Description
The house of Annick Goutal presents Nuit Etoilee or “starry night”, a new fragrance for both men and women. The fragrance was inspired by the moonlight, starry skies, cool scent of woods and enjoyment in nature and solitude.
„To walk for hours at night in a nature left in a state of wilderness. To listen to the weeds getting crushed and fir cones cracking under one’s feet. To collect branches of conifers, to break them and smell the resinous vapors at the tip of one’s fingers. Then to lie down on the ground in the moonlight as if you were all alone in the world.“
The composition is a fresh spicy – woody – aromatic, created by perfumer Isabelle Doyen. It contains notes of citron, sweet orange, peppermint, Siberian pine, fir resin, angelica seed, tonka and immortal.
The fragrance is available in two types of bottles (the curvy one is for woman and the square one for men), colored in dark blue, containing Eau de Toilette scent concentration.
Nuit Etoilee was launched in 2012.
держа – :
Annick Goutal – Nuit Étoilée Eau de Toilette
Pine needles + mint leaves.
I live at the foot of a mountain range, and just before the dawn breaks I would rise up to hike its wooded slopes. “Nuit Étoilée” reminds me so much of those mornings when the air was brisk and the forest floor littered with leaves.
lifeline – :
Mostly mint and immortelle for me. It’s a garden mint lacking that earthy green quality. Dare I say it, but it does remind me of mint chewing gum. The immortelle is sweet and mimosa-like, and I can detect the herbal quality of the angelica, but barely any fir or pine. I went into this more concerned about the pine, but the mint REALLY dominates instead.
There is definitely something woody and a bit dry in there, but only up close.
Unfortunately, I think if it were more resinous smelling, with a stronger angelica note and more toned down mint/immortelle it probably would capture a moonlit forest more accurately. But for what it is, its my first mint scent, and its cool and refreshing. This is just my first impression on wearing it though, so I’ll have to try it a few more times and see how it goes!
EDIT: oh wow. The dry down is…something else entirely. Its what I imagine the skin of a certain beloved of mine would smell like.I think this one’s drydown is much more beautiful for that than the top notes but ahhh…hard to describe how lovely this imagining is!
bur173bedyWelty – :
I’ve just tried the EDT on a humid summer’s evening, and it held up. I’m curious how it develops in cold weather though as a cold winter night outside is what it calls to mind.
Prominent throughout is a NON- toothepaste-y mint; one that is the natural garden variety. It lends a brisk, open air, big, dark night sky feel. It suits the blue bottle well. Citrus is present throughout noticeably. The pine plays a quiet role, and luckily, is not of the urine variety.
Development for me was minimal with just a hint of something creamy in the background entering later. I did not care for the scent when I sniffed my arm, but I was catching enjoyable whiffs of it as I went about my night, so it may be one that performs best wafting from afar. Traces lasted past a shower.
Although unisex, it’s a little too light for the lumberjack I’d typically recommend this for 😉 But if brisk, fresh and cold is one’s thing, then this is worth a try. It reminds me a little of 4711 Original. For a cozier pine, I’d try Byredo Gypsy Water and Lauder Sensuous Noir for a more complex, mysterious, and alluring use of pine.
Longevity – tenacious
Projection – 1 spray remains in your personal bubble, near skin
Occasion – casual wear, non-date night, times when the scent is for you
зояпетровна – :
This perfume is surprisingly potent. My very first impression was that it is rather thin like a thin and fragile but beautiful fabric that wears & tears easily … but then when you wear it you find that it is as it were reinforced by unseen kevlar fibres (or carbon nanotubes, or whatever). I actually received a very earnest compliment on this, walking down the street with a wind blowing! That’s how robust it is!
And another peculiarity of this that I hadn’t noticed until someone on the forum drew my attention to it, is its resemblence to Amouage’s Sunshine Men. When I first read that assertion that there is a resemblance, I thought (and replied on the thread saying so) ” … nah! it doesn’t … ” – but then when I put it on it kept reminding me of something and teasing me with the association … and then it clicked! I also say now that there is a ‘core’ of resemblance between this and the Amouage. But there are also significant differences to the extent that there is by no means redundancy in having both.
And I know this is a bit minty also, and that elsewhere I have held-forth on how much I hate mint (because one time I could only get mint-flavoured nicotine chewing-gum & it drove me mad); but this is an outstanding example of how there can be ecxeptions about things like that. The mint is actually woven into the composition really very ingeniously.
For some reason this keeps bringing to mind a time when (I was about 18) a very reverend senior lady in the neighbourhood was showing me around her greenhouse! Not a particularly unexpected déja-vu: but it is a very strong one. I can’t figure out whether the smell of the plants was conspiring to be somewhat like this fragrance (which is distinctly possible), or whether the connection is otherhow – but it assuredly is a connection.
(I wrote Bracken Man at first rather than Sunshine Men for the Amouage perfume. It definitely is Sunshine that I’m talking about.)
busn – :
Nuit Etoilee is a beautiful fragrance indeed. Fresh mint with soft lemon in the opening. Then cold mint with edgy pine in the drydown. Ethereal and romantic. Poetic and philosophical. I think that it would be too heavy if it were stronger and maybe, just maybe, the real beauty of NE is its softness.
reulsewep – :
This frag is a spearmint (sweet) mint and a blast of fine and lemon in the opening, the citrus then dissaperas and only a WARM blend of mint and pine remains. Like walking in the woods and seeing the beams of a sunset jumping around the trees. This is a very SOFT scent, that can be worn by women and men.
I prefer to wear it on a grey cloudy summer day. It’s a bit “too fresh” for Winter.
I don’t usually like Annick Goutal scents, out of 5 bottles I owned, I only kept this scent. The blue bottle is also very pretty.
titan15 – :
This for me smells of a fresh winter pine forest. It’s like nothing else I own and I love it’s uniqueness – such an antidote to super sweet and heavy perfumes in their multitudes! There is something decidedly soft and fairytale-like about this despite it being quite a green and clean scent. It’s beautifully blended and I get intertwined wafts of lemony citrus, pine, fresh herbiness, and a quiet powdery sweetness just beneath the surface. Once it completely dries down it’s a soft yet clean skin scent on me with low projection. This is an earthy fragrance that gives me Winter’s night vibes, but which would be nice in hot weather too I think. My only bugbear is that while I love the smell, I’m not sure I love it to wear all that often – I’d be curious about whether others think it smells strange on me. I would not call this a “pretty” scent, or one likely to get compliments, even though it’s so very lovely in its own way.
god3 – :
Still, a highlight from the more recent Goutal releases, even if I was surprised by the weird proximity to Nomad Tea. In any way, Nuit Étoilée manages to continue the grand landscape narratives the house was so unique in creating with their 80’s releases. The original blue square bottle was also a perfect fit, sadly gone now with the utterly average new-fancy-bottle-normalization, Goutal, as many formerly decent brands experience.
Infotomox – :
The word ethereal seems to be such a good descriptor for Nuit Etoilee. I could hug a man returning to the cabin smelling of this pine. Not grandpa’s pine tar soap, but the lingering caress of green needles against plaid. I can smell a flesh-and-blood forest faerie bathed in the essence of Nuit Etoilee. I can even smell the sweet head of a little forest babe in the gentle, perfumed air.
I lived in Minnesota for seven years and know well the smell of the Northwoods. Nuit Etoille evokes impressionist memories. I was reminded of a North Shore hike with my uncle, a legendary hiker who had me sampling old man’s beard and rubbing the needles of coniferous trees to identify their olfactory imprints. Here my experience meets Nuit Etoilee. I don’t smell sawed wood like the cedar cabin or the pine chest or industrial logging. I smell the essence of one who has arrived home after a day in the forest. I smell the oil of the needles like delicate breath exhaling into Minnesota’s starry night sky.
Nuit Etoilee introduces itself in a strange way…an intense, almost-nothingness almost like atomizing witch hazel, lemon, and mint. When I say mint, I don’t mean spearmint. I mean basil encroaching on black licorice. Nuit Etoilee maintains that licorice standoffishness probably halfway through the day, and then I begin to pick up a sweetness in its movement. It stays true to itself throughout the day, without sillage yet ready to exhale once more as I move. It’s the impression of a forest world with no literal trees or essential oils. More importantly, a reminder that you were there.
gibson74 – :
Sipping hot Moroccan mint tea in a cold pine forest. I love it, Nuit Etoilee has an ethereal quality to it and is definitely not an everyday perfume for me but I feel like I will crave this when I’m feeling whimsical. The mix of mint and pine is rather magical!
My only gripe is how soft and fleeting this fragrance is. It has a sparkling, cold quality in its lightness and closeness to the skin but I find myself wondering if I’d like it more if it was stronger and lasted longer…or would that be too much and make it cloying?
An interesting one for sure. The bottle is so pretty, too.
ala892Diobtetty – :
First of all, a very good scent, even though it took my beloved a while to start appreciating it as much as it deserves. After she did, the bottle became empty much too quickly. It was my first Annick Goutal scent and I liked it from the first sniff. At the beginning it is a blast of citruses (more lemon – or citron as they say in the notes – than orange) and mint with a slightly sweet vibe. On me the citruses are gone first and the remaining mint becomes mixed with the pine forest smell. It is a beautiful combo. After the mint flies away, the forest stays there, but to me it smells very light and close to the skin. It seems my nose is getting old though, beacause other people could smell the conifer trees on me from like a meter away and did comment on it (they liked it). Tonka bean is listed in the base notes. Ususally I can easily detect this particular note. I don’t say there is no tonka bean in Nuit Etoille, but I think it does not characterise this composition at all and is not important to this frag as a note on its own. Maybe it supports the conifer, I don’t know. As for the longevity and sillage, from the beginning I felt I needed to spray it a lot over me (5 sprays at least). The atomizer here is unforgiving, you can’t control the amount of perfume sprayed and it’s always generous. So the bottle I had became empty all too quickly, like I mentioned at the beginning. As I think of it, I haven’t yet encountered another 100 ml perfume flacon with such a short lifetime, at least in my hands.
kr4an – :
I very much liked the descriptions of firy, piny, minty/citrusy, coldish, earthy natural non-perfumy scent, but based on the reviews here, and as I am always slightly resereved to everything I read (a matter of character, I suppose), I wanted to to test and check few things, plus performance in general:
First:
Does it work (for me) as wintery scent (there was quite a lot of Christmas associations here), or is it really one of all-year-rounders I’m becoming less and less inclined to (I kinda like rediscovery-game in the beginning of each particular season), or do its minty freshness and frequently mentioned coldness make it wearable on warm days, or in the heat?
Well… It did not strike me as a scent for warm weather, inspite of the opening which clearly suggested the things would go in that direction.
Second:
About conifer/fir – is it light, sublimed, almost transcendental, like in Bryedo Gypsy Water (which I really love, but I find it too overpriced for actual performance) and Eau des Melveilles (where piny note swirls around like in the real summer breeze by the sea), or is it dense, litteral, natural(istic), demanding conifer of more wintery type, like in SL Fille En Auguilles, or L’Artisan’s Fou d’Absinthe?
Well, it is the second kind, only more generic. So, you must really, really want to smell conifer/fir all the way to the drydown. It is quite dense. And certainly there’s something sweet attached to it.
Third, last and trickiest:
How does citrus/mint accord from the opening blend to piny / conifer accord?
This is egzactly where I have a problem with Nuit Etoilee: I can clearly see and understand the concept of EDT, I understand the evident contrast and the way this fragrance is suppose to work, but my senses simply refuse to blend the fresh, cold, minty-sweet (almost summery, day-like, bright) opening into further developement, where balmy, thick, and much darker (almost wintery, not egzqctly night-like, but deeply shady) conifers dominate.
This just does not happen for me.
Instead of blended picture, I repeatedly get two scents /two pictures ovlerlaping in a way that makes the whole perspective impossible to be perceived by my senses, and my senses confused instead of intrigued by contrast.
And I don’t wear perfume because of intelectual concept.
However, I do very much appreciate the concept itself, and I seriously plan to test EDP version.
Maybe the full picture will be magically revealed with a drop of amber…
JyikpolPQ – :
This will always stand for me as an Awful Warning against rash and unconsidered decisions.
I bought it blind at T K Maxx partly to encourage them to stock interesting niche brands, partly because the bottle was so pretty and partly from sheer curiosity. Having tried it, however, I couldn’t convince myself that admiration of its originality, indeed uniqueness actually added up to anything more than a sort-of-like, sometimes.
One day, quite unexpectedly, I found myself craving it, and all day I simply adored it, it was wonderful, how could I have so misjudged it, etc, etc. I felt I simply must buy a back-up bottle, and my finger was poised over the button when my better self gave me a stern talking-to; I must stop all this rhapsodizing and give myself a 24hr cooling-off period. And sure enough the next day it was back to well-I-think I sort of like it, a bit.I still haven’t finished 50ml.
Has anyone else ever experienced this kind of strange and fleeting enthusiasm for a fragrance?
fktrcrkbv – :
It’s a waste having such a pretty bottle filled with such an ugly juice.
Cool and minty fresh? Nocturnal? Pine forest?
Didn’t find this to be any of those.
Just a cloying liquorice/anise scent.
Maybe the two samples I got have turned already, who knows.
leolat – :
A snowy ice queen. This is a winter wonderland cold icicle scent which blooms when the mercury descends. It is a cold blast of mint & conifer candy cane & is perfect for Christmas sleigh rides & midnight walks. It is one of the most elusive fragrances I own & it took me a while to coax it out of it’s igloo and become acquainted – well worth the time & effort. Wear while watching another ice maiden Kim Novak bewitch James Stewart in ‘Bell, Book & Candle’.
dimaxxxyyy – :
A confused mint opening leads to a confusing dry down of toasty immortelle, sweet angelica and synthetic pine. Maybe it’s just my chemistry, but there’s something sweaty and off-putting about the overall effect. This one’s not for me.
barmaley7676 – :
I’m sad this didn’t work for me. It is practically all bitter citrus tinted with mint on me. Only for a very short period did the confiers shine through. At that point I liked it; But then it rapidly became sticky immortelle pancakes with synthetic citrus and a whole lotta mint. I have no idea how orange juice with mint pancakes are supposed to be evocative of a starry night, but whatever.
den24 – :
Oh my god I love this. First blast is something almost alcoholic, citrusy and minty and not altogether pleasant, but it quickly burns off and settles into something coniferous and green. It’s a pine forest on a crisp winter morning, sans dirt, but for once, I’m okay that this scent is missing the fresh dirt, the moldering wood, the mossiness that I generally want in my forest perfumes. This isn’t an atmospheric smell. It’s far from realistic – I’ve never smelled the woods like this, so clean and perfect – but it’s still beautiful, an Impressionistic painting of a forest somewhere, still under a layer of snow, with oranges. It’s entirely fantasy, and I’m okay with that.
Nuit Etoilée doesn’t make me think of a starry forest night. This was an attempt to bottle the winter morning sun that comes slanting through the branches of the trees: pine needles, sunshine, nose on edge with cold. Peace in a bottle.
uiiHGHCvhnkmo – :
Now I know what unisex perfume should be – it should imitate Nature itself. Cool starry night (later plus fire smoke!)is miraculously achieved.
Yes, perfectly, safely unisex.
On dry down on my skin is resinous-smokey in a perfect way. Reminds me of Terre d’Hermes which my husband has, but not in a masculine way.
Happy with it!
RedCikeHier – :
I don’t know why anyone would create something that stinks. It reminds me of fly spray mixed with peppermint. I bought a lot of testers on eBay and this one is going in the bin.
Max-77 – :
Love it! An old pine dresser drawer filled with peppermint candies. For sure what I was craving! Wood+Mint love.
romano108 – :
I like the evocative or suggestive fragrances of moments, sensations, environments, trips or places, since these types of fragrances have more value, power and personality than others that simply smell good.
That happens to me, among others, with Nuit Etoilee.
From the beginning I perceive that nightly freshness, powerful, of a breeze of air: citrus and mint accompanied by the woods that contributes all that character that has this fragrance: a forest of spruce and pine mixed with each other raising that menthol character even to balsamic of NE, thus increasing even more that nocturnal character evocative of the aroma. The drying, although does not last long, has a woody point more balsamic and sweet tinted by the angelica that recreates an atmosphere of calm.
In this case, I clearly perceive that walk through this landscape, wooded, calm, cool, even nocturnal, with only the lighting of the powerful light of the stars, diluted colors, intense blue, marine, green greens and white lights that blink all around peace and tranquility.
If it were not for the moderate duration and weak wake would be a sensational fragrance because the composition and the aroma itself is excellent.
Rating: 7.5
deternal – :
Definitely test this before you buy. I love the smell of pine, I love woodsy and fresh scents, and it has to be unique, so this one seemed like it would be right up my alley. On me, however, it just smelled like a muddled mess of scents that did not mesh well at all together, with a layer of mint over it. Ick – disgusting in fact. I did not smell anything fresh, pine or a forest. I envy the people whose chemistry works well with this, because I’m sure it is lovely.
Quitenent – :
Minty freshness, mixed with a pineforest. And somewhere in that forest there is a house with a whiff of smoke coming out of the chimney. Is there anyone else who can smell smoke in this scent? Lovely by the way. I think I’m going to try/buy the edp too. Intriguing.
Edit: should have stuck with the edt, the edp is smoother, and has less edge than the edt. So, if in doubt: pick the eau the toilette (in the square male bottle it is often lower priced).
baibaika – :
Nuit Etoilee – absolutely stunning. Perfect forest perfume. Cold and wet, yet warm and cozy somehow. Crisp and elegant. Gorgeous!
And the most beautiful bottle and colour. It’s just how the perfume feels – cool and warm and comforting. Perfection.
roma_pak – :
I got a biiigggg collection of samples and perfume for Christmas (thank you so much my rocker chick 😉 ) and this sample was one of the gorgeous scents. This is probably one of the most different and unusual scents I have ever laid my nose on! At first, I didn’t know if I liked it or not, and then I decided that I absolutely did not like it…..I LOVED it. I’m reading reviews that this is not a big projecting scent, but I don’t think I really care, because I can raise my wrist to my nose just fine….lol….not EVERYTHING that I wear, do I need everyone else to enjoy. This creamy, minty, piney scent even smells like the color blue to me (perfect bottle color choice). I am usually a very warm scent kinda gal, but this is the best “cold” scent I’ve ever tried. Can’t wait for my bottle to come in!
zhenja-gi – :
The perfect winter/Christmas scent. Cold, crispy, but somehow warm inside. A real masterpiece.
bovaodoge – :
Hyper-real cold, fresh, crunching foliage. Trees covered in dew or frost, broken branches under foot. Still, night air brushing face and limbs. That is the picture Nuit Etoilee conjures. The feel is ultra fresh and cool. Lots of mint and balsam. I disliked this at first, because it was too realistic. I now love it for the same reason. Autumn/winter landscape in a spray. Brilliant!
Mevjz879bedyWelty – :
woody aromatic heavenly starry night. i concur – this is a masterpiece.
don’t fear the mint. it works.
doing a side by side EDT / EDP:
I did a 1000 piece jigsaw of that Van Gogh painting. it took me days and by the time i finished i had ended up studying every brush stroke and every hue of blue, gold and green.
Both perfumes share the blue mint, the golden citrus and the evergreen woods.
there is a sweetness and a touch of powder.
EDT is brighter, more airey, more “perfumed”, outdoorsy, less sweet. i am sensing more angelica in this one, or perhaps it shows up more, because this base has no amber to cloud it.
EDP has the EDT structure, over a thick chocolatey amber, that to me smells rather like Elizabeth Shaws after dinner chocolates (both the orange and the mint flavours). this version heads towards edible and of course is stronger.
the EDT remains light, fresh and airey. greener.
the EDP’s more golden, sweet amber wafts under my nose from the start.
i sense more woods than i expected in both dry downs, beneath all the green needles.
both silky smooth and uplifting.
the EDP is walking indoors from the snowy night, shaking off the boots and opening the door to a warm room, lit golden by the xmas tree. warm dark embers in the fire, a blue armchair, with a decanter, a glass and that choc for Santa.
the EDT is leaving this cosy room behind and taking that starlit walk in the cold forest.
i prefer (and so does my 6 year old) this one, the EDT. and that’s perhaps is because the woods is my favourite place to be.
i would recommend them both. both are beautiful.
try the EDP if you love the sweetness of amber and prefer that touch more oomph that an EDP gives.
mrkara – :
I smell citrus, mint and pine needles. The notes sound as though they would be harsh, but they are soft and sweet.
ujs419Negeltzex – :
Unique and tranquil, just as I had imagined. Cooling, refreshing contrast to Texas three digit heat.
oleg250976 – :
The conifers are very prominent in Nuit Etoilee, but it’s not a true-to-life foresty scent. It smells natural, but it’s also a bit ethereal. It’s more like a fairytale forest: crisp and airy with sweet resinous depth. It slightly reminds me of Elixir des Merveilles by Hermes.
All in all, Nuit Etoilee is really lovely! The performance could be better, though; it has a moderate lasting power (approx. 4-5 hours) and it stays close to skin.
klart – :
Such earthy tenderness. I’m transported to being a child in my grandmother’s garden and her telling us to pull off mint leaves from the plant and chew them! That smooth, cool, minty herbal freshness, with no artificial burst is perfectly captured in “Nuit Etoilee”.
There’s also the distinct smell of fallen pine needles, lining the forest floor and of pine trees and flowers that have warmed over the course of the day, quickly cooling under evening dew; that fascinating contrast of balminess and dewiness. Here, I’m also transported back to being a kid, playing kickball with the other neighborhood kids as the sun goes down, the dusky smell of shampooed heads in the sun all day, the vegetal smell of grass beneath our feet, with dewy pine surrounding us.
The creamy, oily undertones of angelica and imortelle remind me a little of the creamy balminess at the core of Caswell-Massey’s “Elixir of Love Everlasting” and its Victorian naturalness. This is like the scent of a Victorian garden and Victorian pine needle pillows, of a moon garden and with its spritely earthiness, even an enchanted wood.
Many have written about “Nuit Etoilee’s” herbal freshness, its natural feel but to me, it transcends a simple herbal treatment sort of blend. This is an unusual fragrance but a distinct composition and it really is for those who want a fragrance with mint and pine notes that doesn’t smell like cleaner or medicine.
This smells most like a fairy tale cottage in a wood, with fireplace cured walls, pies and Scandinavian treats cooked in an open hearth, its floral accents that make me think of fairies and Snow White’s embroidered apron, not cough drops and floor cleaner.
I almost wonder if the house of Annick Goutal took on this challenge just for the difficulty of it, as so many people have grown-up associating these notes with functional items, that it’s hard to approach such blends without prejudice and consider such notes in a luxury, creative blend.
Whatever the reason for Annick Goutal pursuing this unusual blend, what they’ve accomplished is probably the best mint-based fragrance on the market today. “Nuit Etoilee” is both a rare fragrance option and a charming composition. I can’t wait to wear it for Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter’s starry nights and I have a feeling it will tell a different story for every one.
kar22211 – :
Very nice, refreshing, cool pine needle scent.
First whiff is strongly alcoholic, but pine needle scent comes through soon enough along with some minty freshness. On my skin, no citrus scent develops, but only piney, fir scent.
Delicate silage and not overpowering.
I had a heavy head from lack of sleep, so spritzed Nuit Etoillee around my wrists and back of neck. It gave me such a fresh wake-up feeling as if I took a stroll in the mountain path.
Lovely & delicate perfume, which I look forward to using in the summer and fall.
maximpopovscky – :
walking through a cold crisp evergreen forest hand in hand with my lover, we stop and both gaze up at the same time at the clear winter night sky and see stars wink at us – it transports me there – I love this scent
it is soft but a bit chilly, and cool evergreen – I get more fir than pine – and I have very fond comfort memories of pine, spruce and fir scented baths as a child so these notes are so appealing and comforting to me
Lerowerve – :
its not everyday im able to find a mint based scent
as much as i wish i knew of more that i was able to get my hands on it just hasn’t come to fruition
Nuit Etoilee opens with a mint note thats almost edible it sets the mood almost instantly uplifting you to wanna get out and cease the day
the combination of mint pine and fir lays the foundation of whats to follow in this scents pyramid breakdown
right off the top the earthy tones would just be to much but because its followed by a duo of citrusy notes which makes it all come together in a olfactive medley
i would say this is a summer day scent perfect for roaming around in a urban city that forces you to be with in close quarters of others since im afraid thats the only time you will get noticed as this scents biggest down fall is its ability to project 🙁
and only for that reason i find it not to be bottle worthy
on to the next
dmi0507 – :
Just goes to show that when it comes to olfactory sense our taste can change even for a while. Having overused heavy, oriental scents for the past 3 years I was looking for something a little fresher but still smoky and resinous. Recently in a thread I came across Nuit Etoilee. I was always weary of citrus notes being rather harsh but not in this case. Nuit Etoilee is a beautiful match of lemon engulfed i a resinous spicy pine and mint enhanced ever do gently by tonka bean and with nuances of immortelle and orange. Very feminine classy and elegant, I am glad to own a bottle. It can be easily worn by a man too. Pure smoky, citrucy bliss.
MarinIvkov – :
Review is for EDT
Wooden open terrace is lit by lamps from the kitchen and real green-tree is standing there, waiting when last icicles will drop and melt down, so the tree will make it’s fragrant way into the living-room. The house will start to smell like winter forest, fir aromatic needles and resinous aroma with droplets of galipot that cover the bark. Nuit Etoilee will fill the hall, the dining room and climb upstairs, to change the real world into surreal. Definitely bright, minty fir with teeny-tiny touch of citrus.
PycleriPreapy – :
This edt smells like zesty lemon tea to me. Very very happy lemon tea. I feel like it cleanses my lungs, and clears my head. It’s more like aromatherapy or a mood booster for me, than a perfume really. It’s just something I would wear for my self on a day I’m feeling down and need a little lift me up.
EDIT: tested the EDP too, but I actually prefer this one. They are very similiar, but this one is has a balmy smooth feel to it that i miss in the EDP.
ShukdaB – :
The EDP is so superior that I squirm when I read the reviews and suspect the EDT is what has figured in them. The iris/amber combo in the EDP is amazing. If you like the EDT at all, persevere; Seek and ye shall find a masterpiece.
kisysy – :
So inviting as are the mint and pine notes, is the dark blue color, somewhat turquoise bottle (mine is the square one) … but I was a bit disappointed with the scent itself. It imediatelly reminded me of the ultra cheap Paris Elysees Handsome for men, most of all because the so caracteristic smoky smell. Explaning: mint and pine? I was expecting something more fresh, a feeling of openness, if I´m saying this correctly. But it seens to be rarely the case (Esencia Loewe, Agua Brava, Polo green itself). This strikes me quickly as a masculine scent, which I was already expecting because those green notes.
aspet – :
I think this is a very natural smelling fragrance. It opens up with a very prominent mint note that eventually fades into a very realistic pine and fir (maybe a bit too realistic) dominant fragrance. The transition is quite interesting to me because the fragrance shifts from an initial minty fresh opening into a very green, piney base.
It doesn’t Smell like pinesol or any kind of cleaner though. It smells like someome chopped up a pine tree then heaped all the logs, branches, leaves and chips into a corner of the lawn. Imagine sitting by a window, or on the patio while the scent of that felled tree moves in your direction. I think the pine note also has a resinous woody quality to it…almost the same vibe I get from varnish if that makes any sense.
I didn’t get it before but after a few wearings, I actually detect, in a more than subtle way a very present tonka note. I think I’ve smelt it before but have only now realised what it actually is. I think the tonka adds just a tiny bit of flavor and sweetness to the woody pine facet that dominates the latter stages of this fragrance.
I actually noticed it because I own a bottle of viaggio d’Africa which has a very prominent tonka note that I think is used for the same reason as it is used in this however, in VDA its used in tandem with the vetiver to a much greater extent. While these two fragrances are very different, I think the tonka is very similar. They both smell like tonka seeds after the fibrous fruit was consumed and left to dry. Let’s say after heaping the pine tree together you throw a few tonka seeds in the pile. The seeds may not over power the pine smell but they add just enough to take the sharp edge off the pine.
I think that this fragrance is more a work of fragrance art than it is a mass produced crowd pleaser. It’s not bad at all but I don’t think its everyone