Fragrance Couture
Code Black Gold Intense
Eau de Toilette · 100 ml
$20
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From our own shelf: sold under its own name by the house that made it.
How it smells
Mapped on twelve accords, from the box.
We haven't put this one on skin yet — no scores, no measured numbers until we do. What the house publishes:
Fragrance Couture Code Black Gold Intense Eau de Toilette, 3.4 oz (100 ml). A fragrance in the leather amber family. Top notes: Incense, Raspberry, Saffron and Pear. Heart notes: Rose, Musk and Orange Blossom. Base notes: Oud and Leather.
Decoded from the note list the house publishes.
Top notes
First 15 minutesIncense
Resin / balsam
Smoke of burning resin — dry and sacred.
Raspberry
Fruit
Tart red berry — sweet with a violet-like edge.
Saffron
Spice
Stigma of the crocus — leathery, sweet-medicinal, warm.
Pear
Fruit
Soft, dewy fruit with a fresh-cut sweetness.
Heart notes
The next few hoursRose
Floral
Petal-rich flower — honeyed, green, sometimes jammy.
Musk
Musk
Skin-warm base — soft, clean, radiant.
Orange Blossom
Floral
White flower — honeyed, soapy-clean, citrus-adjacent.
Base notes
What's left at the endOud
Wood
Agarwood — dense, animalic, medicinal, barnyard-warm.
Leather
Leather / smoke
Tanned hide accord — smoky, dry, a little sweet.
Note list as published by the house. Descriptions explain the raw material itself — not how this bottle performed on us.
What our shelf has learned
From 324 bottles and 21 logged wears in our own register.
How these notes have behaved on us across every bottle we've worn — not a measurement of this bottle.
- Muskon 93 of our bottles, 3 wornoften sits with Vanilla, Amber, Bergamot
- Orange Blossomon 36 of our bottles, 3 wornoften sits with Vanilla, Tonka Bean, Jasmine
- Pearon 38 of our bottles, 2 wornoften sits with Patchouli, Vanilla, Jasmine
- Roseon 39 of our bottles, 1 wornoften sits with Jasmine, Amber, Vanilla
- Leatheron 27 of our bottles, 1 wornoften sits with Bergamot, Lavender, Patchouli
- Saffronon 25 of our bottles, 1 wornoften sits with Jasmine, Patchouli, Ambergris
No measured longevity or projection logged yet.
Counted live from our register and wear logs.