Top Notes 
Pink pepper
Black leather
Heart Notes 
Tiaré
Cambodian oud
Patchouli
Cuban tobacco
Base Notes 
Tonka bean
Brazilian vanilla
Haitian vetiver
Ambergris
02/20/2025
Omnipotato
308 Reviews
Omnipotato
3
Black Noir? More like bright sunshine
As a fragrance enthusiast, you just have to love Mancera and Montale. Founded by the surreptitious Pierre Montale, these houses churn out fragrances like there’s no tomorrow. Good or bad, it seems not to matter, as if they have some mandate to pad their ever-increasing catalog with Aoud this and Aoud that, even when the fragrances contain no evidence of oud.
The names are enigmatic to say the least. Lemon Line? What is a lemon line? Gold Intensitive Aoud - intensitive isn’t even a word. Chocolate Greedy - like, greedy for chocolate? But Black Noir might be the oddest of all.
Of course, Black Noir is just the same word in two different languages. Like rice pilaf, or chai tea. Already weird, but it gets a lot weirder after you spray it on: what you smell is such a bright sunny fresh fruity floral that you’ll think you sprayed the wrong decant.
Of course, the leather is there in the background, but the foreground is dominated by a “tiare” accord - which could really be any tropical flower; what I mostly get is some soft slightly powdery florals with a tropical fruity twist - think pineapples and coconuts and the ilk. It really has that sunscreen, beachy vibe which so wholly contradicts the name and note listing.
I was expecting a dark leather, oud, patchouli, and tobacco, maybe tempered with tonka and vanilla, but a fruity floral called “Black Noir” is just too much, and simultaneously exactly what I expect from Mancera. Who cares. Smells good, get it out there. Name? What name? Black Noir? Cool. By the way, zero oud or tobacco in here, if you were curious.
But it’s not a bad scent at all. I’d totally take this on a vacation to a tropical island. Wear it at night at a nice beach bonfire.
The names are enigmatic to say the least. Lemon Line? What is a lemon line? Gold Intensitive Aoud - intensitive isn’t even a word. Chocolate Greedy - like, greedy for chocolate? But Black Noir might be the oddest of all.
Of course, Black Noir is just the same word in two different languages. Like rice pilaf, or chai tea. Already weird, but it gets a lot weirder after you spray it on: what you smell is such a bright sunny fresh fruity floral that you’ll think you sprayed the wrong decant.
Of course, the leather is there in the background, but the foreground is dominated by a “tiare” accord - which could really be any tropical flower; what I mostly get is some soft slightly powdery florals with a tropical fruity twist - think pineapples and coconuts and the ilk. It really has that sunscreen, beachy vibe which so wholly contradicts the name and note listing.
I was expecting a dark leather, oud, patchouli, and tobacco, maybe tempered with tonka and vanilla, but a fruity floral called “Black Noir” is just too much, and simultaneously exactly what I expect from Mancera. Who cares. Smells good, get it out there. Name? What name? Black Noir? Cool. By the way, zero oud or tobacco in here, if you were curious.
But it’s not a bad scent at all. I’d totally take this on a vacation to a tropical island. Wear it at night at a nice beach bonfire.
Hermesh
Dixieland88
