Brand: Lalique
Basis: Original
Concentration: EDT
Sex: Men's
Generally: The darkest vetiver in mainstream perfumery, at a whisper of a price
Season(s): Fall, Winter
Wear: Day and Night
Occasion: Office, Everyday
Perfumer: Nathalie Lorson
Creation Date: 2006

Main Accords: Woody Earthy

Notes
Top: Cypress
Middle: Vetiver, Bourbon Vetiver
Base: Haitian Vetiver, Musk, Cashmere Wood

The Scent

Three vetivers stacked dark: inky, rooty, damp-forest green with cypress on top. Encre Noire ("black ink") is brooding, literary and utterly unlike the citrus-fresh mainstream: a niche experience at a drugstore price.

Worth Knowing

Routinely named the best quality-per-dollar fragrance in the men’s canon; the ink-block bottle is Lalique crystal-house design.

Where It Came From

Launched 2006, composed by Nathalie Lorson.

About Lalique

René Lalique made his name in Art Nouveau glass and jewellery, and his crystal house has produced perfume bottles since the early 1900s. Its own fragrance line punches far above its price, and Encre Noire is the proof.

Hand-decanted from an authentic full-size bottle. Not affiliated with Lalique.