Black Sails is a coast perfume. Four Vices is a Saturday-night perfume. Same house. Two rooms. No winner.
What Do Black Sails and Four Vices Share?
They share tobacco. That note sits in the middle of each bottle and gives both a steady thread.
Both sit in oil at about 20 percent fragrance. Both come in 20 mL glass roll-ons. Both are $50 for 20 mL. Both stay alcohol-free.
Everything around the tobacco pulls them into different rooms. We do not make dupes. One shared note does not turn one bottle into the other. Full bottle stories live on What Is Black Sails Perfume? and What Is Four Vices Perfume?.
How Does a Coast Differ From a Saturday Night?
Black Sails reads like open air and distance. Bright citrus up top. Bourbon and spice in the heart. A dry wood-and-ambergris floor. The story room can mention seaweed, ocean air, or gun powder. The table does not list those.
Four Vices reads closer and denser. Green hashish opens. Tobacco, coffee, hops, spice, and violet fill the middle. Oud, musk, patchouli, and agarwood sit in the base. It feels like a lived-in Saturday night, not a coast.
One perfume does not replace the other. Life is not binary.
Where Do the Notes Sit in Each Bottle?
Black Sails: TOP Lemon, Bergamot, Spearmint | MIDDLE Bourbon, Tobacco, Cardamom, Star Anise | BASE Sandalwood, Vetiver, Ambergris. Bourbon context sits in Bourbon and Whiskey in Perfume.
Four Vices: TOP Green Hashish | MIDDLE Tobacco, Coffee, Hops, Spice, Violet | BASE Oud, Musk, Patchouli, Agarwood. Spice stays a table label here. No stub lesson.
Both prices are $50 for 20 mL. Say that plainly. They match.
How Do You Choose Between Them?
Pick the room you want to enter. Black Sails suits open air and movement. Four Vices suits tighter spaces and a stronger presence. Some days call for one. Other days call for the other.
You can wear either alone. You can also layer them if you want to test the overlap. See How to Layer Two Perfumes.
More ways to decide sit in How to Pick a Perfume, Black Sails and Bold Fortune, and Bold Fortune and Four Vices. The rest of the line is in the perfume collection. Anyone can buy either bottle.
Defy Common Scents.