Black Sugar is part of the May Legacy Collection. It was part of their original general catalog in 2014 but was discontinued due to component availability. It is a sweet sugary gourmand with a dark side and features notes of brown sugar, red berries, caramel, vanilla, tonka bean, dirt, cauldron smoke and cacao absolute. Black Sugar is a parfum.
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Fragrantica: "Amazing. I have been on a sample frenzy since April. Getting my hands on all the samples as I purged my collection in Oct when moving and want a truly curated and clean collection of scents I will in fact wear on the regular. This, thus far, is one of the 4 samples I'd buy FS in. And I did. Sweet and at first rolls over you like Pink Sugar (ugh, hello 2004! Mean Girls: You smell like a baby prostitute" And then...hmmm-Dirt. There is a lovely, clean, earthy dirt note. Like a freshly plowed dark brown field of California's Central Valley, the bread basket of US fruits and veggies and my hometown. Ugh, it's so good here. Can't stop sniffing. Cocoa, sugar, vanilla, tonka, caramel, blend in a flirty whirl but the dirt grounds it. Makes it wearable to me, at 44. So good, so good..."
Reddit: "(I find this one amusing because I'm always a little sad for duped-until-eternity fragrances such as Aquolina Pink Sugar. Especially Pink Sugar, since it gets relentlessly mocked by some industry people for being an unrepentantly sweet gourmand, yet the copies continue because it just smells good to people. There is actually an Aquolina Black Sugar, but it's not described as the dark counterpart of Pink, and I've never smelled it anyway because it's hard to acquire in the US.) Disclaimer: Pink Sugar types aren't really my thing, and I don't like the smell of chocolate, especially dark chocolate. When I smelled the candy floss sweetness from within the vial, I actually hesitated. On my skin, it smells like a raspberry dark chocolate truffle artfully wrapped with pure sugar. It is thick, almost gooey - not cotton candy at all. However, as it dries, that heaviness lifts; the chocolate becomes less detectable. It's sugar sugar sugar, a cinnamon sugar at that, with a hint of something earthy in the background that eventually unmasks itself as my old friend vanilla. It's a warm, creamy-sweet vanilla, like bourbon vanilla buttercream, which is nice, but I prefer non-edible vanillas. I only dabbed a teensy-tiny bit of this one on because I was so nervous about the sugar - even a dot of Black Sugar was detectable to people around me. The truffle stage was short on me, maybe 30-1h, the dark sugar lasted for another 40mins or so, and vanilla stuck to me FOREVER because my skin loves to cling to vanilla. I'm sad the smoke didn't come through for me at all, with so little dirt on top of that - they could have tempered that assertive CANDY!!! heart."
