ICP｜Taste like Café

Taste like Café

Spicy

Top Notes: Raw Roasted Coffee Beans, Citrus, Cardamom
Heart Notes: Coffee Tree, Ginger, Fennel, Rose
Base Notes: Musk, Tobacco, Cedarwood

Description:

A Café

Can you truly only smell coffee there?

This was the very first question I pondered when creating "Taste like Café."

The coffee fragrances we are familiar with are often dark and roasted, carrying caramel, cream, chocolate, or vanilla.

But this time, I intentionally stripped all of those away.

Because what I wanted to create was never just a cup of coffee,

but an actual Café.

So, I started with raw roasted coffee beans.

Before it becomes the coffee we know, it is first a plant—green, dry, and slightly bitter.

Citrus and cardamom keep the first impression bright,

followed by the gradual emergence of the coffee tree, ginger, and fennel.

I also placed a single rose in the middle.

There is no special reason for it—much like sitting in a café one afternoon, with a flower happened to be placed at the corner of the table. You didn't pay attention to it at the time, yet years later, for some reason, you still remember it.

Finally, the scent of coffee fades away,

leaving only musk, tobacco, and cedarwood:

a person's clothes, a faint trace of smoke drifting in from outside the door,

and that wooden table that has borne countless conversations.

Therefore, what "Taste like Café" aims to capture,

besides the café itself,

is the scent that lingers on you long after the coffee is finished.

Sometimes we remember a café

not because the coffee was exceptionally good,

but because years later,

we still remember the light of that afternoon,

the person sitting across from us,

and those indescribable scents lingering in the air.

Taste like Café

I don't remember the coffee.

I remember how the place tasted.

ICP — Imagine Creating Perfume

If a story could be smelled, what would it scent like? Perhaps the damp stone walls of a city after rain, the unpainted wind within a painting, the lingering resonance hanging in the air after a piece of music ends, or perhaps a memory that suddenly resurfaces years later. These fleeting, unpreservable moments became the genesis of ICP's creation.

We are a perfume house centred around imagination, acting much like a travelling author, wandering between cities, art, culture, music, architecture, and literature, bringing back the stories and emotions encountered along the way, and rewriting them through scent.

Thus, we rarely just ask: "What does this perfume smell like, and what are its notes?" Instead, we want to know: "What does it make you think of?"

Because we believe that what truly completes a perfume is not just the perfumer, but also the person who happens to catch its scent. The exact same fragrance might remind someone of a city they have never visited, prompt another to recall someone they haven't seen in a long time, or allow someone to catch a glimpse of another side of themselves within it.

And so, perfume is no longer just perfume; It begins to hold a story.

If you were to imagine ICP as a place, we hope it resembles a library of scents, where every fragrance is a book waiting to be opened. Some are written about travel, some collect myths, some originate from paintings, music, and history, while others record emotions so elusive even we struggle to put them into words. And what we do is simply write the very first page using scent. The rest of the story is left for your imagination to complete.

In the future, ICP will continue to walk among different countries and cultures, To feel, to explore, and to leave behind our own olfactory footprints. Because there are still too many stories in this world Waiting to be smelled.

Perfume is made complete by imagination.

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