Ombré Noir

I love this juice. It smells like an exact clone of La Nuit Frozen on my skin. Frozen is discontinued so I bought this to supplement my Froze usage. Now I find myself never reaching for the Frozen. I only wear this wonderful juice. It has moderate to long performance & sillage. It has the original La Nuit DNA so it works in cold weather, but being slightly fresher (the Frozen dna) it also works on warm days too. It's good for work, play, day or night. Hany hit a home run with this juice. UPDATE 1/5/17: So I am wearing this again today as well as La Nuit original formulation. I wanted to wear them side by side. I need to change my review just a little. Today (at least) this is 95% identical to La Nuit 1st formulation on my skin. The opening was slightly more "in your face & loud" but the drydown is IDENTICAL to LNDH. The opening scent was similar, but just louder. This is such a great scent from Hany.

Ombre Noir 2.0 is a fantastic fragrance. This is after over a year of macerating. Of course you don't have to do it for this long, because for me, when I first smelled it out of the box a year ago, it's smelled very harsh and just garbage so I left it on the side and forgot about it. This holiday when I was organizing my collection I smelled it again and it surprised me a lot. It's now very natural, very beautiful, sophisticated and well blended. I would say it's an easy buy since it's pretty affordable and you can just buy it and see how it goes. But I can tell you that what I have right now is something gorgeous. It's fantastic on its own, but compare to YSL, it's 85%. It's actually a little fresher, brighter, and easier to wear. It's still spicy and lavender dominant but it's not as nutty as YSL. Slightly less complex, without those dark notes in the YSL.

So La Nuit is a really amazing fragrence, its opening is rich and spicy and mouthwatering. I don't get this really with the Alexandria impression, but the drydown is dead on to my skin. Most importantly though, is with La Nuit, there is something going on with a note that comes off extremely sour from my skin that ruins the whole experience. That is thankfully not present in the Alexandria version. Ombre Noir is a fantastic fragrence wether its a clone or not, I have 2 bottles now and see this as my late winter early spring evening scent. I would say its long lasting and projects moderate. Its going to be on your clothes for awhile so be thoughtful of that. This is great stuff, easily a signature scent, I'd give it 4 out of 5 stars.

Ombre Noir 2.0 Another great scent from Alexandria Fragrances! I haven't smelled the earlier batches of La Nuit so I cannot compare it to those but I have smelled current formulations and I can say that this is 95% similar. Noir 2.0 has a slightly messy opening but after about 10 minutes this fragrance starts to shine. I prefer this over the La Nuit and so does my girlfriend. Noir 20. has that classic La Nuit DNA but it amps up the performance. I find that Noir 2.0 has a much stronger smell as well without becoming too overpowering. Just like La Nuit this is a year round night time scent in my opinion. I agree with @KingMigi below, he stated that the fragrance improves over time, I found this to be true. 9/10

Ignore all the negative reviews about this clone, I haven't smelled the original but this smells like sex in a bottle. I couldn't stop sniffing it when I sprayed myself with it for the first time. Before buying I checked all the notes side by side of the original and this one and they are identical. Long lasting version of the original. I'm not sure if some people got a bad or freshly made batch but this is worth the money imho. There's a reason this averaged 4.25 stars, don't let the negative reviews discourage you. Edit: This took 2 months of maceration in a dark closet to start shining, wow I should have wait longer to review this!