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amatteuss – :
This is wonderfully green, geranium, carnation, pine, oakmoss. The closest could be Geranium pour Monsieur, but I like this more. One of a kind.
Just found and bought another 50ml of this at a very good price, so nice.
angel198802 – :
I would say Ebéne is more like the first Van Cleef Pour Homme or Jules, also Ho Hang Club, Oscar de la Renta pour lui, than Tuscany ph. (and yes captain)
Ebene is a nice alpha man leather fragrance of the 80s, living between Savannah and the office.
Warm, sensual, savage, dark, musky.
I do sense mostly leather smoother by tonka aldehydes and carnation, plus a large corolla of aromatic herbs and seeds.
It is a splendid composition. a bit grand-daddy in motocicle but good. The drydown is gorgeous less leather more woody bergamot.
Remembers me also a bit Samarkand by The Body Shop
55551542 – :
Some have said it is similar to Tuscany Uomo by Aramis. Any thoughts on that?
reartcofTHatt – :
I still remember the exact moment I smelt Ebène de Balmain for the very first time. I was 15 then and made a little detour through my parents’ bathroom at 7 a.m. on my way to school to furtively spray on some of my father’s cologne. My cousin, who back then worked at a perfume store, had come by on the previous day and brought some fragrances as a gift for my mother and father. Ebène was one of them. I tried it on my wrist and immediately loved it so much that I talked my father into letting me keep the entire bottle. With its mix of spices and woods Ebène conjured up images of adventures in far away lands. It was unlike anything I had ever smelled and became my favourite scent, one that I kept using almost religiously for a few years 🙂 Thinking of this sometimes makes me wonder whether the scents of those long-gone halcyon days were really so special or whether it’s just memory that makes them appear so unique. By pure coincidence I came across a reasonably priced bottle of Ebène on e-bay yesterday and took a snap decision to buy it. I’m looking forward to finding out if memory still serves me right.
PS: My bottle of Ebène was delivered this morning and yes, it still smells gorgeous after all these years 🙂
светлый – :
Ebene is one of those eighties fragrances, makes discontinued time, highly sought after by collectors, who maintains that demodé touch because of the cluster of notes that are no longer used today, also by how this composition was made, starting with the use of restricted oak moss and notes used as the mugwort also is linked to a long list of aromatic essences, all that, at least, is no longer used as well.
The opening is citrus and brief to quickly install a very, very aromatic scent full of spices. Here you begin to detect background the woodsy scent of “pine needles” (central axis of development) that reminds me of the famous “Pine”, but this is less fresh, more complex and with a strong note of aldehydes which causes a strange, original medicinal scent bittersweet coming from the bottom and produces the characteristic aroma so particular that has Ebene and acquires meaning when dry quality in the final stages of development.
During the middle notes, still he feels that aldehydic aroma, a mixture of floral notes where the carnation the best part is worn, very soft notes added to the woodsy background pine and patchouli, feeling this darker and more complex due to the contribution of moss feels oak, leather and a sweet spot contributed by amber. During drying the fragrance becomes much more serious, dark, full of balms, leather and beautiful note that longer as “rare” mossy oak seen much more intense and vivid clarity, this produces an effect fern lines dark, very beautiful, the smell reminds me of something as peculiar as smell a leather jacket stained with motor oil and grease.
The composition is good, also the length and the correct wake.
Ebene is nice, well done, is obsolete, is ochentero and has lots of character, the character of an aromatic fern, the character of a motorcyclist wearing jackets stained leather, a scene that is already part of a past where such complex fragrances and you baroque as this disappeared as it did the dinosaurs or the Cro-Magnon.
Rating: 7
lexaizotov – :
This is one of the best there was. Perfectly my type of cologne, this is Pour Monsieur in all its natural glory, just like Givenchy Pour Monsieur, Monsieur Rochas, Monsieur Carven, Monsieur Julian Jill etc, this is the peak in perfumery imo.
Phoenix966 – :
One of the greatest male fragrances ever created.
Perfectly blended.
An absolute masterpiece.
The eau de toilette has the richness and quality of an extrait.
Anyone who takes fragrances seriously should/ MUST !! try this.
tcy295speagoessenda – :
It smells very woody. I have taken the direct comparison between Ebene and Balafre. Sillage of both is very large. I like more the smell of Balafre.
However Ebene lasts much longer. 1 week +
Stelka52 – :
a pure jewel on the history of perfume, unfortunately it’s almost impossible to get it, i use to wear it a lot when i was young, please balmain house try to creat a ebene again, pleeaaasseeee a new ebene……
UtindySliny – :
i wonder why it’s out of production???? it’s a true gem and the scent it’s so unique and sexy! give us back this masterpiece NOW!!! we want ebene back for God damn sake!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
dorel_xtreme – :
I hope Balmain relaunch this marvellous fragance.
Swoneroprew – :
I still have in my collection a 125ml-spray produced in 1987 or so and, it is amazing, after 24 years it smells for 40-50 minutes on skin. Fantastic fragrance, really a masterpiece.
maloi1979 – :
Please, give us back this masterpiece NOW!!!