Sucre d'Ebene

Dark, mysterious, sexy, sophisticated and sweet! Tried this at Bloom Perfumery in Covent Garden and it was love at first sniff! I got a sample to test the lasting power, projection and to see if it morphs into something I don’t like and it passed the test! Quite an interesting perfume that is sultry and sexy in the way that Loubirouge is. The brown sugar is done so well here! Not burnt, not sticky sweet, not syrupy just luxurious and delicious! It’s difficult to get sweet right with sophistication and this is it! Definitely no juvenile sweetness here! It’s balsamic, resinous and the orange blossom add the perfect amount of floral sweetness oh myyy I really love this! I enjoy this as a bed time scent, when I am craving a bit of sweetness or when I feel strong, super sexy and powerful. Perfectly balanced perfume, not a loud sweetness, it’s youthful,leans more feminine but men could wear it and it’s just so put together! Lasted on skin 6 hours and projected nicely as I got a few compliments on the tube so I know people can smell it. Definitely not one that over powers a room but her presence is noticeable and you want to get closer. Full bottle worthy 100%

I like this a lot more than my fiance, who prefers acqua e zucchero and love by kilian, but I really like it. I can see why one wouldn't want to own all three because of the similarities, but they are different to my nose. Acqua e Zucchero is much stronger cotton candy, love is more marshmallow, both with more projection. This fragrance is very much so pure burnt sugar and maybe some berries. I cant say I smell much more, it doesn't last as long as either of the other fragrances I have already, but it is different enough to me to eventually add to my collection.. Not this second, I can milk my sample and live with that for a long time. 8/10 for me because I love the brown sugar note so much, sweet gourmands are my favorite. I finally got a FB and this is much better with a spray, medium projection.

Just discovered that Fragrantica doesn't have Witch Hazel listed amond it's notes. "Musky infusion of brown sugar, witch hazel, orange blossom, vanilla and benzoin" as stated on PG website. Hence the confusion. Witch hazel can turn either woody or herbal. Sucre D'Ebene is sugary but not necessary "edible". It sits close to skin, melts beautifully into own's skin chemistry, sometimes leaning masculine/unisexy. Slowlived, subtle opening and not as linear as it first may seem. On a personal note, deep love for all PG perfumes and the subtle magic they perform on my skin.

I just received a sample. I think I like this one. Wish I had a spray because it gives me a better grasp of the juice. I didn't think beer I thought sour or tart grape. In a good way. If I could be sure that element stayed I'd buy in a heartbeat. We will see. update. bought a fb and am very happy I did. I have never identified myself as a gourmand lover but I started looking at my wardrobe and I think I am. Love the vanilla in this one. I still get a grape/nut thing but not as strong with a spray. almost pure sugar, love it.

For long time I was lover of gourmand fragrances but later on it was enough for me. However still I have kind of sentiment for sugary smell. SE is another story. This is very sweet solution but with prominent note of woods. They are completely covered by burned dark or caramelized sugar – IMHO this is cedre. For sure it can be good choice for both sexes. So this is not only yummy interpretation of common foody scents but this is real niche fragrance. If you are in a bad mood go ahead and enjoy this marvelous smell.

The minute it went on, I felt "Bello Rabello", and nothing has changed since then. I love this, don't get me wrong, but it's sooo similar to Bello that I couldn't warrant owning both. Slight diffs here and there, but we're talking a 95% similarity, to my nose, at least... Anyway, I'll side-by-side them both and see how right I am...

So far I have only a little sample of "sucre d`Ebene" .. but: I was using this delicious "stuff" today, after a gig, and I felt so cozy and relaxed when I was driven home... in this "warm cloud of burned SUGAR"... grrrr...! :-)Now I want more from this parfum...! LOVE! :-)

This is a really great fragrance. Sweet and very elegance. I agree with la louve, this scent is veeeeery relaxing :) Sweet delicious sugar with a hint of woodsy notes. Excellent!

This smells how a warm cube of sugar melting on your tongue would taste.

Sucre d'Ebène looks like a wonderfully safe bet for gourmand lovers like myself, and it is, at least once it's had some time on the skin. In the drydown all those lovely notes come together beautifully, and the combination of caramellised sugar, hazelnuts and soft woody and resinous notes is just as heavenly as you'd imagine, especially since they're all rather subtle by then. Definitely warm and cosy and very sweet and rather heavy, but not too much at all, nor too conspicuously edible to be wearable. It sticks around forever, too! So the drydown is more or less gourmand perfection, just like I was hoping for, and if it was like this all the way I'd probably already be planning to spend my christmas bonus on a very expensive full bottle of the stuff to carry me through the rest of winter. It's not for every day, but every once in a while it'd be pure heaven to smell like this. The other phases are less perfect, though. The opening is great, but also just a bit heavy on the masculine woods for my taste. What's worse though is the off-balance feel of the (early) heart of the fragrance: like Cereza has mentioned, it's just too realistically and dominantly like burned sugar at that point. I know that's what Sucre d'Ebène is all about, but still, it's a bit too literal for a while there. That drydown is really to die for, though! Definitely worth getting through the mildly dubious opening and heart for - who knows, I might even learn to appreciate them for their own sake while I make my way through a bigger decant. I'm sure I'll get one eventually anyway.

As the other comments said the notes are: Brown Sugar, Witch Hazel, Orange Blossom, Vanilla, and Benzoin. And yeah, this is truly a woody orange blossom fragrance, with a totally grapey type of orange blossom. It's a juicy, almost boozy and vine like syrupy-grapey orange blossom with the nutty-dry and herbal facet of witch hazel, on a burnt and sweetly caramelised, reisinous dark and deep woody base. ( the wood is caremelised by brown sugar which has a fruity glucose/grape-sugar syrup like aspect also- thanks to the powerful grapeyness of the orange blossom.) As i said it's a sugary and syrupy sweet creation - but it's not sickeningly sweet- because the dry herbal aspects and the potent woodiness are balancing this caramelised, over riped type of fruity-sugary sweetness. It's ambery-balmy but also dry at same time... it's just like you pour and drip some honey-dense, glistening, deep purple syrup and reisins on the the (semi-)burnt woods of a dead bonenife. And this bonfire was based, start up and ignite with dry ( and a bit of semi-green) hay. So for me it's a deep and sparkling, mysterious and whimiscally boheme but also an easy to wear harvest time fragrance. - mostly for the early autumn nights.

Dark and caramelized sugar at it's finest. It did open very sweet, very edible and 100% gourmand. Unfortunately there is a very noticeable note of burnt sugar at the heart part, which I cannot say I enjoy. I do feel the dark woody background which, in my opinion, smells amazing, but the "burnt" front is simply not enjoyable for me. As it develops it gets a whole different character, funny enough - on me it's not sweet anymore. It is dark and smoky and a bit on the heavy side. Much better than I hoped for, that is for sure as I wouldn't want to smell as a sugar cube. Also a hazelnut note is starting to show it's face making this even more interesting. Not something I would wear, but worth a try 100% as it is a very unique take on gourmand sugary scent.

Yummy gourmand! This is like toasted hazelnuts coated with sugar that has been cooked in a pan until it has caramelized. At first it reminded me of Pink Sugar, with a burnt sugar kind of opening, but this is much easier to love right off the bat. It's caramelized--not burnt! Actually for some time it smelled exactly like nag champa; I mean EXACTLY. But the gourmand qualities pick up more after about 30 minutes. A few hours into the drydown it smells like a rich and somewhat dark, woody vanilla. This is not a complex nor over-the-top perfume compared to Pink Sugar. Sillage is a bit more polite, but I would still caution one to go easy on the trigger. Definitely recommended to gourmand lovers.

Another 3 note perfume. Brown sugar, witch hazel and benzoin. Like most people I was intrigued by the witch hazel which does smell a bit grape like (but not actual grape but almost a koolaid rendition of grape), but it's not overwhelming. I think it ages a bit better into a sweet skin scent, it's a little bit sexy in that way. Overall not bad.

Sucre d‘ébène is a sweet perfume with sophistication. The brown sugar is clearly recognizable, but it is complemented by a soft orange flower note. Even though not listed, I also smell some spices that keep the fragrance from drowning in sweetness. To me, this perfume adds some sunshine to gloomy winter days.

I was expecting a more yummy gourmand for winter but this is borderline fruity. It’s very sweet and definitely sugary, some light wood, a faint syrupy almost fruity smell too. No hazelnut whatsoever. It’s a nice unique scent though. A more elegant version of sugar that doesn’t read candy or juvenile.

You like sugar? This perfume is for you! Linear, perfect for gourmand lovers. For sure, for cold days: fall and winter. I can't smell hazelnuts (see the previous comments). The sillage and longevity are moderate/correct. 7/10

Without looking at the pyramid I thought it was amber and musk, it has this old fashioned start. It is sugary, woody, not the most obvious hazelnut in my opinion, if anything it has a slightly medicinal ending. Overall, too simplistic and old fashioned for me. Love Pierre Guillaume, but this one is a miss.

From website: Musky infusion of brown sugar, witch hazel, orange blossom, vanilla and benzoin. Witch hazel =/= hazelnut!

Regardless of whether this incorporates witch hazel or hazelnut (as there appears to be much debate about) this scent is not for me due to that note. It is sweet and woody and friendly and casual but I always find hazelnut (which is what I definitely smell) to be the next thing to nauseating. Sorry Pierre, really I am. ( I have had a long love affair with his fragrance Long Courrier and I’ve tried several others hoping to find something equally wonderful but not successful yet )