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bull2010 – :
Such an odd quirky personality scent.. glad I stumbled on it and took a chance to try it. Yes agreed get an immediate Grapey-esque quality about it weird maybe from the not listed orange blossom note with the sugar??, refreshing and uplifting grapey flowers with light vanilla. On the hunt for a new ‘thee Vanilla’ scent for me, got my sample today applied a dab on my hand, So different it’s almost off putting at first, but as it dries there’s something there that makes you come back and take deep whiffs finding my nose glued to my skin.
Of the seven samples I got this deff. grabbed my attention. Trying to see if it’s full body worthy enough, It’s uniqueness make me feel like it could be, still have to do a further possibly full bodied test, see if it garners compliments. really liking this one and I could deff see this suited year round mainly fall to spring, but could easily work on a cool summer’s night; very unisex & also strangely kinda sexy.
berg_8383 – :
From website: Musky infusion of brown sugar, witch hazel, orange blossom, vanilla and benzoin.
Witch hazel =/= hazelnut!
Tesderera – :
Sweet fizzy grape like opening. Grape soda was my first thought. Then I immediately thought of Praline de Santal. This doesn’t exactly smell like hazelnuts, but it has the same vibe Praline de Santal has, before the heliotrope kicks in. So if you enjoyed that, but thought the heady flower was too much, you might like this.
About the hazelnut. This doesn’t exactly smell of it. I was so puzzled, that I looked up the notes on various other websites, including the brand’s site and none of them mentioned hazelnuts. What kept coming up was witch hazel. That makes more sense, I thought, the sharp, slightly medicinal opening that I mistook for grapes…
Anyway, the scent stays quite linear, it just softens and warms up a little with time. I get a very authentic sugar impression every time I catch a whiff of it. To say the scent is sweet, would be an understatement. And yet, it somehow never gets sickly sweet, even when benzoin or vanilla join in. There’s also a soft woody backdrop to all this that keeps things in check, reminding me not to eat my arm.
All in all, a perfectly unisex fragrance, with soft sillage and average longevity, which actually works to it’s favour. More would be too much.
Update 14 Sept. 2016
Beautiful dry down. Warm and somewhat masculine woody notes, enveloped by the sweetest creamy vanilla and gloriously balanced by the slightest sour impression left behind by the witch hazel. The use of witch hazel is brilliant in this composition. It’s responsible for the playful, fizzy opening, creates a wonderful constant throughout the development of the other notes and proposes a beautiful counterbalance to what could have been a generic woody vanilla dry down.
autocom2003 – :
a gentle musk with caramelized sugar. lots of powder, and maybe a little Frangelico. Sucre d’Ebene is pretty stuff.
felixrus – :
Sucre d’Ebène looks like a wonderfully safe bet for gourmand lovers like myself, and it is, at least once it’s had some time on the skin. In the drydown all those lovely notes come together beautifully, and the combination of caramellised sugar, hazelnuts and soft woody and resinous notes is just as heavenly as you’d imagine, especially since they’re all rather subtle by then. Definitely warm and cosy and very sweet and rather heavy, but not too much at all, nor too conspicuously edible to be wearable. It sticks around forever, too!
So the drydown is more or less gourmand perfection, just like I was hoping for, and if it was like this all the way I’d probably already be planning to spend my christmas bonus on a very expensive full bottle of the stuff to carry me through the rest of winter. It’s not for every day, but every once in a while it’d be pure heaven to smell like this.
The other phases are less perfect, though. The opening is great, but also just a bit heavy on the masculine woods for my taste. What’s worse though is the off-balance feel of the (early) heart of the fragrance: like Cereza has mentioned, it’s just too realistically and dominantly like burned sugar at that point. I know that’s what Sucre d’Ebène is all about, but still, it’s a bit too literal for a while there.
That drydown is really to die for, though! Definitely worth getting through the mildly dubious opening and heart for – who knows, I might even learn to appreciate them for their own sake while I make my way through a bigger decant. I’m sure I’ll get one eventually anyway.
Jaxtaunty – :
I just received a sample. I think I like this one. Wish I had a spray because it gives me a better grasp of the juice. I didn’t think beer I thought sour or tart grape. In a good way. If I could be sure that element stayed I’d buy in a heartbeat. We will see.
update. bought a fb and am very happy I did. I have never identified myself as a gourmand lover but I started looking at my wardrobe and I think I am. Love the vanilla in this one. I still get a grape/nut thing but not as strong with a spray. almost pure sugar, love it.
wooladirway – :
I get the beer too. Unfortunately it doesn’t develop any yummy notes on my skin. I feel it needs some additional notes to elevate the scent so it doesn’t get too heavy.
I like the sugar part but not the malty beer.
lovemetal – :
Anyone else smell beer? It’s like a malty, hoppy, fermenting real ale to me. I don’t know if this ‘sucre’ or sugar has turned into alcohol, because that’s what I get from this fragrance.
As it dries down it becomes a heavy benzoin accented fragrance with a base of wood and some real sweetness now. It’s a gourmand which masquerades as a foamy pint for a while then boy does it get yummy…?
In fact…Sucre d’Ebene is pretty gorgeous when dried down. The opening is a bit strange though, it’s like any fragrance with a wheaty note (Serge Lutens Jeux de peau) it takes time to get used to.
Sits very close to the skin but smells very sexy.
NashorN – :
Yummy gourmand! This is like toasted hazelnuts coated with sugar that has been cooked in a pan until it has caramelized. At first it reminded me of Pink Sugar, with a burnt sugar kind of opening, but this is much easier to love right off the bat. It’s caramelized–not burnt! Actually for some time it smelled exactly like nag champa; I mean EXACTLY. But the gourmand qualities pick up more after about 30 minutes. A few hours into the drydown it smells like a rich and somewhat dark, woody vanilla. This is not a complex nor over-the-top perfume compared to Pink Sugar. Sillage is a bit more polite, but I would still caution one to go easy on the trigger. Definitely recommended to gourmand lovers.
iiivanov0 – :
I wanted to love it…I really did. It’s great all around EXCEPT for the fact that there is a strong powdery/nose burning note to it. I don’t really know how to explain it. It really would have been great if they would have left that one note out…well, at least it would have been great for me. I was very disappointed.
negjq – :
This is one of my very favorite parfumes. I wore it all last winter (I would definitely say it is a autumn/winter scent for me as it is too warm for hot weather. It’s sweet, for sure, but not in a candy sort of way, soft, burnt, it doesn’t wear very long though. Half way through the day I would find it had disapeared, but whatcha gonna do!?
I will be trying L’Artisan Parfumeur Vanille Absolument next for something a little different, but so far this is my favorite sweet scent.
sla – :
Dark and caramelized sugar at it’s finest. It did open very sweet, very edible and 100% gourmand.
Unfortunately there is a very noticeable note of burnt sugar at the heart part, which I cannot say I enjoy. I do feel the dark woody background which, in my opinion, smells amazing, but the “burnt” front is simply not enjoyable for me.
As it develops it gets a whole different character, funny enough – on me it’s not sweet anymore. It is dark and smoky and a bit on the heavy side. Much better than I hoped for, that is for sure as I wouldn’t want to smell as a sugar cube. Also a hazelnut note is starting to show it’s face making this even more interesting.
Not something I would wear, but worth a try 100% as it is a very unique take on gourmand sugary scent.
bxm478JeomiWogkig – :
This smells how a warm cube of sugar melting on your tongue would taste.
StarKiller – :
I like this a lot more than my fiance, who prefers acqua e zucchero and love by kilian, but I really like it. I can see why one wouldn’t want to own all three because of the similarities, but they are different to my nose. Acqua e Zucchero is much stronger cotton candy, love is more marshmallow, both with more projection. This fragrance is very much so pure burnt sugar and maybe some berries. I cant say I smell much more, it doesn’t last as long as either of the other fragrances I have already, but it is different enough to me to eventually add to my collection.. Not this second, I can milk my sample and live with that for a long time. 8/10 for me because I love the brown sugar note so much, sweet gourmands are my favorite.
I finally got a FB and this is much better with a spray, medium projection.
LeshiyHaus – :
This is a really great fragrance. Sweet and very elegance. I agree with la louve, this scent is veeeeery relaxing 🙂 Sweet delicious sugar with a hint of woodsy notes. Excellent!
Xbongernis – :
Similar to Pink Sugar with a floral-musky note and water lily.
sebastjan777 – :
For long time I was lover of gourmand fragrances but later on it was enough for me. However still I have kind of sentiment for sugary smell. SE is another story. This is very sweet solution but with prominent note of woods. They are completely covered by burned dark or caramelized sugar – IMHO this is cedre. For sure it can be good choice for both sexes. So this is not only yummy interpretation of common foody scents but this is real niche fragrance. If you are in a bad mood go ahead and enjoy this marvelous smell.
DanBarnsca86 – :
So far I have only a little sample of “sucre d`Ebene” .. but: I was using this delicious “stuff” today, after a gig, and I felt so cozy and relaxed when I was driven home… in this “warm cloud of burned SUGAR”… grrrr…! :-)Now I want more from this parfum…! LOVE! 🙂