Eau de Parfum Café Arabesque is the first release from any haute parfumerie house to work with specialty coffee terroirs, using single origin fruit grown by the APAS cooperative (Associação dos Produtores do Alto da Serra) in the mountains of São Gonçalo do Sapucaí, Minas Gerais, Brazil. APAS was founded in 2006 as a collective of smallholder farmers determined to protect what industrial coffee production had erased: origin, traceability, and fair compensation for producers. They were Fairtrade pioneers in Brazil and remain part of the fewer than 2% of global coffee production classified as specialty grade. Perfumer Antoine Lie collaborated with Julien Galéa, founder of Swiss specialty roasters Kojo, to begin a long selection process across different origins and varieties, searching for a precise, elegant aromatic profile that Julien would describe in the cup as a "Grand Classique." Antoine's preference landed on the APAS farms: Mondo Novo and Catuai varieties with a character of dark chocolate, roasted hazelnut, yellow fruits and fresh florals. Julien and his team then proposed several roasting profiles, each revealing a different facet of this exceptional bean. The roasted coffee then underwent weeks of ultrasound extraction in the Les Indémodables R&D laboratory, a painstaking process to draw out the complete aromatic depth, creating a Grand Cru labelled coffee extract used at 6% concentration in Café Arabesque. The opening is a bold ristretto rendered in scent: woody, aromatic, bright with a snap of liquorice. Café Arabesque then unfolds laterally into a creamy mochaccino accord, softening with cocoa powder and lightly roasted hazelnut. Benzoin "large tears" resinoid from Laos and New Caledonian Sandalwood Album oil build a warm, resinous, deeply sensual drydown that refuses to let go. Café Arabesque returns coffee to its luxury origins. A fruit of extraordinary complexity, shaped by its terroir, roasted with intention, extracted with patience, and rendered in perfume with the reverence it has always deserved. Composition: 6% Brazilian Speciality Coffee Ultrasound Extract 1.1% New Caledonian Sandalwood 'Album' Oil 0.8% Laotian Benzoin 'Large Tears' Resinoid Perfumer: Antoine Lie, 2026 inci list: Alcohol Denat, Parfum (Fragrance), Aqua (Water), Tetramethylacetyloctahydronaphthalenes, Vanillin, Ebanol, Geranyl Acetate, Citral, Citronellol, Geraniol, Citrus Aurantium Bergamia Peel Oil, Pogostemon Cablin Oil, Alpha Terpinene, Anethol, Benzaldehyde, Benzyl Benzoate, Beta-caryophyllene, Coumarin, Limonene, Linalool, Linalyl Acetate, Menthol, Evernia Prunastri Extract, Pinene, Santalum Album Oil, Santalol, Terpineol, Terpinolene, Bht, Ethylhexyl Salicylate, Butyl Methoxydibenzoylmethane (Avobenzone)
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