Colonia Ebano Acqua di Parma 2017

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7.4 / 10 150 Ratings

A perfume by Acqua di Parma for men, released in 2017. The scent is woody-spicy. It was last marketed by LVMH.
Pronunciation

Layers well with Bergamotto di Calabria

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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Sweet

Resinous

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Bergamot

Petitgrain

Heart Notes

Ebony

Elemi resin

Pink pepper

Base Notes

Honey

Vetiver

Patchouli

Ratings

Scent

7.4150 Ratings

Longevity

7.3134 Ratings

Sillage

6.8135 Ratings

Bottle

7.9130 Ratings

Value for money

7.035 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 04.10.2023.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/03/2023

9
Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Ineed1936
28 Reviews

Ineed1936

1

Francois Demachy”s shape shifter

This is basicaly a very smart move from the great master parfumeur Francois Demachy.

Which through the skeleton of this Ebano, launched 4 years later, the much praised Dior Tobacolor.
In essence, the perfumes are the same, with a few minor differences:

Tobacolor is centered more on an amber vanilla and a plum-tobacco accord.
While Ebano, on the ebony wood. Both have in common the amber skeleton, labdanum and especially honey, which is the fundamental central element in both perfumes.

Both perfumes take on sticky-resinous undertones, due to the presence of resins and bee honey. However, tobacolor is slightly smokier.
Overall, Demachy has released some masterpieces that deserve their value.
Price-quality ratio - excellent
Generous longevity and beautiful sillage.
I recommend both, especially for a pertinent test!

03/01/2021

Friedaherz
5 Reviews

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Friedaherz

3

F*** Pooh the Bear, I like Eeyore much better anyway (or "Do young pubescent bears have to shave?")....

Questions that move the world. The perfume world. Or at least me.

Why, really? Why, after my long commentary hiatus, am I starting with a fragrance that is extremely atypical for me?

Because it stings me? Because it doesn't suit me? Because it has that hated aftershave note? Because it's still in my collection anyway? Because everything isn't always light and uncomplicated? Because I don't own a single other Acqua di Parma fragrance? Because there's hardly a scent note in there that I like? Questions about questions...

Sometimes we're drawn to fragrances that so don't reflect our scent preferences. But isn't that how it is in real life too? I hope so, because otherwise you'd be predictable, conventional, boring and maybe always smell the same.

For some, that might mean security, but for me, it's rigid and stifling. And although I have always identified more with the somewhat depressed or notoriously depressed donkey in the story of Pooh the Bear, I might want to let the cheerful, happy and uncomplicated bear hang out many a time.

Translation: The fragrance starts out so honey-heavy for me that I can hardly get the image of Pu, the bear with honey around his snout and the honey pot in his paws, out of my head. But wait, little by little I see Eeyore flashing through in his hut of branches and sticks. Both of them take turns again and again, one after the other, always one of them is present.
And after 1-2 hours, the scent rewards me with the image of Eeyore after the rain in his dripping wet but still existing hut, saying, "Thank you for noticing me."

The for me too strong aftershave note after spraying, which fortunately later subsides, lets me sum up about the second part of my title: do puBÄRtäre young bears actually use aftershave?

06/07/2020

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7
Scent

Chizza
273 Reviews

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Chizza

Top Review 9

Honeywood

Colonia Ebano is no longer one of my favorites but the few lines I wrote months ago are not enough to adequately describe this AdP product. Therefore I decided to describe Ebano a little bit more detailed and to add the comment.
First of all, the name of the perfume is misleading, because the focus is actually on the honey.
The honey is dominant from the beginning and remains clearly visible the whole time. It may be that the other base notes try to hide it, as it appears rather thick and tamed in its sweetness. So this honey note is not sugar-sweet but finer, somehow more noble and therefore more moderate. This makes the violent prelude bearable, because I perceive it as falling into the honey pot. Basically well solved concerning the honey.
The typical Acqua di Parma top notes with refreshing citric, which are typical of oud or leather, for example, are somewhat lost here in my eyes. That's a pity in that one important feature is missing and the cologne character is not presented as polished as usual.
Anyway: the honey remains present, is soon enmeshed by woody notes and I find the fragrance very wearable, somehow classic but also demanding, because if you wanted ebony, you have to accept that the wood is not the protagonist.
The ebony is quite noticeable, but figuratively speaking it looks like freshly polished wood, which would like to smell like it but can't, because intensely spicy honey has run over the furniture. This is unfortunate because the wood messengers appear quite fine only weak and fragile at the same time, which is why one gets the impression that the honey also got a more important role.
The H/S doesn't tear out any trees, but Ebano is still perceptible after many hours, although weaker. For me the smell is ok but nothing for every day, for that it is too pleasing, smooth. In general you can get it as part of the brown series for less money, it was not transferred to the black series. So if you like woody and mild-tame honey, you should take a look here. Nevertheless, it has to be said that the topic Ebano has only been hit conditionally.

01/21/2019

8
Bottle 7
Sillage 7
Longevity 6.5
Scent

Exaltatus
14 Reviews

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Exaltatus

4

winnie pooh´s Holy Grail

"I'm just a little black rain cloud, hovering under the honey tree." That's how Pooh must feel when he thinks of Ebano Colonia.

The prelude is determined by honey and honey, which dominated very strongly in my nose and I thought to myself also briefly "to the shower you would have just still time". But I really wanted to test him.
A blessing came after about 45 minutes and the patchouli, ebony and vetiver were added. In combination with the honey a pleasant mixture.

By and large, this fragrance is a shane piece for anyone who likes it sweet and cozy. I won't make it bad because there's something special about it.
Nevertheless he won't make it into my wish list and will be there as a bottler.

It's just too sticky for me :(