long, the cardammon seems to take over quite a bit, mixing with a dry vanilla..
It smells like a cold ashtray honestly...not for me
It might please lovers of character scents..as for me, too dry and unisex for my taste.

Café Tuberosa Cologne Absolue by Atelier Cologne. This is the latest creation by this house and I have to say I honestly think this is their best one to date and I love many of their scents. I tried this on last night for the first time and was simply blown away. This one is for special noses that can truly appreciate specific note combinations. It's not that combining coffee and rose is a new concept it's just that Atelier Cologne has refined it here in a very beautiful, elegant yet modern way. I get a silly thrill when a perfume plays with my mind and this one did just that. The notes are: tuberose from India, Bergamot from Calabria and a coffee espresso accord. Now my impression: at first you literally smell an ashtray filled with cigarette ash and roses. I thought this was genius and I laughed as I smelled my wrist over and over again. I grew up around smokers so it didn't bother me. I kind of liked it and wanted to smell more. This fragrance conjured up for me the vision of a dimly lit library in a very fancy house. Imagine a sumptuous dark brown pin tuck leather chair with a mahogany wood table next to it. On this table is an ashtray filled with either pipe or cigarette ash and next to it is a shiny white demitasse filled with freshly brewed espresso and just maybe there's also a hand cut crystal glass of whiskey or cognac there, too. Gracing this space is a gorgeous bouquet of exquisitely large dark red roses with sprigs of tuberose throughout. Now imagine all of those smells over the course of several hours weaving in and out dancing with each other. That's what I imagined this to be. This is both masculine and feminine. A gourmand for gourmand haters. It sits very closely on my skin and lasted for about four hours but that was with just one spray on my wrist. I am in love with this and will be ordering the 200 ml bottle next month as this is one I will use over and over again. #ateliercologne #cafetuberosa #perfume #fragrance #fragrancereview #perfumecollector #perfumista214

I was gonna avoid this because of the “meh” reviews on here but it was way better than I expected. It smells like a straight up cafe. Considering a full bottle.

I got my hands on a sample of this and have been wearing it the past week or so, off and on. Cafe Tuberosa is a definite gourmand. The coffee note comes out fairly strong in the initial spray; chocolate-y and reminds me of a mocha. The tuberose lingers underneath at first and I catch it more when I bring my wrist up and run it passingly under my nose. It's gentle but very much present. Like everyone else has mentioned, the coffee does not last long, maybe half an hour on me. The fragrance itself is very long lasting on me, the moderate sillage dying down to a long lasting relative-skin scent at 9 hours. At the dry down, I mostly get a general but lovely vanilla/cacao mix.

There is a touch of Angel in here for sure, but it's less gourmand. First spray is walking into a cafe, with rich coffee and cocoa then a wisp of gentle tuberose. As it develops on the skin the coffee note rescinds and the cocoa and tuberose get stronger. I really enjoy this one, but it's vague similarities to many other rich, cocoa-or-vanilla forward fragrances means that I probably will give it a miss long term. If the coffee note stuck around a bit longer or the tuberose was stronger, I'd probably be more interested, but as it stands it smells too much like some fragrances I already own.

Starts with a burst of coffee, and then settles immediately into a floral dominated by tuberose. I definitely get a reference to Angel, but Cafe is much more subtle. It finally settles into a non-descript floral and cacao. I don't smell any vanilla. If you are looking for something lighter and less assertive than Angel and Coromandel, this might be a good choice. Agree with the poster who said "meh".

I got this sample because of the coffee, cocoa, and tuberose. I have worn for almost half-an-hour now (I wore it yesterday, also), and honestly, it just smells like a jumbled mess. I am often impressed when I can't discern particular notes because that means it's well-blended, but in THIS case, it simply doesn't smell pleasant to me. Rather than a new release, it should have been considered an experiment, and left on a shelf to gather dust! I will stick with my favorite Mistral Patchouli, Vetiver Fatal, and even Ambre Nue. Realistically, I don't expect any more winners from Atelier.

I thought the ides of the combination intriguing.
The first few minutrs are a lovely coffee, with a sweet warm undertone.
Unfortunately, on me that soon chamges into a cigarette butt smell.
I do detect a nice tuberose underneath this, and a nice patchouli too, that I do quite like.
But sadly, the ashtray smell does not pass on my skin, and for this reason, I have to give it a pass myself.

I do suggest you try before you buy. I may open into a quite unique and lovely bouquet on another skin.

Not a caffee nor a coffee nor a tuberose. But it’s lovely!
Café Tuberosa differs so much at the opening and dry down. There is much coffee at the beginning with the smell of a fresh coffee beans. This café disappears 20 seconds after and the scent becomes smooth, sweet, feminine but still so alluring.
I don't smell tuberose here at all, but I do feel a bouquet of roses, some caramel sweetness, fruits and a big dose of patchouli that navigates the whole scents. On a whole Café Tuberose is VERY similar to rose-patchouli-sh Tom Ford Noir de Noir; try the new Atelier Cologne if you appreciate Noir de Noir, Chanel Coromandel, Narciso Rodriguez for her and even Mugler Angel – you will not regret

Strong blast of coffee at first. Nice coffee vibe for sure. As the fragrance goes on though the coffee dies down with it. And more of the tuberose comes out. It never becomes old grandmaish though thankfully, but it certain does becomes quit feminine for awhile after it loses its gormandish original nature. Eventually the tuberose dies down as well and its just kinda there. And its just sorta a little soft/sweet/floral vibe going on.

Nothing particular interesting, kinda gets your hopes up. But for what its worth again, I wouldnt let the word tuberose fool you, as its not so overtly feminine that I think it would be unwearable as a man.

Overall a "meh" for me.

Was very curious to try this because coffee and tuberose! Found it at a local stockist and this tested beautifully on paper. It's a sweet and fruity coffee, like sipping espresso while snacking on ripe red fruits with bouquets of rose and tuberose wafting nearby. Will test on skin soon. Very tempted.

This one is dirty:) There should be patchuli listed. Coffee notes fade away very quickly and I can smell rich chypre with rose.