Cé Noir has an enjoyable, inoffensive smell — and that’s my main issue with it. Of the few things Beyoncé said about the scent in her unboxing video, what stood out was that she wanted to create a “monolithic” fragrance. It’s accurate. It smells like someone who is comfortable with uniformity and sameness, which feels out of step with the whole vibe of Renaissance.
— Read more in Beyoncé’s Cé Noir Fragrance Is Not What We Expected at Allure.
“An enjoyable, inoffensive smell” seems like the dominant mode of modern perfumery. Most everything I smell these days makes me think, “Oh, this again.” I can’t remember the last time I was surprised. I guess I’m just jaded.
Yep!
“I wanted to create something monolithic and I wanted something to have a little bit of intimacy, so, right here, you can see inside the soul of the perfume”
She was referring to the BOTTLE. Not the scent. I cannot STAND IT when something is assumed based on a quote, and they don’t even get the quote right.