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Crystal Noir

Crystal Noir is the feminine eau de toilette Antoine Lie composed in 2004 for Versace, before Bright Crystal and Yellow Diamond. Floral oriental for the house: blackcurrant, black fig and violet in the top notes, tuberose, frangipani and jasmine in the heart, sandalwood, cashmeran, vanilla and heliotropin in the base. Elena Vosnaki sees it as the perfect all-purpose scent, twenty years on. Jewel bottle in garnet glass with a diamond-cut cap.

Brand
Versace
Launch year
2004
Perfumer
Gender
Women
Olfactory family
Oriental
Secondary family
Floral
Concentration
Eau de Toilette
EAN
8018365071469 (90 ml)

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Versace describes Crystal Noir as a magical, sensual, precious and delicate fragrance, an ultra-feminine oriental, deliberately minimalist to showcase the elegance of the materials: black fig and blackcurrant in the opening, tuberose and frangipani in the heart, sandalwood and cashmeran in the base, in a jewel bottle with diamond facets.

The Versace woman

The house, through its channels, draws the woman it is intended for: presence, head held high, enigmatic smile, self-assured, enamored with the splendor of the couture spirit, wanting a fragrance as sumptuous as the train of an evening gown, a red-carpet fragrance faceted like a diamond. Wikiparfum echoes this portrait.

Elena Vosnaki, on Perfume Shrine, notes in 2024 that Crystal Noir, a millennial child at Versace, keeps returning across every enthusiast’s collection, whatever their sensibility: the quintessential all-purpose fragrance, for day as for night, which in her view explains twenty years of unabated success.

Three concentrations, an eau de toilette apart

The Scentaur notes that the eau de toilette differs from the 2004 eau de parfum: lighter, fruitier and more floral, with tuberose, frangipani, violet, blackcurrant and fig, while the eau de parfum keeps the creamy gardenia, coconut and spices. The Versace fact sheet, relayed by retailers, confirms this reading.

Olfactory pyramid

  1. Top notesThe first minutes
  2. Heart notesThe heart of the perfume
  3. Base notesWhat lingers

What critics say

Vosnaki (Perfume Shrine) is not an ardent admirer of it but understands its all-purpose appeal: thick cream, coconut, milky woods, clean musks, worthy of a spa and yet sexy.

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