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île Noire(2025)
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île Noire is an eau de parfum from Manuel Mathieu, launched in 2025. It opens with grapefruit, ginger and bergamot, moves into ambergris, jasmine and tobacco and settles on Haitian Vetiver, oak and frankincense.
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This scent's ambergris note likely traces back to a lump of whale secretion that spent years rotting in the ocean before washing ashore.
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île Noire is an eau de parfum from Manuel Mathieu, launched in 2025. It opens with grapefruit, ginger and bergamot, moves into ambergris, jasmine and tobacco and settles on Haitian Vetiver, oak and frankincense.
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