Black Dianthus 2013

Black Dianthus by Il Profvmo
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Black Dianthus is a perfume by Il Profvmo for women and men and was released in 2013. The scent is spicy-earthy. It is being marketed by Valmont Group.
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Main accords

Spicy
Earthy
Floral
Green
Resinous

Fragrance Notes

Black thyme Smoky notesSmoky notes Woody notesWoody notes Black cherryBlack cherry BelladonnaBelladonna

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
5.414 Ratings
Longevity
7.011 Ratings
Sillage
6.311 Ratings
Bottle
6.616 Ratings
Submitted by ExUser, last update on 10.09.2022.

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Mlleghoul

350 Reviews
Mlleghoul
Mlleghoul
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bitter brew & strange green flame
I first read Black Dianthus described on EauMG's blog as a witch's brew of a scent, and being an-all-or-nothing person regarding potential holy grail witchy fragrances, I bypassed a sample and bought an entire bottle. This was in 2017. I sniffed it once, thought, eh, it's fine, and never wore it again. I saw it glaring at me balefully from the shadowy recesses of my perfume cabinet recently and thought that perhaps it was time to give this one another try...and I am so glad that I did. Black Dianthus officially only lists notes of black dianthus, which is I believe carnation, in addition to licorice, and vetiver, but what I smell is a bitter brew of bracken and moss, tannic, leathery bark, and peppery hemlock leaf littering the damp forest floor, the sour fruit of burst baneberries, and spiced smoke spiraling from the cauldron where this potion hisses and sputters over a strange, green flame.
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Bottle
6
Sillage
7
Longevity
7
Scent
Annarosa

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Annarosa
Annarosa
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Black magic or bitter old witch a la "Blue Gras"?
"Wow, how extraordinary, how interesting!"
"Something unprecedented,"
"Great for the summer! Imagine: you have a slightly bitter, black, ethereal aura around you. Like a witch," I raved about 2 months ago in front of my girlfriend.
She had no sympathy for my enthusiasm. "He won't touch my skin" she could only say. Her rebuttal was noticeable to her. "She just doesn't know her way around perfumes. Or is just not their taste," I thought to myself. I know my way around that, don't I? ¶)

Still full of enthusiasm at home to my son: " Smell this. Isn't that nice?" "As nice as an old couch," was the answer. Hmmm, no one in this house understands the high art of perfume.

The day before yesterday I finally got myself a bottling, sprayed it on for the second time yesterday (the first time I thought I was snuffed): and...my enthusiasm disappeared somehow in the air. The fragrance is simply BITTER, sober and simply bitter. And yet unpleasant. And very quiet. So that hardly anyone can smell your scent aura when you wear it. Maybe for the best?

To be precise, it develops like this:

first minutes after spraying: slightly sweet, bitter chocolate aroma spreads. It fills like a patch, but there's nobody inside. It's a mixture of liquorice and rhubarb. I don't know, either. Fruity I can call the fragrance to no point.

After about 10 minutes, the fragrance becomes bitter, bitter-hyacin, bitter-smoky, bitter-synthetic-smoky.... Very unusual, but not pleasant at any moment when you smell directly on the skin,

and indirectly, already 30 cm away, one hardly reaches anything of the smell, I have at least the feeling that my family confirms. What a pity, because I was hoping for the magic effect at a distance.

After about 5 hours, the fragrance passes into its base. The base is not uncomfortable. The scent becomes sweeter and softer, thyme sends greetings.

More bitter old witch than black magic. But definitely unisex.

Possible customers: lovers of "good" old classics "Blue Gras". Both go, it seems to me, in a similar direction, both are quite "bitter". But "Blue Gras" seems unacceptable to me, because it is scratchy and synthetic in its appearance. "Black Diantus" is a relief compared to "Blue Grass", definitely not scratchy, softer and more portable, but no less bitter.

I'll leave the grade as it is. You can't deny the originality of the fragrance. And maybe I should give it another chance? Let's see.

All in all, the fragrance is no longer a potential buyer for me at the moment
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