Brown Sugar Vanilla Latte

[doomsday_disco]

After thirty years of reluctantly drinking coffee, Ted has become a bean aficionado thanks to a local shop called the Head Nut. Recently, we bought French vanilla and bourbon chocolate beans from them and ever since that day, Ted has been hooked. Of course, Ted’s morning coffee is the breakfast beverage equivalent to a cozy hug: a slow-simmered swirl of brown sugar melting into steamed milk, wrapped around the soothing, sweet warmth of vanilla-infused espresso.

[splendidissima]

This goes on very big and loud: mostly coffee, plus the dark caramelized almost-burnt swirl of brown sugar. At first I don't get much vanilla or milk; I would like it to be a little more balanced. My husband really likes it though - he loves coffee!

 

As it dries it gets a little sweeter; maybe some of the vanilla is sneaking in there. I like it better at this stage, I think!

[faeriedust87]

Milky coffee with sweetness from brown sugar. Not a black coffee. 

[KarenWalker]

I'm so sad, I just got caramelized dark honey. Why??

[SmellsPrettyGood2Me]

Much more coffee forward on skin than Pumpkin Spice Espresso Latte, the punkier latte cousin of this year's Yules. There is definitely some perky, frothed, high fat milk in here, along with a somewhat fruity, floral vanilla that smells a lot like the recently released Patchouli and Smoked Vanilla lotion (which smells nothing at all like vanilla or patchouli to me, RIP). There is a slight, acrid undertone to the coffee, like the oil in the beans went a bit rancid before they were ground up for brewing, that wafts up from time to time. I get more simple syrup than brown sugar from this until it is fully dried down. 

 

Do I enjoy this? Will I wear this? The answer is not so clear. The blessing and curse of such an expansive BPAL Scentverse is that, because there are so many things to love, it doesn't always feel like there is enough room to just LIKE something (or even sit with it long enough to find out, before the next thing comes along that also needs trying). 

 

To be continued...