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Charcoal 2016

7.4 / 10 74 Ratings
A limited perfume by Perfumer H for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is smoky-green. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky
Green
Woody
Spicy
Fresh

Fragrance Notes

GalbanumGalbanum Isobutyl quinolineIsobutyl quinoline Cade juniperCade juniper Persian elemiPersian elemi CedarwoodCedarwood Juniper woodJuniper wood Spanish cistus absoluteSpanish cistus absolute

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7.474 Ratings
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7.951 Ratings
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5.922 Ratings
Submitted by AmyAmy · last update on 12/02/2025.
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Unique day-to-day scent
Has this been reformulated? I remember this fragrance as a cold, smoky, ‘wet’, flower shop. There was a greyness to it. In my newest purchase the smokiness is less pleasant to me. It’s more like charcoal in a way, kind of dry. This (perceived) difference is especially pronounced in the opening, and separates the smokiness and the green notes that previously were more intertwined. The fragrance is more true to its name now, I suppose, but I can’t help but miss the scent of my old sample.

Regardless, the contrast of the green notes with the smoke is still interesting. I find it unique while remaining an inoffensive/safe wear in any public space. I feel like Lyn Harris creates gentle perfumes that are certainly beautiful and unique but also polite and mass-appealing. This is by no means a negative quality of the fragrance. If anything, it is one of Lyn Harris' specialties that few brands achieve. This fragrance, too, has received many compliments when worn out.
Updated on 12/02/2025
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Cozy subway scent
If you have that nostalgic feeling when you feel the air of subway you will like that smell.

Isobutyl Quinoline note in my opinion is quite resemble birch tar and super cozy.

In my childhood smell of charcoal is smell of spring. It also reming me scent of subway in Siberia and my long travel to university.

The opening may be too harsh and sharp for some flower-lovers, this is very industrial, mechanical but at the same time it's scent of human civilization, like it or not.
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Exciting Contrast
From a fragrance named "Charcoal," one expects the smoky notes of a campfire, and they are indeed present here, consistently and prominently. However, what makes this scent so special are the contrasting, almost airy green notes, which are as unexpected as they are beautiful, providing a bright and clean counterpoint to the dark and dirty notes. From the combination of the smoky and green notes emerges an intense and spicy, very beautiful juniper note, which I find to be quite dominant.

This fragrance, which I have briefly described here, has a much more emotional background, as Lyn Harris was inspired by happy times spent with her grandfather in Scotland, recalling scents from that time, such as chopped wood, hands smelling of gardening, clean, soap-scented skin, and pipe tobacco. This background information comes from a text from the exhibition "Perfume," which was on display at Somerset House in London in the summer of 2017, where "Charcoal" was one of the ten unusual contemporary fragrances presented. Other fragrance notes mentioned there, which are not included in the official listing, are galbanum, moss, elemi, angelica, Iso E Super, and musk.

"Charcoal" is not an ordinary everyday scent that you can wear anytime, but it is still not difficult to wear. The "baconiness" often perceived with smoky notes is also present here, especially at the beginning, but it gradually recedes into the background, making way for the exciting and unusual contrast of smoky and green that makes this fragrance so special.

My initial tests of other fragrances in the Perfumer H store in London (with very appealing and stylish interiors and exceedingly pleasant and friendly advice) suggest that many potential purchase candidates are waiting for me, so much beauty, if only the prices were a bit more moderate…
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2 years ago
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to me the most appealing of their smoky category. smoky/charred with some grayish texture that makes it wearable and not harsh.
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1 year ago
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I can't embrace a fragrance that actually lists a synthetic ingredient!
Acrid burnt rubber rather than cosy fireside embers here.
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Green eyes
Leather needles
Galbanum tears
In the coal bushes
That glow brightly in herbs
Coolly smoldering
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Touched by leather wings
In the morning mist over galbanum meadows
And rain-soaked juniper bushes
There's soot on my cheek
And on your lips
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CdG synthetic forest vibes with green-fresh resins & woods
pleasant smoky spice
Nothing groundbreaking or new
I don't need it
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Shadowy
phantoms
in the smoke
Bright resin trails
on dark bark
Scattered sunbeams
warm
the leathery green...
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Party at the grill spot on the meadow right by the edge of the woods. There’s gin. We’re sitting by the campfire. You’re playing guitar, we’re singing.
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Here we trudge through the morning mist
in cool green
of the juniper heath
fire extinguished
soot on our faces
party's over
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Wood smolders, smokes, and goes out.
It turns green, leathery, and more and more juniper
falls to the ground.
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Rough-dry
Patch & Vetiver give a slightly
earthy-dirty impression
Cool incense
Surprisingly bright overall
Despite dark notes
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