{"id":161054,"date":"2017-10-25T14:27:29","date_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/?p=161054"},"modified":"2017-10-25T14:27:29","modified_gmt":"2017-10-25T18:27:29","slug":"atelier-cologne-cafe-tuberosa-fragrance-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/2017\/10\/25\/atelier-cologne-cafe-tuberosa-fragrance-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Atelier Cologne Cafe Tuberosa ~ fragrance review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Barbie\"<\/p>\n

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“He had received a mysterious invitation to Venice just a few days after that unforgettable night. He was wondering what this was all about, then he recognized Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa. There she was, staring at him. Suddenly it was clear. In a moment they would have the chance to start over again.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unforgettable, but in a\u00a0good way<\/em>? Staring<\/em> at him…why not gazing<\/span> or something less intense? Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa: stalker? Ex? Watch out! All those Venice canals are perfect for drowning.<\/p>\n

Atelier Cologne<\/a>\u00a0Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa1<\/sup>\u00a0is a new fragrance in the brand’s Avant Garde collection.<\/p>\n

Tuberose seems to be overtaking rose as the fleur du jour <\/em>in perfumery. Tuberose is featured in lots of new releases, mainstream and niche, but usually with a proviso: it’s been made “darker,” cleaner, chicer, younger, more “manly” than before. Mostly, rose has been allowed to keep its full character in recent perfumes, but tuberose, like patchouli, is often taken apart and put back together with all its most interested facets deleted or “adjusted.” As I’ve stated ad nauseam, I like my tuberoses in my garden and in vases more than in my perfumes, but if there’s tuberose in perfume I don’t want banal “white flowers,” food-y coconut and vanilla sugar substituting for tuberose’s boisterous and florid character.<\/p>\n

How does Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa deal with tuberose? The perfume begins with the aroma of roasted, cocoa-dusted coffee beans mixing with tangy citrus. The coffee aroma is thin and joined quickly by shrill (and waaaaay too clean) white flowers (tuberose that’s been washed and bleached and washed again). The coffee-tuberose accord smells sour up close. Next (joining the coffee, cocoa and “tuberose”) is a super-sweet patchouli-icing scent full of imitation vanilla extract. At this stage, Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa smells like a too-bright (scent-wise) candle, perfect for Barbie’s Boca<\/a> Condo. Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa is obnoxious (huge projection, lifelong lasting power); it reminded my partner of Giorgio Beverly Hills (style-wise).<\/p>\n

Avant garde? Only in the sense this is an experiment gone wrong.<\/p>\n

\"Atelier<\/p>\n

For me, Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa is a scrubber. After<\/em> scrubbing my arms with Dawn dish-washing liquid and realizing the perfume had barely budged, I took a hot shower.\u00a0Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa lingered on and I grabbed my bottle of heavenly Balsamo della Mecca<\/a> and doused myself with it. Relief.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa takes away tuberose’s soul; it smells tawdry to me. As long as it does not mean my death, I hope to never smell Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa again.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Atelier Cologne\u00a0Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa Cologne Absolue was developed by perfumer J\u00e9r\u00f4me Epinette<\/a>. It is available in three sizes: 30 ml\/$85, 100 ml\/$150 and 200 ml\/$255.<\/p>\n

1. Listed notes of bergamot, tangerine, cardamom, tuberose, rose, “coffee espresso accord,” patchouli, vanilla, cacao.<\/p>\n

Note: top image is Barbie<\/em> by vanessa v. at flickr<\/a>; some rights reserved<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Possibly of interest<\/h2>\n
Atelier Cologne Pivoine Nue ~ new fragrance<\/a><\/div>
Atelier Cologne Oolang Monochrome ~ new fragrance<\/a><\/div>
Atelier Cologne Mandarine Fauve ~ new fragrance<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n

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\"Barbie\"<\/p>\n

\n

“He had received a mysterious invitation to Venice just a few days after that unforgettable night. He was wondering what this was all about, then he recognized Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa. There she was, staring at him. Suddenly it was clear. In a moment they would have the chance to start over again.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Unforgettable, but in a good way<\/em>? Staring<\/em> at him…why not gazing<\/span> or something less intense? Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa: stalker? Ex? Watch out! All those Venice canals are perfect for drowning.<\/p>\n

Atelier Cologne<\/a> Caf\u00e9 Tuberosa1<\/sup> is a new fragrance in the brand’s Avant Garde collection.<\/p>\n

Tuberose seems to be overtaking rose as the fleur du jour <\/em>in perfumery…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1638,1244,754,62],"class_list":{"0":"post-161054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-perfume-talk","7":"tag-atelier-cologne","8":"tag-coffee","9":"tag-jerome-epinette","10":"tag-tuberose","11":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nstperfume.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}