Black Collection A

This is a strong fragrance. Not much needs to be applied. When I take the cap off I get a strong whiff of ginger and a bit of angelica surrounded by coffee. Coffee isn’t prominent, but it’s there, like it’s across the room and you can smell it wafting in from time to time. I can smell both ginger and coffee after spraying on myself. A couple of minutes in and I start to smell benzoin. Angelica is the heart of the fragrance. The angelica is held up by a light benzoin and amber. The angelica doesn’t really ever go away, it just kind of lightens over time. The benzoin, amber and wood notes give this a solid base that lasts for half a day or more. I knew I was going to buy this the first time I smelled the sample. It’s highly unique and of very fine quality. It instantly became one of my favorite scents.

This always makes me laugh when I first spray it on. It’s essentially a really nice, sweetish brewed coffee and dark amber fragrance along with sandalwood, angelica and some ginger in the top notes, but when first applied, it smells like peanut butter on toast! That smell blows off quite quickly, but I personally wish it would stay longer. It’s a really great perfume to be honest and the best I’ve smelled from Blood Concept. Also, the label and cap on this series glow in the dark. Bonus!

Woah! This is some gorgeous smelling blood right here. Opens with ginger to me but the knowledge there's a deep thick amber fragrance behind those top notes. Then the coffee comes on stronger and it's a real dark, strong percolated expresso. Nutty deep and creamy base of amber and sandalwood is very pleasing to me. Really enjoyed this one from Blood concept, this is something I would wear.

is something like earth + gourmand... i love the experiments, bacause are art. Is not about smelling or not like something, is about expressing. great this one.

This doesn't smell like coffee, certainly not anything like what I would want to drink anyway. It reminded me of a blob of Pritt-Stick glue warming in the sun. Dead romantic right? Honestly Blood Concept is the worst perfume house I've ever come across.

Blood Concept is an interesting idea, the bottles are unusual (but feel like cheap plastic) but the fragrances for me are somewhat mediocre. It's a decade since the Black series was released, and I'll admit I'm not surprised that it's on sale everywhere. I agree with Jolthead that angelica is dominant in the beginning. There is ginger, and some coffee, but coffee plays 'hide and seek' with me, so this isn't what I'd hoped for. On me it's a bland fragrance without much personality, but at least it didn't smell like Pritt stick glue! Not that it changes me opinion of the fragrance, but Mandragore (root) is an interesting ingredient. Mandrake (Mandragora officinaruim) is mentioned in the bible, and it's claimed 'the Scripture clearly connects the fragrance of mandrake with sexuality, which is the only known account of direct link between odor and human sexual response'. And if you believe in magic 'magical properties of mandrake root are often used for binding spells, uncrossing spells, flying ointments, hexes, and protection from possession. A mandrake root can be displayed on a fireplace mantle to bring success, wealth, and joy into your home.'

It's a strange & very unlikely idea , but the truth is I like all the notes in the Blood Concept Black Series especially the very unusual notes like ( cannabis, carrot seed , mandragore, angelica seed , gun powder , Inoki accord ) , honestly I CAN HARDLY WAIT 2 TEST THEM ! P.S. I wish I was rich so I could have gone 2 the Florence in the course of Fragranze 11 .

I bought a sample and I won't be buying a bottle. Not just the cost either! It didn't last on me despite several good squirts before I went out. And although the perfume developed into a gourmand scent from a rather coarse beginning all I was left with was the smell of a milky coffee, a faint smell of milky coffee. No thanks. Very unremarkable.

it's true, it smells like someone is eating peanut butter.