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.
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.
Olfastory’s review
Perfume Shrine: the perfect all-purpose fragrance
Elena Vosnaki, in July 2024, is not an ardent admirer of Crystal Noir but understands its appeal: it wears effortlessly. A white flower hidden in a soft cocoon gives an impression of thick cream; the announced gardenia, she does not distinguish, rather grated coconut, milky woods.
She sees in it a warm towel, worthy of a spa, and yet strangely sexy: the fragrance for day and night, for almost every woman, armor for the shy one, alibi for the bold one. The visuals, languid women beneath men in the manner of Tom Ford, strike her as a bit vulgar.