Black - New Black: Flavors for Lovers of Gloom
TEXT:Moore Sobolev
AUTHOR BLOG FIERCE & CUTE Once a week, Moore Sobolev makes for us a thematic selection of products from his extensive collection of cosmetics. Only scents that beat the darkest color (or rather, colorless, if you recall school physics) got into today's one.
Dior eau noire
For the exclusive Dior La Collection Privée lineup, perfume snobs are often somewhat condescending - well, they decided to do it the same way as Chanel. I am not a perfume snob (and not a perfume critic, mind you) and I like the collection. One of her favorite flavors in it is cold green Eau Noire, which sounds on me pure black pepper, not declared in the pyramid, and bright bitter spices with lavender. I’ve already exhausted several mini-bottles and I’m not going to stop - this sharp, clean smell sounds equally good in the morning and in the evening, in cold and warm weather.
Rallet Specter Noir
I breathe unevenly to the "Russian" reminiscences in cosmetics and perfumery - I think this strange patriotic feature is peculiar to Russian bloggers and journalists. For this reason, even before my acquaintance, the French brand Rallet, which revives the traditions of the eponymous Russian perfumery house of the mid-19th century, was terribly cute. Fortunately, its flavors (there are only four of them) turned out to be as hussar-like as the vials and the legend surrounding the brand seem. For this compilation, we chose Specter Noir - a wildly charming scent, in which a bravura and joyful breaks through intelligent leather notes - very Russian, in general - the essence.
Evody Noir d'Orient
The brother of the smoky Ombre Fumée from the previous collection is a languid, lazy and luxurious oriental smell. The Collection d'Ailleurs, to which both fragrances belong, is dedicated to travel, and Noir d'Orient was inspired by India - therefore in its pyramid there are solid spices, spices, incense, more spices and wood. Very beautiful, calm aroma, outstanding among its eastern counterparts - not at all sultry, without outright blunt sexuality and without the notorious "gourmet chord." It will be interesting even to those who do not particularly like oriental smells - it is very difficult.
Olfactive Studio Chambre Noire
The extraordinary niche brand Olfactive Studio is known for mixing perfume and visual art - each smell is made based on a specific photo (a source of inspiration is attached to each bottle). Chambre Noire - in black and white photography shows the view from the night window and the lamp reflecting in the window - a soft, soft scent that one would like to call emotional. This is a sweet, smelly leather smell for some reason rather sad - and maybe it is in me says the power of imagination, played out from the attached picture.
Montale Black Musk
Actually, I wanted to put Black Aoud in this compilation, since I like ud more than musk, but Black Musk came to me. I treat musky smells with caution - they can be the most erotic in the world, and they can mercilessly and unmercifully beat on the nose and choke. Black Musk, despite the fact that it is a very pure Musk, does not become one or the other - it is an aggressive, rectilinear aroma with a bright peppery note. In large quantities can be tedious, in small - to give confidence, impudent charisma and useful militancy.
Boadicea the Victorious Elite
The fragrance from the "black" collection of Boadicea the Victorious is a loud and expensive British brand, named after the passionate Queen Boaditzi (in the Russian tradition it is called Boudicca - it's funny that such a perfume brand, Boudicca, also exists). I don’t know how about the rest of the brand smells, but Elite is incredibly variable - it not only smells differently from the bottle, from the blotter and from the skin, but also changes drastically on the skin. In the store, he opened up on me with bold and sweet flowers, and at home he turned out to be the quietest, most delicate smell of freshness, purity and for some reason rubber. Scary interesting and exciting smell.
Maison Francis Kurkdjian Lumière Noire
The prolific perfumer Francis Kyurkjyan manages to make limits for Yves Rocher, hits for niche and luxury brands, and also maintain her own brand Maison Francis Kurkdjian. Contrary to the niche tradition that denies the gender orientation of aromas, many works at home exist in the male and female versions. I have a feminine version of Lumière Noire - a perfectly tuned composition of the Great Female Fragrance. Slightly old-fashioned chypre, curtsy to outstanding predecessors, in the center is a restrained rose. I want to wear with straight back and Anna Wintour's hairdo - or even with torn (and dirty) jeans to play on contrasts.
Blood Concept AB
The confused Italian brand Blood Concept is all built around blood: the flavors are named according to its groups and parts. Of course, the creators do not recommend selecting the flavor according to their physiological data - this is just a concept, a bit heavy, but fun. The Blood Concept's black collection is dedicated to the “dark side” and rhymes with the first, main collection in light bottles (the names are the same: four blood groups in the main collection and four in the “black”). Most of all in the last one I like the wildish AB scent — nothing like that, but strangely seductive chemical smell with a completely animal musk base.
Serge Lutens Datura Noir
Several years ago I presented a bottle of this languid tuberous aroma to my mother for some birthday - I terribly liked the smell myself, I wanted to buy it, but I clearly understood that this aroma was not for me, but rather, for a perfect adult, the smell on me outgrowth Too elegant, too adult - not an aunt, but an adult - and too beautiful for a young and not self-confident creation. It was pleasant to realize at some point that I grew up enough to adequately wear such a smell as Datura Noir - it was worth living to thirty for the sake of something.
By Kilian Back to Black
I do not have this bottle, only a sampler, but it fits so well here that I cannot do without Back to Black in this selection. The fragrance has the subtitle "aphrodisiac", although, in my opinion, By Kilian, the brand that made flashy sexuality its main feature, has more seductive smells. But this, as it seems to me, is a real black scent - honey, warm, and at the same time detached, living on any skin as if by itself. Very interesting, rather strange and completely independent - he, like any darkness, does not really need live human satellites.