Black Star (2009)
by Avril Lavigne

Black Star is quite fruity. An almost refreshing fruity scent at that.

The plum note is certainly present but I sense something else, perhaps some citrus notes and berries.

Don't expect this fragrance to be unique, because it isn't. Black Star seems to follow in the footsteps of many fruity florals that came before.

I must add that this smells nothing like Angel or Covet to my nose. I didn't get the chocolate note at all, and in my humble opinion this is barely a gourmand, there's nothing particularly foody about it.

I didn't really enjoy this on my skin, however I loved how it smelt on my t-shirt. Black Star is quite a clean, fruity scent which I'd half-heartedly recommend to young girls or lovers of fruity scents.

5th June, 2011.

You know, I quite liked this. Not sure if my scent memory serves me well, but it was reminiscent to me of a scent I used to wear in the 1970's called Blue Jeans. To me, this was a fruity gourmand scent, with the chocolate note being anemic - at best. I read somewhere that during the testing stage, earlier formulations of this had a more pronounced dark chocolate note. I am not a gourmand lover, but I think that would have appealed to me more than the version that was bottled.

All-in-all it's a good scent. One of my favorite of the celebrity scent genre. However, I decided to return my bottle because the scent only lasted 15 minutes or so before it completely disappeared. My rating would have been a thumbs up, but because of the very poor lasting power, this gets a thumbs neutral.

6th November, 2009.