Montale Parfums Paris - Intense Café EDP Intense Café is an oriental vanilla fragrance that released in 2013. A number of my friends in the fragrance community have spoken highly of this fragrance and, being a coffee fiend (both the note and the beverage) I wanted to try it. I ordered a sample from Luckyscent and… I don’t even know where to begin with this. It’s rare that I draw a complete blank when writing a review. I should say here that I tested this fragrance for four days in a row. And I am lost. What I mean here is that I was anticipating a glorious coffee fragrance. What I experienced on each of my trials was not a coffee fragrance in any way. When I take in the very opening of Intense Café, I get a strong, bitter, somewhat spicy or medicinal floral. It is not identifiable as a specific flower. The floral intensity softens after about an hour and in comes a rose. The rose is mixed with a resinous...