Sylvie Ganter-Cervasel and Christophe Cervasel (photo Getty images ©)

In 2010, cologne with sillage seemed like a contradiction in terms .For three hundred years, colognes were the '"step-children" of perfumery. All that changed when Creative Directors Sylvie Ganter Cervasel and her partner in life, business and love, Christophe Cervasel co-founded Atelier Cologne and created a new genre -the Cologne Absolue that had Eau de Parfum strength and longetivity. Fast-forward seven years and Atelier Cologne has become an internationally acclaimed "Maison de Parfum", with world-wide distribution and free-standing boutiques in such cities as NYC, Brooklyn, San Francisco, Hong Kong, London and of course,  Paris.

Cafe Tuberosa image from Atelier Cologne

In my opinion, one of the reasons for their early and ongoing success, was that they turned the idea of what cologne "is" upside down- using ingredients such as tea, vanilla, immortelle, mimosa and cacao. We wrote in 2010,  “There is an Atelier Cologne for everyone in the line” (back then there were only five; there are 30 + now).

Francoise Hardy drinking coffee apped by MC

Which brings me to my favorite Atelier Cologne of the past few years; the new Café Tuberosa, composed by Senior Perfumer Jerome Epinette of Robertet, who has worked with Atelier Cologne from the beginning. Coffee, cream and chocolate in my cologne? Yes. Please! –Michelyn Camen, Editor in Chief

ÇaFleureBon’s Sr Contibutor Sebastian Jara of the YouTube Channel Looking Feeling Smelling Great, and founder of a popular Facebook Group reviews Café Tuberosa.

Photo by Sebastian for CaFleureBon

Disclaimer: Atelier Cologne supplied Sebastian a bottle on behalf of CaFleureBon Contributor Video. His opinons and mine are are own.

Thanks to the generosity of Atelier Cologne, we have a draw for a 100 ml bottle of Café Tuberosa ($150) for one  registered CafleureBon reader and Looking Feeling Smelling Great subscriber in the USA and EU and (if you are not sure if you are registered click here (you must register on our site or your entry will be invalid. To be eligible please leave a comment ON THIS SITE with what you enjoyed about Sebastian’s YouTube review, where you live, if you are a fan of coffee and gourmand fragrances and if you have a favorite Atelier Cologne.  Draw closes 9/4/2017.  

Café Tuberosa is available at the Atelier Boutiques worldwide, at select stockists, online and in the US at Sephora and at Nordstrom

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