Fragrance Couture
Player Noir
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 Player Noir, 3.4 oz (100 ml). A fragrance in the woody gourmand family. Top notes: Iced Mango, Lemon and Mandarin. Heart notes: Silver Armoise and Jasmine. Base notes: Cedar, Tonka Bean and Patchouli.
Decoded from the note list the house publishes.
Top notes
First 15 minutesIced Mango
Fruit
Ripe tropical fruit — thick, sweet, resinous.
Lemon
Citrus
Cold-pressed lemon peel — sharp, clean, very short-lived.
Mandarin
Citrus
Soft, sweet small citrus — gentler than lemon.
Heart notes
The next few hoursSilver Armoise
Aromatic / herbal
Listed by the house on the box.
Jasmine
Floral
White flower — indolic, heady, slightly animalic.
Base notes
What's left at the endCedar
Wood
Dry pencil-shaving wood — clean and sharp.
Tonka Bean
Sweet / gourmand
Almond, hay and vanilla in one bean.
Patchouli
Wood
Leaf — earthy, damp, slightly camphorous.
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.
- Patchoulion 86 of our bottles, 6 wornoften sits with Vanilla, Bergamot, Amber
- Lemonon 44 of our bottles, 5 wornoften sits with Bergamot, Amber, Oakmoss
- Mandarinon 37 of our bottles, 4 wornoften sits with Bergamot, Vanilla, Lavender
- Jasmineon 89 of our bottles, 3 wornoften sits with Vanilla, Bergamot, Musk
- Tonka Beanon 63 of our bottles, 3 wornoften sits with Vanilla, Bergamot, Orange Blossom
- Cedaron 57 of our bottles, 3 wornoften sits with Bergamot, Vanilla, Amber
No measured longevity or projection logged yet.
Counted live from our register and wear logs.