The smell of fresh coffee - even from the filter machine - is something wonderful and pleasant. Only when I make an Arabic coffee does cardamom, cinnamon, a pinch of salt and a little sugar come in. I only need two things in the morning before work: my rest and two decent cups of coffee. It is always said that Italians have good coffee and I can agree with that - only the tiny cups get on my nerves. Golden Moka appears to only be available in the US via Luckyscent and then the Xerjoff Universe website, for $275 and €235, respectively, so priced slightly higher than Golden Dallah, peculiar since Dallah seems to be denser / higher-performing than Moka, but it could be a matter of ingredients and I’m currently unsure if Moka was released later than Dallah in 2018 (Green followed in 2020). Like Dallah, I love Moka-it’s a great fragrance and slightly easier to wear than Dallah, even if Dallah edges it out on account of richness and daringness. I think it’s an impressive feat to use the raw coffee accord in this way to yield a multifaceted, borderline tropical fruity mix that is provocative in various ways (with rose and oud in the mix) but settles in a reasonably well-blended fresh, sweet, resinous, yet still sort of funky coffee mix. Golden Moka is noticeably fresher and brighter, a mix of citruses, raw coffee, oud, rose, and resins, still having some of the same funky cannabis-type feel as Dallah but in a fresher blend, certainly yielding a less idiosyncratic and more versatile offering while still having a lot of character. I was assisted in understanding that the cannabis-like aspect of Golden Dallah was actually the fresh coffee rather than black / roasted coffee.

Xerjoff Golden Moka is the second entry I’m trying from the Coffee Break collection released in 2018 (after Golden Dallah), and like Golden Dallah, there is the vague hint of raw unroasted coffee and some roasted coffee.

Coffee break rose