Intense Cafe
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- Authentic original perfume
- Try before the full bottle
- Travel-ready 3ml, 10ml, 30ml
- Long-lasting scent
Intense Cafe by Montale puts rose and coffee in the same cup, sweet and dark at once. It opens on a soft floral haze before the rose steps forward. Roasted coffee sits right beside it, so the flower never turns prim. Underneath, vanilla, amber and white musk make everything rounder, powdery and warm. It launched in 2013 and tends to be chosen by women who like their sweetness with a bitter edge. Wear it on autumn and winter evenings, or on a night out when you want to be noticed across the table. Voters lean towards long-lasting for its staying power and strong for its sillage, so start with a light touch. A 3ml decant tells you within a week whether the bottle belongs on your shelf.
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The community verdict
For someone in the mood for sweet rose and coffee, Intense Cafe settles into vanilla, white musk and amber. Long-lasting wear and strong projection are the leading responses; others report exceptionally long-lasting wear or moderate projection. It suits winter nights and autumn evenings; the rose may be more noticeable than the coffee.
Summarised with AI from perfume-community reviews
- Brand
- Montale
- Scent profile
- For women
- Launched
- 2013
- Decant sizes
- 3ml, 10ml, 30ml
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Montale Intense Cafe, hour by hour
How it opens, settles and lingers on skin.
Roses on a fur stole outside a coffee bar at night.
What wearers say
Votes from fragrance communities, most-voted answers first.
Longevity4,698 votes
Most voted: 44%Long lasting
32%Eternal
Sillage5,170 votes
Most voted: 47%Strong
27%Moderate
Season4,698 votes
Most voted: 50%Winter
35%Autumn
Time of day4,698 votes
Most voted: 45%Night out
30%Evening
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Longevity4,698 votes
- Very weak2%82 votes
- Weak3%124 votes
- Moderate19%898 votes
- Long lasting (Most voted)44%2,079 votes
- Eternal32%1,515 votes
Sillage5,170 votes
- Intimate5%257 votes
- Moderate27%1,383 votes
- Strong (Most voted)47%2,426 votes
- Enormous21%1,104 votes
Season4,698 votes
- Spring12%560 votes
- Summer3%143 votes
- Autumn35%1,645 votes
- Winter (Most voted)50%2,350 votes
Time of day4,698 votes
- Daytime20%940 votes
- Office5%235 votes
- Evening30%1,409 votes
- Night out (Most voted)45%2,114 votes
Which size is right for you?
Every size is decanted from the same original bottle.
At 3 sprays a day.
Loved by 50,000+
Why scent lovers try it with us before they buy the bottle.
Hand-decanted from the original bottle
Decanted by hand from authentic bottles, never diluted.
Wear it for days before you commit
Live with it at work, at night and at the weekend before you buy a full bottle.
Just like the full bottle
A fine-mist atomiser sprays like the original, so it opens, projects and lasts on your skin the way the full bottle does.
10ML vs a blind buy
What a decant gives you that a bottle bought unsmelled can’t.
Why 10ML?
Blind buy
Authentic original perfume
Yes
Yes
Smell it on your skin before you buy
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No
Try several scents for one bottle’s price
Yes
No
Travel-ready atomiser
Yes
No
No full bottle wasted if it’s not for you
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No
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The house
More from Montale
Montale was founded in France in 2003 by Pierre Montale, who built the house around oud paired with rose and bottled it in his trademark aluminium flacons. Oud is still part of the story, but the range here runs mostly sweet and warm: amber, vanilla and musk, with coffee, caramel and tonka bean for richness and saffron for heat. Intense Cafe is the first one to know, rose and coffee over vanilla. Chocolate Greedy is a spiced cacao treat, and Arabians Tonka is a dense, sugary amber. Black Aoud goes back to the roots with rose, oud and patchouli.
Frequently asked questions
What does Montale Intense Cafe smell like?
Montale Intense Cafe opens with Floral Notes. The heart brings Coffee and Rose. It dries down to Amber, Vanila and White Musk.
Is Montale Intense Cafe long lasting?
Shoppers on fragrance communities most often rate its longevity as long lasting (44% of votes), and 77% rate it long lasting or eternal. They most often rate its sillage as strong (47% of votes). How long it lasts on you also depends on your skin and how much you apply.
Is Montale Intense Cafe good for summer?
Shoppers on fragrance communities rate it mainly for winter; summer takes only 3% of season votes.
Is Montale Intense Cafe good for winter?
Yes. Shoppers on fragrance communities vote winter its best season, with 50% of season votes.
Is Montale Intense Cafe for day or night?
Shoppers on fragrance communities mostly wear it after dark: 75% of time-of-day votes are for evenings and nights out, 25% for daytime or the office.
Can I wear Montale Intense Cafe to the office?
Shoppers on fragrance communities rarely pick it for the office: only 5% of time-of-day votes go to the office.
Who makes Montale Intense Cafe?
Intense Cafe is made by Montale. It was launched in 2013.
How many wears is a 10ml decant of Montale Intense Cafe?
A 10ml decant of Montale Intense Cafe holds about 200 sprays, roughly 67 days of wear at 3 sprays a day. The 3ml decant holds about 60 sprays, around 20 days. The 30ml decant holds about 600 sprays, around 200 days.
Which other Montale perfumes can I try?
Besides Montale Intense Cafe, 10ML has Chocolate Greedy, Arabians Tonka and Roses Musk from Montale, each decanted from the original bottle.
Is this Montale Intense Cafe decant the original perfume?
Yes. Every Montale Intense Cafe decant is filled by hand from an original Montale bottle, with nothing added or diluted, so it opens, dries down and lasts on your skin the way the bottle does. We sell only authentic originals.
What is a decant?
A small amount of a perfume, taken from its original bottle and put into a travel atomiser. You get the real fragrance in a size that lets you live with it for days before you decide on the full bottle.
How does the money-back guarantee work?
If a scent isn’t right for you, get in touch within 30 days of it arriving and we’ll arrange a refund. Terms apply. See our refund policy.