In Black

A dear friend of mine (JILLZILLA) gave me a whole 3.4 oz bottle of this.Trouble was,,,the sprayer was missing. After trying several other spray nozzels and having NO luck,I set it aside in my fume cabinet. That was nearly 4 years ago! All these years,Ive been looking for a sweet,floral,fruity,rosey,patchoulli laden,vanilla ,chocolate scent. I went after it with a vengeance! Bottle after bottle I searched. Too little this,too much that. Why oh why I asked,cant I find a fume like that? And,while we are at it, I want one that projects like a church steeple and last from morning to morning!!!After growing tired of ALL my quests,I spied the black bottle with the flying saucer top! AH ha! I AM going to find out what this fume smells like!!~! My husband and I tried nearly EVERY sprayer off 130 something bottles of fumes. NO matter it might contaminate them ,I was going somehow to get to this juice. We tried prying the sprayer housing off. NO. I thought about breaking the bottle,NO. Finally,I took an ice pick and stuck a hole down thru the middle of the housing itself. I gently turned the bottle over,,,Out came a stream of the best smelling juice I have ever smelled!! I quickly grabbed some decant bottles and my fume funnel. I got out every last drop!! 3 decants full! Here was The HOLY GRAIL of fumes for me!!!I love It. Just the yummy enough sweet,fruity scent. A good amm ount of chocolate and vanilla with a rosy,african violet,patchoulli base!!! I am in heaven!!! I immediately ordered 2 3.4 oz bottles from AMAZON for only 19.95 each!!!! I really wonder if I shouldn't buy every bottle there is,in case they stop making it.IT IS ME!!! I guess this fume quest was a lot like life. You go out seeking ur hearts desire and when u r finished,there it was all along,waiting on u to do the work to get it. THanks Jillzilla!!!

It is a cozy and mystic scent, with a cruel synthetic edge. It has the scent of dark hair coluring ( think of dark red/ black/ purple tones) mixed with sandalwood and a faint fruitiness, and a delicate pepper shadow over all of it. It is like a nice cup of weird herbal tea with a good breakfast. I wear it not so often, I only have the 50 ml bottle, but I think I should wear it more. It is really special and delicate and strange to my nose. UPDATE: I tried this in the morning with Lolita Lempicka on my right wrist, with In Black on my left hand. In black is more intense in its strange-ness:). But it is not so perfumey as Lolita. It IS bitter and dark on me, sweetness is only in the background. But I think that this could make every human skin a lot sexier. The only problem is, that one must really dare to wear it as an everyday scent. If I could "come home" at the side of such a fragrance like In Black, my life could be much more succesful. It is really not a well-known frag, and cheap, and so special. More braveness for me, please.

I was pleasantly surprised by this! The opening is a bit sweet with the cherry/citrus notes, but it faded fast enough into a smooth licorice-musk-patchouli drydown with a hint of cherry. like cherry pipe tobacco others have mentioned here. Under normal circumstances, I hate, hate, HATE licorice, won't touch the black licorice nor a black jelly bean or those brightly striped candies that look so bold and colorful (and taste so nasty to me) or that horrible Sambuca drink. But the licorice here combined with the cherry, patchouli, vanilla and floral is fabulous. I may even try a bite of licorice someday due to this smelling so good. It's that good. I swear I detect almond in this also. In Black reminds me of a more spicier, gourmand and less sweet version of My Insolence. I just checked and they have only a couple of notes in common:jasmine, citrus and patchouli. Hmmmmm. Silliage and longevity are great, lasts several hours on me-I do spray a bit on my clothes which helps.

This is heavy, dark, smokey, and intense. And I love this. No flowers and sunshine here. Initial blast of cherry pipe tobacco and incense settles into a cherry vanilla scent. Not a candy shop cherry vanilla. Its sweet but in a way similar to how dark chocolate is sweet. Not sugary. The only licorice I get makes me think of how a licorice tinged incense might smell. I do not get the Lolita L'empicka or Pink Sugar kind of licorice. Its just not that sweet. The bottle compliments this perfume very well. If black were to have a scent I think this would be it. Not a light and girly scent. Its different and not something I have smelled on other people. Sprayed 3-4-5 sprays at 7 this morning (I have a slightly heavy hand with perfume...lol) and its almost noon now and I can still smell it as though it was recently sprayed. And I am leaving a scent trail that several of my co-workers have followed into my office...lol. Just love this!

This is in my top 10 favorites of all time because when it came out, it was so different - dark, sultry, deep, and mysterious and although it doesn't last as long as it used to, it still smells amazing. My original bottle of this, circa 2005, was long-lasting and it radiated out so much, I had to be careful how much spray to use. Alas, that bottle leaked horribly and eventually the atomizer stopped working. I got a new bottle about 5 years ago (sans atomizer) and this one seems to be a little weaker. It still has that well-blended cherry-vanilla-licorice-incense mix although it doesn't bring to mind any Lolita Lempicka fragrances. I agree with another poster that this smells much more Halloweenish than J. Del Pozo's Halloween. This is an autumn/winter perfume while Halloween and most of its older flankers remind me of spring and summer. I find it unisex.