Description
So Nude is a new fragrance for women to join the collection of perfumes by Costume National in July 2012. The fragrance has been announced as a very intoxicating and soft, and the aromas of which evoke natural beauty of woman.
Top notes of So Nude provide a mixture of spices and fresh flowers. A blend of cumin, cardamom and neroli opens the composition. A heart adds rich and seductive floral notes of Damascus rose, tuberose and ylang-ylang. A base incorporates Indonesian patchouli and Virginian cedar. The fragrance is available as 30, 50 and 100ml EDP.
Photos for the advertising campaign were taken by photographer Henrik Purienne, while face of advertising campaign is Alyona Subbotina. The photos were taken on dunes of Pismo Beach in California.
The nose behind this fragrance is Dominique Ropion.
tvradioman – :
It was was love at first scent. I adored the intoxicatingly noticeable notes of intermingled flowered and spice. It was unique and beautiful. Then, as time past by, the scent did not disapate of dry down to a more subdued, delictible blend of this unique combination. It remained strong – sickingly so. Within hours, I was trying to wash it off as my head pounded and my stomach did flip flops. So Nude begins with such promise, but ends with a annoying strong silage and an embarrassing longevity. If you enjoy this scent and wish it to last for an exorbitant amount of time, this is for you; however, if you are looking for a lovely drydown and moderation – this may not be for you.
Madeline_fromAC – :
Fleshy flowers! This is a great blend of petals, tuberose, rose, neroli, ylang ylang in order of appearance.
Cardamom is warm and smooth, cumin (not caraway as listed above) adds just a little dry, sweet dirt. The woody base of patchouli and cedar is comforting, fortifying.
Sexy sweet skin.
Richer than the EDT with more pronounced flowers and stronger all round. This nude EDP and white EDT pairing are like a more natural, slightly less feminine, Italian version of Narciso’s white and blush cube bottles.
svetysja – :
I was curious to try it, it is a nice floral, I agree it is basically a tuberose based scent,,then it turns into a floral spicy scent..not sure the cumin works, it gets a bit of a foody vibe, not my favorite part..! I don’t know if I truly like it..I will say if given a bottle, I would wear it.lit is attractive for the most part.. it isn’t heady, and it has that something different..now, I won’t go buy it..I can easily do without it..
sanek6927 – :
Not sure what I am missing, but on me this is nothing to write home about. I got it in my ipsy bag and have tried it twice. I can hardly smell it after an hour and it just doesn’t register as more than “generic” to me. Glad it works better for others.
kaspr – :
I really thought I would love this one. Tuberose, ylang-ylang, caraway, patchouli. Whats not to love in these notes? And I´m, a sucker for anything called “chypre” too…
But alas, no. Sickly sweet, cloying. Gave it several wearings, to see if I would change my mind. But no, kind of headache inducing too. Big thumbs down.Too bad.
shtern – :
Thank you Mooniq for your rewiew! I buy this fragrance based on your rewiew because i love donna karan cashmere mist and i found costume national so nude very very beautiful! Is different but similar in a subtile waynot the sane notes but the sane beautiful fragrance! So nude is a very feminine scent, like woman skin but also floral i don’t know tuberose but this one is very delicate floral scent! Wow!
Deroxnxfpv – :
same as by nebbe: acid plastic and strong scent, even scrubbing doesn’t really help. not for me
Darkzone – :
Quite the chemical scent on my skin. Not a chemical bomb, but unpleasant plastic spice. Meh. Happy it works for others!
DrBIOS – :
A real sexy cosy scent. Love it!! I often have a problem with cedernotes,it often turn male’ish on my but in nude it does not and its just perfect. A keeper!
Now I have used so nude for several days and it reminds me of Donna Karan Cashmere Mist in base – the warm, muskywoody feeling. they are not the same but that basenote reminds me..
En riktigt mjuk o sexig doft. Älskar den!! Jag har ofta problem med cedernot som blir manliga på mig men inte i denna här är den perfekt. En doft att behålla!
Nu har jag använt So nude några dagar och den påminner lite om Donna Karan Cashmere Mist i basnoten, den där myskträiga känslan. De är inte lika men just den noten påminner mig…
BARS28 – :
It’s not everyday that you smell a woody tuberose fragrance. So Nude by Costume National is less focused on the white floral aspects, and more zoned into the creamy and sheer qualities of this popular flower.
A knowledgeable sales assistant was the one to introduce me to So Nude. I had been looking for a feminine woods scent, and was surprised when she led me to the Costume National counter. I already own and love Costume National 21, however I was dubious that So Nude could live up to the expectations.
I am naturally quite taken with So Nude. This fragrance is unique and inoffensive, soft like a skin-scent but not in a bland sense of the word. It smells rather woodsy on the skin with a dominant cedar accord, paired with some subtle spices like cardamom and caraway.
The tuberose note in So Nude is creamy and clean. As I mentioned previously, this fragrance does not resemble a fresh, white floral bouquet. Instead it smells like warm skin, with a hint of coconutty lotion.
So Nude is not my favourite fragrance from the house of Costume National, but it is one of the stand-outs. I think it could easily be unisex, especially with such a bold cedar note. I am also pleased to say that So Nude’s longevity was excellent, lasting a good twelve hours on my skin. I recommend.
Teetidemn – :
My, this is seriously sweet stuff. In the beginning you get a blast of cardamomy-tuberose reminiscent of cinammon..Then ylang-ylang and caraway step in…It’s all super overpowering, and even though it has a potential of being a nice skin scent it just doesn’t do it for me..
Settles down into a very sweet soapy smell, a little cheap smelling on me..Nowhere near a smell of a naked woman..
lunnatik2 – :
He looks like his chypre Body Burberry, the same gentle, delicate, unobtrusive chypre. Made of the same dough, shades of the same color.
1,645E+12 – :
I just purchased this mature, sensual, intimate fragrance on ebay Italy for a ridicolous price.
The ylang-ylang is prominent, but not overpowering. It’s a bit dusty and pungent white flower opening, which molds togheter tuberose and rose. After twenty minutes, this delicate mixture forms a sort of second skin. Personally, I do not detect any resemblance to Burberry Body: So Nude notes are much more sensual and closer to skin.
The drydown is almost androgynous: the cedar is strenghtened and emboldened by caraway.
Staying power is just a matter of individual skin chemistry: it greatly varies during life.
On me, So Nude permeates my wrist for 8+ hrs!
XXXlenax – :
Because I love tuberose my review is going to be slanted. Yes you get tuberose up front. Its not loud, at least I don’t think so. Its not like fracas loud, or beyond love loud, this is a much softer and less of a diva tuberose. Its not what I call green though. You get tuberose petals, but not big heavy ones. They’ve dialed it down quite a bit. Certainly, its sheer as you can make it with still smelling it.
Longevity, well…It goes to a skin scent on me about the first 1-2 hours in. However it doesn’t mean that you can’t smell it, you can, it just means its not in your face all the time.
Sillage, smellable from arms length when you put it on, goes down to hovering just about the skin pretty quickly. Minimal to no trail, so a good perfume for office environments.
I quite liked it a lot. I plenty of tuberose perfumes that work for what I want, so this one isn’t likely at the top of my want list, but I certainly found it agreeable and lovely, just not terribly unique.
If I were looking for a sheer tuberose, this would fit the bill.
Worth testing for those who are curious.
javidan – :
By all means a LOUD chypre with some hint of synthetic tubereuse, this smells like a chemical blast from the past (namely, the glorious high voltage, sheer grossness, shoulder padded Eighties). Everything seems to be screaming here and it doesn’t live up to its name, because Nude means something skin-like, musky and intimate to me. The only hint to “nude” is the underlying note of BO that I blame on the jasmine-patchouli combo.
I suspect the inspiration came from last year’s Burberry Body, both in the name and in the packaging colours, and both are thumbs down for me.
Yay for longevity, though: after spritzing just once on my wrist, I was in the gym (looking around worried that some might choke around me), then I showered and put on an Etro body lotion… and the smell was still there!
Юра – :
I received a generous carded sample of Costume National SO NUDE and a bunch of other nice samples along with an order I placed with a real person at Barneys. Note to sample-hungry perfumistas: full-service, high-end brick-and-mortar establishments are the only way to go. True, you generally pay MSRP for whatever you buy there, but the perks are sometimes worth it! Plus there’s something nice and nostalgic about the notion of full service, isn’t there?
So how is SO NUDE? First off, it opens with a very detectable tuberose note in a kind of cacophony of florals and spices. The tuberose then steps back a bit, making room for a yummy (and also very detectable) cardamom note. At this point, for me, it’s love. However, my usual Costume National reservations begin as the perfume approaches drydown. It’s the base.
I like when a house uses a readily identifiable base–it serves as a sort of fingerprint on all or many of their works. Lots of them do this: Yves Rocher, Lush, Elizabeth Arden (have you noticed how Badgley Mischka, Britney Spears, Juicy Couture, and some of the other EA-produced designer and celebrity perfumes share the same base?), L’Artisan Parfumeur, the list goes on and on, and Costume National definitely numbers among them.
I own two perfumes from this house: SCENT GLOSS and SCENT SHEER, and I very much prefer the former, because the latter is basically all base all the time. As niche as this house may seem to be, they use a very synthetic musky base which does not always appeal to me. In the case of SO NUDE, the opening and mid-stages have been dressed up, but as the perfume unfurls, it eventually leaves behind the tell-tale Costume National base, which has great longevity but eventually starts to get on my nerves.
All in all, if you like this house, you might like SO NUDE. I’m not sure, because the big tuberose is going to be too much for those who really enjoy SCENT SHEER. It’s definitely worth a sniff, no doubt about that. Much more complex than I surmised from the name and the marketing campaign…