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Description
Carbon [6C] by Nu Be is a Oriental Woody fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Carbon [6C] was launched in 2012. The nose behind this fragrance is Francoise Caron. The fragrance features ginger, cardamom, red chilli pepper, iris, resins and sandalwood.
Perfumer Francoise Caron describes the fragrance: “I wanted to capture the mysterious beginning of life. A cocktail of cold spices, cardamom and icy ginger, melted with black peppercorn and pepper blossom to stimulate an irresistible force radiating from start to end. Adding elegance and freshness with precious iris, aromatic herbs and sensual resins. Combined with the creamy scent of freshly carved sandalwood, to create the luxurious foundation of the fragrance. For a deep dive in the roots of life.”
nerve_ – :
Although I like it especially the dry down, this is not a smell that I’d like to have on me. This house is quite weird like Zarkoperfume and Escentric Molecules.
I won’t refer to specific notes because it’s nothing like the natural smell of cardamom, sandalwood and pepper. These ingredients have a futuristic-synthetic-industrialistic smell. The dominant combo of “cardamom”, “sandalwood” and “pepper” along with the mild “ginger” create this realistic pencil shavings effect. Again, nothing smells natural here but it’s pleasant.
Carbon is one of the strongest of NU_BE with great versatility, year round use no matter the weather.
The opening is a mixture of strong fresh pencil shavings with BO, a light -fortunately- smell of armpits. In 5-7 minutes the BO smell vanishes and remain a dominant woody/citrusy note of fresh, spicy pencil shavings. It’s quite artistic the scent but I don’t want to smell like that.
Performance is good. Longevity is high-moderate, sillage is moderate. If you love a futuristic and strange scents give it a try.
acoulaaccoume – :
I have this one and I’d like to trade for 80hg, PM me if you’re interested.
Maxutia – :
Carbon is the other Nu-Be I tried together with Hydrogen.
It is completely different and actually more earthy. Again this is concept parfumerie of chemicals, not exactly my kind, because they lack of the juicy side of life and end up cold, even when loaded with spices like Carbon.
So the creator wanted to capture the myserious origin of life… ok, spices make a good start from Mother Earth, but this perfume is not warm. Iy smells cold spicy.
The opening is a little of bomb of all known spices (see notes list), it promises Indian wonders and sandalwood fire. It soon become too stuffy, all the notes put together in a crowd, one on the other. In this stage there is a vague memory of Organza Indecence, but that’s much better if oriental is the aim.
It clings to the skin and don’t let go, but it keeps morphing until it reaches the stage of Arbre Magique in “Spice” with a nice sandalwood in background or many woody bathfoams around.
It’s nice, but nothing spectacular. For a warmer and more juicy experience go for the classic Organza Indecence, Kenzo Jungle L’Elephant or Le Tigre and Feminitè du Bois.
If concept perfume is in your chords, this line has quite something to offer.
ewz327Unlogrere – :
omaggio al paper recentemente accettato dalla rivista omonima. si tratta di un accordo molto gradevole per lo più speziato; le decise note iniziali sono di cardamomo: forte, intenso, mangereccio. il profumo cede quindi, lentamente, il posto ad un sentore di iris e zenzero, notevolissimo. il fondo è un sandalo, classico sì, ma persistentemente spicy in cui si distinguono anche cumino e coriandolo. assolutamente unisex.
6y6Jluk – :
Editing my original review for a more realistic one.
Carbon’s good, but it’s not great. It opens with a fresh dose of cardamom that smells spicy and a little sweet, but soon after it hits a sweaty note that smells like too much cumin or coriander was added to the mix. The pencil shaving/cedar stage then settles in and though it smells nice, it’s nothing remarkable or something you haven’t already smelled in Gucci Pour Homme, Carbone de Balmain, or the original Tommy Bahama. Carbon’s greatest assets comes in the dry down, as a creamy, smooth sandalwood emerges and blends immaculately with a rich, rooty iris note. This is my favorite aspect of Carbon and I only wish it was preceded by a better middle stage. Thumbs up for what is probably nu_be’s best offering, but I’m not totally enthusiastic about Carbon. It’s not different enough to maintain my interest, or good enough to make me disregard its familiarity.
doorhanby – :
Carbon [6C] is mainly spicy fragrance with an Iris on a background.
Just recently, I’ve tried Iris Taizo by Parfumerie Generale. Both fragrances feature Iris/Cardamom composition.
Iris Taizo is sour & dry, loaded with cardamom. Carbon [6C] is much more snoozer, warmer and creamier. With that said, Carbon also gives me some sweaty notes, which I find to be not that appealing.
Overall, I prefer Iris Taizo.
dienelilsbigo – :
Im very drawn to this scent,the cardamom makes a tingeling wood. Deep aromatic ginger that i haven’t thought of before! After the opening has settled, its very pointy in its way, cardamom and sweet gingervanilla, i find it hard For Me to pull of, but i enjoyed the moment.
Gopsteeno – :
A bit of an odd combo. I like the iris and woodsy aspects but it gets turned into an armpit by the red chili note. I don’t have an appreciation for the body odor scent that some spices give off. For me, it ruins an otherwise lovely fragrance. I’ll pass.
GekaGGG – :
An oddball marriage of cardamom and bitter sandalwood kicks this one off, with the two notes working to produce a strange but quite pleasing rubbery effect. The rubber is somewhere between pencil eraser and a pre-inflated balloon that has that weird powdery layer to it. It turns quickly into a creamy sandalwood, but the sandalwood is pretty synthy, so don’t come looking for too much realism. That’s not a bad thing, but it’s got all the attributes of a textbook bitter sandalwood aromachemical—a sort of sour cream effect. And judging by how prominent it is in the mix, the perfumer wasn’t at all shy about putting it on show. I actually think that this works in the scent’s favor as it lends a slightly ironic twist to the composition.
Out of the whole line, I’d say that is one of the better ones, but it also has a lot of mainstream appeal—more so than its brethren. It pulls itself up next to you and relaxes into a bit of a textbook warm / spicy scent kind of thing that’s pleasant and entirely familiar. Although miles apart in terms of general aesthetics, it aims to head in the same direction as fragrances like Spicebomb or the Burberry scents but with the added twist of herbal notes, giving it a more Costume National feel. With that said, there are subtleties at work in this that I can’t imagine would be traceable in cheaper scents—or ones handled with the same dexterity. Although it’s the cardamom / ebanol that dominates, there’s a green floral shimmer that runs all the way through the scent’s core, lending the impression of a more dynamic liquid form moving around inside. It’s quite cellular in this respect.
Carbon walks on a tightrope between crowd pleaser and a more forward-thinking aesthetic. The herbs balance out what might otherwise have been too sweet and linear a scent. Although this isn’t really my thing, I find it to be one of the more solid offerings from the line and I genuinely enjoyed wearing it for the day that I had it on. I’m not quite on board with the carbon concept, but Caron’s description of the scent as “an irresistible force radiating from start to end” seems apt as this does sort of emits warm rays. It’s a conventional offering, ultimately, but one that builds a sturdy bridge between mainstream and the more striking aspect of innovative perfumery.
SERGIK – :
A very intriguing and clever fragrance by the perfumer Francoise Caron for the Nu_Be collection. Attempting to capture the essence of carbon’s attachment to organic compounds (the element is the chemical basis of all known life), Francoise embarks on an olfactory journey to our primordial origins. Carbon [6C] opens very spicy/oriental in tone with cardamon, ginger and black peppercorn almost simulating the “spark” which initiated life. A gentle iris note is barely perceivable, but it’s inclusion aids in the blending and softening of the opening spices. The later half of the fragrance is dominated by the lactonic notes of sandalwood. It’s creamy texture (with hints of coconut) meld beautifully with the piercing ginger. Overall, the fragrance evokes memories of lush, exotic locales full of life and energy. (127)
vaduvf – :
On me, this smells EXACTLY like pencil shavings and crayons. It reminds me of fifth-grade art class — in a good way. But not $150 worth of good.
shoker – :
On the mans side of the unisex measure.
A composition of several elements side-by-side rather than blended, maybe not such a good strategy.
Ginger with a light wrapper of amber next to cardamom, almost in equal measure. Somewhere lurking is the green giving a light bitter note.
Sillage 2/5
Longevity 2/5
Definitely a fragrance, not an attempt to approximate a fruit or wood or flower, which, is a good thing.
wwss – :
I am very impressed.
“Carbon 6C” is a deliciously good sandalwood fragrance – it starts as the one of the most amazing things I’ve tried – creamy, rich, full of life. Very spicy yet subtle, loud yet elegant, sweet though also masculine. It has so many edges that it’s hard to describe what I am sensing, it has such a creamy, amazing orris and sandalwood accord that it’s hard to resist.
The dry down wraps you like a blanket, the spices are blent in perfectly, I am left with warm, inviting and sensual sandalwood.
Perfect.
val61 – :
From a brand with such an avant-garde aesthetic and conceptual approach to fragrance, one would probably expect a series of over the top creations, weird compositions and anti-perfumes. Au contraire, Nu_Be is ALL about wearability, practicality and comfort. Yes, they have a couple (maybe three) more abstract fragrances in their range but, for the most part, their line is made of no-nonsense and extremely solid stuff.
Carbon is probably the peak of them all. Delivered by super-talented perfumer Francoise Caron who previously worked for the likes of Hermes, Acqua Di Parma, Christian Lacroix, Comme Des Garcons and Thierry Mugler among many others, Carbons is basically a cardamom-driven fragrance built around a sandalwood-iris bone structure. It feels familiar and brings to mind of several other fragrances yet, at the same time, it is so nicely blended to also feel refreshing, comforting and incredibly likable / wearable. The fragrance is pervaded by a nice creamy / waxy effect thourghout which paired to the slightly powdery presence provided by the iris, give birth to an interesting opaque mix of smooth radiant woods (mainly sandalwood) and warm spices juxtaposed to the freshness of greenish-notes and ginger. Again, as in most other fragrances by this house, Carbon’s main point of strength is the sense of restraint which make of it a perfect option for several different occasions. A very nice all-rounder and a great example that a fragrance, first of all, has to smell good. Solid.
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Rating: 7-7.5/10
lipoKOp – :
I tried a sample of this one, and I´m amazed. In me, I could feel the old and good violet-and-iris mix (although violets are not listed in the notes)swaying from a creamy floral-spicy feel to an earthy, sombre one, and then back to the floral stage. Very interesting. More : I shared my sample with a friend, and in her the development was even more dramatic, changing from an airy floral to a hot spicy to an earthy dark and back to the floral again.It is worth a try at least, my friend is going to buy it.
corvin2000 – :
@svillatoro; They’re not related to chemicals, their concept is actually based on natural elements.