Ébène (1983)
by Pierre Balmain

I have just purchased a bottle of Ebene for a chemist in Portugal , very hard to find indeed ! It was always my favourite scent and I used it everyday , sad to say this one will have to last! For me this is my holy Grail of scent, my olfactory discription of who I am or maybe who I'd like to think I am. Either way this fragrance is better than all the creeds put together and topped of with any serge lutens aaaaahhhh

27th October, 2010.

Shame on Balmain ! Give us back this masterpiece, NOW !

12nd August, 2010.

Never smelled it, but it's getting ready to be re-introduced! Let's wait and see what the results are, boys and girls!!

27th May, 2010.

To review a perfume which has been already discontinued is like speaking at a funeral.
But Ebene de Balmain deserves it. Ebene is a very unconventional scent-once you have smelled it you will never forget it. I was 14 years old and it was my 2nd eau de toilette(after Tabac) which I owned. I loved it even then, but it was way to strong for a little boy. It smells like very, very expensive, luxurious soap. Waves of patchouly and geranium mixed with the freshnes of mint leaves plus an additional leather note enter your nose-everything very strong and dominat, not an easy scent- pleasant,but also easy to overdose.
It is a all around year scent, perhaps easier to digest in winter. Ebene is in the same category like the Givenchy Gentleman, just a great, exceptional, complex composition-nothing for the masses.

3rd July, 2008.

An eccentric, unusual fragrance and definitely unique. It puts me in mind of other such quirky scents such as Evyan's The Baron and Caron's Third Man. I'm not suggesting that these three scents smell alike because they don't. It's just that they all share an eccentricity which certainly stops them from being boring. I don't much like the small of Ebene but I admire its unusual blending and composition.

20th September, 2005.

Ah, wearing your beloved Nino Cerruti Pour Homme again, Sir?, my valet inquired of me, to which I repied, "Not quite, but I can see why you would think so. I'm tangling with quite the beast here, aren't I?"

[b]Ébène (1983)[/b], from Pierre Balmain, is one amazing scent, very masculine, and long-lasting. There are quite a few different notes, that together are not unlike Nino Cerruti Pour Homme. However, Ébène is even more difficult to find than Cerruti PH. The dominant tones are leather, musk, and amber, but bolstered on top and in the middle by the herbs, flowers, and spices. This classic is dense and "oily" in character, like many Serge Lutens fragrances. Despite the amber, labdanum, and olibanum, Ébène is not really sweet. What a chameleon of a scent! [smiley=shocked.gif]

Wicozani

25th August, 2005.