Since my early teens, I haven’t been able to live without coffee, but somehow I’ve managed to live without coffee perfumes. That all changed last year when a colleague introduced me to Akro, Awake. The scent reminded me of one of my favourite perfumes, Smokeshow by Vilhelm Parfumerie. Not because they shared a fragrance profile, but because they both straddled the line between masculine and feminine, with a slight bitterness and a feminine warmth in the spiced…

