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denvlkv – :
I love all the reviews :3
I’m so glad that this one is similar in style to sadly discontinued Black.
Some ingredients or a combination of is set to resemble rubberish feel from Black.
I also get a faint rose scent fluttering above this rubber, leathery, oud undercoat, which gives it oriental vibe.
Like Black, it is more pour homme than femme, for people who like traditional gender divided perfumery.
All these ingredients could make a super thick concoction, but no, this scent is ultra light despite it’s dark character.
Shame about longevity which is two hours at best, but that’s just a Bvlgari trademark. I guess the Earth would shatter if they made something that lasts on skin.
.P.S.I.X. – :
Tried it during my ongoing quest after perfect “cha” perfume. Dismissed it because it would be too extravagant for me to wear avant-garde perfume, or at least to wear one for men (I am of the opposite sex). Although it could be proclaimed unisex. It is very fine, very quiet, very subtle and very neutral, somehow subdued and unobtrusive, although present. I think the best description for this perfume would be “presence at the verge of absence”. Presume there is great craft needed from someone who would be able to create such perfume. Well, these days I saw that it got 5 stars in LT newest guide. So if you are into non-conventional perfumes, go ahead
mikolla13 – :
Is it a oud scent? A tea one? A leather one? It’s all of these things, smoothly combined so no edges show. Nothing “jumps out” at you, so at first I was a bit puzzled by this one, but now I’m addicted. It’s deep and serious but at the same time very wearable and fresh, a rare combination. Sometimes it’s very tea like and astringent, sometimes rosey-lemony, sometimes leather, other times its almost like a straightforward oud scent. Fantastic!
TANK_VY – :
Personally I love this. I too received the Emirates business class Bvlgari wash kit. Unfortunately I wasn’t on the flight but when my parents flew the cabin crew were kind enough to give them a spare for me on the return leg.
Anyway – Tea? Maybe not. I detect mostly light leather with some tobacco and perhaps soap. It reminds me of a classic dusty barber shop scent. It sits close to the skin and smells very clean (old school clean). The difference being the leathery scent is pronounced. It’s not just a desirable dry down after the main scent fades, it is the showpiece. It’s how I want all classic barber shop scents to sit.
The clean scent is utterly addictive, I just can’t stop sniffing my wrist. Perhaps because it is so light. Sometimes I just want leather but I don’t want the heavy overbearing scent. This is the answer. You can wear this with the confidence that it’s not going to get up anybody’s nose. A great all rounder. It does work in the winter but I much prefer it as a daytime scent in warmer (but not baking hot) weather.
Just to add – something many may raise an eyebrow at – the scent reminds me of a dried down Dior Fahrenheit, just weaker and far less sweet. I imagine if you took the petrol out of Fahrenheit you’d end up with something like this.
The body lotion is also excellent. Almost as strong as the cologne. In fact after the cologne has dried down, it does have the subtleness of a body lotion scent. Perhaps that is why the lotion also works very well.
dddddd – :
I’m not great at determining exact notes yet, but I can say that on me it smells very dark with something mobile and green underneath. Smells wildly different depending on what it’s sprayed on and where you are in relation to it. This, I think, is what makes it an all-time favourite.
Jora-7 – :
Rose + oud yet AGAIN but done in an unusually transparent, watery way – and I don’t mean that as a bad thing – it’s not my preferred treatment but it’s carried off here with some style. You definitely know it’s an EdC – the rose is light and dewy rather than velvety-soft, and the oud is the slightly astringent, antiseptic type rather than anything richer or stinkier. And there are no oriental-style spices in there to beef things up either. I couldn’t detect any tea specifically but maybe it was just there punching up the whole tannic-sourish greenish side.
So it’s a bit wispy and airy overall, yet there’s a brave sort of clarity and some real punch to the oud. Certainly distinctive (without being weird) and classy (without feeling opulent – just low-key quality). On skin this seemed a little weak on me but on textiles it’s a beast – a cotton sweater still *reeked* of it 24 h later, and with the oud even stronger and darker than before and the patchouli beginning to properly simmer a bit. Not really for me as I prefer a rose/oud mix to have a proper rounding-out with resins and spices and all sorts, to make a lusher, warmer sort of scent, but if you love rose, oud, or both, and want something specifically fresh it could make you very happy. Overpriced at full retail, but seems to be available at honking discounts which make it very good value for money if it rings your bell.
Mehanik810 – :
This may not (really) be a review–more of a series of statements.
1. This was my very first blind buy, at Marshalls (no material connection),and roughly half of list price. For the same price, they also had ‘Rouge’. I was able to (almost) run to the nearby Ulta *just* before they closed and smell that one, and subsequently ruled it out.
2.I made the purchase before reading ALL of the reviews. I might have held off, had I gotten to La Dame de Noir’s prescient entreaty to “test before buying” with this one.
3. I realized that I could return/exchange it, if need be. I hate returning anything, but for the price and based on the scent family, I decided to risk it.
4. I actively wanted to like it. I did not dislike it. I love horses, and the smell of stables, and think that Silvery nailed it with the “Stall and hay scent” observation.
5.I gave it both a decently generous application and real dry-down time. It definitely changed over time on me, mellowing to something that I could *almost* see myself wearing. Almost, on my budget, sadly doesn’t work.
6. I found it really interesting, albeit in a sort of confused, cocker-spaniel-head-tilt kind of way. (As an aside, I had a similar experience of confusion with Piment Brulant. That one ultimately sorted itself into my “wearable, more so if layered” pile. Mixed with Commodity Moss, it’s like a magic olfactory salad.)
7. This whole experience is a delightful dance with uncertainty. I’m indebted to those of you with the both the faculty and inclination to put your observations so eloquently into words. I’m at once amazed at and intimidated by your reviews. 🙂
edited to add:
It is likely that this ultimately unsuccessful blind buy experience has saved me from the disappointment and frustration of a similar online, no-returns experience.
Primer – :
I was gifted this as a parting gift from a wealthy Qatar family who traveled to my work for their daughters TMS treatments for the month. I remember her dad wearing this as it was pretty strong but not too awful, as there was a certain sense of exoticness in it. One spray directly applied is extremely strong, but it mellows down into a sexy floriental with my body’s ph. I can see myself wearing this for a hot date night in.
death0002005 – :
A very interesting complex fragrance. It has the neutrality that stops it being too floral and it’s not too dry. Warm and mysterious
Viregul – :
There are perfumes that surprise us not by the novelty of the aroma itself but by the way it is executed. A kind of innovation that focuses on aromatic novelties and unusual chords is highly valued, but it is just as interesting to find new stories to be told with the same words, especially as they have been used to exhaustion lately.
Recently Bvlgari has again explored the line of perfumes inspired by teas that was responsible for the entrance of the brand in the perfumery unniverse. After having made perfumes inspired by green tea, red tea, white tea and oolong / blue tea, the brand turns to the variety of camellia sinensis best known for its smoky and oxidized content, black tea. And for that, it uses the talents of the perfumer Jacques Cavallier to give life to a perfume of oriental inspiration that uses the most famous pair of the last years: oud and rose.
It is necessary to emphasize that although the brand has already explored a variety of black tea in Bvlgari Black, the resemblance between both comes down to the dependence of the musks and a rubbery aura. But while this is played in a vanillic context and with a secondary luminous floral in Black, Au Thé Noir Cavallier plays with the saturation of the smoky aroma of oud molecules and musks so that they pass the impression of black tea. The rose gives slightly fruity floral contours, the magnolia complements the secondary citrus side of the composition and the patchouli anchors the musks in the task of creating a woody and exotic base for the composition. It is necessary to remember that Au Thé Noir is an Eau de Cologne and behaves as such, no matter the intense in its name. It is a transparent and delicate idea around the exoticism of the theme, a union of oriental notes of Arabic perfumery with a more typical oriental execution of Japanese / Chinese perfumery.
edt102speagoessenda – :
I’ve got this 5 ml miniature from my aunt, who travel from UK to Malaysia using Emirates, business class. They give a pouch full of Bvlgari products, including wet tissue, lotion, toothbrush set & mini mirror.
This scent remind me of Gucci Guilty Absolute. It have some Dettol smell, just like Guilty Guilty Absolute, only lighter. Not a fan of this. I can’t detect any tea notes, only prominent leather & some bitter tobacco. Pass.
Knight XI – :
Au the Noir smells like skin…just got out of a warm shower and moisturised with a very lightly scented generic moisturiser skin. More importantly, this smells very salty to me…not a fan of the scent so i’m not mad at the short longevity
polyakov2010 – :
I like it but not in love with it. Prefer Bvlgari Eau the Parfumee Au The Rouge over this.
NOT LONG LASTING, LOW SILLAGE. 7/10
andriy1976 – :
I really like this one. I get a lot of patchouli and a hint of the signature tea note of the original. I also get a hint of oud and rose. It’s whisper soft and does dry down to a skin scent but it’s beautiful. This scent would have to be re-applied throughout the day though but “Who cares?” (at least, I don’t)
I have every intention wearing this a lot this upcoming summer. I really really like this offering. I adore Eau Parfumee Au The Verte a lot as it is.
I can see a bit of a similarity of Bvlgari Black to this one, slightly due to the oud note. Very well done.
This really lasts if you DRENCH yourself in it. It’s quite beautiful. I LOVE IT.
Sophia_fromAD – :
All I can smell is oud and some bitter burnt cigar. I cannot detect any tea?
kikorrik – :
Simplified review: Bvlgari Black minus the vanilla.
I don’t get any oud in this.
rasist – :
this is by no means an oud….to me it smells like a lit cigarette without the annoying smoke and softened with the rose. it is the mix of tea tobacco and rose that dominate this scent in my opinion….
ImmonsPof – :
This is very similar to the iconic Bvlagari Black in the round flacon.I’ve tried them both back-to-back and I actually prefer The Noir to Bvlgari Black !!!
This fragrance also has echoes of Annick Goutal’s Eau du Fier.
A very unique and beautiful fragrance. A must try !
supertipok – :
On first sniff, it smells heavily of wood and chypre, but it really develops and evolves over a few hours on the skin. The dry down is hard to pin down: it continually shifts from black tea, to oud, to rose, back to tea again. I agree with Tiwalii’s description – it’s sexy and warm, like being wrapped up in a cashmere throw sitting on a leather couch in front of a fire.
jdek61 – :
Wow!!!!!! band-aid oud/tea/leather. All mixed sooooo well. The best scent from bvgari ever.
pavlo.f71 – :
STALL and hay scent it is! It’s because of the interesting combination of tobacco and leather notes I think. They’re dominating the fragrance, a hint of tea and oud can be detected but I can’t feel the other notes like patch and rose. I smelled i on paper, wonder what it’s like on skin.
Mihail91 – :
See Tiwalii’s review for the real notes. This is nicely mysterious but there is something off-putting about the combination of notes that keeps me from enjoying it fully. It does smell leathery and ever so slightly fruity in a weird way. I really cannot detect the tea. Overall it’s just not for me.
spiegel – :
I’m not sure this is primarily a tea scent and if it’s true there’s no leather in it I wonder where the leather vibe comes from. To me Eau Parfumee au The Noir is very dry and…unusual?!? It kinda smells like a leather-handled straw bag carrying a black tea box, some flowers wrapped in paper — white thick recycled paper with its own peculiar smell — and tobacco leaves. Oud is a rather faint presence and together with tobacco creates the smokiness in the background. All in all, bit too ‘polished’ and ‘tamed’ for my tastes.
аееее – :
Great stuff! It’s like a tribute to the original Bvlgari Black and the whole tea collection (The one to end it all)! It’s a VERY leathery (+smoky) black tea with some rose and minimal “oud”; I don’t know how some can perceive it as a rose-oud dominant scent because it isn’t (although it has a “touch” of Zegna’s Indonesian Oud made by the same nose)..
To be honest, none of the tea fragrances from this brand smells like the said tea except maybe Rouge and this (while The Bleu is also very tea-like, it’s supposed to be Chinese Oolong, which bears no resemblance), so you can either single this one out for no good reason or simply move-on to Jo Malone’s new Rare Teas 🙂
amd – :
I’m with viridian on this latest Eau Parfumee release from Bvlgari. As much as I love Vert (Extreme), Rouge and Blanc, I will not be adding Noir to my collection.
It’s a perfectly presentable EDC style fragrance, but not at all what I was expecting from the notes or description. The description of a “deep and oriental” fragrance is in my mind a tad misleading. Although it’s got an oriental sensibility to it thanks to the combination of rose and (a somewhat synthetic) oud, it’s far from deep and in contrast is rather fleeting. Even the patchouli seems to be missing in action!
The darkness or ‘Noir’ comes only from the woody aspects as I couldn’t detect any discernible black tea note as listed above. The fleeting presence of leather and tobacco couldn’t save this for me.
Had this been all about black tea (as suggested), rather than oud and ‘woody’ notes this could have been an absolute stunner. As it is I just can’t get enthused by Bvlgari’s latest Eau Parfumee. I’m yet to test Bleu and I’m hoping that it will not disappoint.
xam001 – :
I’ve tried Noir a couple of times this past week to get a fair impression of this scent. I love and wear Vert, Blanc and Bleu but this will not join them in my collection. It’s a real fork in the road and to me doesn’t feel part of the Eaux collection. I can’t detect any tea in the mix – it’s just another strong, smokey, spicy, oud fragrance. Not what I was expecting at all. I’d hoped for a dark, dry, malty black tea maybe with a bit of bergamot like a really top quality Earl Grey. Maybe that’s next? Eaux Gris? Yes please!
olestadni – :
The correct notes:
Top Notes: Rose Absolute – Bergamot Essence
Heart Notes: Black Tea Accord – Magnolia Essence
Base Notes: Oud Wood – Patchouli
This is an interesting take on tea. Smells very refreshing, yet elegant.
It feels like sitting in a room with dark wood panels, in a vintage Chesterfield sofa, with an elegant, english porcelaine cup filled with fragrant quality Earl Grey in your hands. On the table in front of you there is a crystal vase filled with freshly picked roses and magnolias from the garden.
It’s a cologne type of scent, so it is not very strong, and therefore the oud is not very harsh either. It just gives the scent that dark wood and leather feeling, and also adds a soft smokyness that’s barely there.
The heart of the scent, which blooms with an amazingly rich rose and magnolia combo, reminds me a lot about Green Tea Camellia from Elizabeth Arden. For me that is a good thing, because it’s one of my tea favourites.
I really like it!
Sillage is soft, and longevity is 5-6 hours on my skin, which is quite good for a cologne I would say. 🙂
BIBIk504 – :
Woah! This is one of the most unique things I’ve smelled in a while, I can honestly say I haven’t come across something quite like The Noir. I was encouraged to try it in store at first on a card and couldn’t really get to grips with it? Having worn it now I can’t say I’m any the wiser?
Contrary to some of the thoughts expressed below, I get loads of tea from this fragrance especially in the opening but undoubtedly continuing throughout. Bvlgari do have a bit of a love affair with tea and I have to say I really love the original Men’s fragrance, without actually owning a bottle. (I must put that right one day) The tea in this is not typical, black tea but much more oriental, dark fragrant but still with a metallic edge. Tobacco and oud give this strange concoction a smokey depth which further adds to the tea, and with a hint of rose in there this fragrance is full to the brim with interest. I get a patchouli base which comes on more in the drydown but is yet again adding to the contradictory, clean meets dirty, natural vibes of this whole perfume.
I could talk and talk about this fragrance and despite my seemingly glowing appraisal, at the end of the day I came to the conclusion…I don’t like The Noir. It has some properties I just can’t abide and I’d even go as far to say the dry down gets even worse but as a perfume composition, I think it’s truly excellent and something I’d love to grow on me. So Bravo Jacques Cavallier! I’m even that much of an adventurer now that I kinda want to add this to my collection, rather than sticking to safe stuff which ticks wear-ability boxes for me. I want to be challenged and this juice did that.
Performance was pretty good too and the silage was a silent creeper, that keeps letting you know it’s there. Fascinating stuff, I’d encourage anyone to try this.
igoresha-58 – :
Just tested today.
Nothing to do with the previous Eaux Parfumées. Nothing fresh. Nothing sweet. This is an utterly dry and smoky fragance, more masculine than unisex. It is suposed to be based on black tea, but I can not detect any black tea, but some sort of Lapsang Souchong and Pu Erh tea, with hints of Arabian attar (due to the oudh, I suppose). It is original, indeed, round and full bodied, but it is not for everybody. I suggest to test before buying. Sillage and lasting power are moderate.
zemchikk – :
A very interesting break from the rest of the tea line, this is a markedly darker and thicker perfume than the others. The most prominent notes are Rose and Leather, to the point where the tea note is very difficult to pick out. This is, however, supposed to be black tea, and so the note is likely tightly integrated into the tobacco and patchouli (themselves also playing a distant background role). Thankfully, this is not a fruity floral or a cloying, sandbagged oriental. It is a clear, forward leaning leather; perhaps ostensibly chypre-like (if we are trying to fit this into a category).
The overall effect is like that of new gloves; a very smooth, slightly powdery leather. The soft rose has a feminine feel, but the bitterness of the leather prevents it from being a fully feminine perfume. It smells like the kind of “house signature” a luxury goods manufacturer would perfume their womens line with; the kind of fragrance women would step into the store just to smell, would covet for as long as their new purchase would give it, and would be desperate to own despite how jealously guarded it is by the house (and not sold as a retail fragrance).
There is not much in the way of evolution; the leather becomes more powdery and the rose stays on top throughout the 8 hour lifespan. Sillage and projection is on the moderate to heavy side.
Those who enjoy Dsquared Potion Royal Black are encouraged to try this (and even those that dont). By the standards of the community, this may be considered slightly masculine, but any rose prominent scent is always somewhat feminine to my nose, and as such I would say this is firmly unisex.
However, I think it may find its truest home on a very sultry, smoldering woman.
dima-s – :
A deep and elegant oriental scent which focuses on black tea and accentuated with tobacco, rose and oud giving it a Middle Eastern vibe.. It is a well-balanced concoction and although it comes in cologne intense concentration, the performance is satisfactory.. I would indulge myself of this scent at any given time.. Please do yourself a favor and try it if you get the chance..
47sergo47 – :
As the bottle look so good hope the content will be as good as it appears.
Satay – :
its an adorable perfume , far from the heaviness of oud , it is oriental yes , but soft romantic and shining .
Tobacco & tea leaves are here to soother the strength of oud and rose .
Likely this perfume is the mix of most matching ingredient together in a well balanced proportions .
i loved it really from the 1st sniff .
Merci Bvlgary , Merci Mr.Jacques Cavallier .
grq090InsuffBooni – :
Unfortunately it is not a resurrection of Bvlgari Black, it’s just another oud perfume for a very specific clientele. Disappointing, to say the least..
sadykowa.almira – :
Resurrection of Bvlgari Black would be very welcome here, because I cannot buy that on the Holland market anymore. Although the new The Noir does not have the vanilla note. But tobacco makes me very excited, can’t wait to try this!
oilers68001 – :
Great: set of notes and stunning bottle nice one from Bvlgari