For their 20th birthday, Montale released Infinity. Described on their website: "There can be no mistaking his deep gaze. His eyes are fixated to the intangible and he moves forward peacefully. At first sight, this piquant character pulls you in. The brightness of his smile, and the pink Pepper come to pick you up. Cross his path and you immediately turn away from your routine. The space around him becomes his, permeated by a purple wave of Plum and black Cherry that whisper of its sweet origin and touch your soul. It’s a beautiful summer, a summer echoing its temperance and made of the sun’s caresses under the light sheets, of fresh Flowers opening in the morning and of starry nights in the souvenir of the scorching day. The soft Indian Rose gently balances the Leather and black Oud in a semi-hypnotic pendulum where Sandalwood and Vanilla mingle without excess. You are touching a rare, ambered and deeply oriental feeling, a sensation whose genesis you would not know: who from the message or the messenger, who from the wake one has been left in or its wearer? Who from the top note or the heart will take you to your own immensity? It doesn’t matter, because in the end, all roads lead to Infinity." - Montale
Launched in 2023 and created by Pierre Montale, Infinity features top notes of black cherry, plum, Peruvian pink pepper, cardamom and saffron; middle notes of black oud, leather, Indian rose, solar tuberose, sandalwood and vetiver; and base notes of vanilla sugar, amber, tobacco leaves, tonka beans and musk. It is an eau de parfum, edp.
Fragrantica: "Beautiful cherry note under a Rose Oud combo and a touch of tobacco. Smells great, longlasting, sexy, unissex. Great addition to the Montale lineup."
Fragrantica: "I didn't buy this thinking it would become a signature scent for me. I bought it because I was looking for a plum and incense fragrance, but I started loving it when I noticed the cherry notes it has. I have to say that the comments on this fragrance are all over the place compared to what I experience with it. To me, this is a complex, somewhat powerful, occasionally overpowering scent that is slightly gourmand, but more of a mature, sophisticated "not everybody is going to love it" type of scent. Think of walking into an eccentric thrift shop filled with vintage items that remind you of a past you wish you'd lived... somewhat dry and dusty items, smells that almost remind of of something, but you can't quite place it, and hints of luxury from other times and places, incense, tobacco, cognac, liquor, spices. It is not a scent that works for every day, and I can't imagine wearing this in warm humid weather (although it probably would totally work in somewhere like Dubai), but it is the type of fragrance that would make me turn and follow someone to ask them what it is so that I could immediately go buy a bottle. To me, it is a dry, subtly powerful, sophisticated scent that is a like it or hate it scent. I have fallen in love with it."
Fragrantica: "A very pleasant fragrance indeed, and mind you, I'm not a fruit guy at all, not into cherry at least but I can still appreciate this fragrance, cherry and plum are there but without making it fruity if this makes sense. There's more plum than cherry by the way. The cherry isn't syrappy, or candied, it's rather a dark molasses, dense and thick, blended well with plum and spices in the opening. In the middle stages whatever was happening in the opening remains there, just less pronounced, oud kicks in, I hate rose and I'm glad it's undetectable here, tuberose adds sophistication to the concoction without turning it feminine or heavily floral, it's rounding the edges of fruits and oud. At this stage the fragrance is getting sweeter and sweeter, without becoming ultra sweet or cloying. This isn't a tobacco forward fragrance, in fact tobacco is hardly detectable, just works from the back ground along with the vanilla and amber. One way to think of this perfume is look at the colors of both cherry and plum, that's the kind of feel it gives you."
Fragrantica: "My first parfum from Montale, really suprised how light the bottle is. for the scent its amazing, beautifull combination of cherry, plum and oud. Opening is juicy cherry and plum, a bit heavy from the start, oud and leather start coming in the middle making it deeper and masculine while the drydown tobacco joins in. Good performance out of box, very happy this is my first Montale bottle."
Fragrantica: "A plush, shadowed fruity-oriental that opens with a burst of black cherry and plum, spiked by saffron, pink pepper, and cardamom. It’s juicy but never syrupy—the spice keeps it taut and the sweetness in check. As it settles, the character turns ‘Elegant but rebellious’. Leather and a soft touch of oud glide in, balanced by a hushed rose and creamy sandalwood, with vetiver giving a dry, grown-up backbone. It’s not a candy cherry; think darker, spiced fruit over a suede-oud core. If Lost Cherry is a cocktail, Infinity is the after-hours lounge where the lights are low and the band just switched to minor keys. The drydown brings a warm haze of tobacco leaf, tonka, vanilla sugar and amber over a musky skin scent. The tobacco/vanilla pairing adds body without turning cloying; the fruit slowly dims and the leather-oud stays tasteful rather than shouty. It reads unisex but with an edge. Performance: classic Montale—loud projection for the first few hours, then a steady glow for 10–12+ hours on skin. Two to three sprays are plenty; more and you’ll dominate the room. (If you’re indoors, go easy.) Bottom line: a dark cherry-leather-oud with charisma and serious wear time—sexy night scent for fall/winter, club nights, and dressed-in-black evenings."
