Description
“Nuit Noor is a scent of contrasts, between night and light – noor in Arabic –, power and sensuality, roundness and opulence. A radiant flower embraced by the night, in a shimmering halo of city lights. A fragrant journey to Beirut, the cradle of the ELIE SAAB Couture House… For this new opus, Elie Saab opens the doors of his home in the seaside quarter of Gemmayzeh. At our feet, Beirut comes alive as the night falls. Like jewels, its glittering lights, reflected by the sea, set the dark, velvety sky aglow…
To express the contrast that gives Nuit Noor its name, Francis Kurkdjian revisits an iconic. Oriental accord of rose and woods, creating two complementary notes to translate light and the night. In Nuit Noor, light is embodied by a tender, honeyed bouquet, where a soft, creamy Rose blooms voluptuously… To enhance its radiance, the perfumer blends it with a particularly refined essence of Ylang-ylang from Madagascar, whose narcotic scent suffuses the fragrance with a solar aura. To conjure the night, Francis Kurkdjian has blended a dark accord of spicy woody notes that runs through the composition. Sizzling Black Pepper adds vibrancy to the sensuous facets of the Rose and Ylang-ylang. In turn, it lights up the Incense, whose mysterious tendrils of smoke rise against a majestic, velvety backdrop of Indonesian Patchouli.
A dusky sillage of spices, woods and resins that carries Nuit Noor from dusk to dawn… An icon of modernity in the Middle-East, this lively, vibrant, thriving city is the muse of Nuit Noor.
Available in 75 Eau de Parfum flacon. Nuit Noor was launched in 2016.
Исмоилджон – :
This was a blind buy (first in my life!) based on my good experiences with Elie Saab (and Francis Kurkdjian) fragrances and I am so happy that it was a fortunate purchase! I love dark oriental fragrances and I can say that this is one of them, but at the same time very modern and light. The incense and woods are very strong here, they give a very warm woody feeling, but I smell in the background also something fresh and light and maybe slightly sweet, but I cannot say it is honey or rose, they smell different in fragrances (in my experience). So Elie Saab and Francis Kurkdjian did not disappoint, I cannot express enough how I am happy with this purchase!
elan_78 – :
@Susanna75
It is available occasionally. They seem to be plying a policy of trickling it to us – teasing us with it! Every so often a couple of bottles will appear in this-or-that department store … then it’s gone again!
I’m curious asto that solar note … but then I love these … what do they categorise them as on here? – weird notes (“NATURAL AND SYNTHETIC, POPULAR AND WEIRD”). (I’m a colossal fan of the salt note and the sand note, as I’ve said elsewhere.) When I first tried this I did distinctly get the impression of heat – before (yes, really!) knowing anything about the solar note. It came across as a hot fragrance. But then … that’s not surprising, by reason alone of its having ylang-ylang and black pepper. I do wonder though, whether that solar-note ought not to be a bit higher on the scale on this page.
Someone’s just asked me about this by PM … so I think I might as well just write more here.
I would say this is fairly weird – a very long way from being the weirdest – but leaning really quite strongly weird. To me that also means wearable; but then I do love a heavy stonking pungeaunt fragrance both for my own reasons, and because I like to tease people in the vicinity with my perfumes … and this one is certainly one that will tease many in that sort of way. It’s heavy, tarry, woody … and as I’ve said, does distinctly convey an impression of heat. The worst-case-scenario is this, I think: an olfactory impression that sprang to my mind is that of smouldering wool. I hasten to add that I do not find that it smells like burning wool – of course many find that to be an absolutely horrendous smell – and I agree that it kind-of is; but that it also has a certain … thrill to it – and what I’m trying to say is that this fragrance elicits a kind-of-similar thrill. I’ve said this about the difference between smelling like and conjuring an olfactory impression of elsewhere – and so have others; and I think experienced fragheads know what I’m getting at, and how it is that a fragrance can conjure an olfactory impression of something unpleasant, or just stupid, even, and yet be pleasant. Olfactation can be very paradoxical!
I’ve said all that not to be too alarmist about this fragrance – but I really did get that impression of smouldering wool – it’s a very key feature of my overall impression: and yet I find it a gorgeous fragrance – I absolutely love it! But it is a very assertive, even aggressive one.
I certainly know what my stern critics would say about it anyway. I’m not letting them anywhere near it, coz I think they are likely to actually carry out their routine threat to throw my perfume in the Bridgewater Canal with this one!
But then … they just have no appreciation of good perfumes!
I’ve been trying to think of another perfume to compare it to. Possibly Kilian’s (no! I’m not saying “By Kilian’s”!) Incense Oud, or Hervé Gambs’s Infusion Noir.Update.
I happened serendipitously to come upon this easily this morning, and couldn’t resist venturing to wear it. I’ve been finding that people in the vicinity are abiding it well. It does mellow considerably away from its volcanic opening (which is about as volcanic as I remember it, conjuring the smouldering wool phantom just as it did aforetime); but after a couple of hours it’s more of a ripe-musky patch – very velvety. I would still say it is rather weird though even at this stage; and it is certainly at least radical!
I think that provided I put it on at least 2hr before going out, my stern critics just might not actually throw it in the Bridgewater Canal!
This has now been taunting me for the last couple of hours reminding me of a certain … and now I’ve sussed it I am astonished: It’s Santal Musc, by Narciso Rodriguez! I never would have thought I’d be saying that! It certainly is complex, this fragrance.Further update.
This perfume is just phænominal! I had no idea just how good it is until now. It’s a total colossus! I am extremely grateful to liric for steering me into assaying it afresh.
layz86 – :
this is gorgeous scent smelled this in Doha airport , thought it is available in UK but unfortunately not .
aranor – :
I love almost all elie saab perfumes I had tried til now.I find all of them very feminine,elegant and of high quality.I own le parfum and couture and intense..edt and rose are in my wishlist so I was waiting eagerly to try new elie saabs. Unfortunately I’m dissapointed
First I came across to some flankers which were nothing but original le parfum in slightly different bottles.I’m happy to see nuit noir is a new release and has nothing to do with previous elie saabs but unfortunately it’s not my type
It’s really nuit for sure.it was so dark and woody that I first thought there may be oud in it but it was just patchouli blended with incense which I also detest and spices.this spicy incensy patchouli and dark woods doesn’t let floral notes to play significant role in it
All in all it’s not bad,just not my type.I need a bit of sweetness or something more feminine in my perfumes but if you’re looking for a different feminine perfume,something dark and mysterious and serious you’d love it.a definite winter/night scent and a potent one
❤❤
OsMa – :
@RoRoSe
I don’t know this fragrance, but please, (usually) never judge on the first minutes if it’s about perfume. The most gorgeous perfumes of history have sometimes confusing openings and they need time to fully develop and bloom.
It’s just the curse of modern selling strategy that perfumes are sold by their openings, so companies make perfumes which have appealing openings because customers give only a few seconds to test after spraying and decide merely on that. And many cases these perfumes have unremarkable heart and base notes.
Payton_fromAB – :
I smelled this in its first 10 minutes on the skin. It’s typically oriental, with dark wood, honey, and incense as main accords. I liked it, but such dark perfumes require multiple and frequent trials to get used to–for those not familiar with such. Interestingly mysterious and distinctive, for high heels only.