I guess I'm super late to the party about this frag. However, this is the fragrance to which I've had the most positive initial reaction to since Aventus. I mean, I really enjoy the rubber note. Looking on Amazon and Ebay, this stuff is dirt cheap too. Just wanted to ask some questions before I bought a bottle. How and when do you wear this? Has there been a reformulation, or are the current bottles all good? Has this one been hyped in the past (I've never even heard anything about it until I tried it just now)? Thanks! 

Does midnight in paris have the same rubber vibe? If so I have to check it out.

EDT or EDP version of Midnight?

To me personally, in all formulations, Bvlgari Black has a dark, almost leathery, but not so much rubbery vibe- yet still worthy designer fragrance in all its formulations, apparently very direct and quite straightforward, stringent as a first impression (as far as I and my nose, my fragrance impressions can tell). Yet, after a while, with a few layers of dark finesse, smoothness and complexity  unfolding, once this fragrance evolves after application and after prolonged contact on skin. 

All I got from BB was rubber, no vanilla I was ever able to detect, and fairly poor longevity.

Bvlgari is just not a very good house, to me.  I did like MAN, but again, kinda poor longevity.

Well, I'll give Midnight in Paris edt and edp both a try I guess. Not a lot of love for Bvlgari Black here... well, seems like I finally found one that I like that's against common basenotes flow! This stuff is amazing.

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Originally Posted by ijoshjosh 

Well, I'll give Midnight in Paris edt and edp both a try I guess. Not a lot of love for Bvlgari Black here... well, seems like I finally found one that I like that's against common basenotes flow! This stuff is amazing.

IF you love BB go for it.

no reformulations.

Bvlgari does not discontinue stuff..

don't let ppl talk you out of it

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Originally Posted by BeyondTheBox 

I really need to try this black stuff. Just can't imagine rubber being a good scent. Sounds puke worthy, like walking into a tire shop, I can't stay longer than it takes to drop off the keys and leave a number to call back. That's why I'm so interested in it. I pray it comes in a spray vial sampler...

It smells exactly like rubber. More specifically, imagine you're changing out your tire with a fresh one. It smells like that, except sweeter. I enjoy the smell of the tire shop, so I mean, if you don't, you probably wont like this lol.

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Originally Posted by ijoshjosh 

Well, I'll give Midnight in Paris edt and edp both a try I guess. Not a lot of love for Bvlgari Black here... well, seems like I finally found one that I like that's against common basenotes flow! This stuff is amazing.

      This stuff caused a big  stir when it first came out, and I love the stuff myself, so I don't think you'll be going against the flow by purchasing it.   Plus it's got that nice bottle too.   I'd not hesitate to pick some up.

     One thing to realize about BN is that many frags are quite popular here when they first come out, and then later the enthusiasm for them seems to fade a little as folks get used to them.    You can frequently see this phenomenon reflected in the reviews section, where the oldest reviews are quite positive, while the newer ones start to become a lot more neutral.

     Is it because the frag is really not that good, and people liked it originally simply because of it's novelty ?

     Hard to say, but most people would admit that Black was fairly groundbreaking when it first came on the scene, particularly for something that not niche, but which emerged from the designer realm instead.

      As you will soon learn, people's tastes in things really do vary, even among "the experts",  so in the end a person simply has gain faith in their own ways of judging things, and go with what smells good to them.