Noir Encens is a warm fragrance released in 2018. Religious ritual incense and cold walls. With notes of amber, frankincense, tonka bean and olibanum. Noir Encens is an eau de parfum, edp.
MAD ET LEN NOIR ENCENS REVIEWS
Parfumo: POV: you are a brooding pencil, prone to bouts of melancholia, that only scribbles at midnight and has only ever been used to draft architectural sketches of gargoyle-adorned gothic cathedrals and crumbling medieval monasteries and Baudelairian poetry and you listen to a lot of Bauhaus and Joy Division.
Parfumo: If someone were to ask me what Noir Encens feels like, I would immediately say that it is cold. Very cold. So cold that I feel cold just thinking about it and that the touch of the scent on my skin makes metallic sounds in my ears. Or maybe I'm just too soft-headed from all the warm and sweet fragrances that have been with us for a while now? The fruitier and denser, the better. That's just what you think, especially when you're talking about new arrivals. But does it always have to be heavy and sweet, with a killer sillage? Not at all. It's the scent and the emotion that make it. All the more so the mind game. This fragrance triggers a wave of raw feelings in me. Because it is very cold. Cold and damp, almost musty, accompanied by a rich incense note right from the start. Not only does it make my hair stand on end, but the hamster in my head moves all the faster, as if it were running away from something. But it's hopeless. There is something attractive about the fragrance, something intangible. It's like reaching for something through a thick fog, but never holding it in your hands. A beautiful, rich note of pepper hangs in, winking in the background. Flakes fall from the sky as if in slow motion, penetrating the damp earth. You breathe in the first, fresh, pungent air. I can smell camphor and a slight hint of something creamy. Something on the skin wants to penetrate to the surface, but the incense pushes it back into the pores. The head is warmed, literally emitting liquid. It steams. Really thick and uncontrolled. And then comes this infinitely deep note of incense, which may decompose into tar. A shimmering inferno of darkness. The haze of evil, one would think. Towards the heart, I am mentally immersed in black water. The candles are burning brightly around the tub and the incense has penetrated every pore of my body. And then again and again these metallic sounds that accompany the scent. His breathing becomes shallow. He growls slightly. Incense then pours down on the body as tar, crumbling into several components. The fog is still thick. There is nothing to grasp. Sometimes you need scents like this again. Sometimes you need more than just warmth and love. Sometimes it can be harder and colder. With this fragrance here, you have a few quiet moments to yourself when you indulge in the haze of evil. It truly creates a mysterious ambience. Actually, the scent would have been better suited to midnight, but it made me sleep. The dreams were all the more confused. I thought I was in a dark sea of incense clouds, in the endless hustle and bustle. Sillage and longevity for such a cool scent are remarkable. It's a shame that fragrances like this are disappearing and that I only have a whiff left in my sample.
