Chicory Coffee and Beignets

[doomsday_disco]

The perfume of French Quarter mornings: rich chicory coffee, earthy and bittersweet, drifting through the powdered-sugar clouds of warm beignets dusted to luminosity.

[Numanoid]

Sniffing in the decant ( not sure if it is just me, but always harder to get a good whiff in a decant as opposed to the bottle) I detect the pastry, but the coffee note is real faint. Thought it would be stronger being chicory.  Stays close to the skin and is very nice. I get mostly sugared beignets with a drop of coffee.  It is very nice and mild. I was hoping for more oomph, but this is for you if you like softer foodie scents.

[doomsday_disco]

Full disclosure: I have never had chicory coffee and have no idea what it smells like.

 

However, I had to get a decant of this because of the beignet note. Yes, I love beignets, but I also love Pralines and Powdered Sugar's beignet note and regret destashing my back-up bottle (never doing that again -- back-ups are bought for a reason!).

 

Well, this doesn't smell like the beignet dust from Pralines and Powdered Sugar at all, BUT it is still made of win. Oddly enough, what I mainly get from this is a toasted sugar and animal cracker sort of scent. I got that from my initial test (which also had some spice to it) and my full-day slather of the scent (which I didn't get any cinnamon from and was all about a toasted sugar and Barnum's animal crackers). I could not resist swooning whenever I got a whiff of this. It has great throw on me and kept making me hungry because it smells so delicious. The coffee itself is pretty light, though -- so those going into this mainly for the chicory coffee note may end up being disappointed that it's not the main player.

 

But as for me? I'm going to need a bottle.