I can definitely advise everyone to test Montale fragrances 1. on the skin and 2. let them work real! The top note says nothing about the actual fragrance! I as a niche beginner have there probably just not yet the little hand! ;-)

If you like BR540, you should definitely test Sensual Instinct. Better durability, bomb silage, warmer, denser, deeper and more gourmand; not quite so medical (that's mainly what many people dislike about BR540, I like it). What can I say - I am extremely positively surprised and even a little enthusiastic. I spray it on and there it sounds. First briefly diffuse and then very clearly: Tom Ford's "Noir de Noir". I consider this classic from the Private Blend series to be a wonderful, desirable fragrance, which is also in my collection. Sadly, sadly, sadly, sadly, on my skin, it is usually that decisive bit too flowery-sweet and thus a touch too feminine for me, which is why the occasions when I wear it are really rare. It's hard to describe... For me an absolute work of art, which you should test on the skin (not on the test strip) and which you have to give several chances, because it gets better every time you wear it... I am in any case very much in love with intense Café and this will probably my autumn and winter fragrance!SI starts with a dark red warm rose on me, it gets a bit liqueur-like on me shortly after. But it becomes even more interesting: Because then follows a medium dark tobacco with a light rosy fruity aroma. I'm surprised, but I like it. In between, there is still a slight soapy note. From here, Sensual Instinct evolves into a coffee and cedar spiced amber scent with its signature sweetness. For a while, I can smell both tobacco and amber alternating a bit until the spiced and sweet amber presents itself as the base of the scent. The durability is unbeatable, typical for a Montale by the high concentration of fragrance, even after 10 hours I can perceive it very well.

i had Intense Café on my list for a very very long time. I drink coffee very much, but do I want to smell like that? I asked myself that for a very long time and therefore postponed the blind buy for a long time! The coffee within the composition of SENSUAL INSTINCT appears in the opening, announcing a dense and seductive mixture of roses and pralines. The coffee note at the opening is not mild and creamy; it's a rough, roasted coffee accord with a special vibrancy. The depth and intensity of the composition are driven by amber and cedar combined with oakmoss. As Montale announces it, "...an irresistible sillage... elegant and beastly obsessive." Recently Montale has introduced several novelties within its collection: Bakhoor, Leather Patchouli, Oud Dream and the gourmand Sensual Instinct, which will surely intrigue scent lovers with the note of roasted coffee. This is not the first fragrance with a prominent coffee note in Montale's range: Its fabulous gourmand Chocolate Greedy, milky coffee - floral edition Intense Cafe, and a fruity, creamy, floral Sweet Peony are also touched with coffee aromas. This fragrance is really very, very well done by Montale! For a Montale, it is even suitable for the masses! It is not often the case with this label... :)

I must confess, up to now I have not really been a big fan of Montale. I've often come across a lot of loudness in the fragrances I don't like. There is one flacon design that I don't like that much. And there were a total of four scents tested so far, none of which I really liked. Now the opportunity arose to test Sensual Instinct and I thought to myself: Come give them another chance. After all, the ingredients list contains scents that I all appreciate. So I came across Sensual Instinct among others and was allowed to test the fragrance in a chic Hamburg perfumery.

The name says it all: Sensual Instinct is sensual, beguiling, unisex, but I find it very feminine The rose is present throughout the fragrance, with the coffee and praline notes, Sensual Instinct goes more in the gourmand direction. Somehow the scent reminds me of Bailey's, sugary-sweet, liqueur-like, I think I also read somewhere that Sensual Instinct contains a whisky note among other things, but this is not listed. Intense Cafe can be worn at any time of the year in my opinion, but I think it fits best for autumn and winter! :) Ca o reactie primara, dupa ce l-am pus pe piele, am vrut sa il arunc la cos; nu mi-a placut absolut deloc debutul si mi s-a parut ca miroase ca mai multe Montale turnate la un loc. Am zis sa nu mai cumpar Montale si se pare ca nu invat nimic din experientele montaliste anterioare. Undeva din subconstient ceva mi-a sugerat ca e posibil sa fie nevoie sa il las sa se aseze dupa zdruncinaturile de pe drum. Citisem si eu ca un parfum nu trebuie agitat, ca se descompun notele, etc, si nici ca mirosisem ceva mai descompus. At the very beginning I feel the coffee, it is present and sweet (actually exactly the way I do NOT want to drink my coffee). After only a few minutes the coffee, in my opinion, has already gone and the sweetness remains, which also brings roses into play.Later, the fragrance becomes sweeter and more vanilla. The rose is constantly there and fits wonderfully into this delicious composition! Sillage and durability are also top! Sprayed on at noon, I could still guess him in the morning the next day :-)