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Black Heart V.2 Map of the Heart 2014

7.2 / 10 51 Ratings

A perfume by Map of the Heart for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is smoky-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Citrus

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Eucalyptus

Brazilian orange

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Cardamom

Black pepper

Cinnamon

Base Notes

Woods

Australian sandalwood

Perfumer

Jacques Huclier

Ratings

Scent

7.251 Ratings

Longevity

7.538 Ratings

Sillage

6.838 Ratings

Bottle

6.449 Ratings

Value for money

6.611 Ratings

Submitted by Franfan20, last update on 06/28/2025.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Bois d'Ascèse

Baptême du Feu

Burning Barbershop

Reviews

2 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/20/2025

7
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Raluko111
391 Reviews

Raluko111

2

Like Black from Bulgari

I get the feeling that whoever's been designing for Map of the Heart is like the fairy godmother who got wind of the many complaints about discontinued 90's perfumes and said to herself "What if.....!" A lot of Map of the Heart scents seem to be bringing back that decade: Gold Heart V.4 is 90% Le Feu d'Issey , and Black Heart V.2 is trying to recreate Black from Bulgari.

I even like the naughty motto: "an impolite mix of opposites." Impolite and unapologetic: the eucalyptus, pepper and cardamom grab you by the nose, shake their finger in your face and do a bunch of lip smacking. Black Heart smells like a gang of hot biker babes made their way through the city and parked right in front of your terrace, all burnt asphalt and tires. When it starts to settle, it softens and becomes more approachable. The warmth of the incense brings peace and harmonizes with the spices. If the opening is all punk and rock'n roll, the evolution is pleasant and feminine.
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Am impresia că parfumierul care creează pentru Map of the Heart e ca zâna cea bună care a auzit dorințele celor care au deplâns întreruperea multor parfumuri din anii '90, și a zis "Ce-ar fi să..." Gold Heart V.4 se aseamănă 90% cu Le Feu d'Issey, și Black Heart (sau Heart of Darkness V.2, in denumirea mai recentă) încearcă să recreeze Black de la Bulgari. Si sincer, nu dă greș cu nici unul din ele.

Imi place și reclama obrăznicuță: "an impolite mix of opposites." Da, nepoliticos și nici măcar nu pare să vrea să-și ceara scuze: eucaliptul, piperul și cardamomul te ciupesc de nas, te arată cu degetul și te batjocoresc. Miroase ca și cum un gang de motocicliste au nimerit in oraș și au parcat chiar in fața terasei tale, tot un miros de asfalt ars de cauciucuri care au frânat brusc. Dar când începe să se așeze devine mai drăguț și mai abordabil. Căldura tămaiei aduce pace și creează armonie intre mirodenii și citrice, și începi nu să te obișnuiești cu Black Heart, dar chiar să agreezi cu ea. Dacă deschiderea este all punk and rock'n roll, evoluția este feminină și plăcută, ca și cum când dai jos geaca de motociclistă, pe dedesubt porți o rochie de vară decoltată.

12/22/2018

2
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Anarlan
21 Reviews

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Anarlan

Top Review 10

Darkness suitable for everyday use

If only I'd gone after the bottle, the scent would have ended up in the Halloween party decoration box. And didn't get out of there so fast. Even the first fleeting test made me put the scent down in a certain corner and let it tick off in my mind as "OK, but no revelation": sweet, leathery, spicy smoke, with sanded edges, also wearable during the day and bearable for the environment.
So seen nothing unheard of.
But at the second more intensive sniffing I was still impressed by the black heart because of the meeting of different nuances and the ambivalent darkness of the scent.
The general smell impression is at first quite dark, but in a warm, pleasant way. As if you were near a smouldering, smoking, burnt down fire.
With a short, herb-citric opening, which serves a few strong golden orange splashes, a certain spicy sweetness is intoned, which runs through the further course of the fragrance as a basic theme and is picked up and modified by further fragrance components.
After a few minutes, however, it begins to dawn that you are not sitting drinking lemonade at the boy scout campfire, but that perhaps something more disturbing might have just happened at this fire. Responsible for this is what I perceived in the first impression as a brandy, leather-like, rubberized smell, which determines the rather gloomy basic theme of the fragrance. However, this turns out to be a smoky, peppery-cinnamon spice roar when the smell is concentrated.
The pepper-cinnamon mix reminds me of chewing gum from my childhood in its spicy, sweetish spiciness, Big Red was the name of the stuff. It blew my sinuses free in an addictive way when I was a kid. Here this mixture provides an authentic scratching in the throat, just like breathing in hot smoke. A menthol-like sharpness, which I attribute to the eucalyptus, but which I am not able to filter out as a fragrance component, keeps the smoke-fire theme upright in the further course.
The fragrance is dominated by this dark, smoky impression and is accompanied by spicy, almost floral sweetness. The wrong word would be contrasted here, since the two seemingly opposing characteristics are combined in an attractive way. The spicy-sweet side is initially intoned by orange aromas, finally taken over by the cinnamon, and finally finished off in bizzing sandalwood with a hint of braised gum. The scent looks as if dried blossoms, spices, aromatic woods, fruits (and a small shred of old car tires) have been sacrificed to the fire, which reinforces the impression of a strange rite one attends.
It combines various elements such as citric, smoke, spicy pungency and almost sweet floral to an attractive, warm and yet somewhat disturbing blend.
Darkness, irritatingly suitable for everyday use.

I would like to thank Kovex for the rehearsal.