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geryurik – :
I tested this in the summer and now that it’s colder I tried it once more and for the life of me I can’t get this to work.
I’m not bashing the fragrance as it’s GORGEOUS but anything with a slight bit of iris blows up on my skin to the point I can’t smell anything else.
I spray it and get the minty pine which smells like a summer evening in the forest, then the powdery iris creeps and says “HAVE YOU NOTICED ME YET!?”
All I get after is the iris which is such a shame because this smells SO beautiful and soft, very magical if not for that damn iris..
This is my first Annick Goutal purchase and I’m very impressed with the longevity, though it’s just powdery.
Next time I think I’ll purchase the EDT.
krap51 – :
This fragrance is poetically beautiful.
Oh, so light and magical to the core. I smell mint, pine trees, immortelle, orange, angelica, iris and tonka bean.
I spent many careless summers on a seaside, next to the pine trees, surrounded by the salty air and parched summer scents among which the immortelle was rousing as an absolute king, captivating all of my senses. The immortelle note in this perfume is out of this world. It is why I have decided I have to have it.
Now, far away from the fairytale of my childhood and youth, I get to lose myself in sweet memories with Nuit Etoilee.
The power of perfume is a mystery.
OpittigHirm – :
I loVe the colour of the bottle and the name of the perfume of course and the notes for a woody aromatic are fabulous.
But…they don’t agree with my chemistry or my sample has turned…
I love pine, I buy straight pine scent not a brand or anything of the short.It’s relaxes me because I have leaved in places with pine trees and I have made sculptures from it’s bark.
What I don’t like in this perfume is the mint, I don’t like mint in perfumes because it reminds me of toothpaste believe it or not.
However I have a mint plant in my veranda and I really like it very much.
Strange…
This perfume (a unisex one) is grande and it is a night one not for everyday.
I have, and I like Eau du Soir by Sisley for women.
I think Nuit Etoilee is in the same category.
Wear it if you like strong perfumes like Wrappings by Clinique, Knowing by Estee Lauder and you dress like a diva
I’m sure many heads will turn.
Cheerioz…
V
xilnick – :
Aromatic, bright, yet cold. I hear stars twinkling and crickets chirping and the low purr of something sinister. This is a midnight forest laced with a poison vine snaking through the darkness.
Cold from the mint notes, cool and bracing with pine, peppery angelica, and a hint of licorice-like smouldering immortelle that suggests an element of danger. A bit redolent of insect spray, but then again natural insect repellent is based on constituents of citronella, mint, pine and other such aromatics.
Interestingly, this is not a damp, dark, woody resinous perfume, but a clean, atmospheric woody musk. Botanical forest air, not forest floor.
Iris and amber are very prominent. The iris here is like a cold blue musky azure and combined with fir resin, the delicate sweetness of tonka and glowing amber, they radiate a paradoxical aura of woody, warming comfort.
My skin really amplifies the licorice/anise like elements of this perfume and I occasionally catch a wafting of something medicinal and almost discordant in juxtaposition to the musk-like iris. Challenging at times, always holding my interest in an intellectually stimulating way. Clarifying.
In paring down my wardrobe, Nuit Etoilee EDP replaces three of my favorites: Krizia (cold, spicy, musky), Issey Miyake Lotus (cool, atmospheric floral), Yves Rocher Iris Noir (dark iris). Suitable to wear in the heat or the cold, I’m so happy to have this beautifully intriguing, versatile perfume in my collection.
I suspect the EDT to be cleaner and colder without the musky iris-amber base. I look forward to trying that one too!
Garri_mr – :
Well, thank you rschmidt65 for your perfectly wonderful review. I can’t say anything more apt at all.
I love Nuit Etoilee. I adore the colour and the bottle. Beautiful. It’s a beautiful perfume.
afiop – :
Nuit Etoilee Eau de Parfum is somewhat similar to the Eau de Toilette, but the EdP has a warmer base. Unfortunately it feels a bit “muffled” and there’s a weird sourness bothering me in the background. I prefer the EdT because the crisp notes (mint and conifers) are more pronounced on that one.
The performance is average at best (this goes for both versions).
Danger82 – :
I have no idea how a sample of this wormed it’s way into my possession. “Pine” is listed as one of my disliked notes on my profile but here I am, happily in love with my bottle.
I would say that this fragrance does and doesn’t smell like any of the notes described. I can pick them out if I want to but this is one of those “more than the sum of their parts” fragrances. The mint, for example. Generally, I think mint is a terrible idea in a fragrance but here the mint is married to the pine in a way that it smells, not like mint, but like the cool freshness of an evening in the woods.
This fragrance is one of those rare scent portraits that successfully evokes exactly what it intends – a starry night in a pine forest. The air is cool, crisp and fresh and tinged with the fragrance of the trees. After the opening dissipates, it’s like going home to crawl in to bed to snuggle: a gorgeous, fresh, human scent of skin still tinged with the breath of nature.
Fierce love.
sasa1812 – :
I was born and grew up in the Finnish countryside so I am very well-acquainted with the smell of evergreen trees like pine and spruce. This evokes some of that foresty smell, but it is by no means literal, so if you are looking for a straight up coniferous concoction, I don’t think this is going to scratch your itch completely.
апортт – :
Very lovely scent. Sparkly with spearmint, but doesn’t come close to the unpleasant toothpaste/mouthwash note. That mint teams with pine and fir notes that manage to avoid the scratchy bitter vibe that often accompanies them, especially in unisex and men’s fragrances. A light floral sweetens the whole blend.
Frankly, I love this scent, which is why I’m sort of sad that it lasts no more than 2-3 hours on my skin. Sillage is very light. If you work in an office that frowns on loud fragrances, this might work for you.
jfw789elipseskism – :
Update: I’m wearing it again today and noticing a most delicious sophisticated accord in the mid-drydown. When the sweet, mint and sparkle fade I’m getting a beutifull woody accord. I think it’s Amber, immortelle, tonka, but bright notes from the opening, still lingering. It’s impossible to discribe, I’v never smelled anything like it before. It may be why this has a rating of 4.45/5 from Fragrantica, higher than Jubilation or Aventus.
As close to a masterpiece, a wimpy little fresh scent can get…
The most noticeable note is a very realistic mint, like mint leaves. You can smell the greeness of the mint leaves, exquisite !
The mint makes a nice accord with the pine and fir, giving a fresh coniferous woodsy vib. There is some sweetness, not to much, with orange and citron.
What really makes it earthy are the piquant notes of Angelica and immortelle. They make it very herbal, green and earthy, reminding me of fragrances like Yatogan, Fou d’ Absinthe or Eloge du Traitre. Nuit Etoilee is much lighter than Yatogan. I think the sweetness is not over done, but I would prefer this fragrance more dry and less sweet, but then it wouldn’t be as popular…
It is still natural, earthy and woodsy enough for me to like it a lot. The notes are great quality, nothing synthetic in a cheap way.
I think this is genderless, nothing particularly feminine or masculine. The Iris isn’t really noticeable for me. The Amber I notice a bit, adding some woody richness.
It’s very well blended, nothing really stands out on it’s own except the mint.
The frag is light and fresh enough for warmer weather, it may be great in Fall and Winter also, versitile in that way.
This one is growing on me, I raised my rating twice. The silage is light, and longevity only fair. So I would stay away from the edt, which we read is considerably worse. Don’t worry about the added Iris in the edp, it’s hardly noticeable.
It’s the earthy, carroty kind of Iris, not powdery.
A sophisticated earthy green, herbal composition, with nuances of bitter sweet orange and citron.
Rating: 9/10
God bless. John 3:16
chuper80 – :
Got a tester of this and really expected to like it, as I prefer deeper notes like vetiver, and woody, spicy, unisex scents. On me though, this smells surprisingly sweet and soapy – not the witchy, nocturnal magic I was expecting.
Snok – :
I like this one sprayed in the air but on my skin all I get is the pine. This was a blind buy because I liked the description of its notes and hoped it would work. It just needs the slightest bit of sweetness or warmth to work on me, but I’d love to smell it on someone who wears it as it’s meant to smell.
faqay – :
A gorgeous unisex fragrance meant to evoke a starry night as you look up at the stars from a blanket outdoors while you’re camping in the woods. I smell the fir and pine trees. It’s mostly a woodsy perfume. Very aromatic but lightened up with citrus. I can’t find any place to wear this so I wear it everywhere when it’s raining and it’s winter. It smells like a forest. It also seems to evoke the famous painting Starry Night by Vincent Van Gogh. This is beautiful and I love the bottle. A night perfume. Very strong so don’t spray too much. Love it.
BaB9IH – :
This is such a cute fragrance!
I see people comparing this to toothpaste. It actually opens very minty so I can understand the resemblance. But it’s folowed by lovely fir and pine notes and something sweet which on me, gives it some warmth so at that point I don’t find it toothpasty but very unique, non offensive, sweet-green with a touch of mint.
While I was smelling this I found it somewhat familiar. When I was growing up I remember we had a fir hedge in the garden that every now and then needed to be cut back in proportion. When it was cut it had this distinctive semi-sweet juicy evergreen smell that I really liked. That’s what I also smell when I wear nuit etoilee, with a bit of mint.
sveta abd – :
A natural, herbal citrusy spearmint almost set up in contrast with a dry, coniferous woody note that I initially mistook for incense. There’s a singed, burnt smokiness throughout Nuit Etoilee that gives the entire composition a very bitter and gauzy gray dimension. On my skin this aspect dominates, and runs parallel to the mint. While it’s an interesting combination, my favorite part of this is the opening five minutes before all the gray bitterness enters the picture. I find something about this fragrance depressing, it feels so desiccated and depleted to me, and when I wear it I just sort of watch that beautiful mint note from the beginning succumb to the weariness and dry desolation of its surroundings. It also burns my nose. I’ve discovered that I don’t enjoy mint when it’s paired with incense or smoke–Breath of God,Memoir Man, Burning Barbershop, Oriental Mint, Russian Tea, and now Nuit Etoillee–it’s simply a combination that has never worked for me. Thumbs down.
nicolex – :
Freshly cut citrus under a bed of crushed dried mint, next to a garden of herbs, all enveloped into a thick aromatic balsam. Rich, warm and invigorating at the same time, a wonderful natural smell evoking a green garden on a summer evening. There is something dreamy and sensual about it, addictive also. A winner from Annick Goutal. The longevity is ok, but the projection is minimal after 1-2 hours.
Scent: 8.5/10
Longevity: 7/10
Projection: 5/10
buz56 – :
I recently fell in unexpected love with Annick Goutal’s Nuit Etoilee. I say unexpected because I usually gravitate toward heady orientals and gourmand scents, but somehow I became absolutely enamored by the scent profile of this fragrance.
Unfortunately, longevity and projection are minimal at best.
Hoping I can get some help finding an alternate fragrance that matches Nuit Etoilee’s notes but offers way better staying power and projection.
Any ideas?
ANY and all suggestions are welcome– desperate to hear about scents that offer than same citrony, piny, minty vanilla that makes Nuit Etoilee so magical to my nose!
spider199765 – :
I ordered a sample of this with a Lucky Scent order, I didn’t expect to like it (ew mint) but was terribly curious. I ordered a bottle the same day I tested.
First off, I get zero toothpaste! And, evergreen is nothing I’ve brushed my teeth with.
At first I get powdery iris and tonka with sweet orange, very pretty. Then, there’s pine and fir. It’s a unique fragrance, probably confusing for some. It’s pretty but not typically feminine or masculine. So few perfumes marketed to women contain evergreen. I adore each stage. Dry down is the most masculine with evergreen and amber settling in, the sweetness isn’t as obvious.
Maybe because I’ve spent most of my life in a Canadian boreal forest this to me is home comfort perfection. It’s not for everyday, for every situation – it’s special.
I look forward to testing many more Goutal scents.
RapeSoraACror – :
I love,love,love it, I have now tested both EDT and EDP, I find them quite similar. I prefer the EDP for being more balanced. I smell a sweetened citrus (so fresh that I think I can hear bubbles dancing on my arm), a crispiness which I believe comes from the immortelle, and then an unexpected creaminess over a very gentle incense in the background. Is this the tonka bean? A complex and unique scent!
brefi – :
I am so disappointed because the word that comes to mind throughout wearing this perfume is ‘annoying’. Perfumes featuring wintry evergreens are among my favorites. I have sampled so many. Nuit Etoilee starts out with lovely prickly pine leaves. It smells like Christmas when the Christmas tree is in your house. But then there is this annoying citrus note–what’s that doing there? And then a mint note that borders on toothpaste. Annoying! They smell awful together. Lemon and minty toothpaste at the same time? Yuck. And on top of pine? Double yuck.
It did not take long for the natural and promising pine note to become a dull evergreen scent mixed with an anemic immortelle note that smells vaguely like maple, all drying down to an annoying and common synthetic musky base. Sillage is terrible (EDP). That is annoying too. I scrubbed this off after a few hours, it was too annoying in too many ways.
For evergreens I prefer a whole host of other perfumes, Tiziana Ecstasy, Odin Tanoke, Parfumerie Generale L’Eau Guerriere, Enchanted Forest, Guerlain Winter Delice…so many
Данил – :
@clevol thank you as I have the edt version and I also wanted to get the parfum version in the near future. I will trust your review and hope that they don’t smell a like so that my purchase is not wasted.
serkash65 – :
Compare tot the eau de toilette is the eau de perfume less green. As an immortelle lover i smell in the eau the parfume more immortelle and tonka bean. The eau de parfum is a bit sweeter and offcourse last longer than the eau de toilette.
Nuit Etoilee is a stunning perfume; little fresh highlights in a dark spicy background. a little dry daylight against evening sweet. It is composed exactly how it is named. The perfume by wearing is elegant and a bit shy,if there could ever be a opposite, this perfume would be the opposite of vulgair
The Annick Goutal is a very symphatic ( a lovely sample service) perfume House.
alex2701 – :
An incredibly fresh, woody and yet feminine perfume. I would never have even though that fir and mint could smell like this, period. Gorgeous and bright. I feel like I have smelled this on more mature, knowledgeable women. There is something slightly tomboyish without being androgynous; the pine-mint is just so sweet and breath-taking. It’s like being hit with a quick, witty remark.
I can’t stop smelling this timeless parfum. I think I may be addicted. Would be a great everyday scent for a woman in any setting.
леонтьев – :
I purchased this scent in Paris in a freezing day..this added magic to everything.
It was th first scent I tried in the store and simply felt in love. Immediately.
Warm, feminine, sensual. Wow…
such an elegant fragrance.
I can clearly smell mint as top note, which perfectely melts with the warmer notes of the amber.
For any woman who loves peculiar scents; I swear it cannot be easily confused with any other on the market.
When I wear it I feel so self confident and attractive, as well as sophisticated.. a woman in a soft and delicate way.
vdt640speagoessenda – :
Having fallen for the dichotomy of the EDT’s cool/warm, lush/dry, light/dark, I saw a part-used bottle of the EDP on ebay and snapped it up, and have been wearing it all day today.
It shares in common with the EDT the cool, bright opening, albeit a little less minty and crisp, and it has a longer middle, with more of a resinous, maple syrupy aroma around the wood, and a more chocolatey dry down, as opposed to the drier cocoa dry down in the EDT. I find it delicious!
It is a plusher and sweeter scent than the EDT but is not overly sweet, and is still perfectly unisex. It still conserves the clarity and brightness of the EDT – that fresh outdoor night sky that is the inspiration for the perfume.
They are different, but similar, fragrances, and I can sense they will work well for layering and for day to night movement. EDT when I need a sense of space and light, EDP for a more comforting warmth. Both are beautiful, high quality fragrances, and I was able to get them in the blue glass – the EDT in the square bottle and the EDP in the ribbed bottle. Feeling very pleased with myself.
sanara55 – :
What can I say…I’m in love! I’m in love with this wonderfully fresh, woody smell. I adore the minty coolness of the first notes and the pine scent of the dry down.
I wear it at night, in bed. This calming soothing scent helps me sleep and chase away stress or anxiety…
Notanib – :
I loved it from the beginning. I expected this to be much sharper, but is acutally a soft, calm citrus-forest scent with a warm base. 🙂
It develops beautifully on my skin, there is definitely a special warmth to it – like conifer wood that is still warm right after the sun went down. I can sense the coolness from cold waters, grass and stones as well because of the minty citrus-orange note.
I am a huge pine lover, pines are one my favorite trees… I can smell it beneath the citrus, mint and powdery woods. They fit together perfectly.
The whole combination of natural scents is just so pleasing to me, as I am a nature freak. Still, when I wear it, it is clearly a perfume, not like I spilled fresh resin over my arm. 😉
Nuit Etoilée is a perfect capture of a quiet, calm nature in the darkness. The EDT lasts a long time on my skin.
chev – :
I associate the mint with penny royal, crushed underfoot on a walk, releasing its fragrance momentarily. I was unprepared for the creamy Jaffa likeness to Elixir des Merveilles, or following on by association to Terre D’Hermes (JCE describes Eau de Merveilles as the sister scent to TDH) Now push those comments aside. The amber and Iris heart of Nuit Etoilee is what remains. If this is what camping under the stars is then I can only suggest that it’s ‘glamping’ and the lackeys doing all the work don’t smell at all like this! It’s not overpowering even as an EDP. I want more of it. I want to apply in in the morning and keep it going all day. It’s beautiful…..and different, and soft but refined. I don’t find as much smoke in this as exists in Eau du Sud, which I am also fond of. A winner for sure.
DESON67RUS – :
Magical beginning but quickly changes to floral powdery scent which I found annoying. I usually like floral powdery scents but expected wintery, Christmassy scent here and that was so fleeting…
LifeInColour – :
Recommend to the holiday season, smell of pine trees (Christmas Trees). But to my mother, nothing special to her, just smell like heavy pine fragrant of bathroom cleansing cream.
To me, that doesn’t mean bad. I like Christmas Tree very much.
In my country, the usual EDP for all Annick Goutal cost around MYR 650 plus, recently they increased the price to MYR 715, by the reason of Annick Goutal has changed the bottles, by right it should cost less replaced the blue tinted bottle to the normal clear glass ones.
Suggest purchase online, which the price is around MYR 460 plus without shipping fee. If the boutique or counter is just around your neighborhood, then it’s better purchase from the boutique to ensure your perfume is in good condition.
If you prefer better quality, longevity and blended Christmas Tree smell perfume, may I suggest Sisley Eau Du Soir, cost MYR 760. My all time Christmas favorite.
INGOLFFF – :
Annick Goutal does Serge Lutens. Absolutely wonderful! Highly recommended for the festive season!
romanguar – :
I wasn’t sure at first but I kept going back for more and now I have this I’m addicted! I love the way the evolves over time from an invigorating mint to lemony citrus, then to a woody scent, fir resin really coming through. Bizarrely it’s also powdery and feminine as well – magic! The iris becomes predominant on my skin after a while and the longevity is great. Love this. Beautiful bottle too.
DeltMarat – :
Upon application, Nuit Étoilée EDP has a deeper ambiance and the mint and the citrus are less prominent than in EDT. But overall they’re very similar and it’s really difficult for me to tell them apart. The sillage is moderate and the longevity is just excellent, 12h+. Since the EDT already has a pretty good longevity on me, I’m going to stick with my EDT and save myself some extra bucks. But for those who have difficulties with perfume longevity in general, EDP is a good option to experience this wonderful fragrance and it worths the price totally.
Kizdreldpriex – :
The mint dominated the opening by about 10 minutes, thereafter it begins to mingle with citrus notes, and after about 15 more minutes on my skin, add the mint, and the overall prevalence is sweet citrus, the orange and citron that cause him to have a footprint very different from other citrus scents.
Gradually feel the influence in floral and woody fragrance, but very light, nothing to change the order, but that makes it more sensual, and so it extends to disappear.
PS: Sorry for my english 🙂
Parviainenlwi – :
I am writing this for people who want to know how the EDP compares to the EDT (in my opinion, of course:)
The EDP is like Nuit Etoilee meets Heure Exquise. There is a silky, powdery iris in the EDP (it lasts for the duration of the perfume) that is not present in the EDT. It is gorgeous. Also there definetely is a bit of subtle amber, a sweet undertone of it, like the write up says. I find it has less an emphasis on the lemon, mint, and pine–but they are still there, just not as prominent. There is a hint of artemesia-fir tree, a pleasant, natural bitterness underlying it all.
They are both really nice–the EDP is beautiful, it is not that much stronger than the EDT, but it lasts a good while. It should not be considered simply a more concentrated version of the EDT.
For me both Nuit Etoilees are one of the best perfumes I’ve smelled in a long time, paticularly among new releases. They really are emotional, they truly evoke the feeling one can get when in the great outdoors, when you are in perfect solitude and in tune with the world, they are well blended and well crafted, like someone put a lot of time and effort perfecting their art.
This is also for Adiro who suggested I post this review:)
kaet777 – :
I like this stuff (really poetic, huh?). I grew up in a land filled with fragrant buttermilk pine trees. The EDP butterfly bottle is exquisite.
Tatsy33198 – :
The fragrance lives up to its name Starry Night. I can almost feel the cool night air in the woods, walking alone. I get citrus and mint when I first sprayed, and the fir/pine Christmas tree scent. I don’t detect any floral notes at all, and the dry down tonka bean mellows out the mint. It’s an invigorating scent and I would wear it both day or night, but not with company. It’s a fragrance for solitude.
mixa7733 – :
I already have a review for this before they added this version, but the EDP is what I have, so I just want to say I think the EDP is a bit more well-rounded and stronger conifers in the beginning. It dries down so beautifully soft and powdered, such an enchanting perfume, my bottle certainly is sacred to me. I wore this the other day, and it stayed with me all day, like a little cloud, subtle but beautiful.
It is just like a magical winter wonderland every time I wear it…it takes me to my favorite place in the world, Estes Park, Colorado