Black Cashmere (2002)
by Donna Karan

This is a wonderful scent that I blind bought on EBay, based on the reviews here. This is a warm, dry, spicy incense scent in the family of Keiko Mecheri Olibanum, and Josef Statkus EDP.

4th September, 2011.

Classified as a feminine scent (which I completely disagree with), Black Cashmere opens up with a dominant burned woody smell,(I do smell incense, although not listed in the notes) mixed with an evident spicy tone of saffron and nutmeg.

The scent lasts for about 30 minutes, and soon after that, goes down giving more space to a white pepper note. Longevity on this one is very good.

21st August, 2011.

As an incense fragrances lover I had to test Black Cashmere and I got totally satisfied. If you ever wondered about designer's fragrances that smell like niche you have to test this marvellous composition by Rodrigo Flores-Roux. A distinctive and very elegant blend of frankincense and spices (clove) on a delicate floral accord of incredible beauty. Stark yet friendly. A perfect unisex fragrance that comfortably seats next to expensier up-market releases and niche's cult compositions. Dark, mysterious, intriguing and intoxicating.

I still have to make up my mind on the packaging / bottle, but this is part of the Black Cashmere's mysterious game.

6th May, 2011.

BC is basically an incensed fragrance but is a different character in comparison with the cathedral types (Avignon) or the otherworldly spiritual kinds (Black Tourmaline). BC is part of this world, it’s chic, glamour and materialistic. You can breathe its smell in the best club of the city exuded by the skin of an aspiring model and not inside a monastery or on an eccentric solitary traveller. It's mysterious, alchemic and dark but not mystic, ethereal, dreadful or austere. It's obscure but not dirty, naughty or gothic, therefore it's not a dangerous killer (Black afgano or Scent Intense). BC is an enigmatic, polite woman of the night. BC is a complex, exotic, resinous blend of incense, fruits, spices (cloves, nutmeg, pepper, cinnamon, saffron), amber, flowers (rose, carnation), woods-plants (agarwood, cedar, patchouli) and only God knows what else. BC is sultry, warm and delicious. It's a spicy bomb, a fusion of spices on a base of woody, resinous incense. In the first part of development the spicy temperament is prevailing and the scent expresses itself as a whirling dust of spicy incense. After a couple of hours the dust tends to disappear converting itself in a silky, woody, incensed blanket. The longevity is medium. The scent is essentially womanly in my opinion but i don't exitate to wear it when an intimate and confidential occasion requires that. In those cases i've already conquered her somewhere by another scent for sure.

12nd January, 2011. (Last Edited: 19th July, 2011.)

Don't be fooled by reviews that this is a dark scent ok it has good amount of incense but i'ved smelled perfumes that
are darker then this like Habanita and amouage Lyric Woman but it promises to offer coziness and warmness those are the
ones i agree with, Black Cashmere has the same dominant note of Saffron as of Chaos
but not as overpowering then chaos

it does give you to cozy feel of a cashmere sweater i also love the nutmeg
note it reminiscent to the scent of hot espresso on a cold winters day curled up
with a good book,

the spices are suble and yet noticible
and with carnation to warm the senses
and powdery rose to dry the middle for
the more woodsy touches of Sandalwood
pure and uncut warm amber and vanilla

I wouldn't called it Opulent dark mysterious I think it's a little to
shy for that and a bit modest but
Cozy warm and Soothing.

4th December, 2010. (Last Edited: 12nd December, 2010.)

There's something synthetic in here, but maybe I'm smelling the cloves too much. It seems a little medicinal, an empty sweetness reminiscent of that strange musk smell that Americans seem to equate with cleanliness. Ivory dish soap, I think that's what I'm thinking of.

The incense is lovely, but that clove-Ivory-soap element makes me think of washing dishes.

It's a good scent for someone without my associations though. It's dense, heady, and sometimes cloying; great sillage, but it evaporates away within 4 hours -- strange for a scent that starts out so very strong.

5th November, 2010.