Cuir Noir Giorgio Armani for women and men

Sooooo disappointed in this one. No leather, No oud. Only vanilla. That's it. Nothing special about This vanilla either. Boring and too vanilla-y with nothing else!!

Could be confused with cheap designer fragrance.

I fell in love with this unique and mysterious one. Once again Armani Privé surprised me.
I happen to have a spare couple of it and am willing to sell them, if interested please mail me on alexis_dps@yahoo.fr
Cheers

My father used melted stannary and resin to glue together small metal parts of broken machines. I used to love to see how the metal melts and the resin melts and evaporates into a wonderful perfume. The melted resin is what this perfume reminds me of.
It smells a little bit like a toned down incense blended with sandalwood and rose oil. It's a beautiful oriental, not as powerful as I would expect of it but is has good staying power.
If only it were a little bit cheaper... :-

Its name is definitely misleading. A beautiful smell which is TOO soft and stays close to the skin.You have to make an effort to smell it. Smells warm and slightly dark, and i find it terribly linear. I can only smell some oud and guiac. Not worth the prive price tag. I was expecting a strong heady fragrance sexy and dark like the rest of the line but this is a tamed almost "enslaved" fragrance.fail.

The leather here is more implied for me, it's not as obvious as something like Tom Ford's 'Tuscan Leather', it's much more intricate; something you analyse, and then think 'leather'. Oud most definitely - it's an homage to the Arabian night. I really like it now, thinking back to my sampling of it. It's very dark, but perhaps not as heavy as Oud Royal. It is a unique interpretation of an increasingly ubiquitous ingredient, but perhaps in that respect, it's attempting to profit from the 'Private Collection/Blend/Range/Line/etc.etc.etc...' movement. As the modern market shifts from Western dominance to the rising East, fragrances like this (which cater more to their tastes) will become ever more.