Created as an ode to America’s most intriguing First Lady of the 20th century Jacqueline Kennedy. Love In Black evokes Jacqueline Kennedy’s enigmatic beauty: her dark, mysterious eyes behind black sunglasses, her wavelets of brunette hair, her trim shape in a black sheath. To create Love In Black, Creed blended ingredients from places loved by this well-travelled and cultured woman. Even the bottle is made with black sand like that in the Greek isles where she wed a legendary shipping tycoon. The Night Blooming Wildflowers are also from the Greek isles where she was wed, Violet is from Italy, where she later visited, Iris from Florence, a favourite city of hers, and finally Blackcurrant from Bourgogne in her beloved France where her ancestors were born. Created for seduction rather than innocence, this globetrotting Violet based scent is sophisticated and intriguing.
NOTES
Top: Night Blooming Wildflowers, Violet, Virginia Cedar
Middle: Iris from Florence, Clove; Tonkin Musk
Base: Blackcurrant, Bulgarian Rose
PERFUMER
Olivier and Erwin Creed
HOW IT WEARS
Love in Black is an Eau de Parfum that will easily give the wearer at least 6 – 8 hours wear on the skin. The initial aura of elegant Violet combined with Cloves, giving it a dry down effect that is both deeply powdery and intricate. One of the truest Violet fragrances, Love in Black allows you to experience and appreciate the beautiful Violet in all its entirety.
LORE LOVES
We love how this Violet heavy scent creates an air of rich sophistication that hints at a combination of sweet softness and subtle power. Like an iron fist of violet in a black velvet glove. Love in Black turns the classic and delicate Violet note into more powerful and seductive Violet that is truly unique and mesmerising.
ABOUT THE BRAND
Spanning seven generations thus far, The House of Creed’s ethos is in creating the highest quality fragrances with the purest elements from around the world. Each scent is weighed, mixed, macerated and filtered all by hand in the highest tradition of the House’s founder, James Creed. Renowned for providing commissioned fragrances to royal houses, celebrity clientele and the political elite all over the world, it was in the 1970’s Creed made their fragrances available to the public to purchase in their Parisian boutique.
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Beautiful Violet and woody perfume, it is dark and earthy, the Violet is true and is much like the powdery candied violets, blended well it is complemented by woody cedar, I find it is a perfect pairing. A comfort scent and an atmospheric scent. It is long lasting too, but not a heavy scent. I do enjoy this in Autumn/Winter.