Aoud Black Candy

This is a light licorice/sweet perfume with a little minty/flowery opening. The mint scent is not not a scent but more like a little cool feel around the top notes. When it settles (in about one hour) the licorice remains and the Oud /musk come out. Yes there is Oud here, but it is soft and tamed. There just enough Oud to blend well with the overall scent of this fragrance but not to dominate it. I can smell it more so during the dry-down and on my skin the morning after wearing it (if I don't remove the perfume before going to bed). Its function is to add a very light smokiness/woodiness behind the licorice. I can detect it well and clearly, unlike other reviews have stated. As Madrona says, this perfume is not overly licorice sweet nor Oud/musk dark. It walks between these two extremes. I don't smell the amber at all. I think, like the Oud , it contributes to the aggregate scent of the perfume by adding sweetness without making this an amber perfume. I do smell a flower note at the opening but it fades away within the hour. This is not a Mancera bomb like some of the darker Oud perfumes in the Mancera lineup. This is a subdued juice, befitting of occasions and places where you have to get close to people. If it was stronger on the licorice and Oud departments it would be total love for me. Not full love, but nonetheless, I like and enjoy it. Girls at work love it. It don't perceive much projection but people who walk by me smell it beyond my personal bubble. I can smell it at skin level for 6 - 8 hours. Just a minor note. Like its brother, Aoud Cafe, Aoud Black Candy hits me with a little celery smelling opening which quickly goes away (within 5 minutes). I also disagree the Mancera perfumes are like Montale's. Yes , there are some strong ones here but in general I find Mancera using Oud in a different way (to blend in and shape the smell of the perfume without becoming Oud dominant).

I'm a little shocked this hasn't got more attention, because it really is amazing. This was a blind buy. I found it dirt cheap and the notes looked interesting enough. I really think anyone could wear this year round and smell great. You won't smell like everyone else, or anyone else for that matter. If a stranger walked by and I got a sniff of this, I'd definitely ask what it is. And that's not something I do a lot. It's really great but it's not obnoxious. It will get you noticed in the classiest way possible. I can see how some would think it leans fem because of the rose and powder. It's not overly sweet like I thought it would be. It also isn't projecting like crazy either. On me, it's just a very cool and clean scent. Very clean. I'm unsure about the versatility because of the powdery floral. Office, church, running errands, having a drink at an upscale bar/restaurant, yes. This would be perfect for a coffee date or a wedding. I probably wouldn't recommend wearing it at a biker bar or some slummy shit hole, unless you have a penchant for getting your ass kicked.

I blind bought this because licorice and anise notes are interesting to me. This is the first fragrance I own by Mancera and i'm not disappointed. Upon application I was a little thrown off by the huge influx of rose, but rest assured it does meld down into something beautiful. I can understand how someone could sense celery in the opening, but it isn't an aspect that persists and from another opinion I know that it only smells this way up close(at the beginning). What you are left with after awhile is damp roses with smokey licorice tones with white musk and yes accented by aoud, but not the typical middle eastern style aoud that we are normally used to. If you are a licorice fan and understand the difference between it and anise I would say go ahead and try this one. It's suitable in any weather in my opinion and is signature scent worthy. I love it, it's good.

Not nearly as over-the-top or saccharine as I had warily expected. Aoud Black Candy is sort of the snappier, watery counterpart to Lolita Lempicka Au Masculin. It's crisp--a bright woody licorice note with a candied flavor and some very mild tones of rose floating in the background. Performance is solid, and I was surprised by its polite, relatively restrained level of projection. Other people will certainly smell it, but Aoud Black Candy is in no way an obnoxious attention-whore. It's not an Oud fragrance either, so you can forget about that. If anything, this release by Mancera reminds me of an updated, sharper and more sophisticated version of Body Kouros. The bottle is much prettier as well. Altogether an enjoyable, easy wear and worth checking out for fans of licorice notes and fragrances with a sweet side. I like this one a lot.Thumbs up.

Oh, this is good. I've recently discovered my love for licorice in perfumes and I can't get enough. Mancera Black Candy is my newest licorice and it is gorgeous. It opens with a minty licorice which is fresh and unique. There is an underlying rose which anchors this scent and gives it more body. The oud is gentle and "western". This is an easy, all season perfume which is unique enough to separate you from all the popular mainstream ones. I do not find this cloying. Performance is great. This minty licorice is so intoxicating. I'm wearing Black Candy on this 92F (though I'm inside with ac at 79F) and it is amazing. EDIT: On this 48F cold morning, Black Candy is even better. 2 sprays are more than enough. Love.

I just bought this perfume and i have to admit it was "love with the first smell" :). It's exactly as i like perfumes strong, woody and discrete. It remembers me my great mother, she used to put the yellow flowers in her closet and i think it has yellow flowers in this fragrance. Licorice mixed with white musk rose and amber inside make it very special. I would strongly recommend this fragrance to everyone who likes strong and long lasting perfumes.

I am very surprised at the comments. I absolutely love this perfume, it is one of my most complimented ones! To me it smells sweet and woody. The oud here is bright, and gives the scent a fresh woody cleanliness, that is tamed down by the liquorice note. Very close to being my signature.

Absolutely phenomenal- I cannot stand the slightest whiff of licorice, it makes me sick, but here Pierre Montale has created a combination of smoky and sweet scents that result in a beautiful licorice/candy/smoky fragrance. Outstanding. A full on, strong scent, not for tender noses.

Could someone please let me know why is it called 'Aoud' Black Candy? There is no aoud mentioned in the ingredients list...please answer to me! The scent is gorgeous: sweet, woody and spicy at the same time, no cloying, very very interesting. I like it at all on my wish list.

My second review: the licorice is very prominent at the beginning and half an hour later it becomes softer. The frag is very interesting, unique, sweet, woody and i detect a soapy note on my skin...supreme scent, but IMO is more appreciable in winter time.

The comments saying it smells like bathroom are super tired. Like come on people not every fragrance smells like a bathroom or urinal cakes. All that tells me is that you don't know fragrances or your nose has issues

Oh, I like this! So far it's the best licorice fragrance I have tried. I've used with great pleasure my sample and now am getting a full bottle. Notes on the official site: HEAD NOTES: Black Licorice & Minty Notes HEART NOTES: Rose, Amber, Woody Notes BASE NOTES: Intense Oud & Sensual White Musk Aoud black candy is smooth and sexy black licorice scent. Opening is quite "black" and bombastic, but when it settles it becomes pure pleasure, definitely leaning feminine. Even though candy is in the title, it doesn't get too sweet, just about right to make it inviting and enjoyable. And yes, feminine. I don't get much oud, at least not the usual medicinal, or dark woody or black carbon type of oud. There is something dark in the background that gives the fragrance a "touch of magic", a kiss of darkness hehe...but not the oud as I know it. On my skin amber and musk are quite prominent, specially musk. It is not the arabic or masculine or artificial type of musk. It smells very pleasant and natural, like "girls in a dressing room, after a shower".. I'm very happy with that cause I'm sucker for that kind of "female skin" musk. Or maybe I'm just lucky to have that skin chemistry. At one point it did remind me of Dior's Poison, the drydown, back when it was released. Not the notes because obviously they are different, but the feeling it gives me, the vibe. Actually, instead of Hypnotic poison EDP they should have released this, because this licorice fits much better in the Poison family. Anyways, I highly recommend to try this, for anyone looking for a licorice scent.

The ACTUAL notes are! Top: Black Licorice, minty notes Mid: Rose, Amber, woody notes Base: Intense Oud, sensual white musk Whoever put the notes up here were just lazy or put only what they smell, which either way it’s still wrong. This fragrance does have Oud and fragrantica is misleading people by not adding the real notes. Having said that and getting that out of the way, on to the fragrance. Opens up herbal like a cool night air with the mint, and the black licorice gives me the image of sitting out on the front porch in the country enjoying a a bag of licorice. You have a cup of coffee with a lot of sugar in it to warm you up from the night air. The rose, Amber a woody notes actually come in strong for a brief second after that to add a dark soapy sweet tone. It doesn’t change much at all after the opening fades away, you’re mostly left with a dark woody, coffee, ever so slight soapy sweet strong licorice scent with some herbal tones in the background. I’m personally a huge fan of it and will wear it a lot during the month of October as I feel like this is a festive fall scent. However it can be dressed up and dressed down as well. It doesn’t lean feminine at all despite the votes. If anything it’s unisex leaning much more masculine. It’s very good scent and one I’m glad to have.

Watery, Black jelly bean Opens with the typical Mancera/Montale Rose and Aoud but, not as potent as some others. Both dry down allowing the dried fruits to appear and some how create a liquorice, black jelly bean smell which remains a constant for its entirety. A fist full of black jelly beans in a cup of water, is what I'm getting. I get why people remark a celery smell but, its too candied and liquorice smelling to be confused with celery. Not a beast mode fragrance but, close too it.

Trip353 I agree with not being able to smell the sweetness that everyone else is smelling. All I get is a powdery musky floral type scent with a tinge a licorice. Heavy on the powdery and musky...I still like it though. And unlike others I feel you can wear this scent all year round and not just cooler months...just have watch your sprays in the heat. It performed better for me in the heat(not super high heat) vs the winter.

I simply don't understand where people are coming from vis a vis "candy" in the notes. This fragrance has licorice,.yes. Yet, it's the licorice which is from sniffing the licorice root. I just can't find the "sugary" stuff. Where is the candy? I cannot smell it at all. This is an Oud-heavy (earthy, woody, musky) smell. I tried it because I wanted a fragrance which had the *sugary* scent of a Good & Plenty. Damn.

When I think "black candy" - I think licorice jellybeans and sweet licorice candies. The salty licorice top note is quite the surprise. I'm not a huge salty licorice fan, but the surprise of this top note makes this scent a worthwhile sniff. The dry-down morphs to a sweet-leaning musk laced with the Montale/Mancera trademark oud rose. I can see myself craving this one when I'm in the mood for a challenge.

I bought this one because I heard it smells like Lolita Lempicka and also lasts longer, and I'm glad I bought it, but I can't ignore the lovage hint in it. There's something in the opening that reminds me of a herb you put in soup, but once you passed that lovage opening it's smooth, dense and musky and luring, a bit creamy even. It performs nicely on skin and clothes, overall a nice perfume, 8/10.

This is such a strange fragrance but I do really like it. It really is just a strong black licorice with some lighter floral notes. I do occasionally get a strong celery note especially in the opening which I am not a fan of. Definitely not blind-buy safe but if you want something very unique I would recommend. Have not gotten any compliments with this one tho

Not black enough nor candy enough for me personally. The oud is most certainly there, as is the liquorice, but it just doesn't tickle me the right way. Still, it's not a dislike, but I expected more from this one. It's less black and more dark gray, if that makes sense.