Montana Black Edition

Extreamely underrated fragrance. Its develops a magnific woodsy/leather scent that you relate to very expensive fragrances. Its darkness is a dry one, with a magnificent leather /incense /woody pleasant and manly dry down notes. It opens spicy with a light sweet touch due to the cinnamon and orange/mandarin notes. It develops its dryness with a strong woody evolution milded by flowers, mainly rose. It is easy to relate it as a flanker Montana Parfum d'Homme. It has the same quality and preety presentation as well. It does remember the Aramis Havana family without the warm tobacco note. Well above average performance with a longevity of 12+ hours. Average projection of 4~6 feet during the first 3 hours. Its wearability is very high. It did create a certain addiction on me. I know I am going to use it at a very fast pace. Need to get a second bottle ASAP. My rates for Montana Black Edition: Scent:.........................9.0 Longevity:...................9.0 Sillage:........................8.5 Versatility:...................8.0 Compliments...............8.5 Uniqueness:................8.5 Quality:........................8.5 Presentation:...............9.0 Price:...........................9.5 (€20,00 for 125ml) Average:....................8.78/10.00

A scent that sits square in the middle of my wheelhouse, Montana Black Edition is a dense, exotic, yet unified composition that was a bold release for 2011 being that it is at first sniff it smells like it was released in 1984. I give much credit to Montana for being so daring as to release something so out of step with the times, and doing it with such aplomb. This Tower of Babel opens with a maddeningly good fanfare of aldehyde C-12, conifers, and Epicene-esque spice accord. Rose comes to the fore as the heart enters the scene, making this stage vaguely reminiscent of a hybrid Van Cleef and Arpels Pour Homme with Aramis Havana. However, leather and incense are what pull this in its own direction, almost reminding the wearer that Black Edition is in fact a modern release. It isn't merely some cheap 80s cosplay, though, this is of great quality and design, if not misunderstood by modern noses that haven't inhabited a time where such elements were commonplace. Black Edition projects and has sillage for days, if any of that matters to you. It's all icing on the cake for me. This is a solid release and will be revisited often!

This shares some notes prominently with VC&A Tsar. Leather, pine, lavender, rose, sandalwood, citrus, woods, and spices. I find them quite similar. However, I prefer Montana Black a bit more. The pepper and incense just adds a nice quality to it. No bergamot. Slightly balsamic, smoking, and powdery (at first). A little on the "soapy" side, but not as much as Tsar. A fresh easy going fragrance that captures an earlier time in perfumery (maybe late 80's to early 90's), while still feeling a little more modern. I had some vintage Tsar that I sold off. Then I picked up a large 125ml bottle of Montana Black for a lot less. A worthy replacement. I was more enamored when I first got this. Now that I've had more time to live with it, I find it not quite as good. It's VERY affordable. This goes along side many others like Mr. Blass and Davidoff Silver Shadow for being a very good inexpensive fragrance. You get a little more than what you pay for, but I wouldn't go so far as to say it's many times better than that. For what I paid, I'd still be OK if I had paid 50% more, but certainly not double.

Now i have got this one and i can finally assure you that black and noire sacree are 2 total different scents but with the same aim,to provide us an insight about dark colors in this imaginary world.This one is a aromatic and balsamic old schooler,done in present times without even care of trends,the other instead,is more near the concept of smoke,a more succesful trend on the younger generations of today;i find them both compelling and meditating scents’

An unknown gem. Smells like it's from the 1980's. Big thumbs up to Montana for having the balls to release a true powerhouse in this day and age. Hopefully we'll see more of this kind of creativity from other fragrance houses in the future. Montana Black Edition is a real winner and one of the best releases of the past 20 years.