Black XS (2005)
by Paco Rabanne

Are we sure? Are we sure we want to taste and smell like icecream or candies? And why I liked it soo much?

While I was thinking about this perfume, I went to the tube and I saw an old ad of it. A nice man, muscular body, charming face. Should he wear Black XS? and if so, for what reason?
Wearing Balck XS is an experience. You could get annoyed by it in a matter of an hour, you could love it to death. Being so sweet that's it's ravishing, Black XS open the noses to a childlike paradise, where probably everything is made of candies and there's just a few witches with a marzipan house to be aware of. After that something happens. The perfume start to cool down leading towards the woods notes.
In a matter of time, you comes from a candy to sexy.
"Again, would he wear it?" I asked myself while waiting the train.
And the answer was "Yes". Yes because he knows how to be masculine (his body speaks for him, isn't it?) and yes because he's not afraid of it.
Would I wear it? And the answer is maybe.
I have to give it another try and decide if I'm going to be strong enough to wear it without any fear (mainly because my body speaks for me as well, and it doesn't say anything good. ahahah) and if the strong opening will stop to give me a certain nausea eheh

To the mature audience: don't wait around for the drydown. Or when you do, get ready to pretend. Comes with a fake ID to prove that you're fifteen.

The most accurate reviews here in terms of "smells like" is Mr. T's, Anthony 87, Frederik and Quarry IMO: Strawberry Fields ...Kiddie City...Dietetic Joop Jello...and when you get to the drydown/tonedown, feel free to fool yourself about the patchouli (or to keep things honest, at least "which" patchouli). The strawberriest patchouli? Notice, however, I'm not that fond of this scent or even of attempts to grant it ever more subtle perceptions. But hey, let's not spoil it for the kids...no need to actually hate it.

This scent is marketed with the simple belief that almost anything gourmandish is an automatic winner...

I give it a big neutral like one of those strawberry scent car freshner strawberries or trees...

On the shelf, the bottle design really caught my eye for some reason. If this had been even a mediocre fragrance, I would've been willing to buy it for decorative purposes. As it turns out, this was a letdown of such epic proportions that I couldn't bring myself to get this, even on sale. The last thing I was expecting this to smell like was a cheap strawberry candy. I'm actually really shocked that strawberry (or anything similarly fruity) isn't listed anywhere as one of its notes. Overwhelmingly, that's the only thing I got when I tried this, both on a card and on my wrist. I find it really bizarre that this smells more feminine and simplistic than does Black XS For Her. To anyone interested in trying this, the most optimistic thing I can say is that maybe you'll get lucky, and your skin will magically separate eau de candy into actual notes of interest. I wouldn't count on it though.

I totally agree with Col, this is the real Light Blue for men and not the one Proctor & Gamble produces for D&G.

Appalling. Sprayed it on my wrist a tad too closely and I was under attack for 2 hours...it was screaming all over! Too fruity!
Coincidentally, on my drive back home I had raspberry flavored candy in my mouth...was beginning to think if the candy...the smell on my wrist...Nah, couldn't be...Only to find out it does smell like raspberry (ultra strong) from the reviews here on the site.
I wanted to like this frag based on the reviews here, but it was just too overpowering at the start, and too fruity-weird up to finish.

One of the worst flankers ive sampled. Its nothing at all like XS. Aesthetically more artsy appealing and could be the marketing ploy to lure the "younger age group, its always risky to tweak an already successful original, and too bad it didnt pay off for me. I notice it to be popular with alot of the reviewers for its fruity inclusions. Didnt work for me at all. far from "classy"