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dobrodey – :
This is nothing like the EDP. This is heavy oakmoss, rose, ylang, sandalwood and musk. Very heavy, intense and spicy.
vladar49 – :
Fragrance Review For Nuit de Noel
Extrait De Parfum
Caron
Top Notes
Ylang Ylang Rose Jasmine
Middle Notes
Sandalwood Oak Moss
Base Notes
Amber Musk
The extract or pure parfum is a much deeper juicier fragrant and opulent concentration of the original vintage 1922 classic Nuit de Noel from Caron. For me this is as beautiful and as perfectly suited for Christmas as the line’s own Parfum Sacre and Une Femme. This frag has elements of each of those perfumes, but being a concentree extrait has more volume and color. This smells of Christmas floral bouquets, Near East myrrh and floral incense and of a perfumed depiction of the gifts of the Magi. This is exotic and grandiose. It smells of the Nativity of the night Jesus was born which is why they have aptly named it Christmas Night. This version can be found on eBay where I bought mine and comes in a black bottle. The sillage and projection is phenomenal and lasts forever.
The scent opens with floral incense. Rather than coming off as fresh floral it’s quite a smoky Oriental floral with rose and jasmine. The ylang is there too but to me it’s a brief slightly fruity prelude to the more Oriental rose and jasmine notes. The flowers here are neither overtly feminine sweet or soapy nor anything like the fragrances that were floral best sellers in the 1920’s such as Joy by Patou or Chanel No 5. This is decidedly unisex with smokier tones. The florals are suspended in an air of incense courtesy of non-incense based notes such as resins, ambers, and sandalwood. Above all it is the sandalwood that emerges as the dominant accord. This is a gorgeous rich sandalwood which evokes the time of Jesus. Sandalwood was as expensive and as prestigious an ingredient as frankincense and only the royalty of the time or the clergy were owners of this ingredient used for religious worship. The sandalwood in Nuit de Noel gives it the perfect exotic incense touch that transports you to Israel in the 1st century.
A night blooming jasmine trails off before it turns into a green thing with redolent airs of moss. This is not quite a chypre but it seems to want to go there sometimes because the green moss is very strong. This is a gorgeous green moss but to me it smells not of the forest or the traditional chypre but of Christmas wreaths, like the wreaths that you hang on your door this time of year in December. It also gives it an herbal flowery air so it smells of floral wreaths that recall the flowery circular wreaths used for Christmas pageantry in the 18th and 19th centuries. This smells of wreaths found in large homes of the aristocracy in Victorian England or Germany, large green floral wreaths that were not always circular shaped but shaped like crescents and laid one after the other on banquet tables during Christmas dinners.
The dry down is soapy but it’s like a very expensive and fragrant longer lasting soap with unisex masculine airs. The amber note and the musk are warm, balsamic, and quite strong giving this scent the longevity it needs to make it a real perfume. The amber is absolutely divine and matches up with the incense/myrrh. This is also musky and clean with a spiritual beauty beyond anything I have come across. I love to wear the Caron fragrances this time of year. They put me in the holiday spirit. If you still haven’t experienced Parfum Sacre Nuit de Noel or Une Femme please check them out and you will see how unbelievably beautiful they are and so appropriate for Christmas. I am so in love with this perfume! Wearing it all through the Christmas week that’s already here.
Merry Christmas
анрей123 – :
Now this is what perfume is supposed to smell like! Deep, balanced, womanly, mellow, conveys a private happiness. I am lucky enough to have a pre 1990s black bottle. Simply gorgeous. I shall be in mourning when it is gone.
Silent91 – :
Oh it is gorgeous!!!! It is my signature scent!!!! I adore it, it’s heavenly!!!!! And so is the bottle. I adore adore adore the bottle it’s fantastically beautiful!!!!! I love love LOVE this gorgeous GORGEOUS soft rich demure strong womanly mature and deep perfume!!! It’s everything I’ve ever dreamed of in a perfume. It has such a beautiful air of mystery and sensuality. It’s DIVINE!!!! The name – Nuit de Noël – is perfect!!!! DIVINE DIVINE perfume!!!! Divine bottle!!!!! Heavenly heavenly!!! I get so many beautiful compliments when I wear this, and it has wonderful lasting power – about 14 hours. It’s soft but very strong, and I can smell it all the time without having to put my nose close to my skin. It’s the most gorgeous perfume in the world!!!!
salkina – :
I held my breath to purchase a vintage and completely sealed bottle of this classic scent. When I got it around Christmas I was elated – I carefully unpackaged the weathered plastic wrap and looked for the seal and batch numbers. The bottle I own is of Spanish origin – French produced. My best guess is between 1940s – 1960s.
The bottle and beautiful box smelled of everything I want to smell like – balanced spicy and musky with a soft sweetness and citrus to it.
It took me a few tries to wear it properly without choking on it. It is dense and deep.
The drydown on my skin is underwhelming and pats down to a powdery base which I am learning to recognize better. This may be one I need to grow into.
It exhibits warmth and charm and refinement, and I feel paradoxical having brunch whilst wearing it. Definitely more for evening wear.
I can only hope that what I smell when I dig into my closet to apply this remarkably distinct EDP those around me are smelling the intoxicating spicy soul that so many over the years have also adored.
I will grow into this perhaps, but to recognize that it lays on my skin like powder and hymnals in a candlelit vigil is accurate. I’m now onto Spring greens and amassing more mutual staples that blend with my chemistry, but will always keep this timeless romance with me for winter months and myrrh.
yhw642Negeltzex – :
I love Nuit de Noel Extrait de Parfum!! I love it to the ends of the earth! It’s so beautiful! It’s one of my signature scents (I have many! I love so many, I feel so attached to so many perfumes!!), but really I love this one the most – I really do!!! It is unique and perfect. And I just love the bottle, and everything about it to the nth degree!!! It’s sublime!!! Superb.
I can’t can’t can’t describe the beauty of it. It’s beautiful sweet flowers, gorgeous almost incensy musk and spices, there’s a lovely marzipanish-type smell, absolutely warm and creamy amber and lovely dark moist oakmoss. But it’s just perfect, that’s all I can say!
And it lasts oh my god for a long time! All day. Lovely day of beautiful beautiful smells, and of course I always put more on every so often because I want more of it!!!! It’s adorable!!!
fidan – :
I love this perfume so much. My mother wore it too, when I was young, and I have so much love for it, and her. She was such a beautiful, and loving mother, and her perfume, Nuit de Noel, by Caron, was absolutely her. I adore it. It’s my favourite of all, because I absolutely love the divine smell, and because it is totally reminiscent of her love, and beauty.
mmmmmmhjhhh – :
My grandmothers best friend wore NdN.
One day I went to her house with my grandmother and gave her a hug. I told her she smelled wonderful. She said she wore NdN because she loved Christmas and wanted Christmas with her every day.
She was one of the very wealthy ladies in our town. Only to find out this was the French house Caron..of course she would wear that..and probably went to great lengths to obtain a bottle since this was the late 70s and we were in a rural area.
Fast forward to Christmas 2016 and I have a bottle of my own. The lovely almost alkaline vanillic chestnut scent is unique with its multilayered prismatic formula. It changes with you but also brings comfort. My significant other remarked how wonderful I smelled opening presents. I told him the story of NdN and he was delighted.
Vintage .5oz parfum.
Comfort and Joy.
dj_martin93 – :
This is my Christmas Day perfume, and has been ever since my mother sprayed a very small amount on me as a child. She or my grandmother sprayed me every Christmas until I left home, at which time I was given my own bottle. I was 18 then, and am now 60…Nuit de Noel and I go back a long way.
To my mind, this is the most beautiful perfume ever. I have many that I love deeply and I treasure each one for its own attributes, but this is special. History, I suppose, but also the actual glory of the fragrance. One little dab in the morning and it is still going strong this evening. On first application it tempts you to over apply, as it does not give up its secrets straight away. Leave it a while and get on with the business of Christmas morning, and you will suddenly become aware of it. It needs the warmth of your skin to come to life.
As usual, I cannot tell you which notes I recognise. This is superbly blended and for the first several hours I smell the sweetness of the flowers. There is an incense-type smell, but it does not give me the “eau de plastic” that I am always aware of in Parfum Sacré. It is more musky, like Goutal’s beautiful Musc Nomade. As it slowly shows its heart I feel as though I am smelling almonds: sweet, marzipanny almonds. I can almost taste them and this feels satisfying in the mouth somehow. The flowers are still there. They are always there. It is as though they do not fade, but swell and grow, and are joined, slowly, by the other players, none of which I can identify individually. I cannot stop sniffing this. It is so, so beautiful.
My Christmas perfume. Glorious.
Coalialab – :
For current version.
I already have EDT and It’s pretty different compared to EDT and Parfum.
Parfum is more quiet and deep, open with Amber with Carnation(not in the notes, and disappear quickly) Ylang-Ylang, Moss and Sandalwood are underneath. I don’t feel any Jasmine like a EDT.
Maybe too quiet for me, I don’t feel any Christmas atmosphere at all from this one instead of EDT.
Anyway, still nice perfume.
lexx74 – :
Very much a skinscent. Very much signature worthy.
Everything anyone would ever want in a Signature.
GORGEOUS bottle too. I just don’t like the name –
waY too religious – FOR A PERFUME! …Peace…
vasolio83 – :
Wearing the vintage version from an old black Baccarat bottle that came in the green sharkskin box. I think the older version had aldehyde top notes that are off on first application, but then it becomes very older style, full of real oak moss, powdery and earthy forest floor simultaneously, and also a delicious rose scent. There’s also a lot of real sandalwood that lends a spiciness that suggests the Christmas Eve connection that’s totally missing from the reformulation.
What a shame this was altered, as so many Carons were reformulated drastically in the 1990’s after they were purchased by the Ales company and the head perfumer was changed. The reformulated version has very little if any oak moss and is made very dark and gothic I think by synthetic musk or vetiver. They have very different notes. The older version is long lasting due to its oak moss fixative power and throws off a good amount of projection.
A lovely, lovely fragrance that is now one of my favorites. I think this one is perfect for a cozy winter evening. The reformulation is more for an austere, cool feeling.
Tryd – :
Does this have aldehydes? Or is it the Ylang Ylang that I am grabbing hold of. In the beginning it’s not soft and sweet like I tend to think of Caron. I suppose it does have the spicy Caron carnation in there, and perhaps some cloves.
As this dried down I was reminded of how quiet it gets and how quickly too. In only about an hour and half it went from rather strong to a very soft skin scent. Mind you,it’s a lovely one, but VERY soft sillage.