Description
“Bright light passes through broken glass; flashing alternate shades of pink and green radiance. Geranium and violet leaves accented by jasmine and hints of rose combine with caraway seeds and opopanax resin to create a bright pastel crystalline accord. Secretly layered in its base you will find the soft woods and spice of amyris and cardamom with fleeting touches of tonka bean and bitter almond.”—Blackbird
Broken Glass by Blackbird is a Floral fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Broken Glass was launched in 2015. The nose behind this fragrance is Aaron Way. The fragrance features jasmine, geranium, rose, opoponax, amyris, angelica, violet leaf, chamomile, artemisia, bitter almond, cardamom and pink pepper.
VJ BlackJokER – :
I am really enjoying this. Well blended floral with some resinous and soft spicy notes, but this isn’t jagged to me (like broken glass) but rather rounded, cozy, beautiful. I can pick out jammy rose, myrhh, almond, chamomile and cardamom. It’s a little peppery to start, then floral/herby, and dries down slightly powdery but warm, like an amazing Lush smell. This is a beautiful perfume!
kartel_ – :
Immediately striking opening. Cherry-cough syrup oozing out of the pistil of some extraterrestrial flower in a steaming interstellar greenhouse made of raw concrete.
Once the syrup evaporates a woolen blanket absorbs the moisture hanging in the air and the fluorescent lights flicker on. It was a carnation, not some space flower, and the mineralic verdant quality of the concrete greenhouse was actually an interesting blend of pink pepper and violet leaf supporting the carnation with a spicy backbone. Further along in the drydown I most certainly detect some jammy rose humming along in the background. As it dries it begins to feel a little cheap for some reason, perhaps the almond’s doughy sweetness stomps over the carnation’s toes and overstays it’s welcome.
Still, this is a very fun fragrance that is appealing in a similar way to a favorite of mine, Triton.
7/10
LAW – :
On the initial spray, this was very cool, mysterious, slightly chemical and otherworldly. But almost *immediately* the florals and spices rise up. The pepper and cardamom notes are the ones I smell the most. This isn’t to say the spice/resin notes dominate: the accord is really well balanced. I don’t usually wear florals, so I have a tougher time recognizing them/setting them apart. Perhaps it’s the geranium and angelica sticking out, but I swear I can really smell the chamomile. This is truly a unisex scent, as neither the florals or spices dominate fully (although the spices are much stronger in the early stages). As dry-down time goes by, it does get a little sweeter and softer and much more femme.
I already have enough spicy perfumes, so this one is a pass for me, but overall a great blend, and would recommend for anyone looking for a complex spicy/floral/resin scent.
alpwell – :
Thank you to Blackbird for the opportunity to try this scent.
Broken Glass is the most unique floral I’ve tried in some time. I believe the house mentioned this was their first foray into a true floral scent. And while it is a floral, you’ll also find a lot of the earthy, resinous and spicy notes that are more typical of the Blackbird fragrance collection.
Broken Glass is definitely a unisex floral. There’s a fair dose of spices here that keeps the sweet and typically feminine floral edge of the fragrance in check. There’s a bitter green tint as well, from artemisia and violet leaf. It’s a wonderfully complex fragrance that moves from cold to warm as it dries down from flowers to roots. Broken Glass has great sillage and longevity at 6+ hours.
elenka333 – :
The opening is cold, sharp, strange, somewhat unsettling but still compelling. Broken Glass is a great descriptor for the initial blast. Very quickly after that, the aromatic herbal side develops and the geranium and spicy pepper are very intense for the first hour. Then the angelica starts to reveal itself. The dry down is to die for! It settles into a very warm vanillic angelica that reminds me of Angelique Noire. This is the angelica fragrance I have been searching for! I’m hooked.
This one is such a morpher. I am interested to see how it develops on others. It is listed as a floral fragrance but it certainly isn’t a typical floral. It starts as a spicy herbal aromatic that could probably be considered very masculine but the dry down is sweet and vanillic and might be considered more feminine. It’s a wonderful journey nonetheless.