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Black Star is the first fragrance release from pop star Avril Lavigne, in cooperation with Procter & Gamble Prestige, and it’s being promoted as \u201ca deliciously distinctive fragrance that embodies Avril\u2019s individuality.\u201d Lavigne herself comments, \u201cIt\u2019s all about being edgy and feminine in a fun way,\u201d and she reportedly requested the Eau de Parfum’s dark chocolate accord, which is combined with notes of pear, hibiscus flower, and black plum.<\/p>\n
Black Star’s pink-and-black, star-shaped bottle (see below) isn’t exactly a model of “individuality,” since it looks like the love child of Thierry Mugler Angel and Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb<\/a>. It\u2019s weightier in person than it appears in photographs, and it includes a removable, studded metallic band that can be worn as a ring or a necklace charm. The Black Star box is also printed with a \u201cstudded\u201d pattern and texture, as a reference to the belts and bracelets that Lavigne typically wears. I did a little extra research for this review, since I thought I didn’t know much about Avril Lavigne, other than that she\u2019s a Canadian singer who sports a mall-punk style and that she infamously\u00a0mispronounced<\/a> David Bowie\u2019s name at a Grammy Awards event. When I checked out a few videos, however, I realized that I\u2019ve been absorbing her songs for a while, just by hearing them in stores and other public places. (And then I ended up humming Lavigne\u2019s hit single\u00a0\u201cComplicated\u201d<\/a> for a few days.)<\/p>\n As promised, Black Star opens with a burst of pear and other synthetic fruit notes. The heart of the fragrance is a juicy, sweet floral, closely meshed with the plum note and perhaps some red currant. The base notes are gourmand, but not intensely so. Although the chocolate accord that went into the mix was originally very dark and velvety, in the final product it’s tempered by the ongoing floral-fruity notes. Black Star is nowhere near as candy-like as Vera Wang Princess<\/a> or Britney Spears Fantasy<\/a>, for example. In comparison to other chocolate-based fragrances, it doesn\u2019t have the androgynous, dry quality of Bond no. 9\u2019s So New York or the sophistication of Rose Pralin\u00e9 by Parfums de Rosine<\/a>, but since it\u2019s intended for a younger, more \u201cgirlish\u201d audience, that makes sense. And, notwithstanding the star bottle, it doesn’t remind me much of Angel. Instead, its opening recalls the pear-and-sugar twist of designer\u00a0Betsey Johnson\u2019s eponymous fragrance<\/a>, and its dry down could be a very distant, pre-teen relative of S-Perfumes 100% Love<\/a> (a mix of chocolate, rose, and pulpy red fruits).<\/p>\n Black Star is nowhere near as \u201cedgy\u201d as it purports to be, but it succeeds in capturing Avril Lavigne\u2019s image despite (or because of) that fact. We often complain that celebrity scents don\u2019t live up to the personality or creative vision of their namesakes; well, in this case, Black Star embodies its subject pretty well. It\u2019s like a well-crafted pop song: catchy and somehow familiar, packaged with a veneer of rebellion over a core of cute, and very well suited to girls in their early teens. Of course, if you\u2019re older than that target audience (as I definitely am) and you\u2019re looking for an accessible fruity-gourmand, you can still try it out as a guilty pleasure. Just don\u2019t end up humming \u201cGirfriend\u201d<\/a> in public.<\/p>\n Avril Lavigne Black Star is available for $29 for 30 ml and $39 for 50 ml Eau de Parfum, and can be found at Kohl\u2019s stores nationwide as well as the Kohl\u2019s website<\/a>. For more information and a list of international vendors, see the Black Star website<\/a>.<\/p>\n Read the rest of this article »<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Black Star is the first fragrance release from pop star Avril Lavigne, in cooperation with Procter & Gamble Prestige, and it’s being promoted as \u201ca deliciously distinctive fragrance that embodies Avril\u2019s individuality.\u201d Lavigne herself comments, \u201cIt\u2019s all about being edgy and feminine in a fun way,\u201d and she reportedly requested the Eau de Parfum’s dark chocolate accord, which is combined with notes of pear, hibiscus flower, and black plum.<\/p>\n Black Star’s pink-and-black, star-shaped bottle (see below) isn’t exactly a model of “individuality,” since it looks like the love child of Thierry Mugler Angel and Viktor & Rolf Flowerbomb<\/a>. 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