Since its drop, Cé Noir has been met with blended evaluations — some take pleasure in it, others aren’t enthralled, and much more are glad that one thing they spent almost $200 on with out smelling has a pleasant scent. I’m not loopy in love. Right here’s why.

Packaging

Cé Noir is available in a hefty field with a chrome silver slipcover embossed with the identify of the perfume. Take away it to disclose a white field with a silver mirror circle. Open that up, and nestled in its personal holder, you’ll discover the bottle.

The colour of Beyonce’s Renaissance period is silver and Cé Noir is outfitted completely on theme. The bottle is totally chrome, with Artwork Deco-style structure topped off by a half-moon cap. The again of the bottle has a small round window, which Beyonce calls “the soul of the fragrance,” so you’ll be able to see the juice inside.

Whereas the bottle itself has some good weight to it, the cap doesn’t really feel as heavy, nor does the plastic stand the bottle is meant to relaxation in when it’s displayed in your self-importance. The stand, by the way in which, frivolous although it might appear, really seems to be cool when it’s on show. I’m conserving it.

Longevity

For $200, you’d higher be getting one thing with endurance and Cé Noir has that. After I wore it, I sprayed it on my garments and my pores and skin. The scent lasted virtually a full work day for me, round seven hours. Should you like scents that shortly evaporate (hey, some persons are into that), this isn’t for you. If you put on Cé Noir, you’ll be smelling all of it day lengthy.

My Trustworthy Ideas

Upon first spritz, I smelled a heavy burst of citrus, candy and tart, with a bouquet of roses simply lingering within the background. Because the clementine mellowed, the honey observe is what stood out to my nostril. It’s candy, however not cloying. It’s like precise honey in that it provides taste — as it will to your tea — to the general scent.

As soon as Cé Noir dried down on my pores and skin, I may scent the roses very distinctly and the sweetness of the honey lingered ever so barely. It’s nice — and acquainted. It immediately jogged my memory of Parfums de Marly’s best-selling Delina perfume, although Beyonce’s is a bit more punchy with the rose, which comes throughout a bit sharp and astringent to my nostril with the clementine. Some Attract editors likened Cé Noir to Maison Francis Kurkdjian’s TikTok-famous Baccarat Rouge 540 by way of sweetness.