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Black Vines Kerosene 2014

7.4 / 10 129 Ratings

A perfume by Kerosene for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is spicy-sweet. The longevity is above-average. The production was apparently discontinued.
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Main accords

Spicy

Sweet

Gourmand

Resinous

Green

Fragrance Notes

Star anise

Cinnamon

Balsam fir

Frankincense

Tonka bean Vanilla

Vanilla

Fig

Ivy

Peru balsam

Perfumer & Creative Guidance

John Pegg Brand owner, Perfume maker

Ratings

Scent

7.4129 Ratings

Longevity

8.4104 Ratings

Sillage

7.7107 Ratings

Bottle

7.8102 Ratings

Value for money

6.830 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20 · last update on 02/04/2026.

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Reviews

11 in-depth fragrance descriptions

08/04/2014

LicoriceRain
57 Reviews

LicoriceRain

6

The Best Licorice Fragrance Ever

Black Vines by Kerosene certainly isn’t the first fragrance featuring licorice/anise blended with something else; there is licorice with lavender (Hermèssence Brin de Réglisse), licorice with rose and amber (Aoud Black Candy by Mancera), licorice with mint (Reglisse Noire by 1000 Flowers), and licorice with lemon (Caron Eau de Reglisse), to name a few. But this licorice with fir/balsam/cypress blend is, by far, the most intriguing and powerful of them all. (The drydown reminds me very much of Eau des Baux by L’Occitane, but Black Vines is much deeper, and richer, than Eau des Baux.) Black Vines is licorice and wintergreen on steroids! But of course, most people don’t like the smell of wintergreen, that familiar medicinal scent from muscle rub creams and Pepto Bismal, but this is exactly the reason I find it therapeutic.

01/14/2026

sherylnd
18 Reviews

sherylnd

2

Licorice and spice gumdrops

As other reviewers have said, the opening is licorice, and it is STRONG. But as that dies down a bit, you can begin to detect the other notes. At that stage, this fragrance reminds me quite specifically of spice gumdrops. The kind of gumdrops that my grandmother always loved during the holidays. If you’ve never had them, the flavors are licorice, cinnamon, cloves, wintergreen and spearmint. After that initial blast of licorice, this fragrance smells just like opening a fresh bag of those spice gumdrops. I don’t think I want to smell like that myself, but I’m keeping my sample just for the nostalgia of it.

02/04/2026

FluidMirror
3 Reviews

FluidMirror

2

Delicious leather jacket masc

This smells amazing all the way through. It doesn't last as long as I wish it did, but I could probably spray more; I'm just conserving the sample. I love the smell of licorice. It has a lot of bite and juiciness which makes me happy. It feels so right for me to wear it with a leather jacket. It also feels like a masc-leaning gourmand to me which I enjoy. When I'm smelling the cloud of the scent around me, I feel almost giddy. The licorice scent fades away in the dry down, but I still smell good, like marshmallow caramel vanilla bean. Yum!

01/03/2026

10Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Sharkington
44 Reviews

Sharkington

2

The Ultimate Licorice

Now that Kerosene has brought back this licorice beast of a fragrance, I had to review it. I will start off by saying that those who hate licorice flavored anything will not enjoy this. It is strong and slaps you in the face upon spraying it. And it keeps slapping you the face with a rich, spicy licorice root a little bit of candy licorice that borders on cloying if you spray it more than once. As a fan of licorice, anise, anise-like herbs, and the often neglected black jelly beans, this is the only licorice centered fragrance that has ever hit the spot for me when it comes to black licorice and even then it can be a bit much if I'm not careful spraying it. It's not just a sweet gourmand, either, but has an element of green earthiness to it that really gives the sense of black thorny vines coiling and overtaking everything in their path. To me this is the ultimate licorice. It's the type of fragrance that could have been done lazily as a novel gag-gift perfume, but was created with honest intention to create a deeply rich, long lasting scent for those who love the smell and taste of black licorice.

My bottle is many years old and still smells just as wonderful since the day I got it. I haven't sampled the rerelease, but I hope it's still true to the original.

01/08/2026

8Scent

zanexplain
28 Reviews

zanexplain

1

Too damn good

Guys, I'm going insane. I have been on the brink of picking this fragrance up for MONTHS wondering if it'll be too spicy, too candy-y, tooooo anise-y - nah yall, NAH. I requested a sample of this with a full bottle of Blackmail and boy oh boy....

This is straight up divine. Probably the most cozy scent I've laid my nose on. Incredibly full bodied and well rounded spicy-fougère. The anise is no doubt the star, but not at all overwhelming like black licorice candy. It's quite literally walking through an evergreen forest with licorice root coming out of the ground. Perfect balance between cinnamon, fig, and anise. GOOD LORD the fig!!! How could I forget! The fig is so brilliantly juicy and plump here it's the perfect contrast to the anise and grounds the scent in such a resinous way. Fig fragrance finally done right.

Immediate seasonal associates are winter no doubt - something warm and fuzzy to wrap yourself in against the cold dreary skies. But I think this could work anytime and as a killer signature fragrance. Keeping this bad boy on my watchlist and eyes peeled for someone to hate it and sell it. They have no idea what they're missing.
If you've been debating like me between this or Winter of 99 -which just smells like eggnog to me :( - pick this shi up.

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