Black Sugar

My third Aquolina fragrance and I'm not disappointed. First experience was Gold sugar.A whipped cream,lemon vanilla cake fluff in a bottle.It's like lying down on the softest sponge cake ever with a white mildly sweet frosting. Second,was the queen.Pink sugar.A cotton candy,caramel and vanilla bomb. And now,this.The smoky,the sweet,the mysterious Black sugar. Black sugar reminds me so much of Halawa/Halva/Tahini fudge.If you're not familiar with it,it's an arabian dessert.It smells like when eating that.The oud gives it that woodiness on paper but on my skin,smells almost nutty!It's like white chocolate.Rittersports White chocolate with the hazelnuts.Its so delicious! Yes,it does have the Pink Sugar DNA but on the dry down on my skin,it's not Pink Sugar at all!It's berry,woody-hazelnutty and vanilla! I'm lucky enough to have the skin chemistry that doesn't make it smell like pink sugar on the dry down after a couple of hours of wear. To me,it's a different scent on the dry down from it's mother. Spray it on clothes,then it'll be a different story.If you do spray it on clothes,expect the dry down to smell like pink sugar hours after.I've tested it and it does smell like PS.So I do recommend testing it on your skin and see how it develops. Fair warning that you do get the burning tire smell on the initial blast and during the couple of minutes it resting on your skin.You have to have the proper skin for oud or leather to blend in well within your chemistry.I smelt oud on some people back then and it smells like sneeze.I smelt leather and if it blends within your skin,it'll smell so damn sexy.I acquired a bottle of Carner Barcelona Cuirs and it smells like piss on my skin. But this one.The leather,the oud,the vanilla with a hint of raspberry all plays along well together like a well written symphony that had a bad start. Having this is the only time I got to smell that "burning smell" that they say they get from Pink sugar.Smells like its gonna be a fucked up caramel but then..Tada!It ain't. Black Sugar is a bad-ass all dark clothing but with a cute demeanor type of person. I'm really surprised how most of Aquolina's fragrances work well with my skin chemistry.I'll try the Steel Sugar or the Simply Pink next time! Edit:This is such a long lasting scent!I've already toned my skin with micellar water and I can still smell fuming a nice soft sweet cloud around me.I've sprayed this 7 AM before I went to school,have walked 2km back home,toned my face and neck(Too lazy to wash my face the moment I got home) and now it'a 9 PM and it still lingers. I've grew fond of Black Sugar.It's just so wonderful.I know it's risky to wear such heavy fragrance under the heavy heat and certain times when it's humid.I just love it.It unfolds beautifully on my skin.

Black Sugar is a get together of the notes I usually try to avoid: incense, oud and leather. but strangely I really like this one. there's a dark, dry, smokey woody note very dominant in it but it's nothing like the usual oud note in other perfumes which I hate. this is all I smell here: the mentioned dark, dry, smokey woody note+leather which feels like burnt rubber sometimes+vanilla and Pink Sugar's burnt sugar/cotton candy DNA which I love. you might think such a mixture might smell awful but it doesn't. it smells interesting and addictive! Black Sugar is like a more grownup, darker, unisex version of Pink Sugar. I hope they bring it back because it's very unique. what makes this special is the blend of Pink Sugar's DNA with the more masculine notes so no other perfume can smell really similar. this isn't something I wear occasionally but I sometimes crave it specially in really cold weather and I'm so glad that I have it in my collection. they really need to bring this one and Chocolovers back. BTW I could pink up more raspberry, burnt suger thing six years ago when I first bought it but now I can pickup less sweetness. maybe my chemistry has changed or maybe it's because my Black Sugar is aged.anyways I still like it a lot.it also has impressive longevity and sillage. twelve hours after spraying a puff on my wrist, I can smell a dark, smokey vanilla which is to die for. یه نت چوبی، خشک، تیره و کمی دودی اینجا هست ولی شبیه عود تو عطرهای دیگه نیست(من از عود تو اکثر عطرها متنفرم). واسه من بلک شوگر ترکیب اون نت چوبی و غالب و تیره و کمی دودیه با بوی چرم که گاهی اوقات در ترکیب با رایحه دودیه عطر،یادآور بوی لاستیک سوخته ست+وانیل و بوی شکر سوخته/پشمک(ژن جذاب پینک شوگر). شاید فک کنید ترکیب اینا باید چیز افتضاحی بشه اما نیست. خیلی باحاله و یجورایی اعتیادآوره. واسه من یادآور دخترای بایکره طرفدار سبک گوتیکه. یه دختر بایکر رو تصور کنید که یه عطر شیرین و پشمکی زده، ترکیب بوی عطرش با بوی سیگارش و کاپشن چرم سیاه و لاستیک موتورش فضای بلک شوگر رو تداعی میکنه امیدوارم این عطر رو برگردونن(هم این و هم چوکولاورز رو) و امیدوارم هم این هم کل عطرهای این برند تو ایران هم موجود شه. بلک شوگر عطر خاص و جالبیه،رایحش فراموش نشدنیه و هیچ عطری کاملا شبیهش نیست.ضمنا بنظر من یونیسکسه و میشه همراه با خیلی از عطرهای دیگه استفادش کرد. دقیقا همین رایحه رو اگه یه تولیدکننده نیش داده بود بیرون احتمالا خیلی پرطرفدارتر میشد. موندگاری و پخش بوی خیلی خوبی هم داره. دوازده ساعت بعد از اینکه یه پاف رو دستم اسپری کردم کماکان میشه یه رایحه وانیلی-دودی تیره و محشر ازش حس کرد

After my other successful aquolina blindbuys(pink sugar,gold sugar,blue sugar)I went for this one and ordered it from a foreign website and after two months of waiting,finally received it three days ago. it looked like a very risky blindbuy.I hate,hate,and HATE oud.leather is a risky note for me.I love it when paired with something sweet and something powdery,in other cases I dislike it.I usually dislike incense too When I first sprayed it I was shocked.my man commented immediately(he usually waits for me to ask him):OMG!what a disgusting,heavy,dirty scent!please have mercy and never wear it again! I could smell pink sugar's raspberry cotton candy gene somewhere burried beneath loads of dark,bitter,dirtyish notes(probably oud?!) I didn't give up on it.I can still remember how much I was shocked when I first tried pink sugar and then I started to adore it.I also remember blue sugar was on top of my dislike list for a while and I felt sick when I first tried it Well,I was right.same thing happened here but fortunately it didn't take too much time like my experience with blue sugar.after three days of full wear,I still don't like black sugar's opening but it soon calms down to a divine drydown.it's too good to be true.I can sometimes detect a hint of fruity,burnt sugar thing of pink sugar but it's mostly pure vanilla heaven with a slight Smokey undertone and a touch of leather,good leather.for me good leather is like leather in Armani code cashmere or Dior homme family.bad leather is leather in shalimar or any other animalic,intense version of leather.I can sometimes smell something like burnt plastic but actually it's not bad.for me black sugar is a dark vanilla-sugar scent or a gourmand with a dark undertone.a sexy pretty cheek in a black leather jacket,smoking cigarette and I prefer it to it's sister,a pretty girly cheek in a short,pink skirt It's still a modern scent.a gourmand,just a bit more mature than pink sugar All in all I'm very very happy to have it.it worthes two months of waiting.it's cheap,has a gorgeous bottle and very good longevity.sillage is huge when first sprayed but it soon calms down to something easily recognizable for others but not overpowering I will definitely repurchase if I see it around.now I've learned not to spray it near hubby.I spray it in my room and wait for ten minutes.then I receive comments such as you smell sexy and yummy ❤❤❤❤❤

I’m wearing Aquolina Black Sugar (from my wardrobe) tonight. It smells exactly like burnt marshmallows and black licorice being run over by a car’s rubber tires that are peeling out over hot asphalt. I quite enjoy this one and so does my BF. I am only on the fence about it because it is so sugary. I do prefer the opening to the drydown because it is more burnt smelling, and granular, if that makes sense. It mellows out some in the drydown. The closest comparison in the reminds-me-of’s above is MFK Oud; but the only thing they have in common is the type of oud, perhaps, and a touch of sweetness to the MFK, but there is no burnt quality in MFK Oud at all, no granular sugar, much less sweetness, and there is a bright almost slightly citrus-y quality in it. They are only similar in the drydown, but the similarity is remote. MFK Oud is a fairly linear nice quality smoothly blended oud/patchouli scent, and Black Sugar is more rough. I understand the Bvlgari Black comparison, I suppose, due to the shared rubber tire note and the vanilla, but it lacks the oud, the burnt quality, and the granular sugar, and it is far, far smoother than Black Sugar. If the Bvlgari is different, VCA Midnight in Paris is even further removed and has very little in common with this scent, as that is yet smoother than Bvlgari Black. Mancera Aoud Vanille Is also far smoother than Black Sugar, with more vanilla, and has that Montale/Mancera cola/peppery synthetic dna with a more masculine quality. The only real things it has in common are that the Mancera has some oud and vanilla. But the oud is different and the scent is very different overall.

A comment to hithorys' and Lady Rain's review. The word rubber has by no means be 'misused'. If rubber (burnt or otherwise) is the impression that reviewers have, then it is unreasonable to argue with their subjective perception of that particular note. Reading your review (hithorys) I assume that you do not smell the burnt rubber note, but it does not negate the fact that others do. It just shows that we all perceive scents differently and one cannot be sure to get the same impression of a scent that others do. Writing a review can be helpful to others in a broader sense but it is still a highly individual affair that can be used by others as a guide only. In the end your own nose does what it wants and will translate a scent to you the way it chooses to, regardless of how much you would like to command it otherwise. In that sense we are at the mercy of our noses and are not to blame for any differences in 'translation'. As to Lady Rain's review, I don't think that "the opening smells like burning wood, which is oud" (despite how true that is) would necessarily elicit more courage by some to try the scent than 'burnt rubber' would. I perceive burnt rubber mixed with oud myself in the opening blast and after a few minutes the rubber disappears. I love this scent. So, that tells me that I like oud, and again, if reviewers have the impression of rubber (burnt or otherwise) in the opening than that is probably how their noses translate burning wood (oud) to them (at least on initial spray) and that needs to be respected.