Beyoncé’s Cé Noir Fragrance Is Not What We Expected

Since its drop, Cé Noir has been met with combined critiques — 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 fragrance. 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 era is silver and Cé Noir is outfitted completely on theme. The bottle is absolutely 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 vainness. The stand, by the way in which, frivolous although it might appear, truly seems cool when it’s on show. I’m protecting 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 nearly a full work day for me, round seven hours. If you happen to like scents that shortly evaporate (hey, some individuals are into that), this isn’t for you. If you put on Cé Noir, you’ll be smelling all of it day lengthy.

MY HONEST THOUGHTS

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 notice 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 could to your tea — to the general scent.

As soon as Cé Noir dried down on my pores and skin, I may odor 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 fragrance, 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.