Description
“The early buzz of the city mixes with a gust of fresh morning air streaming through an open window. Las Ramblas and La Boqueria slowly fill with the sound of daily activity, as fresh-picked bouquets, ripe fruits and spices are unveiled releasing an exotic mixture of aromas. As the streets come alive and the Mediterranean sun warms the day, beams of light cast shadows that dance in city plazas and parks. All senses are captivated by the dynamism of Avenida Diagonal, the grandeur of Paseo de Gracia…A seamless blending of old and new. At night, the pulse deepens and darkens as the city reveals its mysterious and most sensual side.” – a note from the brand.
D600 by Carner Barcelona is a woody spicy fragrance for women and men. D600 launched in 2010. The nose behind this fragrance is Christophe Raynaud is the nose of the perfume.
Top notes: black pepper, bergamot and grapefruit. Heart: cardamom, iris and jasmine. Base: cedar, vanilla and vetiver.
582152 – :
I was relocated and this fragrance rendered very differently in the 2 places.. I personally feel it seems to work better in hot and humid weather more than dry and cooler one, because it’s more well-rounded, less sharp and ashy, mostly smoky vanilla in the former but squeaky clean with more prominent Iris in the later.
lyura – :
This is a sharp, spicy and bright dominant combo of powedery iris, vanilla, well balanced cardamom and mild vetiver. The rest notes are very mild. Beautiful scent for fall, spring, day and night and for cool summer evenings. Performance is above the average, sillage is high-moderate. Overall it’s a beautiful unisex scent.
If you like spicy iris/vanilla combo in a woody base try it!
xach999 – :
The iris in this isn’t the lipstick kinda vibe and blends in more nicely in the drydow. More of the fresh and powdery sort. It’s quite peppery and spicy with and an underlying cleanliness about it. Vanilla becomes more prominent as it dries down..boring and not worth the price. Smells like a designer but not a good one either. Opening isn’t crash hot, drydown much better when the vanilla takes over. Would be a decent candle aroma. Underwhelming.
pasha50 – :
THIS IS THE CLEAN SCENT I’VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR. This fragrance is a powder bomb that lasts all day. If you’re like me that’s looking for a signature scent that has simply a clean smell. Look into D600. Test it on your skin before buying though as some results may vary. Overall D600 is a 9/10
GdanAlex – :
D600 is a magnificent scent and far superior to anything Dior has to offer on so many levels. D600 offers its signature creamy, buttery vanilla notes without the suffocating lipstick note (Iris) imposed on us in Dior Homme Intense.
D600 is more masculine, wearable, upscale and refined. It’s a pleasure to wear fragrances from this House, especially while not many people currently know about it. Nothing like DHI.
As everyone has already mentioned, D600 is a masterpiece and a work of art. D600 isn’t a huge smothering blob of iris and chocolate. It’s more grown up, clean, and light with a hint of cherry.
All the notes are so incredibly well blended to perfection.
D600 is in the top 3 of my collection, and I’ve had hundreds (literally).
Longevity 10/10
Sillage 10/10
Scent 10/10
Pulkigok – :
Really nice opening with buttery iris mixed up with a bit of pepper and smoke. Quickly vanilla appears to take the center stage, supported in the background by discrete woods. I get something almond like. Not that interesting as the beginning and not challenging, but nice overall. It’s a harmless pleasant scent that will not offend anyone, very appropriate for the office.
I don’t really get much resemblance with Dior Homme (which is better in every aspect), to me it’s closer to Van Cleef and Arpels Bois d’Iris.
Scent: 7/10
Longevity: 8/10
Projection: 6/10
Alenka1983 – :
If I come at D600 with no preconceptions, I get a powdery cherry vanilla, very high quality. Love it!
caucasus – :
Pepper cardamom on vanilla bed
I really don’t sense much iris as much as pepper, vanilla, and cardamom. Some sour and wood notes are there but i can’t define any iris in here, & i believe the pepper cardamom mix made people think it’s iris. Some sour notes of lime and dirty soft vetiver are there.
Spicy i’d categorize this frag in.
apelsin026 – :
I do love unisex frags but all 7 of my CB samples are a little too male focused for my liking? All 7. ☹
May I say the quality of materials here seems to be remarkably good.
I’d have loved Tardes if it wasn’t for the heliotrope.
nervi – :
This is a fairly straightforward cedar and vanilla fragrance. It’s lovely and powdery in the dry down, easy to wear, quite safe as a gift for most people. I find it works well on men and women. Word to the wise, the wood cap is horrendous. It eventually loosens and falls off, and it makes the entire bottle a bit too heavy for something as simple as it is.
sklepdwk – :
Beautiful and cozy iris. Perfect for early spring.
The iris reveals itself in some time though. D600 starts as grapefruit and jasmine before its powdery musky drydown.
If Guerlain did L’Eau de Shalimar properly, it would have smelled like that.
92961317 – :
Palo Santo meets Tardes and you have D600. Not a bad frag, it’s gourmand and it’s pleasant. Vanilla and iris blended to perfection but lacks creativity.
Scent: 6/10
Longevity: 8/10
Sillage: 7/10
Cost ratio: 3/10
Overall: 6/10
Better to stick with Palo Santo or Tardes. Gourmand frag but at a price.
кириллка – :
Strangely enough, this one smells almost exactly like the Palo Santo on me after a little while. Anyone else who notices the resemblance? Update: aha, I got the explanation. Palo Santo is basically the same scent as this one but with Palo Santo wood added.
senta111 – :
This is excellent. I don’t get any citrus for me it’s sweet powdery spicy with the cardamon and vanilla. Again I am getting a chocolate note that is not there, perhaps all this pre holiday chocolate I’ve been eating is seeping through my skin. A lot are saying this lasts but for me it’s very faint after about half hour I can barely smell it. 🙁 Would have loved to smell more of the woodsy notes.
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zinya – :
“Warm, smooth and creamy… versatility and pleasantry at its purest.”
D600 is a 2010 fragrance from Carner Barcelona. The Spanish perfume house first caught my attention with its 2011 offering Cuirs, a beautifully woody-smoky fragrance that is a elegant less potent version of Nasomatto’s Black Afgano. Perhaps as a counterpart to Cuirs, D600 is Carner’s answer for a woody-spicy fragrance.
The three main notes are vetiver, iris and vanilla. When I first tried it, I didn’t really detect the iris and vanilla. Back then, I remembered it smelling milky-sweet at first (it was probably the vanilla but that didn’t occur to me) and then it gradually changed into something slightly smoky and earthy, which is likely to be the vetiver at work.
After getting a decant sample of it and wearing it, I finally get the iris and vanilla notes. Plus, now that I sensed the main notes and glanced at what others claim D600 smells like, it does resemble Dior Homme (DH) a bit. It’s much more faint and understated compared to DH, which is more pronounced and in-your-face.
D600 is perfect for daily office wear: it’s pleasant and inoffensive. I think it is better to be worn in the day than in the night, but that’s just a matter of preference. Will I get a full bottle for myself? It’s difficult to say: the one letdown is that the projection isn’t strong (for better or worse, I guess). I do enjoy wearing the fragrance a lot but I may not get a bottle; it’s not the edgy kind that I usually favor simply because of how my skin works.
edit (2 Feb 2017): after wearing it the second time, I notice that the difference between D600 and DH is a slight tart note in the former, which I suspect is the grapefruit. Hence, D600 would be a little better for warmer weathers.
zegizmund – :
Received a sample pack from Carner Barcelona and this was one of them.
Second day wearing this to work, and my word this is stunning. I guess fragrance is really based off of chemistry because I get pretty decent longevity from this scent. Very pleasing, not offensive at all.
The Iris and Vanilla are the stars of this scent (at least on my skin)
If I were to order this, it would have to be from the Carner Barcelona website though.
Danger82 – :
This is near enough IDENTICAL to Lanvin Arpege Pour Homme!!!! I have Dior Homme and Valentino Uomo aswel, trust me… this is 99.9% Arpege Pour Homme by Lanvin
Liuda.Arkhipova – :
Beautiful spectacular opening, looking at some stages to Dior Homme.
It is a good chord iris that has a spicy woody musky drying where cedar and vanilla round out the composition of the fragrance.
Good balance and harmony, with moderate duration and smooth trail makes it ideal for the day.
In cold weather it lasts still little and the trail is too soft, so I recommend throwing to warm climates.
They notes too synthetic appreciated during drying it lowers its quality.
Shame!!
Rating: 6
avirin – :
It would be a nice scent, only longevity and sillage is very poor. It reminds me a lot of Dior Homme. Both has that powdery vibe only this one is more almond-creamy and Dior is more woody. Latest I like more as it has a stronger caracter.
vasiliskthar – :
Starts an oily, classic men’s cologne, like a turn of the century barber shop, then dries rapidly to something smothered in baby powder. Sad!
BesCloff – :
Gorgeous juice. It opens up with a sharp iris and powdery pepper, to me the pepper was a little bit off putting. The iris in D600 is very different to the iris in Dior Homme, in this it’s much more bodied and it feels more accompanied. Also this has a less powdery feel in the iris note compared to DH.
The iris, partnered up with the vanilla which makes its appearance around 10-15 mins after first spray, makes for a very what I can only describe as a ‘pretty’ fragrance. The vanilla adds wamrth and really makes this iris note shine. Imo, only a certain man could pull this off…Well dressed, well groomed, non macho looking, well mannered, but reclusive.
A lovely scent, this is without a doubt for me, loving the sweet iris.
Zeman – :
Make sure to test this on skin before forming an opinion.
All I could catch on the paper test was a sharp tangy baby-wipe accord that reminded me of “Infusion d’Iris” by Prada. I thought there’s no way this could be worn by a man.
On skin, however, it changes character instantly. The iris feels more comfortably soft and powdery with an aromatic cardamom underneath.
As it dried down I detected traces of black pepper which darkened it up a bit and made me think a little of birch wood. At that point I felt it reminded me a of Cartier “Declaration”, only with a residual baby-wipe sharpness, which must be down to the grapefruit.
So definitely more unisex than I initially thought and quite an accessible sophisticated day wear scent.
lilifk14 – :
I get mostly a cherry-fruity impression. Simple, clear, light, but very well done. Unisex, but could be especially charming on Latino men.
koka3092 – :
My memory of Barcelona is a bit cloudy, as I journeyed there by train from Paris and did not get much sleep, then I stumbled into some random hotel and passed out on the bed only to awaken in the middle of the night to pieces of plaster falling on top of me from the ceiling. Note to self: do not select arbitrary hotels located in the environs of train stations. A similar scenario transpired in Lille, where I also arrived in a state of sleep deprivation and walked unannounced into the first hotel I encountered upon disembarking from my train.
I left Barcelona the very next day after a meal out with my beau, who had flown from Los Angeles to meet me. We rented a car and departed within hours to Cadaquez. Eventually we meandered our way to Cannes. (I know it sounds glamorous, but it was not film festival season, so there were no paparazzi anywhere in sight!) Anyway, the seafood in Barcelona was good, and I liked the sound of the language. The architecture, too, left a lasting impression on my mind, so I’ll probably go back there some day.
In the meantime, I can wear perfumes by Carner Barcelona. D600 must have some cryptic meaning, but I’ve no idea what it might be. The perfume represents a genre becoming increasingly familiar these days: a complex woody oriental. I’m not sure why there are so many of these, except perhaps that to ask niche prices perfumers need to attach a lot of bells and whistles. No harm done, of course: so long as the ingredients are good, the final perfumes tend to end up smelling perfectly nice, if not very memorable.
The opening of D600 reminds me of clean cigarette ashes, but as the perfume develops and dries down, it becomes more sweet and seems like an oriental not so much a woody composition. I also smell some iris in the midstages. Others have compared this creation to Dior Homme, which I unfortunately have not tried and so cannot comment. After everything settles, I am left with a somewhat indescribable layer of orientalia, which reminds me a bit of some of the Linari perfumes. Again, top-notch ingredients, complex composition, impossible really to mark off a clear territory on the grand olfactory map. Just another perfectly fine niche woody oriental to my nose.
Freken bok – :
This is a beautiful spicy iris fragrance. I adore the smoky black-pepper opening. Yum!
SouthTown – :
The first time I tried it I though about Dior Homme… I’ve given it some time, and now I don’t feel them that similar. Both are kinda powdery and had an interesting iris note, but, although both have a similar vibe, they are different enough.
My second and third wearings of this fragrance have convinced me. I would chose this fragrance over Dior homme and even DHI. Sadly, both Dior feel kinda pale on my skin, with DH having poor longevity despite its great smell. This one feels richer, denser, and longer lasting.
Starts peppery and develops to a powdery/creamy base with iris and a hint of citrus (not exactly citrus, but vetiver feels somewhat citrusy on my skin) over soft woods and vanilla. Very nice fragrance. Not over the top, but elegant and refined.
bxl658InsuffBooni – :
لم اجرب هذا العطر ولكن للمعلومية وردة الآيرس تعطي دائما رائحة البوردة وهي تعتبر من المكونات الباهظة السعر في العطور
аувщк-113 – :
I’m not sure if I should find the idea of user “samihardanian” plagiarizing part of my Jaipur by Boucheron review flattering or unbecoming but it certainly feels odd….
RobotBender – :
Dark spices, soft vetiver and slightly powdery Iris…
But i do preffer Dior Homme because i found it richer and with better dry on my skin.
Pricey for what it gives…
Simple and a little synthetic.
🙁
Sorry
karchenko_123 – :
I’ve found D600 to be a very enjoyable scent. A big sweeping vanilla note, that’s really not sweet, tempered by a rooty powdery iris and a chewy vetiver. It has a fairly thick cosy feeling to it, without being categorised as purely a winter scent. Pretty unisex indeed but I do feel that men may as well just go for Dior Homme Intense, as they are quite similar and the Dior is easier to get a hold of.
Projection very nice as is staying power. My one complaint with this is that it’s perhaps a bit safe, it has no pop. I like it, but I’m not willing to part with that much money for the FB. I’ll enjoy my decant while I have it.
oleg921 – :
The first time I was given a sample of D600 Carner Barcelona (shortly after the line launched stateside), I recall being more impressed. Now it comes off a bit neither here nor there (which isn’t as bad as it sounds but…)
Do get the DH reference.
A solid peppery note kicks it off with a citrus accord blending well upon it.
A faint iris and even fainter jasmine note certainly don’t make much of a move here (where, where, where!). It’s really the vanille that puts the sweat in the spice (pepper).
D600 certainly works for all (unisex), straddling the line well.
Sillage is there and longevity is just above board.
The flacon is nice but the label is second class (disappointment).
Over all, I do like it, just not loving it. Next.
Макстар – :
A rather underwhelming scent. The composition is light and fleeting. Much rather stick to Dior Homme. Carner’s Cuir, on the other hand, is very nice.
benatlat – :
Reminds me a little by Dior Homme Intense, but in this spicy frag starts, with a smoothing iris, vetiver some, and in the background you smell like vanilla, this is surrounded with a touch of sweetness, very subtle but nice , unlike in DHI seems cloying. I loved Dior Homme Intense before, but now I use it , I smell a waxy note lifelong perfume on my skin and I can not bear it.
Try this perfume not disappoint, the sillage is great, and longevity over 12 hours on my skin.
A great perfume, I think it has its own grounds and is no copy, DHI is a little smell of iris and a large chocolate, here come into play many notes and vanilla.
oriang – :
The opening for me is a full on blast of pepper and cardamon, very manly at this point, I get earthy vetiver in the background and iris is starting to show it’s face. I find this to be extremely sexy and I love it on myself and also on my boyfriend on whom the scent opens completely different – its more citrusy and vetiver dominates the scent more than pepper.
Heart brings something marvelous for me, it’s a creamy vanilla-iris with peppers settling down in the background. It feels almost edible actually as the vanilla is so milky and creamy that the peppery/sweet scent reminds me a bit of masala chai. I also get cedar which usually does not work for me, but here it is simply perfect addition to scent.
The base is what I love the most – cedar and vanilla, creamy and spicy at the same time, very sensual, dark and inviting.
Even though this feels manly upon opening, it developed feminine on myself and stayed manly on my boyfriend, so skin chemistry does wonders. It is extremely high quality stuff and I love it greatly, it makes me feel very elegant and this is a perfect scent for, ehem, kinky night with someone special.
pretpank – :
Carner Barcelona D600, is a great scent in my opinion even though it is kinda like Dior Homme Intense a bit. These two are very similiar but do differ if you really wear them both out being that one is more peppery than the other. D600 is that that is much more peppery while Dior Homme Intense is more of the Iris and chocolate type fragrance especially at its drydown stage.
alisha0928 – :
This has been compared to Dior Homme, it does have a little hint of it but its alot more powdery. It’s pleasant, I don’t get much iris though
xrumeru – :
I barely smell any Iris in this at all really. All I smell is Pepper, pepper, pepper and something a bit like Papyrus, some Vanilla, some wood and some vetiver. I also get Tonka out of this, which I suppose if I could smell some Iris might make this reminiscent of Dior Homme, but since the Iris is so faint I really don’t get that as a strong comparison.
Overall it’s fine, it’s a sort of leather fragrance, it’s just excessively peppery and papery.
Ф.Андрей – :
This is the niche version of Dior Homme. Very high quality. A pleasant and delicious scent.
4pilot – :
If you like the dry down of Dior Homme intense, cocoa powder in general, then this for you. A flowery note, that is toned down, but noticeable, tops this fragrance. Nothing original, and not worth the HIGH price tag IMO.
6peg – :
Dior Homme anyone? To be honest this is part Dior Homme/Homme Intense part L’Homme De Coeur. Smells fine but it’s a rip-off. Spicy iris on a woody base. Strongly derivative.
Rating: 5/10
dark12041998 – :
“A perfume that captures the urban lifestyle and the Mediterranean spirit of Barcelona; A vibrant spicy perfume with a touch of mystery.”
-from the website
ddik1972 – :
I agree with samihardanian, this is such a masterpiece of fragrance art. It’s being tenacious on my skin makes it a ‘must have’!
I’m a gal and love this one!
2asd – :
This fragrance is the most perfect definition of an woody/spicy! It is incredibly well blended and absolutely wondeful if used in small amounts. I have extremely dry skin and am lucky to get any type of longevity or sillage on anything but this beauty here gave me 12+ hours with only 2 spritzs and had everyone 3 feet from me telling me how great I smell!
I really like this stuff, its very refreshing and spicy at the same time…….most likely for night time use.
The scent is so charismatic, all serious and disciplined. So penetrating and attractive. The scent of who is a talented and mastered speaker or interviewer.
longevity 10/10
sillage 20/10
scent 20/10