Dominance Gold Pumpkin Noir Superz. 2026

The opening is pure sweetness with candied pumpkin leading the way. Once it settles on skin that sweetness calms down and a soft smoke slips in. That is where the orchard feeling shows up. Your clothes tell a different story though because they hold onto the sweet seasonal store smell from the opening. I get a really good balance of masculine and feminine from it so I call it very unisex. Four to five sprays gets me seven to eight hours of longevity.

Bottle & Atomizer

The bottle and box are pure Halloween from the second you pick them up and I mean that as high praise. The design is amazing and it sets the mood before you ever spray. The pressurized atomizer is top notch as well.

Final Thoughts

Strong performance and a fun presentation make this an easy one to enjoy. It is a fall fragrance through and through and I do not see myself wearing it much in other seasons. That is just worth knowing before you buy. I would call it a safe blind buy if you like sweet seasonal scents. The opening is sweet and easy to read and the smoke stays soft once it settles on skin.

Pumpkin Noir is Halloween in a bottle, all sweets on top with a little smoke hiding at the bottom, and it only wants to come out when the leaves do.

Leaning masculine IMO and the notes I can smell are saffron, a little bit of smoke, woody notes and patchouli. Where’s the pumpkin, the apple pie, the creme brulee? Smells like something Dior would come out for men. Still a good fragrance but really not what I expected AT ALL. I really wanted to smell those sweet Halloween notes…

For me, the fragrance starts off very powdery, warm and mandarin-like. A light apple and "cookie" note come through later.
Saffron and cinnamon also come through nicely as it develops.

What I somehow miss is the pumpkin.
I imagined a pumpkin caramelized in sugar on a stick. Like an apple you would find at a fair. There is definitely something in that direction, but I can't say for sure whether it is "pumpkin".

All in all, it is definitely a really beautiful fragrance. It isn't as intensely gourmand as you might probably expect. Nevertheless, it is still strongly gourmand-leaning. Just not as strong as you would expect from the notes :D