Encre Noire Pour Elle Lalique for women

Hmmm, nothing like I imagine. Before sampling, judged from the bold dark bottle with beautiful engraved letters, I pictured a heavy quality night fragrance, rich, opulent and seducing.

And then I sprayed...Bleh, this smells like a commonly used detergent. Well, you know the rest of the story, erased from my wish list. LOL.

Beautiful flacon, tough!!

A forest nymph dancing in a bed of velvet roses. The vetiver keeps the roses fresh and youthful, not "old" or powdery. Cedar in the base base perfectly compliments the powerful rose note at the top. The vetiver makes this feel chillier, darker, sexier (some say gothic) frag than most Rose scents, such as Bulgari Rose Essentielle, (which is warmer, and more innocent feeling) but still ethereal. Great romantic scent for a spring evening! Sillage and holding power are phenomenal. Not an everyday scent for me, but great for days when I feel like wearing all black or something with a more romanticized, Victorian feeling to it.

It's sensual and mistycal, watery floral (most of them roses) fragrance. Quite an unusual scent.
I don't know what exactly gives so mistycal fresh impression, but IMO that should be the mixture of freesia, vetiver and kephalis - and as I saw kephalis gives warm, and rich aromas of amber and tobacco.

Overall, I like it, it's easy wearable IMO and not to ignore the sillage and longevity - both are good.

Looking at the strict black bottle with sharp lines someone could think Encre Noir is a heavy serious scent.
But there is some contradiction between black bottle with sharp lines that gives impression of some dark evening scent and the scent itself, which has actually watery -rosy notes and works more fresh than dark. And I think that's the reason of disappointment of most of you who bought Encre Noir without testing.

Started out on me with a strongly synthetic note more like artificial peony scent than anything else. Lilies came in shortly, smelling very pretty, drying with the other floral to a bright pink peony and pale white lily scent. None of the base notes showed up for me, leaving me with a very simple, linear daytime floral fragrance. There's nothing bad about it, but it's not my type of thing. I prefer more complex florals in my scent and this is very simple and basic.

i have made a big mistake by purchasing two frags on line before smelling them they were the Agent Provocatuer, and the matrisse i was so dissapointed that they smell like balls i decided to make myself feel better and i purchased this frag... at first its strong but as it settled it became soft powdery lovely and very femme i love it and i like the fact that is not very popular it makes it more special ....

For the record, I'm a man that loves this fragrance. The tension between the top notes of freesia and bergamot to the rose and musk is incredible. Its like watching groups of clouds, some moving slowly and some quickly. and I do agree with other reviews, some days I find the scent very light, while other times appears to be a more heady musk scent. ... And the reason I prefer the woman's version is because the mens Encre is too woody and has none of the excitement. For those who have been turned off to this scent when testing, give it another try on a different day!

I was very much stroken by the similarity with Tumulte, which i have and very much love.
This one is 'fresher' and a bit lighter, Tumulte has a 'depressing' edge and is much deeper. I don't find it dusty at all but then again, it may be a matter of skin chemistry. To me it is rather bright.

I complitely loved it! To me at least, it is very similar to Tumulte but I will buy it sometime.
Very ladylike, 'full' perfume, elegant and quite mature and sophisticated.
I think it's not for a woman under 25/30 but it's a modern perfume.

wanted to love it, but...
shower at 3 in the morning, - did not help!!!
O-o, the horror!!

I got Encre Noir for my husband and this one for myself. As much as I like his cologne, as much I hate the feminine Encre Noir pour Elle. I was glad when the smell was gone. Very disappointed. Too sweet, soapy, and old-lady-like... The bottle and design do not match the fragrance.
I truly wanted to like it. Alas.
So, this one goes to my mom.
She is not too picky.

I have a strange love-hate relationship with Encre Noire. One day I find it very overpowering, musky and masculine. The other day its uniqueness amazes me. It is quite unexpected for a woman's perfume so it will certainly distinguish you from the rest. It can be a nice addition to your collection for those days when you want to smell a bit out-of-ordinary.

این عطر را در فروشگاه اینترنتی والاسان در دری منزل خود تحویل بگیرید .
کافیست کلمه والاسان را در گوگل جستجو کنید .
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I can barely smell it. The second try the same result. It is very strange but the scent is definitely not for me.

The more I wear it the more I love this gothic cold beauty fragrance. Very long lasting and goes great with black clothes.
The drydown is where the perfume gets sweeter and is really beautiful.

If I were to give Encre Noire pour Elle a Sanchez/Turin-style two-word fly-by, it would be boozy detergent. Despite the apt but snipey sounding description, there are aspects of ENpE that I appreciate and like. Categorically it’s a musky, woody floral---an enormous field. In spite of the common pedigree, though, it is clever in concept and direct in execution. The various floral elements (rose, osmanthus, freesia) come together to strike one metallic note. The wood is cedar, and I suppose is a nod to the cedar-like vetiver of the original Encre Noire, but I don’t in fact smell vetiver. The musk sews it up. This is not a luscious, round, fruity or animalic musk. Not soft, not cuddly. It is glaringly bright, a bit harsh and acts as a dessicant to the florals. The dewy, fruity aspects of rose and osmanthus, and the delicate sweetness of freesia are obliterated by the musk. When magnified by the musk, the flowers become a floral eau de vie, giving that double-distilled, blanched feel.

A few points. 1) Unlike the original, ENpE does smell like ink. 2) Noire? This is so bright I see spots. 3) To make the first in a line a masculine but without a gender descriptor in the title is fine. Then to use the name of the original, adding “pour Elle” the same way one would add “light,” “fraiche,” or “sport" makes it a flanker. My issue, though, is that by extension, a woman is presented as a flanker to the universal-since-unnamed man. This boy/girl thing is only interesting if there is a twist---imagine the Rochas flanker Femme pour Lui.

I am in love with this right now. It was not love at first sniff. Then 10 minutes it got better and hours after that I could not stop inhaling my arm. With each sniff, the more I grew to love it. It starts very voilette and powder (in my opinion) and turns to a semi-sweet, warm, slightly honey-dew mixed in with freesia laying over over top of white rose petals. I am not doing a great job on the review here but I can tell you it's a beauty and it lasts for 8-10 hours in a nice strength as well. It is complex, and changes often. The quality is high and the subtle, yet intoxicating. The smell will capture the people who know and appreciate a beautifully made perfume. I have learned over the last couple of years that you can never make a decision on a perfume by the first spray. It requires thinking, appreciation and time. So glad to have it!

Wow, this stuff is really tricky and creeps up on you unexpectedly.
When I got it, i just spayed it on my hand for authenticity purposes, well after 2-3 different perfumes ( big mistake), and for the life of me I couldn't smell a thing. I gave it another spray ....still nothing. So I put it back in the box it came from and was ready to tell the seller I was returing it. The tester looked 110% authentic,so this nothingness really bothered me. What I did was I washed everything off and put it on like I usually put on a perfume: 4-5 sprays. 5-10 minutes later...wow, that was gorgeous. Yes,after all I would call it mysterious, but not in a gothic way. This scent is actually powerful and envelops you like a veil, but at the same time very airy and elusive and doesn't project like a majority of potent perfumes, because when you sniff your wrist, you can't smell anything in particular. Very beautiful dark rose, a bit soapy and powdery. Last for hours and hours without losing much of sillage.
If you want to truly experience its mystery, put it on, and don't try to spray your wrist and sniff it....because all you will get is weak watery scent.

It reminds me a lot of Rose Noire, but I can actually breath and enjoy Encre Noire wiout being smothered by chemicals.

I will write more extensively later, but for now I must admit i was one of the people who were thrown off by it's subtleness while expecting something dark, mysterious and smokey.....but I am not disappointed.

I wanted to like this perfume, but it I could barely smell it. When I sprayed this on, I smelled a very faint fruity note, like apricot, and maybe some woody amber, then I couldn't smell anything at all.

I started the topic of luxury floral/woody perfume and i got the recommendation for this!
I found from swap and yes,it gets in my favorites at once.I don't know for other reviews ,and most time i don't read ,but i can say that is fantastic rose ,rose and rose and then musk,and some woods and pepper.
It's sweet but not gourmand, i prefer it for being "luxury" by all means.

I read a few quite critical reviews from dissappointed parfume bloggers before buying this gem. They all said the same; that this perfume had nothing to do with its predecessor: Encre Noir, or with its name: "Encre Noir Pour Elle, as they found it too bright to be related to black ink. Superb blogger Grain de Musc even renamed it to "Pastel Rose" in her blog. Perhaps ironically, as the ENPE gem does have some darker facets eventhough it's not a throughout dark fragrance.

What I think was most enrageing, was the fact that when Christine Nagel got free hands to create "EN for her" she did not create the feminine version of the dark smoky EN everyone expected her to do. Instead she created a completely different fragrance. The whole thing seem to have turned into a matter of equality; like someone would have said: "Women can't drive motorbikes, let's make them a three wheel bicycle instead. And make it pink... but we'll call it a motorbike for women!". I can understand the rage as I'm an equality supporter with a motorbike driving licence (and I used to own an old BMW 750cc). And maybe this fragrance should have got a different name therefore, just to be fully appreciated for what it is.

I bought ENPE without having borrowed orginal Encre Noir from any boyfriend or even smelt it. I was completely unbiased. And when I got my 100 ml bottle I found out that I really liked Encre Noir Pour Elle in spite of (or perhaps with help of?) the reviews I just read. Just because I didn't expect it to be dark, tarry and smoky. After a few days I started to love it and since then my hand has been reaching for that big squared bottle so many times that I actually have made it my signature, which is a big and surprising thing for me.

Encre Noir Pour Elle is a woody rose fragrance with enhanced sweetness from intoxicating osmanthus and plumpness from tobacco. All resting on clean musky undertones. I'm not really a rose lover but now I'm starting to become one. I'm not really a musc lover either, but now I'm truly starting to become that as well. For my nose ENPE could have been bolder with greater projection and longevity, but I spray it on my clothes too and enjoy what I can. I also try to apply less when I use other, bolder fragrances, to make my nose even more sensitive for Encre Noir Pour Elle. If that isn't love then I don't know what love is.

On me, this is a gorgeous smoky, powdery rose. Strong, but still supremely feminine. The tobacco notes make this a little naughty, like a mysteriously sexy woman from a film noire or an old school pin up. Great staying power and sillage, and the beautiful flacon is a plus for any boudoir

When I first sprayed it on, I got a headache though. I felt so dismayed, but then I realized it could be because I was already wearing a fragrance. That night after my shower I sprayed Encre Noir on my neck and went to bed... I felt quite soft and beautiful and could not stop smelling myself as I drifted into a lovely sleep. Even better: I woke up in the morning smelling even nicer, and the fragrance lasting all through the night.

This is an absolute chiaroscuro masterpiece of scent. It brings to mind the whole of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons, or Rembrandt’s1667 painting “The Jewish Bride,” or Gerrit van Honthorst’s 1625 painting “The Matchmaker,” as it blooms on my skin. On my skin, it is a magnificently balanced, opulent renaissance symphony in rose. The brilliant liquid gold citrus lights of bergamot, ambrette, and freesia swirl smoothly onto a lavish heart of an incredibly beautiful rose. A touch of spicy osmanthus, kephalis, and heliotrope continue to smoothly shade this deeply rich colored composition, blending the contrasting light and shadow into a seamless masterpiece, finally descending into a mysterious, tenderly subtle darkness of cedar, vetiver, and musk. It’s fascinating to note that the top of the chiaro effect is perfectly illustrated by the elegantly fanciful gold decorative script used to label the bottle as contrasted with the base scuro effect of the simple, spare blackness of the bottle. Many have been obsessed and commenting on the blackness of the glass bottle, criticizing that the juice inside as being not dark enough. Well I say it’s dark enough. Frankly it’s an example of shadowy dark perfection in a bottle. Not too dark. Not wallowing blindly in a vulgar miasma of overdone patchouli, excessive spices, woods, or animalic substances. On my skin this translates as inky black, velvet shadows with a few slender threads of golden light swirling throughout. Ultrafeminine, deeply rosey, woody, and rich with an elegant shot of musk. No overdone sickening sweetness. No overdone masculinity in the woodiness. Just a perfectly balanced contrast between darkness and light. Beautifully balanced for me. I have to admit, my skin picks up base notes, amplifies them, and tends to overwhelm with them. The base notes that give this scent it’s “shadow” are very prominent with my chemistry. I feel lucky…. And I love this one. If your skin is like mine, and cannot stand tuberose, gardenia, jasmine, too much patchouli, or too much fruity sweetness, this may work wonderfully for you. This is a deeply subtle and luxuriously complex scent. She never screams, there is no need. She smiles gently, caresses, then speaks softly, staying close to the skin. Although it is a dangerous smile...sometimes. It brings to mind the sober, iron hand of a bejeweled, voluptuous Medici queen swathed in a crimson velvet glove. Truly, a masterpiece. Gloria in excelsis Christine Nagel. Bravo Lalique.

The story behind this perfume is a pure coincidence, exactly when I was thinking of buying it blind, my mother informed me that she had just bought a new brilliant dark flacon. We didn't know we were actually hunting for the same fragrance!
Encre Noire is certainly a classy perfume, it's very much in the style of Narciso Rodriguez and I'm surprised to see that almost no one mentioned that. They both contain vetiver, rose, musk, osmanthus, ambrette. Encre Noire longevity is extremely better, it lasts all day like all Lalique perfumes and I'm starting to appreciate this French house more and more. It's a gentle explosion of sharp vetiver and white flowers, elegant and persistent, very sensual but still quite easy to wear even for me.
The bottle is stunning and deserves a special place in a collector's wardrobe.
My opinion is very positive, highly recommended.

The power of fragrance never ceases to amaze me--today when I tried Encre Noire I was taken back 20 years when my teen girlfriends and I would try every possible fragrance from the glass daubers from the Body Shop's sampling table.

That day, my friend bought BS White Musk perfume oil, and I find that Encre Noire is very reminiscent of this scent.

And a shame it is too because Lalique really missed the target marketing this beauty of a fragrance. Like many other reviewers, I was hoping for something dark and sultry; sober and sexy.

That said however, this is a beautifully executed fragrance, with freesia in full bloom and velvety nuances of osmanthus and musk, and clean notes from cedar and vetiver--very 'white' in my opinion, nothing 'noire' about it.

BUT, seeing as white musk fragrances aren't my thing, I have to admit that I'm disappointed. This gorgeous fragrance really needs to be rebottled in an opulent white and gold flacon, and maybe with a white fur collar around it! Too bad a lot of people who like this type of fragrance are missing out if the preconcieved idea of what's inside is being shelved for the outer appearance and name.

This perfume is absolutely divine and unique....when its in the bottle. Im so sad to say when its on my skin its rose turns sharp and slightly sour - thus staving off any hope of any of the gorgeous ingredients listed above beginning to balance the rose. I may buy another one just for the bottle though!

Girls, why most of you rated negatively? Isn't good to have something different among collection?
I smelled it and I liked it. The only problem is its soapy pattern which I wish it wound not be.
It's a smooth and soft floral musky scent.
I call it liquid jewelry! It's reminds me splendor of a young woman's in a rich party. Her jewels and her dress, this smells just like this.
Of course, you may be opposite, I'm a man!
It's soft, velvety, gold not so sexy but intensely attractive. Although its projection in poor, it lasts for loooooong!
So chic and so feminine and so young and velvety!

8.5/10 for scent
9/10 for longevity
7/10 for projection

Wonderful Scent. I love this one. The sillage is not perfect but it is really a nice one.It smells sophisticated and noble.

I tested it and my answer is: NO! I am so glad I did not buy it blindly.
This is not going to be my fragrance as it is a mixture of sweet everything and the woody notes do not help here, or I don't notice them at all. Too sweet, too messy, too cloying, too synthetic. I only hope the men's version is as good as most reviewers claim because I adore vetiver which I couldn't even detect in the women's EN.

This is another gem from Lalique: not only it `sa harvest of Heady compliments, But Nobody Seems to Notice That We Are Witnessing a very strong and woody scent, all people will smell is an unique, sensous scent, and won` t ever dare to ask!

The composition of floral and woody notes is impeccably maintained by the musk (the only note I find it impossible to find no output is exhausted is the chord of bergamot), which I think makes it elegant and classic addition to your share mystery and sex appeal.

-Although the process of setting Lalique fragrance makes a record of longevity in the skin (like a sponge I absorb perfume, you have in this issue), this woody has less persistence than other essences of the line.

that,s fantastic , very erotic use in midenight

If velvet has a scent, it would smell like this fragrance. This is velvety creamy & just gorgeous. I'm not familiar with the male version of this scent too, but the female version is very femenin, luxurious & pure delight. It's a pleasure to have.

I am not familiar with the male version, but my opinion on this one can only be voiced in sighs and sounds of euphoric delight, such as "MPHHHRRRAAAOO".

I am seriously in love, and this new experience has completely deleted, eclipsed every other rose I have previously sniffed, real roses included.

This perfume could be described as romantic, but not in a tame, Jane Austen way, it's more gothic. This is Bronte all the way, Wuthering Heights, misty lowlands and hushed passions.

I need it. NOW.

(On a more objective note, I think this perfume will please lovers of softly spicy, soapy roses such as "Flower" by Kenzo.)

no!
no?
NO!
Never again!
Big dissapointment, well, I think i just dont like woody notes in fragrances. No at all.
And one little - yes. It is not long lasting on me :-)

i tested today a vial spray 'encre noir pour elle' i got from my local perfumestore.
while the male version is warm sensual sexy, woody, earthy, musky, with a 'inky' edge, a great sillage and fantastic staying power, i was expecting something similar for the female version.

btw the notes of it sound very good but i m disapointed at all. it's very weak, almost a skin scent to put the nose in it to be able to catch a wiff, dries down very fast, you can t enjoy a growth on your skin, detectable is almost the cedar/vetivier, i can t detect any rose or any other flower accord :( and the kephalis which should work as a warmthening ambery base, does not work on me, to me it's like cold smoke and very old papers smell. nothing feminine or desireable as the male version.

my husband - though - he thinks it's an erotic scent because it smells like dirty pantyhose mingeld with the scent of the woman who wore them, when he gets very close to my neck, where i actually wear 'encre noir pour elle'. hah! 0.0 men are somethimes weirdos ! :D maybe this could work as a secret weapon, kinda pheromone-scent???? i don t know! .lol.

the nose behind, Christine Nagel, i do consider as a genious but i think in this case she was reaching too mutch for the topic 'encre noir' than for the topic 'pour elle'.
i think it would have been better, the creator of the male version had done the female version too, as he has to have understood the spirit of 'encre noir' perfume best, to create the matching sister! i don t dislike this perfume, but it's not a real perfume for me as i understand one had to be, staying power could be better too...... i wouldn t buy it!

add note: if you are intrigued by the topic of encre noir better try thiws one: "Noir d'Encre" by Galérie Noémi niche perfumery.... it's awesome ! not listed here on fragrantica, and they have even more very nice fumes which would be worthy to list here in database. :)

I was so excited to try this, I don't know why, but I liked the bottle and the name..... and the man's version is pretty likeable for my taste.
When I first tried it - huge disappointment imbued me.

Then came the second chance.
Well, I will never ever buy a whole bottle, but it is not a bad scent.
I share Sherapop's judgment. It is rather a light woody frag, than a floral one. I can make out osmanthus (that is well-known for me from Hanae, Keiko Mecheri), and somehow the drydown reminds me of Infusion d'Iris (???), but it is a feminine woody scent. Nice, cosy, but nothing special.

Lalique ENCRE NOIRE POUR ELLE is not what I would have guessed and was perhaps expecting from the name. I suppose that "black ink" evoked the prospect of incense and dark smokiness to my mind.

Instead, ENCRE NOIRE strikes me as a relatively light and inoffensive woody oriental fragrance. I find this composition neither floral nor musky, and being unable to identify any of the notes, I was a bit relieved to learn that a key player, kephalis, is a synthetic molecule that I could never have recognized, since I have probably never encountered it before!

Although it is pleasant enough, I don't find ENCRE NOIRE to be very distinctive or compelling. It just seems like a generic light oriental woody fragrance to my nose.

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Encre Noir Pour Elle is a beautiful soft floral - I realy love this perfume. It is never intrusive, but still long-lasting. This is going to be one of my favorites!

Lalique really surprised me with its newest creation Encre Noir pour Elle!

Iam very glad I gave it a try. This is really something I've been seaching for a long time : modern, fresh,unique and feminine scent . I don't find it masculine at all, just PERFECT fresh woody-floral .Very long lasting too.
The bottle looks very mystical and I was expecting a heavy, or masculine scent, but the initial spray proved I was very wrong.
My colleague even commented that it smelled very aristocratic LOL
UPDATE: Im so suprised this is so underrated!!!
I've added Encre Noire to my all-time favourites! I think it will stay that way for many years.
I get bored very easily, and need much variety to pick up the right fragrance for each day , Encre Noir is one of those Im reaching for most often. It fits in every occasion and weather! Fantastic creation, I love it!!!

I was expecting an exciting, deep, dark beauty that matched the vetiver delights of the male version.

What I found was a delicate, charming pale, sweet turkish rose scent. Nothing special (I'd turn to Narciso Rodriguez for a more classic scent in this vein) but wearable none-the-less.

It leaves me asking where did all the vetiver go? My velvety dark queen was nowhere to be seen. Disappointment.

Laliqe, I'm so disappointed!

I've never enjoyed their fragrances for women. There has always been too much of something. But I love all their men's perfumes, with Encre Noire on the first place. So I hoped I'll love this one also.

Error!
I don't get any vetiver, any musk, any woodsy notes. The scent is a repelling mix of sweet synthetic flowers. I can't tell one from the other. So soapy!

I hope it's just my skin chemistry. I'm hardly ever repelled by a perfume.

Yesterday I have tried it in Galleries Lafayette in Paris, and yes it is realy a nice parfume, different, tailored on the male notes, but a bit too gentile, femminine, sweet. And yes you cna feel the vetyver note since teh begginig, subtile in dry-down. I would bought it only for the bottle. Sorry, my english is not so good to describe a prfume, but I enjoyed it.