this perfume is magical.
the first smell makes your eyelids close, you think of spraying it from your vanity table, the mist in the air matching the autumn crispness of outside, run down the road in a fur coat get a coffee and sit all day reading fashion magazines.
it takes you to another world, one of parisian couture.
what first made me love this perfume was my love for no5 had faded quickly when it kept reminding me of baby powder. i needed a change, i have always worn alien for it makes me drift into a state of confidence, i needed a perfume that matched the magical sense of thierry mugler alien.
i was looking througha ll the chanel perfumes, not one to restrict a perfume toa gender after all its essential oils in alchahol, where is the gender in that?
i remember the launch of noir back in 2012, the black bottle sucked me in, anything dark and mysterious im your man!
the glass bottle is beautiful, only problem i like my bottles a little bit opaque just so i can see how much perfume i have left, this one is black, and you definitely cannot see through it, also the sticker on the chanel bottles always seem so cheap, i mean if youre paying £100+ fora perfume, i want better quality, you listening chanel? :)
the sillage of this perfume isnt great but thats what i like, i wear my thierry mugler scents for the power, this one is more about the sexiness, the idea that someone has to get close to you to smell it, the intimacy. the longevity is good, not as great as what you would expect from a £100+ perfume, but it is still great for an evening out, on me about 4 hours and i need a respray, but im one to smell of perfume all the time, even before bed i spray a perfume on.
with teh top notes of bergamot and grapefruit opening the scent you get a sharp wakening, wakes you up! gets you ready, that floats off and unveils a bouquet of floral middle notes, a welcome, a bunch of flowers.
and leaving a woody musk smell, with tonka bean, sandal wood and obviously white musk, would it be chanel without white musk,this is nice, it leaves an almost warming winter chai tea latte smell to your wrist, minus the cinnamon.....
overall, i am very excited to wear this on my travels up to london in the colder months, sit on the train in my big winter coats, and hold my wrist to my nose and lose myself in a world of croissants in paris and shows at the moulin rouge.
