Versace · 2004 · Antoine Lie

Crystal Noir

Premium$$$, 3 of 5

The houseFor women

Spicy cardamom, pepper and ginger over creamy gardenia, peony and orange flower, settling into warm amber, sandalwood and musk.

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When you spray ittop notes

As it settlesheart notes

What staysdry-down notes

Crystal Noir’s scent picture, a draft: cardamom, black pepper, ginger, gardenia, peony, orange flower drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

When you spray ittop notes

Crystal Noir, when you spray it: Cardamom, Black pepper, Ginger

As it settlesheart notes

Crystal Noir, as it settles: Gardenia, Peony, Orange flower

What staysdry-down notes

Crystal Noir, what stays: Amber, Sandalwood, Musk, Coumarin (new-mown hay)

What’s inside it

What the label names

10 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

1 citrus1 herbs & lavender5 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

3 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell3

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Crystal NoirVersace · shares cardamom, black pepper, ginger, gardenia and 4 more$158 for 90 ml
Drunk LoversBORNTOSTANDOUT · shares cardamom, black pepper, ginger, sandalwood and 1 more$320 for 100 ml
Detour NoirAl Haramain · shares cardamom, black pepper, gardenia, sandalwood and 1 more$19.05 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Crystal Noir’s $115
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Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.