Black Mango

very interesting and complex scent! it has enormous projection and takes you on a journey as it dries down. i tested it on paper at the store and then came back a few days later to try it on skin because i had a craving to smell it again. it layered deliciously with creed's oud zarian. it's sexy, but not like a perky young woman in lingerie. it's horny in a biological, primal, depraved kind of way. fully grown body hair, yesterday's discharge in your underwear, panting and sweating on your mattress next to dishes you should have taken to the kitchen days ago. thinking about that date you went on five years ago and wondering what went wrong. asking yourself whether you'll ever be able to feel that way with someone again. the opening smells like plucking an overripe mango off the tree. it's so ripe that it has already lost some of its sweetness to the funky sour flavour that consumes fruits as they ferment. mango is certainly the focal point, but i can clearly smell the environment as well. it's syrupy; oozing nectar through the mushy and wrinkly peel. i can smell the green leaves and soil too, well-fertilized with manure and the fallen mangoes that have begun to decay on the ground. as it dries down, my plucked mango meets the same fate. it turns from orange to brown and white; the freshness fades and i can smell it rotting. it's a little fecal, but still recognizably mango. there's something else animalic in there. something sexual. this perfume combines disgust and delight. it's depraved. makes me want to bite someone. i want to have sex, to smell our secretions mixing together. maybe we could do it in late summer, in the muddy dirt underneath some stone fruit trees. they're past their prime, but we aren't. anyways, this is a great perfume, although not very wearable unless you're trying to fuck someone yucky style!!!

9/10 I REALLY like this one. It has a modern, silvery/smoky oud that shines above a surrealist juicy mango. One spray is plenty (walk into the spray, don't spray it directly on you). As it develops, there's like an olfactory tug of war in a very interesting way I've yet to see another fruity fragrance do like this before. The fruit is so tempting, you want to inhale more, but the oud makes you hesitate and resist taking in too much at once. I truly don't get the "corpse, toilet, rot" notes some folks seem to get from this.. lucky me? But I quite enjoy the scent journey of this one when used in moderation. I'd wear this to outdoor events in the summer for sure. As the mango fades away, it does develop from a day to night fragrance with more of the smoky woods coming out later during wear. A touch hard to pull off for EVERY occasion, but I'd need to experiment still to find the best uses. I wouldn't be put off trying this one from reading the other comments. Totally worth a sample at least. I'd just use it very mindfully with little expectations at first.

Mango opening is nice but the drydown for me is where its at. It harsh, heavy, I definitely get a faint gasoline vibe mixed with leather and a light oud and there is something animalic/body odourish that is a turnoff but also addictingly keeps me coming back and smelling. It has one of those smells that your nose tells you you shouldnt like but your brain is turned right on and you just cant help yourself. The scent lasts all day. Light all frigging day. Kabukimono below me hit the nail in the head. Described it exactly as I was fumbling trying to do. This scent is a 9.5/10 for me

Black Mango from BTSO Perfumed by Violaine Collas has a photorealistic mango opening with a smoky oud funk (though not as much as I'd like), I feel it's oudian adjacent and similar to some other fruity leather-oud fragrances on the market. The mango lassi creaminess with subtle vanilla is a nice touch. Certainly an artistic blend and this could be the best mango scent I've smelled from a fragrance. Highly wearable and a must try if you have the opportunity.

Out of all four new releases, this one is my favorite 🤩 The opening features juicy mango 🥭 with a bit of tartness, slightly milky or yogurt-like. It’s so beautiful and realistic! 😍 The composition is quite airy—not overpowering or overwhelming to the senses. If anything, it might just make your mouth water 😄 because it’s so juicy! I’m definitely rushing to buy it as soon as it’s available in the EU.

Damn. Just an absolute masterpiece. so good reading negative reviews piss me off “Black mango”: a perfume with juicy realistic mango in a bed of dark heavy profile scent of oud & leather. Cleanly smoothly blended with insane performance. Like literally everything is in the title already. If the name of fragrance doesn’t appeal to you then why are you here giving your opinions

I love it. Couldn't stop smelling my wrist the first time. However, it is HIGHLY polarizing. I was told it smelled bad more than once. I was even told it smelled "disgusting, like an animal" I bought it cause I liked it, but now I won't use it cause I don't want to smell "like a disgusting animal" to others. It's just sitting there. Think twice before buying.

This smells so good. The start is very rough and is NOT mass-appealing, but after 10 minutes it smells AMAZING. It smells like a rough mango and with oud and something else rough and something else sweet. i can imagine the most manly Jungle explorer that has been fighting a giant snake and is now covered by mango and snake chunks 10/10

This was a suprice! Was expecting a fresh and fruity mango, but this is dark, dirty, and leathery! Animalic at it's best! The ripe, over cooked mango dominates the opening, but developes into a mango heavy vanilla bourbon leathery scent. All time use, however I find that it shines at it's brightest used on those warm summer evenings.

Once you get past the opening, this one mellows out beautifully! Very nice mango, orange, vanilla and leather that blend together seamlessly. This is like a niche, more unisex version of Power Of You with animalic undertones. Monster performance, last for ages and projects strongly. This was a great pick up!

delicious juicy thick dark mango, its gourmand beach day scent but also sophisticated dressy date night. so good AND it has crazy performance which is a requirement for 50ml/300$ perfume 4.6/5

Deviating from what’s other day about the opening, that’s probably my favorite part about this perfume. The dry down however just isn’t for me. It smells like an old and overripe mango mixed with milk. It’s shame, I really like mango perfumes and it caught my attention on paper and off the opening. Ten minutes after that, you want to clean it off. HOWEVER, upon giving us a second try the dry down is actually not that bad. Dare I say I grew to like it actually. I think the opening is just what captures me so much. It’s enough for me to want to buy a 50 ML because of my love from mango fragrances.

Blast of mango gummies and other artificial fruits, also get strawberries distinctly. Not a fresh or green mango, it’s definitely fruit candy and something oud like. Mango for winter, or summer if you’re fond of making yourself and those around you a little sick. Bold and brash, elegant this is not. Dry down is less in your face with sweet leather dominating with something orange blossom like. A bit too cloying for me.

I bought the discovery set and accidentally sprayed this all over my coffee table. It’s been a week and I still smell it when I sit on the couch. Juiciest mango I’ve ever smelled. Like if you set a mango on fire and added wood chips. I haven’t worn it on my skin yet but I’m excited to. I heard it’s quite masculine, so I gotta be in the right mood first.

My only experience of this was on a spritz of paper in a department store. It is very very strong. To me it smells like a chewy mango gummy sweet that has fallen down a handbag pocket, which somehow makes it smell incredible? Definitely polarising due to the longevity, but I would consider buying this as a summer evening into nightfall scent.

I absolutely loved it from the moment I smelled it on a test strip. I love how intense and warm it is. Reminds me of my home tropical country. Should've known to walk into it instead of spraying on my skin, nonetheless, I'm quite literally obsessed.

Sweet and intense mango fragrance. At the beginning it smells like skittles candy. Definitely for night. Not a warm or hot weather environment. On a summer night with a good a/c environment, maybe is a pass with no more than two sprays.

I really like this, VERY ripe juicy mango (but not rotten at all) with some oud to compliment it. The fragrance is very strong, but mango is the star here, not oud

Black Mango is chaos in the first blast. Like melted mango Hi-Chews packed into a metal tin and lit it on fire. There’s that gummy fruit chew texture: thick, bright, a little plasticky sweet, but immediately shadowed by this smoky, tangy creaminess that’s... kind of addictive? Kind of horrifying? Like a salted lassi curdled in the back of a cab. A very warm cab. With oud air freshener. (I mean that in a semi-complimentary way.) The oud here isn’t the regal rosewood type, and more musty garage floor than palace. A slight dash fecal, a splash tarry. That animalic edge that leans feral if you spray too close. Like whatever fruity illusion the mango had is immediately drowned in thick, resinous bass. Something about the transition magnetic, with the way an extra syrupy mango suddenly folds into something dry and almost leathery. Dried mango skin dusted with ash and spice: kind of masala effect, but burnt. Smeared across skin. Heated by the body. Eventually it settles. Less edible, more masculine. Less fruit stand, more smouldering man in silk shirt sipping vaguely fruit-flavoured whiskey at a rooftop bar at 3 a.m. The mango’s still there, but ghosted almost til overshadowed by musk and woods. My key takeaway from this experience? Lesson learned: one spray. From a distance.

Opens with an unmistakeable aroma of Tormentiol (an ointment of potentilla extract, zinc oxide and borax), joined by a very syrupy mango that is both artificial and yet starting to rot. Dries down through mold, burnt plastic and char (possibly because of the wood notes), earning the "black" in the name on overtime. Sillage that Saddam's mustard gas would envy. A menace in public transport. Can and will attract bugs and confuse wasps to the point of hesitance between bits of real apricot jam on the plate or fake mango fumes on your arm. Its reign of terror continues for hours and persists through scrubbing with antibacterial soap. Fortunately my skin chemistry blocked the more fecal notes from evolving. If you're ready – have at it and God be with you