All Night Until First Light

All Night Until The First Light is a grapefruit/saffron bomb! If you love a photorealistic grapefruit scent, you’ll love this! What a beautiful scent, unlike anything else in my collection! I have discovered recently this UK niche house and I love what they put out, granted I haven’t tried everything from them... That aside, All Night Until The First Light is quite fitting with the way the scent smells and the location it inspired it, Ibiza. I would associate light, fresh notes like grapefruit and magnolia with morning meanwhile notes like rum, saffron, black pepper or amber with nighttime. Therefore, mixing these notes together creates the perfect scent that could be worn for hours on, from dusk till next morning. I really like that’s the kind of perfume that’s both fresh/citrusy and warm/ambery/spicy. It doesn’t change that much throughout the wear, a warm feeling grapefruit/rum/saffron combo being the backbone of All Night Until The First Light. I think it’s a fragrance that is fairly versatile season and gender wise, there’s a multitude of notes in here that cater towards opposite sides of the spectrum. The packaging is nice, standard black box/sleeve, the bottle design is fairly unique with that disco ball vibe. On the overpriced side regarding value for money, but I got my bottle on a fantastic deal, during Black Friday sale, so I can’t complain. Would recommend it because it’s different than what’s mostly sold currently by other brands. Side note, don’t buy this as an alternative for Baccarat Rouge, it’s not! Yes, the saffron is pronounced in here and there is that sweetness, airiness, fruity aspect, but it is its unique scent.

Head over heels with this. I am a dyed in the wool peppery citrus lover — one of my other favs is Andrea Maack’s Lightsource. If Lightsource is sparklingly sunny, All Night is dusky...it feels like sitting down in a beachside cocktail bar, one that’s open later than all the rest, at an amber sunset knowing you’re going to be there far past moonrise. You’re wearing loose, chic linen that lets the warm breeze in. And you’re having a fabulous fucking hair day. The grapefruit is incredibly juicy and bright up top, which I didn’t expect to like since I’m not usually one to smell “edible” — but black pepper and rum also hit to feel like a balanced, aromatic cocktail. A little sweetness from saffron creeps in, radiant warmth from wood. The grapefruit calms down quickly into the softer, more resinous aspects of citrus peel, which nestles in comfortably with plush amber. Black pepper stays steady in the background, balancing all that potential sickly sweetness. Bright, soft, spicy, sweet all at the same time. This scent positively glows. Not too much projection, which I have no issue with, and it lasts 4-6 hours on skin which I’m also perfectly happy about. Counting down the days to get my bottle.

What a delicious photorealistic grapefruit! You get the bitterness from the zest, sweetness from the flesh and overall everything great about the fruit. In the initial spray you get a slight depth from the saffron, and after a short while you get the dry vetiver, but for the first hour or so this is a completely unisex grapefruit fragrance. After a couple of hours you have a more woody fragrance. It blends with the white flower and smells more like a grapefruit shower gel in a way. Not that I say that as a bad thing, but it feels a bit boring when it comes to this. I want more of the pepper and rum, but it absolutely is a great clean scent. An hour after this it has changed into a more masculine leaning almost fougere. The grapefruit has taken a more earthy step forward into an aromatic vibe, and that is how it stayes. And it does stay. The day after, almost 24 hours after my first spritz I can still smell it if I sniff on my arm, that is amazing. So even though this one is not for me personally I can’t wait for someone else to smell like this!

I've worn this twice now. Today it is 83° with 53% humidity and I'm walking around my apartment complex doing my Saturday laundry. Sprayed this on before I started, roughly 2 hrs ago. To my nose, it opens up with a powerful, juicy hit of grapefruit. If you've ever been to Disney California Adventure, this reminds me of the sensation on Soarin' when it smells like oranges, only grapefruit. Immediately after the first hit of grapefruit, you get the boozyness and the spicy black pepper and it smells like an expensive cocktail. Notably, to me it does not smell like rum just boozy. After a couple hours of sweating, it smells like a great night at a great club. The saffron and cozy base notes turn it from a juicy grapefruit to a much more sensual and sweaty experience. If I smelled someone wearing this, I would follow them around. I'd have them light my cigarette. The discovery set comes with a coupon for a full bottle and I was gonna get myself something but this one might have to be gifted to my partner.

I am obsessed with this. One of my all-time faves. Guess I have to spring for the full bottle! I got the tester set that looks like a pack of cigs and gave away all but this one (very much disliked the others, go figure). I love that it starts out aggressively grapefruity and the grapefruit lingers as it settles. Ugh it’s so good. If you love citrus notes, you must try!