Chambre Noire 2011

Chambre Noire by Olfactive Studio
Bottle Design Camille Toupet
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7.7 / 10 445 Ratings
Chambre Noire is a popular perfume by Olfactive Studio for women and men and was released in 2011. The scent is leathery-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Leathery
Spicy
Woody
Smoky
Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
Pink pepperPink pepper
Heart Notes Heart Notes
PlumPlum FrankincenseFrankincense PapyrusPapyrus JasmineJasmine VioletViolet
Base Notes Base Notes
LeatherLeather PatchouliPatchouli SandalwoodSandalwood VanillaVanilla MuskMusk

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.7445 Ratings
Longevity
7.4344 Ratings
Sillage
6.6348 Ratings
Bottle
7.4307 Ratings
Value for money
7.246 Ratings
Submitted by Kankuro, last update on 17.04.2024.

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Minigolf

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Minigolf
Minigolf
Top Review 16  
Dusty parlors and magical chambers.
When I sometimes see films that play at the end of the 19th century, at the beginning of the 20th century, the furnishings of the rooms can often be seen.
High ceilings, windows with heavy curtains, dark, heavy furniture, thick on the parquet floor, carpets with fringes, whose patterns are taken up again by the wallpaper on the walls and continued.
Somewhere in the basement, a grandfather clock beats the hours. Everything is bathed in slightly diffuse light, and when the sun's rays penetrate the window panes, you can see dust particles dancing in them. First electric lighting does not want to illuminate the room completely in darkness, as if one fears to discover flaws in an object of interior. Or, even conceivably, as if you don't want the "heaviness" of the whole to appear too vivid and real, the lamps would shine brighter.
I imagine that there are scents in the air that are similar to the atmosphere of such spaces. Covered, slightly dusty, wood penetrations, velvety smoky, earth-coloured, leather penetrations, with hints of fruit and slightly melancholic.
A fragrance that "Chambre Noire" could definitely fulfill, so that the "picture" is also right.
Such rooms often included adjoining rooms, so-called small chambers, in which one kept all kinds of things that would otherwise spoil the impression of a tidy "good room". Broom rooms, where cleaning things were stored, clothes rooms, where clothes were hung, which were not used so often during the season, pantries, where fruit, flour and all kinds of other things were stored for food preparation.
And who knows how many other chambers for various purposes.
But many had one thing in common: Often they were "magically" attractive, because the view inside was hidden by locked doors, and often "uncanny" because one was convinced that there was "lurking" something in them when they were opened or entered without permission.
Also there I suspect smells which complemented those of the parlours.
After several spices, if it was a pantry, after the leather of the coats and shoes that hung inside.
Sometimes after "cellar" when their usefulness served different purposes. and.... and-- and...everything was full of subtle secrets, full of slightly dusty magic, memories of generations who lived there over time.
And many scents, which were also intricate, manifold and mysterious.......
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Schindlady

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Schindlady
Schindlady
Helpful Review 11  
This scent of subway and basement
Actually, this scent was just an add-on. I thought, I'm a girl, so of course you try fresh and sweet scents. Well what can I say, through Chambre Noire I got to know myself much better. That smell of seriousness and depth, totally captivated me. I was constantly thinking why I was so attracted to this kind of scent. Now I was in my old home Berlin for a week. 30 years ago I had to leave the city as a child, the city where I always rode the subway alone. I actually don't have necessarily good memories of that time in the underground. But not traumatic ones either...Anyway, I entered the first subway and bäähm....there it was again. the smell. Don't get me wrong, it's not meant to remind you of dirty and pissy platforms. I love that smell: cellar-earthy-woody. A scent that still makes me feel incredibly feminine but deep and reliable, just like the train! Through this fragrance, the opinion of others has become rather unimportant to me. I feel personally so addressed by Chambre Noire, I know that no one can understand so and that is also completely okay. The compliments makes me the fragrance alone, no other person
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KianJafari

12 Reviews
KianJafari
KianJafari
Helpful Review 3  
dusty-sour- leather
Beside Ombre, Chambre Noire is my favorite reference of Olfactive studio house. The first impression of this perfume is undeniable, where it introduces a very unique scent. However, after minutes pass a way, the perfume becomes a very ordinary one showing no vessel of that great opening.
The perfume opens in a dark spicy-leathery atmosphere reminding an old room, furnished by unique and leathery sofas, woody beds, and crowded book shelves. Unlike many perfumes, the most interesting part of this perfume is the head, where the accord made by papyrus, leather, pepper, leather, and patchouli is so fascinating and mysterious. But, I couldn't find any bold strengths in the heart and the base of the perfume that not only is counted as a niche scent but also does smell very typical like designers perfumes. The perfume has got no good sillage or longevity, is upper medium in it's scent though. However, in wet and humid weather the perfumes shows a complete different characteristic representing a very nice smell in heart and base with a notable longevity.
I tested it in a humid weather where i fell in love with this perfume, but when i came back to my own country and city, which is dry I got another result. So, I highly recommend trying this perfume in places full of humidity where the leathery notes could be expressed in a more dominating way.
As a compliment, I love the vanilla used in this perfume which plays an indispensable role in balancing the scent.
To me Chambre is counted as a respectable dusty-sour- leather showing lesser longevity than most of the leathery based niche perfumes.
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MrFloral

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MrFloral
MrFloral
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Passable disharmony
The "inbetween the sheets" fragrance is not at all as wicked as it is touted.

It starts with a note that is described by others as "plum brandy" /alcoholic. I would rather say that the slight disharmony between violet/jasmine and incense comes into play here.

So really alcoholic or after a drunken night smells here nothing. I assume the disharmony to be a stylistic device.

Pepper & incense are dominandt and scratch something. As soon as it goes towards the base, the fragrance becomes softer and so really pleasant. Gentle leather combines with equally gentle smoke and is subtly sweetened with vanilla & patch.

This is not a people pleaser. Still, if I LIKE feeling good, I can definitely wear this fragrance daily. Chambre Noir is perceptible but not too expansive, and eventually wraps itself around me like a man's cuddly blanket.

Sure, there are better made scents that smell like more "quality" or come across as less discordant. I'm usually put off by leather in the base. but then this one appeals.

The performance is ok but not outstanding. I guess times so 6h well noticeable, close to the body. In the clothes a little longer but also only discreet and not as expansive as other fragrances the next day.

That was my first "incense" test and I was triggered to go poaching in the area further :)
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Seerose

96 Reviews
Seerose
Seerose
Helpful Review 2  
Black liquorice?
To assess this modern scent I consider as very difficult. Though I will try. When I had sprayed it on my wrists tonight my husband complained because of the strong sillage. Which confuses me anyhow. Because he never did before with any parfume I wore. And actually I try a lot. I tried this parfum the first time some weeks ago. As I have noticed I had ment that I did not like it really. And what happened while wearing the Chambre Noire the first time is happening exactly again now.
Usually I am ready to write a review if I imagine a story, an idea, a season, a landscape, a dream.... Or if I have an association. But this scent is so strong for me I only smell and taste it and this is keeping me busy. There is no dark or black room in my mind. There is nothing mysteriously arising in my fantasy. I can't discover any intrinsic secret of this fragance. So I can only write what I am smelling and tasting:
There is something between medicine and mellow, better more fermented fruits. Of course the plums are causing this. Leather is fighting with the soft violet. Insence is fighting with jasmine. Indeed this is a battle of fragrances. The plums already are a little bit smashed and sticky. While the ingredients are fighting they are going to get clinged together in a crumbled peace of black liquorice. But one time again all fragrances are going to win space separately. They are all a little bit exhausted then. And after a little while they are going to start again the battle. Pepper has totally vanished from the battle field meanwhile. Sandal, musk, patchouly, vanilla are fighting brave and constantly one time with the violett-leather-party, then again with the insence-jasmine-party and revers. The plums are glueing now in sticky peaces on every ingredients. Cruelty anyhow, isn'it? But they are only plums, so what? Which will be the winners? No one! At least there is left at the battle field - my skin - a lonely piece of chewing-tobacco with vannilla-plum-flavour. I am afraid I have to take a shower again.
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LillibetLillibet 6 years ago
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Imagine the smell of a vintage leather suitcase, a cool resinous amber & wood base and a touch of incense. Wear it on a cool autumn day.
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