Magie Noire 1978 Eau de Toilette

Magie Noire (Eau de Toilette) by Lancôme
Bottle Design Pierre Dinand
We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.
7.7 / 10 314 Ratings
A popular perfume by Lancôme for women, released in 1978. The scent is spicy-oriental. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
Pronunciation
We may earn a commission when you buy from links on our site, including the eBay Partner Network and Amazon.

Main accords

Spicy
Oriental
Floral
Chypre
Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes Top Notes
BlackcurrantBlackcurrant Green notesGreen notes BergamotBergamot HyacinthHyacinth RaspberryRaspberry
Heart Notes Heart Notes
HoneyHoney NarcissusNarcissus Oriental roseOriental rose Ylang-ylangYlang-ylang IrisIris JasmineJasmine Lily of the valleyLily of the valley TuberoseTuberose
Base Notes Base Notes
OakmossOakmoss PatchouliPatchouli CastoreumCastoreum BenzoinBenzoin CivetCivet MuskMusk VetiverVetiver

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.7314 Ratings
Longevity
8.4239 Ratings
Sillage
7.8225 Ratings
Bottle
7.0224 Ratings
Value for money
7.645 Ratings
Submitted by Sani, last update on 08.04.2024.

Reviews

19 in-depth fragrance descriptions
10
Bottle
10
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
Sonnenwende

10 Reviews
Translated Show original Show translation
Sonnenwende
Sonnenwende
Top Review 42  
My magical dream
When Magie noire was launched in 1978, I was still a student, wearing a dark dress with mystical paintings almost daily and reading Tolkien, while the scent of incense sticks was wafting through my room.
For the first time I saw the advertisement for the fragrance in a magazine and thought: that's the name of the perfume I want to buy.
Instead I wore viscous patchouli from India and a musk scent from the drugstore.
It was to be three years before I actually met Magie noire and I knew that I wanted to wear this scent.
It was a dull autumn morning when a classmate entered the classroom and ended the sadness with an opulent, sweet-spicy cloud.
When I asked about her fragrance, it came like a gentle purr over her lips:
Maahschie nuarrre.
During the pre-Christmas period we planned a one-week study trip to Heidelberg.
We rented a youth hostel and moved into a room with six girls.
The first days were tightly organized and left no time for activities of their own, but the fourth day left room for a stroll through the city.
We were all looking forward to it, because everyone had a little pocket money with them.
In the night I slept restlessly and heard wolves howling in my dreams.
That I hadn't dreamed turned out the next morning.
Our hostel was next to a zoo and the wolves had met on the full moon for a rendezvous.
I finally took this as an omen to visit a perfumery in the city and to fulfill my long-awaited wish.
30 ml of precious liquid.
On the last evening we all met for a cosy get-together in the party room of the house.
We had a few nice, carefree hours.
The evil awakening followed on the return to the room.
One of us had forgotten to lock the room and my friends looked stunned into their empty wallets.
Bitter tears flowed.
There wasn't much more to get from me.
Fortunately I found my treasure undamaged in the culture bag.
Since then I have known that one should not wait too long to invest in what is dear to one's heart.

I still love this fragrance.
I find it difficult to recognize individual notes.
Very quickly everything combines into a delicious composition.
Black currant and raspberry I suspect in dried form.
Green notes and hyacinth are already in liaison with honey at the beginning, which contributes with a pleasant sweetness until the end.
Flowery accents of ylang ylang and rose I take was, not inconspicuous followed by patchouli and oakmoss.
The shelf life is terrific.
Even after 24 hours I take a spicy sweetness on the skin was.
The Sillage is, as already mentioned at the beginning, also above average.
Sure, the scent changed after its reformulation.
Its power has become softer and quieter.
Yeah, well... maybe that's why we're a good match.
10 Comments
6
Bottle
9
Longevity
8
Scent
KJV

4 Reviews
Translated Show original Show translation
KJV
KJV
Top Review 28  
Gossip from yesterday... or the exception to the rule?
How many times have I already written that I give a wide berth to new editions of the fragrance favourites of my youth, because I don't want to have my memories ruined?

All talk of yesterday Well camouflaged in a completely new outfit, the new edition of Magic Noire has smuggled itself onto my wrist in our small town miller. Don't ask me how this could have happened to me, because the prayer wheel that is supposed to protect my favorites from times long gone and the memories in my brain connected with them is still rotating reliably Actually
And then this bitch sneaks onto my wrist and the tangy dark scent sneaks straight into my brain and I immediately see the old bottle in front of me (which I already hated at the time), in my parents' bathroom at times when I wasn't even a teenager. Pure time travel. I wasn't old enough for this fragrance, my mother didn't even have to tell me. Maybe that's what saves me the scent into today - I didn't wear it myself, unlike the scents that were "hip" when I was a real teenager like Opium and Poison and with which I had my own experiences separated from my parents' house.

Did I recognize him?
It feels more like a rich slap in the face - for forgetting that scent that even the name didn't truncate me...
I have earned this slap in the face, because Magie Noire proves to me at least that there are new editions that manage to recall images and feelings in my brain that I no longer have in my conscious memory.

That was almost a year ago. After the hot summer 2019 it was the end of September so far that I took a sprayed strip home with me where it disappeared in the nirvana between sofa and wall and scented the living room for 2 days before we did some major cleaning and fished it out in the usual "black hole" between felt thousands of cat toys. He was then allowed to continue to smell elsewhere, and indeed, 13 days after spraying (!!!!) I still noted that the strip still smells fantastic.
In my own notes I still tell myself at that time that there are modern, new fragrances and I shouldn't stop there, especially since I really had a lot of exclusive fragrances to test at that time. But I started to doubt, especially since many "exclusive" fragrances really disappointed me and I hadn't found this dark-bitter edge yet.

The next skin test was inevitable. And again, Magic Noire completely picked me up. Now no longer as a memory scent, but rather as an oriental with edge and that little bit of animalism that makes a scent really erotic. What all the specimens and bottlings I had tested in the meantime in this direction could not fulfill - but maybe I was on the wrong track in my search?

Now is the time. A 10ml filling arrived and I can hardly keep my hands off it, although the filling was more of a "surcharge"
In order to turn this purely emotional personal description of the situation into a reasonably decent comment, I would like to say:
Yes, this is a "Wummser" old school with high complexity, maybe even a typical example of an oriental chypre (this is rather for chypre fans to judge), the animalics are soft but charming, everything very well balanced.
Durability is great, I can't judge Sillage.
Also for the current version I recommend a low dosage - could still spray a ticking too much eroticism at the workplace.

Conclusion: Great fragrance, also in the new edition. Please dispense discreetly - otherwise it will be weird or cheap.
9 Comments
8
Bottle
8
Sillage
9
Longevity
10
Scent
Schwälbchen

21 Reviews
Translated Show original Show translation
Schwälbchen
Schwälbchen
Very helpful Review 24  
The secret place
Summer, sun milk, children laughing at the lake... A beautiful but also exhausting day is coming to an end. Patient mother's hands caress the tired children's souls to sleep. The headaches have been with me all day now and are draining my strength. Finally it dawns and Aurora bathes the world in gentle light.
Now I own the time. And magic Noire.

You start bitter, but not loud, but almost tender. You have a bitterness in you that makes me think of missed opportunities. A little later the honey spreads silently on my skin - it reconciles with fate. Now this smell hardly changes with me anymore. Its calm radiance seems to descend into lower frequencies over time. It is difficult for me to filter out the individual components of my magic Noire. But I don't really want that either. I close my eyes, take a deep breath - the scent fills me. I let go.

Magic Noire - dark green velvet on my skin.
Magic Noire - a fragrance as beautiful and mysterious as the woman wearing it.
Magic Noire - Self-conception and serenity.
Magic Noire - you are my secret place.
Mon amour.
4 Comments
8
Bottle
8
Sillage
10
Longevity
10
Scent
Amberfreak

9 Reviews
Translated Show original Show translation
Amberfreak
Amberfreak
Very helpful Review 20  
Charlotte Rampling / Perfection
I became attentive to the precious composition in late teenage years through my girlfriend. She was pretty much the only one of all acquaintances who had a way to capture this scent. The mother of the girlfriend was a well-known best gynaecologist, money smearing was forbidden but in other not verifiable form even very desirable and so the mother of my girlfriend and thus also the girlfriend compulsively flaconenweise came to this dream fragrance. It looked good with her friend, who looked just like young Charlotte Rampling and the admirers beduzelt by her and / or magic noir lay at her feet, piles by piles. Once I was also allowed to absorb some of the precious liquid, I was immediately blown away. But at that time there was NO way to get this treasure, so I resigned, but the scent remained firmly chiselled in my memory. Well, a good 30 years later, I suddenly erased this longing without effort and without horrendous expenses.

It is said that it has been reformulated, but I recognize the fragrance immediately and the thrill of teenagerhood (including endless endless possibilities) comes up immediately. A short sniff alone gives you at least 24 hours of euphoria all around. What do I care about the notes, as long as the composition is perfect and speaks directly into the soul, yes makes me happy on the spot ;-)

A useless commentary - but the perfection of the scents makes exact definition somehow superfluous...
3 Comments
Miki68

12 Reviews
Miki68
Miki68
Helpful Review 10  
Truly magical
How wonderful it used to be once upon a time! Even now it's not bad, just more diluted, definitely oak moss was removed from the list of ingredients. The original formula of Magie Noir is phenomenal, heavy, mysterious, full of colors and very elegant. At first it is very compact and dense, but after the first moment that seems a bit harsh, unfolds slowly until the mixture becomes smooth and velvety in the base.
It starts quite grassy and aromatic and has from the start much charisma. A strong and vital smell, moist, almost cold. I am sorry for do not feel tuberose, rose instead is perceptible and take a breath with almost ethereal daffodil flowers over an animal-spice mixture. Flower power decreases over time and remains a hot mixture of resin and powdered spices. It is a perfume for strong women but with gentle soul
3 Comments
More reviews

Statements

1 short view on the fragrance
CumulnimbusCumulnimbus 2 years ago
8
Scent
A statement perfume for strong personalities even in this edt version. Thick spicy oriental chypre. A lot of everything, no guilt or regret
0 Comments

Charts

This is how the community classifies the fragrance.
Pie Chart Radar Chart

Images

62 fragrance photos of the community
More images

Popular by Lancôme

La Nuit Trésor à la Folie by Lancôme La Nuit Trésor L'Eau de Parfum by Lancôme Poême (Eau de Parfum) by Lancôme Ôud Bouquet by Lancôme La Vie est Belle L'Eau de Parfum by Lancôme Idôle by Lancôme Jasmins Marzipane by Lancôme Hypnôse (Eau de Parfum) by Lancôme Hypnôse Homme (Eau de Toilette) by Lancôme La Nuit Trésor Nude by Lancôme Iris Dragées by Lancôme Trésor (1990) (Eau de Parfum) by Lancôme Miracle (Eau de Parfum) by Lancôme Trésor Midnight Rose by Lancôme Idôle L'Intense by Lancôme Lavandes Trianon by Lancôme Figues & Agrumes by Lancôme Cuir de Lancôme by Lancôme Ô de Lancôme (Eau de Toilette) by Lancôme La Vie est Belle L'Absolu by Lancôme