Black Tar by Parfumerie Particulière
Bottle Design Francesco Passaniti, Waltersperger
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8.0 / 10 139 Ratings
A popular perfume by Parfumerie Particulière for women and men. The release year is unknown. The scent is smoky-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky
Spicy
Woody
Resinous
Floral

Fragrance Notes

Canary Islands juniperCanary Islands juniper Indian tuberoseIndian tuberose LabdanumLabdanum ConcreteConcrete Indonesian patchouliIndonesian patchouli CloveClove Gaiac woodGaiac wood MossMoss VetiverVetiver AmberwoodAmberwood

Perfumers

Ratings
Scent
8.0139 Ratings
Longevity
8.3125 Ratings
Sillage
7.7128 Ratings
Bottle
8.5106 Ratings
Value for money
6.549 Ratings
Submitted by Calista, last update on 08/26/2024.

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Statements

4 short views on the fragrance
DarkWinterCSDarkWinterCS 2 years ago
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Spinning wheels
Smoking tyres
Burnt rubber
Pieces of asphalt flying
Burnout runs hot
Ethereal, earthy
Drinking gin
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Dan93Dan93 2 years ago
9
Bottle
9
Sillage
9
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Strong, but medical scent. It leaves a thin brown layer on your skin! Very deep scent with a more medical turn on my skin. Difficult.
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BoBoChampBoBoChamp 4 years ago
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
7.5
Scent
Initially pungent and (rubbery) synthetic-spicy, this smoky floral-leathery fragrance settles to a gentle earthy-woody base. Challenging!
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AquamonzaAquamonza 6 years ago
8
Bottle
8
Sillage
8
Longevity
9
Scent
a true black beauty, which is not just overwhelming birch tar (as so often in this kind of scents) but resinous, black sparkling woods
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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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10
Scent
BobbyGee

221 Reviews
BobbyGee
BobbyGee
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Parfumerie Particulière / Black Tar
Well ... I don't know if the name was meant to refer to heroin, because in common parlance black tar is a black tar version of heroin. More on this type of opioid drug later. Let's focus on the smell.

PART 1
Personally, I perceive this smell as strangely narcotic - I like it and want to smell it and it makes me want to look for similarities and find notes ... some I found, some I guessed, some - I have no idea.
Certainly there are notes of juniper, wood, a strange perception of the artificial smell of rubber (including a light smoke of burnt rubber, maybe patchouli combined with synthetics - I don't know) and tuberose in the background. It is great here and in my opinion it is the backbone of this perfume, but the skeleton is very subdued - it stays in the background all the time. The addition of this note, in my opinion, breaks the dark undertone of the whole fragrance, adding a hint of 'feminine element', including narcoticism, mystery, light veiled sweetness and strange metallicity.
I have had a deep impression of this perfume from the moment I got to know it and knew that I would like to have it. Aha- durability at a good level, as well as intensity. The fragrance attracted attention and curiosity - 'what is it?'

PART 2
Black Tar is black tar heroin - a specific type of heroin.
It looks much different than the regular powdered form which is usually white or brown in color. All forms of heroin are derived from morphine, a powerful opioid pain reliever. Black tar heroin is a dark, rock-like form of heroin. It is easy to distinguish heroin in powder form from black tar, even for the untrained eye, as black tar takes its name from its similarity to roofing tar and is produced after the refining process step.
Black Tar is often produced in Mexico and sold in areas west of the Mississippi River. Some South American and Asian countries are also known for their exports. Due to the large supply of Mexican black tar, heroin is common in the western United States, such as Los Angeles.
Like using powdered heroin, black tar use can lead to serious physical and psychological problems, including substance use disorders.
People who use black tar heroin usually smoke or inject it after the drug has been dissolved and diluted. In most cases, it is injected into the veins, muscles, or under the skin. But it can be heated on foil over an open fire and inhaled through a straw or similar device. Black Tar can also be mixed with hot water and sprayed into the nose.

PART 3
Description from the website translated:
'MEXICO, hours. 22:00 / EXT: NIGHT
The smell of danger on every street corner reminds us that nobody is the master of their emotions.

Follow the asphalt, Iztapalapa, dead end. And a beautiful and mysterious woman, forbidden lust ...

In a whispered roar, he utters the words: Black tar.
Poisons come in many forms, but these can remain even as they turn pale and paler. '

Whether the smell was supposed to resemble the smell of this form of stimulant - I do not know. But I know that I like it narcotic.
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8
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7
Sillage
8
Longevity
9
Scent
Floyd

316 Reviews
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Floyd
Floyd
Top Review 44  
In the rush of the road
I must have gotten under that tar machine somehow. The black mass flows sluggishly, closes me in on itself, the tar sweats ruggedly and heavily, swaths of warm grey smoke, but a moment ago I was lying here in a clearing. Now it's all asphalt and ashes, in the rush of the road I drift in the tar, I dive deeper and deeper, until I think I notice a carnation, which still defies the stewing cobbler, and now and then a few notes of leather, as my jacket decomposes.
Then I believe my head under the asphalt, the smouldering seems to make nature, the flowers, trees and grasses shine fruity bright in the tar, as if the concrete makes them shine, tuberose, cedar and vetiver. With my arms attached to my torso, the asphalt slowly pushes me forward, hour after hour a few centimetres mixing with the remains of the forest. There is guaiac wood after a while, skull splits the trunk into splinters, swims scorched milk in the fire of the concrete, red glow'n poor smoking knights.
Hours later the hub seems to be reached, grasses sharpen the smoke bright green, before the undertone becomes warmer and softer as mosses scorch. Now I dream of tuberoses made of ash and amber woods, beguiling flowers with sweetish vanilla wood cream like incense sticks, mixing Nag Champa like patchouli, blurring the frenzy of the road to memory.
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Black Tar is a smoker with unusual development. What Frau Holle has already hinted at in her commentary, namely that all these natural scents resonate in this initial wall of tar, is, when you smell it carefully, a varied iridescence from spicy-leathery to resinous-fruity, burnt milk, green-mossy and finally flowery-woody. All this is broken through the glasses of the smoking tar, creating the scent impressions described above in the text. Incidentally, smoked ham is never a suitable association for me at any time. Black Tar stays for about six to eight hours, projects moderately to skin-tight and is never obtrusive even at warmer temperatures, rather refreshingly grainy than tar-like paste-like. It is definitely special among smoke scents.
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9
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8
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8
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8.5
Scent
Medianus76

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Medianus76
Medianus76
Top Review 27  
Solar eclipse
Silence. There is an extraordinary atmosphere in the air. It's crackling! Like a black band of tar, the shadow path slowly moves into our field of vision, while the moon successively covers the sun more and more.
The birds fall silent, the flowers close their goblets and the light refracts magically and mysteriously on the horizon. A surreal world opens up, strange and fascinating at the same time...

What a monumental event! There is probably nothing comparable and no event that triggers "a cold shiver runs down my spine" more than the cosmic natural spectacle of a total solar eclipse. Graceful and majestic! Who was allowed to or could follow the total eclipse at the end of the last millennium, can surely follow my thoughts.
It's the 11.8.1999, and I'm in Hungary at the Solipse Festival. The festival area is located exactly on the narrow strip of the complete solar eclipse, and we have a cloudless sky - clear view to the upcoming spectacle...

Black Tar is now one of those impressive olfactory creations that can be compared to the power and sustainability of a Full Solar Eclipse.
The deep black, smoky-tarry structure can be seen from the very first moment when the olfactory receptors are wetted with the molecules. Unconditionally and unstoppably, the direction of travel is explained. An intensely spicy, but also dry sandy aura darkens the horizon, just as the moon is constantly moving in front of the sun during the eclipse.
The whole thing is accompanied by a medically antiseptic undertone. A slightly bitter facet flanks the perception, similar to the smell in e.g. an old pharmacy. The reference to ointments already mentioned here also fits very well. Combined with juniper, this combination results in an extremely successful prelude. Fantastic!

When the scent has spread like a cloak in the further course of time, this beautiful, slightly sweet projection is added. Beguilingly floral and honey-like, latent and completely hidden, the tuberose joins the spectacle. The moment of complete darkness arises...
But a small corona of light remains - the corona. It fits to the current events, but in this case it stands for sweetish and woody warmth, respectively olfactorically
Black Tar actually feels like an eclipse to me...

Mysterious and magical
dark and gloomy
bright and radiant

I think the portability is excellent. BT is never intrusive or annoying, and although its ingredients are powerful, it always generates a pleasant aura and sillage. I find the durability remarkable, and even hours later the scent is still quite passably perceptible.
For me Black Tar is another milestone on my olfactory journey of discovery. I can only recommend this fragrance to anyone who has access to such scents.
Last but not least, the bottle is also a feast for the eyes, which in my opinion would look very well with the symbol of a Solar Eclipse...

I look behind the center,
In the shadows of your past,
So I recognize light, glistening light,
Which vanquishes the darkness...

I dedicate these lines and this commentary to my oldest son. He is 14 years old today!
Congratulations, my great one, and may the sun always shine for you...

Thank you for reading it and I'll be glad to read it
19 Comments
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FrauHolle

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FrauHolle
FrauHolle
Helpful Review 22  
LAY IT DOWN!
So, or something similar, not only Parfumerie Practiculär, but certainly also the road builders think that forest, field and meadows should have no place in this our country, and must be layered with what they currently have there: Tar, tar, tar!

What the fuck are you doing? Flower meadows. Childish! Smell much too good and only gives you stress with all the bees, beekeepers wouldn't be able to buy more pipe tobacco afterwards. TEER!

Coniferous forests! Just prick it! Looks pretty, but all the resin everywhere, you can't get off the soles and clothes and just prick badly, I had already said. TEER!

Wood. Do you know how dangerous driving a car between trees can be? Megastressig to pay attention to each individual trunk when one is on the move with 220 things on: TEER!

And yet, this tar quiver seems to have buttered all this biomass in it (why not crimp it red) well,

at least this is the best natural eco-tar there is.
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9
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9
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9
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10
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Gschpusi

76 Reviews
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Gschpusi
Gschpusi
Top Review 2  
At night
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At night comes the time I love, the time I want.
Then I'm ready and it gets quiet inside me Fantastic I am, want out of this world it's the dreaming that keeps me alive I flee from myself in a wild run,
God Hypnos always catches me comfortingly My dreams shimmer in colourful splendour
and pass away silently in a silent dance.
Many a dream consists of delicate veils,
he whispers and blows into the wide space,
he can be like a feather cloud,
I reach for it, want to be one with him Often I am united with mythical creatures
and places I've never been,
then I feel a happiness like I never do during the day
and hum a cheering melody.
Then I float redeemed over hill and dale,
then I don't care about everyday grief,
then I'm going on a colored journey ...I listen to the old sages When I dream, I experience gentle falling.
The pilot's dream is the most beautiful of all.
When I dream, I look down into the valley,
then the moon shines between clouds so pale,
then resolves on the everyday quarrel,
then I'm ready to forget.
I also dream of love, the bright light but I can't take my dreams with me into the light, into the coming day,
as much as I would like it to be .
Black Tar is so dark and light at the same time. Smoky cedar and earthy patch. Mystical balm, smoky and thick. From dark black glowing to light black and soft. Tuberose in its purest, closed form. Surrounded by smoke and darkness and yet so bright. Creepily dark and like a small, soft lantern on a stick. Cold cedar, slightly green-bitter and soft. Black Tar is like a fragrance converter. Always different and always exciting. Always dark and light at the same time.
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Thank you Floyd - thank you for this Dudter experience!
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