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Magie Noire

1978ChypreEDTFrance

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Editorial notes

  1. 01

    A dark narcotic chypre with patchouli and animalic base, built as a deliberate counterweight to the increasingly bright florals dominating the mid-1970s.

  2. 02

    Cult favourite of the goth and dark-romantic perfumistas; a defining 1980s 'powerhouse' chypre with sillage measured in metres rather than centimetres.

  3. 03

    Presented in a smoky-glass flacon with a star-and-cabalistic-symbol design on the front, leaning fully into the 'black magic' theme of the name.

  4. 04

    Composed by Gérard Goupy, Jean-Charles Niel and Yves Tanguy in 1978 around raspberry and hyacinth over a patchouli-civet-castoreum chypre base.

Dossier

Edition · 000

Status · Active. Cult chypre.

A dark chypre with patchouli and animalic base.

Composed by
Gérard GoupyJean-Charles NielYves Tanguy
Founder
Armand Petitjean
Country
France

The pyramid

Top
aldehydesraspberryblackcurrantbergamothyacinthgreen notes
Heart
tuberosenarcissusjasminelily-of-the-valleyrosehoney
Base
patchoulioakmosscivetvetivercastoreummusk

The brief

The trio of perfumers built a dark, narcotic chypre as a deliberate counterweight to the increasingly bright florals dominating the mid-1970s.

Name'Magie Noire' — 'Black Magic' in French, framing the fragrance as occult, witchy, deliberately unsettling.

The flacon

Smoky-glass flacon with a star-and-cabalistic-symbol design on the front, leaning fully into the occult theme.

Footnotes

  • Cult favourite of the goth and dark-romantic perfumistas; a defining 1980s 'powerhouse' chypre with sillage measured in metres.

The Curator's Note

A perfume goth before goth was a genre.

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