Versace
Crystal Noir
Crystal Noir is a dazzlingly fresh floral fragrance signed Versace. It opens on pepper, ginger and cardamom, reveals gardenia, orange blossom and amber at its heart and rests on a base of sandalwood, white musk and amber.
Main accords
Pyramid & evolution
Unofficial sources Data drawn from unofficial sources, not from the house: this pyramid (like the year and gender shown) may contain discrepancies.
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Opening First minutes
Pepper · Ginger · Cardamom
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Heart ~30 min to 2 h
Gardenia · Orange blossom · Amber
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Base Several hours
Sandalwood · White musk · Amber
Heart notes
Base notes
What its composition says
- 3 materials on top, 3 in the heart, 2 in the base: the three stages are of comparable size.
- Gardenia: its rarest material, which only 45 of the 1,980 perfumes analysed in the catalogue contain — about one in 44.
- White musk: conversely, one of the most widely used materials in the catalogue — 50% of the analysed perfumes contain it.
- Spicy, floral, woody, musky and amber: 5 registers of raw materials share its palette, with spicy supplying 3 of 8.
Frequencies measured on the Olfact catalogue only.
Scent profile
Estimates derived from the composition — not measured.
Wear time
Good
7 to 9 h estimated on skin
Projection
Generous
fills a room
Ideal seasons
Time of day
Made for cool to cold weather — below 15 °C (59 °F).
Ideal occasions
- Evenings & nights out A present trail that holds its own when the light drops.
Avoid if…
- you shun warm, opulent trails, especially in summer.
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