Sucre Noir

For me Sucre Noir is TOP tier. If you love sugar or vanilla and especially them together, you have to get your hands on this. This definitely smells more like sugar than vanilla though. The orchid here plays a bit of a waxy vibe which smells like sugar that is sticky and warmed up. Imagine you pouring sugar from a sugar bag into a sugar bowl and the powder residue from the sugar engulfs your face. I seriously cannot get enough of this. It’s linear which is so perfect because I wanted just a straight through and through sugar scent. I find it lasts awhile on clothing however it dissipates quickly on skin. Sucre Noir radiates more in the warmer temperatures however it’s more suitable in the cooler temperatures since the sweetness can get a bit cloying which I don’t mind at all🤭. I wore Sucre Noir during a night out and I had few men ask me what fragrance I was wearing and the comments I received were funny. As if they have never smelt anything like this and they were in absolute awe 🤭. I have three bottles (that’s how much I love this fragrance) from different batches and the newer batch is not as strong as the older batch so just let the juice marinate a bit and it will come to life. Honestly I think it’s blind buy worthy if you love Mazzolari Vaniglia, St. Barths Vanille West Indies, Ahwaz Helwa or Outremer Vanille. Gimme all the sugar! 3 backup bottles approved!

I love this fragrance so much, that I struggled to find the right thing to say. This is, like Penguin said, a Holy Grail vanilla scent. I am a gourmand lover, and I've participated in all of the vanilla themed weeks called Vanillapalooza. I've worn vanillas since I was little, and it's one of my favorite notes. I feel like I "know" vanillas and let me tell you that this one sweeps me off my feet. The notes sound simple, but the effect is deep and decadent, thick and rich. I wore it as my "date" perfume last night. I am really beginning to like this guy and I wanted something super feminine that stood out. I wanted something simple and comforting, but also beautiful and inviting. This was absolutely perfect!! It's the kind of perfume that says, "I'm all woman. I'm warm, soft, strong, beautiful and sexy as hell." This perfume turns heads, but most importantly, made my date keep sniffing my wrists again and again saying, "Wow, that smells amazing!" This is thicker and richer than VC&A Orchidee Vanille, deeper and more vanillafied than I Profumi di Firenze Vaniglia de Madagascar, and sweeter than Indult Tihota. It has the same silage and sweetness as Profumum Roma Acqua et Zucchero. It's similar in feel to Il Profumo Vanille Bourbon, but with an orchid and floral vanilla bean rather than the bourbon vanilla beans in Vanille Bourbon.

I often use whole vanilla beans in my baking and candy making. After scrapping the "caviar" out of the pod I toss the left over in a mason jar of sugar. This perfume smells exactly like my jar of vanilla infused sugar. This is excellent quality juice, longevity is great and the sillage is wonderful. The comments from other people standing around me are priceless. Everybody thinks someone is cooking, they never assume it is a perfume. Also, you can't over spray. The other day I was in a little pain and went nuts, spritzing myself like 10 times with this juice (I didn't leave my house that day). It didn't smell weird like some perfumes when you spray too much, it just projected more than normal. _____________________________ After a side-by-side comparison with Tihota, I noticed there is a soft touch of a powdery flower in Sucre Noir and it also smells sweeter. They both have that cotton candy vanilla (ethyl maltol?), but Tihota smells like it has a bit of a grounding, robust bourbon vanilla in it and SN has a flower that makes it feel light and fluffy. No musky smell in SN like the one present in Tihota- which reminded me of Narciso Rodriguez for her. SN also seems more concentrated, the initial alcohol "burns off" quicker, and it's longevity and sillage is stronger than Tihotas.

This scent is absolutely gorgeous. I would put it up there with Indult Tihota as a "Holy Grail" vanilla. However, I personally don't smell any of the listed orchid, and when I asked my contact at Arte Profumi what the main notes were, she said, "sugar, vanilla, and vanilla flower." In any case, this is pure sugary vanilla sweetness, and it is yum, yum, and YUM! It never fails to garner compliments, and the sillage can be as soft or as strong as you want it to be (depending on how much you spray). But as sweet as it is, it is not cloying or offensive. In fact, one of my male co-workers who has NEVER commented on ANYONE's perfume in six years walked into the room where I was and said, "What is that smell? Did someone bring cupcakes?" I said no, but it might be my perfume. He smelled my wrist and said, "That's it! That smells amazing! Just like a white cupcake with vanilla frosting." And that pretty much describes this simple, yet so beautifully composed fragrance. I also enjoyed other reviewers' comparisons to vanilla-infused sugar...I have never tried that, but I imagine it must taste just like Sucre Noir smells. The longevity is amazing on this scent, and it also layers well because of its pure organic sweetness. I highly, HIGHLY recommend it.

This is A-M-A-Z-I-N-G!! Sucre Noir is very very nicely done! So glad to finally have acquired this baby in my collection!! Mind you, I l-o-v-e a good vanilla perfume. This one is definitely all the way vanilla but there is a slight floral aspect to it that makes it mesmerizing. Unlike its name (Dark Sugar or Black Sugar), I do not find any darkness to it. At least, on my skin, it smells bright and joyful...it’s floral, sugary and sweet and fluffy like cotton candy. The longevity is really good, at least 10 hours, sillage and projection are good too. You’ll leave a trail but it isn’t the sort of trail that chokes people around you. It’s pricy, for sure but I paid for a very good vanilla fragrance and I am enjoying it immensely! This, to me, can be worn anytime of the year. I love it especially in the Fall but I definitely wear vanilla in the hot days of Summer as well. Does this remind me of other vanilla fragrances out there? Yes, yes of course it does! And yes, I already own Vaniglia by Mazzolari, Vanille West Indies Ligne St. Barth, and Vanille Outremer...Is it redundant? Irrevocably yes! But guess what? I cannot have enough good quality vanilla perfumes.