A work by Alberto Morillas released in 2018, Dark Lord “Ex Tenebris Lux” is Kilian’s gentleman of the night: an opening of bergamot and pepper, a jasmine drenched in rum, accords of leather and vetiver, between the shadow and light named by its Latin subtitle, in the house’s family of The Smokes.
Chemist in the Bottle finds no originality in it and judges it hardly dark for its name; Jade, for The Fandomentals, turns it into a satire with a generic leather.
What critics say
lucasai, Chemist in the Bottle, 5 February 2019
The reviewer at Chemist in the Bottle, who signs as lucasai, finds Dark Lord unoriginal, a niche cousin of Gucci Guilty Absolute by the same perfumer. Less dark than its name promises, it prompts a closing jab: “Money saved I guess”.
Jade, The Fandomentals, 8 August 2020
Jade writes a satirical column that makes Dark Lord the scent of Voldemort, reconstructed by Professor Trelawney. She mocks a leather accord she finds generic, a flat vetiver and a few shots of bottom-shelf rum.
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