Kawa Karda's perfumer Marie Salamagne calls it “a dialogue between black and white, light and shadow”. This coffee and cardamom extrait (crafted at 40%) opens on a dry, almost wheaty earthiness, until tarry black coffee asserts itself. Before you’re begging for mercy, the spicy lilt of cardamom adds light to the shadow. Like the ristretto rounding off the first pleasures of the evening, KK’s thick syrupy sweetness primes you for indulgences to come.