Once the air turns crisp Noir Extreme earns its spot as one of my favorite fall and winter scents. It opens deep and rich then melts into a dense amber gourmand as it dries down.
Scent Profile: Cardamom and kulfi are in the mix with amber and sandalwood underneath. The kulfi melts right into the amber and vanilla and gives the dry down a sweet and dense weight. It is a masculine scent. Projection starts out average and then tucks in close to the skin after a couple of hours. When I know I will be out for a while a travel atomizer comes along for touch ups. Date night is where it shines and it is fit for the office on cooler days too.
Bottle & Atomizer: The bottle and atomizer are mid. The plastic cap is light and never seats all the way so it swivels around. The atomizer is as basic as they come. Not much to love there.
Final Thoughts
That dense amber gourmand is what keeps this near the top of my cold weather rotation. The way it settles close to skin is easy to work around. The packaging is harder to forgive since it does not live up to what is inside. At the end of the day it is the juice that matters; and this juice is gas!
A tuxedo of a scent stuck in a bottle that showed up in sweatpants.
