Angélique Noire

I am trying to train my nose to this fragrance. I have a decant and I am struggling to understand where the vanilla is that people are smelling. It is straight up GREEN and caraway to me, I don't get any vanilla. I am not a gourmand person, so I am not searching for anything sugary sweet in this, just don't get any vanilla. I adore Mon Guerlain. Anyway, I will keep it around and test every few months to see if I can eventually get it. I want to understand the hype!

Well this was a disappointment for me.. When I first tried it on paper my first thought was "hm, it's supposed to be interesting". This is the first Guerlain with heavy vanilla note that I tried, so I was kind of shocked because it's a very generic type of vanilla for me. And then I tried it on my skin...which was unfortunately way worse.The vanilla fades away for me within the first 20 mins and all i get is a sharp green note that's piercing through my brain no matter what. Sad.

Angelique Noire...Beautiful! It is like being at the Bodleian Library in Oxford and someone opens a window and the scent of freshly cut grass wafts in. Well, this is the feeling I get. The Scent has awakened something in me. It evokes my memory of Oxford long ago in my 20s. No, I have never been to the Bod, but this is the vision i get. My friend recommended this perfume to me because he said it was like a library with the window open, and it could be my signature scent. Shit! Why am I so poor and can't afford a full bottle??! Has my search ended? Have I found the one?

Makes me think of an antique vanity in an abandoned house, slowly being reclaimed by ivy and greenery around it. It's a rather beautiful ethereal herbal, powdery vanilla while maintaining just the right balance between elegance and freshness. It's soft and refined without being too sharp. The projection is fairly good, and it even lingered on my clothes after several days of travelling around Paris. It is a strong contender for a gorg signature scent for sure.

Wonderful perfume! Warm, feminine and complex. Love wearing this in the evening!

Beautiful! I love Cuir Beluga the most but this definitely projects stronger than Cuir and smells differently. In the opening I get this vanilla / banana-esque scent. Very clean, musky, and gorgeous. Imagine a vanilla scented body wash mixed with a powdery green unripe banana. Later dries down even more into a powdery sweet vanilla, warm and calming. Love it!

At first, you get pear and vanilla—really good pear and vanilla. Personally, I would have thought pear would be strange, but it’s blended so well with the vanilla; it’s so warm and cozy and, honestly, just a confidence booster. it gets even better in the dry-down, because angelica takes over from the pear, creating one of the best dry-downs I have ever smelled. im a man and this fits me so well, and you can wear it year around, unless its a hot summerday

I can't dissect or analyze this - I just have to take it as it is. It's gorgeous - a soft, vanilla, and deeply sexy scent. Wish I could afford more that a sample!

Oh wow. This might be one of the best things I've ever smelled. It reminds me a bit of the Greek dessert Galaktoboureko, without ever veering cloying or overly sweet. I'm usually not the biggest fan of vanilla, but here the greenness of the angelica adds the perfect edge. All the notes come together in this beautiful symphony, bringing out the best in each other. It's just blended so, so well. I can't stop sniffing myself. Perfection.

Stunning. Apparently, according to the masses this is a “gorgeous, and green vanilla”. Well, lets just say this triggers some nausea if you’ve had any minor inconveniences during the day while you happened to wear this but in the oh-so elegant Guerlain way ! Very Je Ne Sais Quoi because the Angelica here mixed with the caraway does in fact make it a gorgeous vanilla that does smell pricey. Bold but still much safer compared to Guerlain’s century old classics.

fresh opening, floral and with a bit of grass scent, airy and pleasant, and you get powdery sweetness later, expected way more

There's absolutely nothing like this fragrance. It's like rolling around in cupcake frosting and grass. Imagine baking the perfect vanilla cake at home and you catch a waft of your neighbor's freshly cut lawn through the window. I know that's a weird combo, but that's exactly what it smells like to me and it somehow works. It's blended incredibly well where you can't tell whether you're smelling the green or the vanilla first.

Genuinely disgusting. Sweet and powdery. Makes me gag.

i can’t pinpoint it, but something is interacting with the angelica that makes this so nauseating to me. it makes the back of my throat itch, i love all of the notes but this just doesn’t appeal to me. disappointing but i can see the appeal

Powdery, vanillic, musky and somewhere hidden in there is a touch of a soft citrus. Feels more feminine to me. I think this is really pleasant but not for me.

This one is nice, but the best one for me is cuir beluga,, I can’t stop sniffing myself, cuir is just a bit deeper comforting but still expressive smelling, this one is fresher.

the best guerlain

Maybe this is an unpopular opinion but this smells so sexy and feminine. Great fragrance for "sexy time" (ps: I don't find l'interdit rouge or hypnotic poison sexy. They are just strong overwhelming perfumes)

i am not a consumer of mainstream luxury brands. i became interested in guerlain because of their beautiful bottles but then i began reading about the l’art & matière scents. after a sample set i fell deeply in love with this scent. the bitterness of the angelica sits perfectly beside the vanilla, the sweetness of jasmine, the light fruit of the pear and the spice of pepper. it’s a perfectly elegant and balanced scent. i wear it at any time i please. it is spicy and warm for cold weather and just light, fruity and close enough for warm weather. it really is a remarkable scent.

Angelique Noir smells like does and do not smell like Dama Bianca. It also has a Bain de Caron vibe to it too but smoother. To me they all small related. Caron being the first and then Angelique noir took inspiration from that but MUCH MUCH more refined and high end. Then here comes Dama Bianca last seeing hold my cup watch this lmao. Dama did not do a great job at replicating it but the effort was noticed lol. That’s how I feel about that. Now moving on to Angelique noir. It truly is beautiful. The Angelica really is magical in this vanilla scent. I actually do adore it. It is an adult vanilla for sure. Not cute. Very grown and elegant.

An absolutely stunning fragrance. It took me a few months after buying my sample to give it a chance as I was comparing it to Diptyque Eau Duelle EDT, my fave of the moment, and finding it too different/somehow lacking. I put it away then on impulse tried it again and took it on holiday. Something about this scent got under my skin and into my brain and I fell hard in love with it. A week after my holiday, my 2ml sample exhausted, I bought a 100ml bottle. The colour of my 2025 bottle is lighter than the 2023 sample I had, so I think it will take time for it to deepen into the vanilla heaven I have become used to. But it has become my signature fragrance, and I am completely obsessed. I love it so much. I have found The One.

I have no idea why it’s taken me so long to try this but I’m so glad I have. Absolutely beautiful fragrance. She just draws me in the dry down is divine, soft , elegant and airy. Signature scent worthy

I understand now why people describe this perfume as haunting. This perfume immediately intrigued me because it felt airy, green, powdery, and unlike anything I had smelled before. I kept going back to my wrist, which is usually a sign for me that something is special. I was more curious about this perfume than any other I have ever sprayed. The dry down is where this fragrance shines. After an hour it turned into this soft, elegant, powdery vanilla that feels refined rather than sweet. The transitions in this perfume are unlike anything I have experienced before. It has a soft, dreamlike quality that I find incredibly intriguing and comforting at the same time. This doesn’t smell like a trendy vanilla perfume. It smells artistic, textured, and emotionally evocative. My only complaint is that I wish it projected more and lasted longer because I could honestly wear this every day if it had a little more presence. This gorgeous perfume is where addictions are made. I absolutely love it. Now I just need to figure out how to afford a bottle.

A beautiful green vanilla, carried by a soft, powdery note that seems to last forever on my skin. I absolutely adore the angelica here. It gives the fragrance that elegant, slightly herbal lift: refined, luminous, and quietly distinctive. I’m a huge fan of the L’Art & La Matière line (not every single one, but many of them) and I’d love to be able to afford several bottles. Alas, my wallet is not quite that generous. This one, however, will definitely find its way into my wardrobe one day.

Absolute love for me as the pure fan of the Guerlain house. I adore the sweetness and green notes of Angelica. The perfume is aromatic, sensual, and soft. It surrounds you with its feminine (in a good sense and not explicit) character. I own and wear this masterpiece since 2014. The old bottles with the pomp were leaking a little and were poorly transferable, including by plane. This is the fourth bottle I own for now and for me it seems that the formula has not changed significantly since 2014. The perfume has longevity and I feel it from my skin even the day after use. I think this is due to my personal compatibility with the Guerlain perfumes 😌 So, I love it deeply, 10/10

SO glad I bought a decant first! This is a very green/herbal vanilla, barely a true vanilla at all, let’s be honest (true vanilla to me is pure vanilla extract or vanilla pods/beans) This smells like weeds in the field in summer. Literally as if the perfume was made of mugwort! It’s unique, yes, but headache inducing for me.

Green vanilla . I love the Velvety beautiful Guerlain DNA in this perfume. Reminds me of creed sublime vanilla .

just can't believe how perfect she is everytime I smell her, and we're together since 2021. perfectly green. perfect vanilla. hot and cold. I'm very picky, still she is absolutely flawless. just purrrrr-fect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Compliement magnet! Green, warm yet distant vanilla. Smells like a good day that you'll remember till your last breath. Special thank to youtuber Miss Derya, @parfumledance at London now! to recommand me this.

People voted that this is a feminine fragrance but I think it’s very unisex. This fragrance has a sparkly aromatic top, the Angelica probably contributes to that as well as a musky and dark herbal smell (not herbal in a harsh way). It also mixes with the sweet amber notes that comes off sort of like chocolate, like how patchouli and ambers also smell like chocolate but without the earthy feel. Instead this fragrance smells clean and smooth. I love how simple but elegant this scent is and it performs really well on my skin, while it isn’t as strong as Tonka sarrapia (also not as expensive), it’s impressive and feels worth the money to me. This works with what I want when expanding my collection; because its really wearable because is doesn’t have too much resinous or syrupy sweetness. I would rather wear it during the cooler months or warmer evenings because of its dark nature. So this fragrance is a 10/10 in my opinion but Im a collector that thinks 10 fragrances is ideal for enough variety and feels like niche fragrances can really be worth the price if you want the best and do enough exploring into what you like