Description
A cheerful buzz, burns of laughter, ladies in stunning evening gowns whose chypre perfumes are blended with gentlemen’s tobacco, ready to enjoy the show from their table in the front row. No matter what is their social status. The enjoyment of the pleasure, a genuine joie de vivre towards the end of the nineteenth century, following a wave of optimism, regenerating the great European capitals.
First the season of the Parisian Café Chantant then the shows influenced the Italian artists. Writers and artists of great fame became hunters of the most popular Italian Café Chantant. Even ladies regularly attending the Cafes had fun by imitating the gestures and clothing of those women who drove their men so crazy … the Sciantose. A full-Italian folk, in which flavor delivers pleasure to everyone.
Cafè Chantant was launched in 2013. The nose behind this fragrance is Mathieu Nardin.
ains – :
Meh. Vanilla and cherry. And that’s it. There’s nothing wrong with this, but it bores me, and being bored by a perfume is probably worse than disliking a perfume. I almost wish this was more trashy,with a bigger cherry, a louder vanilla, at least it’d be memorable.
4elove4e – :
I’d put this perfume together with Ambre 114 on one shelf as a Great Vintage sense perfumes, that are good in context with that time warderobe, theater, moulin rouge, opera, old cinema, cafe’s, vintage stores etc., either it reminds an old woman. Would wear in some vintage party or at home.
koppin – :
it’s so lovely both projection and its sillage its a night frag. i think i love it so gourmand
j13 – :
A classic light smoking vanilline with a touch of cherry, nice but nothing to die for.
gerra – :
On me it starts with vanilla pod, literally the pod, where the seeds are still inside of it with cherries. I expected more sour cherries but I’m getting sweet, as if baked cherries. After a short while vanilla is out of the pod, so to speak 🙂 After about an hour I feel benzoin. I can barely detect the flowers, I don’t get anise either, also it slowly stops radiating, it gets closer and closer to the skin. On the dry down there is vanilla, very sweet, patchouli and musk. Benzoin is gone. After 5 hours it is very faint and close to the skin but it is hanging in there for a loong time.
lerBornorieve – :
Café Chantant is very gourmandish. It smells pastery and vanilla. Nothing synthetic, only high quality ingredients. Smelling this can make you feel happy because it has the best gourmand notes, blended beautifully together.
It reminds me the smell of crape batter, rhum ans sugar, that you could smell in a foire or carnival, with all this people around, and the smell of party in the air.
Cafe Chantant has one of the best and natural gourmand smell but for me this frangrance is only nice for what it. It’s more an experience than a fragance. When I spray I have to put my nose on it if I want to smell something and after 10 seconds the scent has almost completely disappeared. Talking about longevity or sillage would have no sens. A “snapchat” kind of scent 🙂
Kahovka – :
Interesting unisex fragrance. There’s a kind of smokiness in it. It reminds me slightly to Rihanna’s Rebelle. Way too expensive by the way.
Makovei – :
I got a sample of this in a perfume order and I fell in love! This scent is so beautiful! When you first spray it the cherries just hit you and not in a medicinal cough syrup way. I have other perfumes that have cherry in it and nothing compares to this. The cherries settle down after about 10 minutes and the vanilla, benzoin, heliotrope, and iris become more prominent. It is a very rich and creamy vanilla – not boring at all. I can smell the star anise but it is not in your face. The fragrance becomes the tiniest bit powdery but I like powdery scents so this is a winner for me!
dimon27ru – :
Creamy vanilla with a hint of cherry and benzoin. In the background, there is a velvety musk with a sweet floral mix. Wonderful fragrance closed in the typical Nobile 1942 bottle, with a lovely Art Deco label. On my wish list!
vedeol – :
Oh dear, how I’m loving this. I tried this blind, without knowing any of the notes, and I’m so glad I did, because cherry usually makes me run for the hills. Here, the dark cherries just add a boozy layer with hints of fruit, without ever being tart or sweet or “perfume cherry”-like. It’s the cherry-star anise combo that makes the opening shine. Then, a soft, almondy (heliotrope) vanilla wraps itself around the wearer, deepened by benzoin, which keeps it from being gourmand, with its resinous qualities. The patchouli and musk are barely there, but they counter the sweetness, preventing the frangrance from becoming too heavy or cloying. The vanilla is sufficiently sweet, but also woody, more like the vanilla pods, rather than an extract. It mixes gorgeously with the floral almonds of the heliotrope and the sweet resins of the benzoin. Café Chatant wears like a weightless cashmere wrap: comforting yet sensual. Absolutely perfect.
barbaric – :
Don’t be fooled by the name, because this perfume doesn’t have notes of coffee in the composition. The name comes from the inspiration in the “Singing Cafés” from the 19th century, in France, when small groups of popular music performed in cafes (coffee places), outdoor. This movement of the French “belle époque” spread worldwide, gaining strength in Italy, Germany and Spain.
The official notes are: black cherry, Laurel and anise, in the output; Heliotrope, Iris and Althea (hibiscus) in the heart; benzoin, patchouli, musk and vanilla, in the base.
Once applied, the feeling is that I spent my money in vain. There is no smell, but an alcoholic vapor and a fragrance very weak and without definition. But wait, because the surprise is yet to come!
About 10 minutes later, a dense and semi-gourmand fragrance arises, with an aroma that can reproduce, perfectly, the mixture of the tobacco of gentlemen, which mingled the chypres of the ladies and the strong scent of coffee, which exuded in the enclosure. The anise presents nuances close to the licorice and the benzoin gives creaminess. But the highlight of this fragrance is in the almond aroma of Heliotrope, which joins with perfection, the vanilla.
In my opinion, the only defect is the poor projection, since a fragrance like this deserved a greater power of reach and trail, of those that nobody can remain indifferent to your presence. Apart from that, is deliciously unique. Café Chantant brings the glamour of the past for your skin.
0vlad0 – :
A person who passes you by wearing Cafe Chantant does not go unnoticed and ‘one of those perfumes tailoring, must know how to wear, mind you all must know how to wear perfumes, He needs to wear, Tailors Noblie, generally produces perfumes and haute couture complicated to wear, know how to give emotions, it ‘s never trivial, For me and ‘become a Must, my wife must have it, I have to wear like a coat of Orefice. Advice for those who are ‘in Genoa to visit them, the inventors of emotions.
Prices in Italy for 75 ml 80/95 €
Voto 8.9/10
Ganin91 – :
first spray smells like cherry air freshener and alcohol, and I’m like “come on! how are they gonna ask $150 for this mess?” But then it settles immediately into a nice dried cherry (not very sweet), vanilla (not sweet,very very heady), with some patchouli, and star anise. It’s a very dry perfume in the first hour in my opinion with a mild touch of sweetness from the cherry. The drydown is the best part, the vanilla calms down, and the whole thing gets nicer and sweetens up a bit and the heliotrope gets more noticeable. Unfortunately this has low projection and longevity is moderate. I can’t give this a thumbs up or a thumbs down. sample first.