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Евгений1975 – :
I’ll always love this one. A step behind my all-time favorites in the CB line, which include:
– CBMusk
– Alan’s 2nd Cumming
– Faggot
– Wild Hunt
But I’d put this one on par with, or at the top of, the next tier that includes Burning Leaves, November, Beast, and a few of the others. My favorites are all a bit edgy, but this one is very pleasing, and my favorite of the many CB perfumes that feature a “dirt” accord. This one starts as pure potting soil, then segues into tree sap. Gardening gloves mixed with hope. Although it’s an unexpected smell, I think it’s a pleasing one for most people, whether they know it or not, rich with associations and early memories. This one makes a good gift, for men or women, especially folks who don’t typically wear fragrance.
artmuss – :
grass and dirt, very green but light and airy due to the aquatic note
Bosharik – :
In the vial and right at first on skin, it’s an amazingly lifelike grass-and-wet-dirt scent. It’s the lawnmower being run on a cool, muddy day. But, like many CBIHP scents, it’s very light and dies down quickly, first to a thin generally-fresh scent, then to a faint and very close-to-skin patchouli/fresh mix. Anyone who’s tried a bunch of Demeters in the past will be familiar with this accord and with the feel of this scent in general. It’s cool that such a nature experience can be recreated in perfume, though I don’t suspect I’d wear it a lot.
siisnm – :
I love it. It makes me feel I’m in a soaking wet place with trees, bushes, grass, decaying leaves etc, a very lush and woodsy, earthy place. I love it. It’s what I love doing – being out in the rain, in amongst the trees and leaves, on a wet soggy ground. Beautiful. It brings back my favourite memories of being in the bush as a child – the earthy green lush smells, especially on a rainy day. Hmmmm……..!
Glorious.
exis75 – :
A verdant garden, this is grass, grass, grass on me! Then someone spills a melon cocktail on the grass and a cat pees on it. Bummer. Not for me, sorry, folks.
Estastref – :
Fun to try but not wear. Soil soil soil and pine sol. Love wet earth and the stink of mold to a certain degree but this is just for appreciation of the art of fragrance more than a wearable scent. I’ll put it on from this to time just to feel like I’m buried alive but other than those moods, not a perfume but rather a fun scratch and sniff.
apofis66690 – :
CB I Hate perfume is the house to go to for minimalist trips down scent memory lane, not as much traditional perfumes as recreations of specific moments…..laser precise atmospherics exactly as described on the tin.
Black March is the first spring rain that washes out the last of winter snow. The soil is freshly damp and the earthworms are starting to surface, along with the first hints of green leaves and flower buds.
The aquatic top notes fade relatively quickly, fading into a gorgeous and subtle dirty garden floral. Honestly, if more florals smelled like this,less prim and proper, I would enjoy them.
Longevity is about 4 hours, and sillage is a non entity
A beautiful and evocative scent, but best used as a palate cleanser for most, rather than an everyday scent.
sahy – :
Sort of the culmination of CB’s geosmin obsession, this one’s not really wearable as a lasting perfume but it’s a showstopper as a snapshot of a specific moment. Torrential rain, wet soil and moss, giving way to new spring growth and green florals. Technically brilliant, but much more of a museum piece than a perfume.
павел.б – :
Pure garden.
skifserg – :
Impressive in realizing a concept. Not terrible wearable. Phase 1: wet soil. Phase 2: flowers poking through the earth. I don’t like florals too much, but this gives me an idea – do I like dirt(y) florals? Yes, the world needs more dirt florals. Phase 3: a few hours in, the weakest state of the perfume, it’s a watery, powdered shadow of itself. Not a good look, but I doubt anyone else can smell it at this point.
I first tested this perfume right after several others, and found solace in its earthy, decidedly anti-perfume nature. Testing it alone for a whole day, I concluded it was a nice escape but not a place I want to stay in. Interested to try CB’s other offerings with dirt notes to see which does the dirt floral best.
Neonic – :
Black March lives up to its description. Photorealistic wet earth and decaying leaves. However, all that is only present in the top notes. It quickly disappears and leaves a soft sweet slightly floral skin scent. Which is too bad because it’s the only reason I don’t wear it.
Doesn’t stop me from sniffing the cap though.
ruxa – :
Smells like wet dirt, grass and sitting by a pond in the Spring right after the rain. It is amazing that this natural scent can be bottled up. Not something I would wear very often, but wow just smelling it give you the lift and smell of Spring!
Drorourdy – :
Love it! Damp forest floor! Fresh, wet, green, soily, nature. For those who love to go outside ^^
Arsen3121 – :
I have the water perfume of Black March and I truly love it, although it goes completely against my usual preference for hefty chypres. This is, as others have said, the smell of spring on the way – snowdrops and crocuses poking through the damp earth. Some find BM morbid but, for me, it is the smell of hopefulness and nature stirring back to life.
I do wear this as a perfume, but I also use it as a rather expensive room spray when my nerves are jangled and my mood needs a lift.
alekc4456 – :
I wasn’t bowled over by this one. On me Black March smells of grass and doesn’t last long. Not my favourite fragrance from this perfume house.
ykrop1984 – :
I loved the initial damp soil notes, but they faded away all too quickly, and the mid and base notes were far less interesting
dubman – :
Black March is Metamorphosis M#2
It opened very green and aquatic – i also smelled hints of melon and cucumber – but this isn’t a “fruity” scent (i’m getting sooo tired of fruit perfume, even if the buying public apparently isn’t… yet…). It was definitely fresh smelling and brought to mind the optimism of a rainy spring day when everything is budding and growing.
After a short while the strong aquatic quality began to fade, but the scent remained green and moist, and the earthy tones began to be more noticeable… moist earth.
This is nothing like “Wild Hunt” on me, although i read a review somewhere in which the person felt they smelled similar.
There are floral hints in “Black March”, but light and still… oh, i know i’m getting redundant… green, very different from the florals i smelled in “Wild Hunt”. Also, the deep dark woods of “Wild Hunt” are missing – no pine and fir, no cedar… “Wild Hunt” is autumnal. “Black March” is Spring.
I think this would be a good scent to wear on a hot summer day, and is, in my opinion, unisex.