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dmitr10 – :
Huge sillage and projection.
Huge intensity of rose and vile combo
CausEnesClini – :
Chowards meets old school retro fragrance. Reminds me a lot of something I’ve tried, one of those retro cheapies, I can’t put my finger on it though (maybe Tabu or Femme Rochas). Very lipstick – rose and violet – I can see the similarity between this and Lipstick Rose but this one is so much sweeter than the Malle. Sugary, almost alcoholic; crawls up your nostrils and parks itself in the back of your nose. You can literally taste this stuff. I have yet to find a Bond that I like; this isn’t it. While I don’t *hate* it I can’t imagine spending $300 for this.
mugimlmztz – :
Had a bottle of this. Gave it away because it was a powder bomb. Shalimar does powder delicately. This just beats you over the head with it. Gave me a terrible headache and that says a lot because I usually love strong frags.
brus-srub-stroy – :
I love it!
aliosha333 – :
Received the Broadway Nite Bond no 9 as a gift last week. Not my type of fragrance. If anyone would like to trade let me know. Its only been sprayed 1x.
aquatinta – :
I love it kind of pricey but worth it
artak112233 – :
This is lovely….sweet, clean, I can definitely smell the vanilla and floral notes. And someone that I love wore this, or something very similar to this. When I smell it I have hazy memories of feeling comfortable and cozy with someone. I haven’t worn it long enough to speak for its longevity but it’s a lovely concoction that I’ll have to add to my collection when my decant is done.
Arebmaluarm – :
I am a huge bond fan but this is tooooo much. It’s nothing but powder in fact there is so much powderiness I can’t detect anything but violet amber and vanilla. To me this is sickening I got sick. If you love powdery scents this is for you. I will say the staying power is amazing will not go away shower nor hand sanitizer.
ajf630speagoessenda – :
Certainly not a perfume that I personally would use, but I can appreciate it for what it is – a simple, soapy straight-out-of-the-shower scent reminiscent of YSL Paris with the watery rose and fresh violets, but with a small amount of aldehydes making it perfect for all genders. Not particularly exciting, being a simple and non offensive clean scent.
kosuca – :
Broadway Nite is a surprisingly decent aldehydic floral from Bond No 9. If, like lalalovesroses below, you’re not a fan of aldehydic florals, it’s probably best not to bother. These are old school aldehydes, the type that makes my heart beat faster and many perceive as icky soapy Bank of England. I was impressed to find it as aldehydic as it is, as usually these days perfumes that purport to be aldehydic really aren’t very. I don’t care for the sort of sour rose notes in this and they’re very strong at the start. It’s really aldehydes and that rose for me until it settles down to the heart where the heliotrope, violet and iris are more pronounced. Pleasant enough ambery vanilla drydown, powdery at times. I don’t need a full bottle of this in my life but I don’t feel like I have to wash it off and will finish my decant in time. 3.5 / 5
Like more modern fragrances than not the floral notes here don’t smell remotely realistic. It’s no L’Heure Bleue for sure, and I don’t know why anyone would expect it to be except for the silly retail price. I wouldn’t pay full price for this or any other Bond, including Chinatown which is the one I think the most of. I’d think it goes without saying for anything with a price like this, try it first. Go on Ebay and buy a couple of the bon-bons that some of the sellers price well now that Bond isn’t the coolest thing on the planet.
FriendMakayla – :
Bond No. 9 Broadway Nite
This is an incredibly soapy perfume. Not the modern soap variations that smell clean and fresh, but the old fashioned kind. I get thick, floral and intensely powdery soap from Broadway Nite. The florals are really abstract to me, but I detect violet and rose most dominantly and they are heavy, waxy and blended so much that it’s not really about the florals. It’s the granny soap association that I keep on getting here, so much that it would be hard for me to appreciate it for what it is. It should also be noted that the heliotrope, although voted highly, does not smell realistic to me. Broadway Nite utilises a really impermeable layer of SOAP, yes once again, and it’s powdery at the same time…but not exactly reminiscent of the scent of heliotrope flowers. The combination of vanilla and white musk are the culprits to this ‘classic’ soapy accord. Vanilla adds warmth to the florals while the overload of musk smells suffocatingly heavy. As it dries down it becomes gentler and a more pleasant skin scent. Like the ‘my lips but better’ lip colour, Broadway Nite is a ‘my skin scent but better.’
Broadway Nite is really strong on my skin with a dab or two, and I could even smell it from the closed vial when I received it. What to expect from a Bond No. 9? The sillage of BN (and most Bond No. 9s) is strong with very persisting longevity. However, all their scents differ vastly. Broadway Nite – being made in 2003 does not surprise me, the house itself was likely only starting out with the perfume game, and it matches up with the style at the time (old fashioned, soapy, heady florals.) If you loved another Bond No. 9, there’s no guarantee you would love the others. The range does not have a signature base like a Guerlinade or the distinct Chanel perfumes. So, you are taking a huge risk buying any Bond No. 9 without testing, because for me, they are very much hit or miss. This one’s a miss.
If you like your floral powders, I would highly recommend Guerlain L’Heure Bleue for the classic romantic, heliotrope beauty. If you like your powdery perfumes similar in strength to BN, with a sweet rose-tonka feel, I would point you towards Montale Powder Flowers. Both lack that dated soapy smell found in BN, which I find rather nasty.
bikerboy2009 – :
Broadway Nite is a Throwback Thursday fragrance to be sure. It’s definitely (and wonderfully) Old School! Think Dynasty…Dallas over-the-toppage 🙂 Your nose should know that going in. Once you’ve reconciled that fact with your olfactory system, you will be in for one helluva fragrant experience. More to the point, one helluva heliotrope fragrance!
Heliotrope carries most of this beauty. With those 80s shoulder pads, I’m not surprised 🙂 While a simple fragrance, it feels more ball gown than jeans and t-shirt. I need heels with Broadway Nite; big hair wouldn’t hurt either. It’s so face forward…. so present. It’s powdery and slightly sour in presentation. Possibly a result of the amber mix? Maybe not. I can feel the effects of the aldehyde here more so than smell them. Violet and vanilla are also detectable. That’s not the case with rose and honeysuckle. Normally both find me in any fragrant experience, but this lady is heliotrope bent, I’m happy to say.
Broadway Nite has made it’s way all the way to my Fragrantica favorite shelf before. It’ll be there again, of this I have no doubt. Maybe next Thursday? 😉
diabbankeviveodx – :
Personally, I wish the rose wasn’t as powerful as the heliotrope but for a rose lover, this is your perfume. This is my first experience with a Bond No. 9 fragrance, and I’m impressed. I opened the sample vial to sniff it and a drop got on my hand. That was over an hour ago and it’s still quite potent. I can’t even imagine how powerful this would be if you sprayed it on!
vovan.vovan1971 – :
When I first tried Broadway Nite a couple of months ago I pretty much hated it. It was the loudest, brashest and the most theatrical perfume I had ever come across, a perfect accessory for obnoxious prima donnas. Images of grandiose divas prone to on- and off-stage drama, melodramatic drag queens, and the extravagant characters from Pedro Almodovar movies immediately jumped to mind.
In terms of composition the perfume is quite conventional, a huge bouquet of powdery purple flowers, with heliotrope and violet standing out the most to me. I think it’s similar in character to Paris, which I quite like, except that it’s much more overwhelming than the already powerful YSL. The aldehydes definitely add to the choking experience for me.
And this is where it gets weird because once I get over my own exasperation with how atrocious this whole thing supposedly is, I actually start to really enjoy it. Why not, it’s like assuming a new, shamelessly self-centred persona for a day. I certainly like the old-school floral composition floating on a big cloud of powder, and as for the aldehydes, they don’t bother me nearly as much as I originally thought. In fact they are a challenging but clever touch, adding much needed lightness and metallic luminosity to the overbearing drama which Broadway Nite undeniably is.
I only have a dab sample, but it has more throw than I would like and an impressive staying power. I prefer not to think how powerful this scent must be if sprayed:)
I don’t necessarily need a bottle for myself but I would be really excited to smell it on someone with the right personality.
2222-2 – :
I LOVE the drydown! Its blends great with So New York and last over 12 hours on my skin. Give it a try if you enjoy gourmand fragrances.
Сережечка – :
As a fan of Maurice Roucel’s work, this one doesn’t disappoint.
But let me first say that I have 7 or 8 Bond No. 9 perfumes in my collection, and I have come to realize that Bond No. 9 perfumes all share a similar smell palette. It is almost like all perfumers are given a particular selection of ingredients to work with and the end results are very pungent and sharp, particularly floral perfumes.
I would summarize the smell of this perfume with this description: aldehydelic rosewater bread dunk in booze.
didenko1410 – :
Yes, definitely soft powdery cloud of purple flowers, really enjoy this even not being a floral type person, long lasting with moderate sillage
omo501bedyWelty – :
This scent is a good one, but in the dry down I find it a bit abrasive. It does not melt with my skin well. It radiates like an atom.
бельбао – :
I can imagine, this smells like you walks the Broadway Street in the downtown of New York in the last centuries at 4 PM when lot of bread makers there were backing theirs bread. The fragrance has some similarity with the raw sour bread dough, before it will be backed, this slightly yeast cell whiff. But of course, a lot refined and not so bread-obvious. There is some vanilla sweetness too.
I sold 7 of my used fragrances on ebay to buy this one, which is the most expensive fragrance on my have shelf until now. If you are asking me, if it is worth the money, yes, if you try its quality – it lasts two days on clothing, and on the skin until your next shower. If you are onto this sour bread dough whiff or do you love our fresh european bread, directly coming from the oven or before it is completely backed /still half raw/, you will love it, as I do. All in all – a special perfume for special occasions, most for the night after 3 PM, when the City begins to live its next day.
My dog-pug loves it too. She was licking my wrist, when I tested it.
emaskal – :
Fantastic! The green violet note at the start is a little sharp for some but within 3 minutes it was over and then the fragrance was just a beautiful blend of wonderfully sumptious notes! And it’s incredibly long-lasting! Well done Maurice Roucel!
Update: Wore it to work today and the compliments have not stopped!
vopspound – :
It has a very sharp opening that is vaguely reminiscent of No 5 to me…I know there are no aldehydes listed but that is what it smells like to me. After my nose is assaulted with that I can sort of smell lipstick rose, but only if I take a shallow breath in. If I take a deep breath of the scent I am assaulted again by aldehydes. I don’t like it at all and I’m not sure that I ever will because even if it gets better later I don’t think I can suffer through the stink…not for this price.
chern – :
I really love it…I mean…it might be overwhelming but definitely it depends on everyone’s body chemistry…for me it works delightfully.
ogr551speagoessenda – :
The opening of nite is strong heliotrope and honeysuckle, vanilla with a amber. I don’t smell Aldehydes, maybe it’s the sharp opening in this perfume, that everyone it smelling, but that fades. Broadway Nite is simply gorgeous and long lasting, a gorgeous creamy vanilla and amber drydown with just hints of the floral. a deffinate purchase for me.
Update… I’ve gotten a few compliments on this perfume and I seldom get compliments so I consider this a great thing. I do love sniffing this
throughout the day, and it almost has a buttery quality about it. It is worth getting a back up bottle of this, so my next purchase is another Broadway Nite!
cvodro11 – :
Lou Lou and Red Door became a couple and gave birth to Broadway Nite. It’s hard to describe just how abrasive this is on me, but I think if I sat near someone while wearing this in a Broadway theatre, I’d be sued for emitting a noxious gas. This is far too strong to wear in a crowd unless you’re trying to piss off anyone who comes within ten feet of you. Wearing it in close, theatre seating would be cruel.
JZeka – :
The stickiest, most cloying chemical scent I have encountered in a long time. Hints of soapy-ness come through, but just for a split second, until the crazy chemical bomb goes off yet again. Oh and as a bonus it delivers instant headaches. Nice.
kisskiss – :
thanks to Broadway Nite, i realized that aldehyde perfumes are DEFNITELY NOT for me…
dyw667speagoessenda – :
A very strong fragrance when it is sprayed on. It is a fall/winter night time wear. It last a very long time so you do not need to spray anymore on at all.
jindos – :
An acquired taste…a bit like almond cakes…first attempt was a bit unpleasant but after a few tries, they both grew on me…
The first time I tried it, I was not overtly impressed…however, after a few more tries (while running on the treadmill; best place to try a new scent as your body temperature exudes the scent through your pores in the heat of the moment…) I started to admire the beautiful composition of this very unique violet and rose scent…
Now, I reach for it on cold evenings at home when I want to relax and listen to my equally large vinyl collection…ie George Michael, massive attack…
Fantastic stuff…with incredible longevity and sillage…
Big thumbs up…!!!
Xeroxvxvtb – :
Cereza. If I were a moderator, I would give you a prize in the Friday Contest ))) Your review is so original and it has risen up my mood in a very cold gloomy day )
However I will never understand why do the Bonds cost so much. I’ve got a sample of this one. No worms, thanx God, but nothing special. Just another floral scent. Not too bad.
zokvdrvkd – :
Oh GOD. At first I though – hmm, this is nice, reminds me a bit of juicy iris that can be found in Miller Harris – Coeur de Fleur, I might even enjoy this, but oh boy how wrong was I. After 1 minute of applying something HAPPENED. And it’s vile.
What’s so vile about it, you may ask? It’s worms, really. It smells like flour gone bad and already taken a colony of those little white, fat worms. It smells exactly like that. I hope you have never encountered that smell in your life, but I have and Broadway nite is pure fat, white worms swimming in bad flour. And a vase of plastic flowers someone sprayed air freshnerer on so they would smell like real ones.
Boy, this is just WRONG.
Kristi – :
I knew the day had to come when Mr Roucel left me heartbroken and desolate in a wasteland of devastated expectations and dashed hopes. I just never quite anticipated I would be accompanied by such a grotesque demon perched on my wrist.
Broadway Night is everything I flee from in perfume. It is brash, loud, sickly, syrupy sweet, jarring & discordant, with nothing I can discern as a ‘note’, more like a cacophany of chemicals howling at the moon.
Broadway Nite has certainly made an impression and it has earned itself a cosy place next to LouLou as the perfume I would most likely adorn to celebrate an ice party in Hell.
Todobonry – :
To my nose, Bond no 9 BROADWAY NITE is primarily a purple floral fragrance with a definite brass band vibe. I actually thought that there were violets here, but they are not listed among the notes, though iris and heliotrope are.
Although this edp is certainly wearable and has reasonably good longevity, it’s not among my favorite Bond florals, so I won’t be adding a bottle to my collection. Something about the overall blend seems caricaturesque–as though it wants too badly to smell like someone’s idea of PERFUME. For some reason, while wearing BROADWAY NITE, I began to think of Laverne & Shirley going out on a double date with Lenny & Squiggy. Not sure whether or not they lived in NYC…
Alina414 – :
I’m not a fan of florals or aldehyde-florals so read my evaluation in light of this fact. Broadway Nite is probably a nice scent for those who like such things, but does not fall anywhere within the realm of things that I would want to wear regularly. It starts off with a knock-’em-over blast of aldehydes and a sharp, pointy, synthetic floral note that reminds me of lily of the valley (shudder). Then comes the soap, full blast. After the initial brouhaha dies down, it settles into a sharp-edged floral in which rose is detectable, accompanied by lots of scents that one could imagine belonging to plastic flowers. After a few hours and a run, it evolves into a pleasant spicy scent that eventually dries down to vanilla. However, it’s not worth suffering through the first few hours and sweating profusely to experience the nice part.
Maybe the perfumer intended to create an obnoxious, in-your-face synthetic floral, but the image that comes to mind is an old lady who has had lots of plastic surgery, wears tons of jewelry, and carries a little dog around with her in a basket. Not an image that I want to think about, let alone project to others. By the way, the sillage is tremendous.
hoh234speagoessenda – :
A bit on the lines of Lipstick Rose, this reminds me of Camay and other French-perfume based soaps, but has the makeup notes of violet and powdered rose. However it ends weird, like scented candle wax. Not bad, but not worth this price to me.