À La Nuit
À La Nuit by Serge Lutens is a feminine-leaning eau de parfum from 2000 in the luxury price tier. It opens with green tea and honey, moves into jasmine, sambac jasmine and indole and dries down to musk, benzoin and clove. Expect around 9 hours of wear, and it projects very strongly.
Notes, explained
Opening
- Green Tea Dry, slightly bitter, calm. Quiet and very easy to wear.
- Honey Sweet, waxy and slightly animalic. Can smell dirty in large doses.
Heart
- Jasmine Heady, sweet and slightly animal underneath. Rarely subtle.
- Sambac Jasmine Greener, more tea-like jasmine. Less indolic than grandiflorum.
- Indole The molecule that makes jasmine smell almost rotten. Beautiful in tiny amounts.
Dry-down
- Musk Warm, skin-like and slightly sweet. Makes a fragrance feel like you.
- Benzoin Sweet balsamic resin. Vanilla-adjacent but drier.
- Clove Hot, dry and dental. Powerful — a little goes a long way.
Smells like this
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