The One Mysterious Night

The One Mysterious Night by Dolce & Gabbana is the first high-end designer fragrance i ever really, really wanted. it's high-endness in the US market comes not from an unfairly high MSRP but from the dreaded region exclusivity assigned to it, along with its two twins, Royal Night and Luminous Night, all of which are well-received by most people. these three fragrances are made exclusively for sale in the middle east and europe, making getting them in the US an expensive affair, especially if you don't know where to look for better deals. (don't worry, i'll reveal where i got my bottle at the end) which sucks, because they are beautiful fragrances in beautiful bottles, with allegedly beautiful smells. (i only have this one tho) the square, colored glass bottle with thick borders and wide golden cap that matches the arabic script on the bottle is such a nice look that i daresay it's my favorite looking men's line period. my interest in this fragrance, besides the allure of having something not just anybody could get (and also the cool bottle), was twofold: i wanted a nice oud rose, and i wanted a nice sensual date night fragrance. it only makes sense to choose this then, The One is one of the most beloved date night fragrance lines in the community, and Mysterious Night is also a very highly-rated designer oud rose scent. thankfully, it satisfied both criteria effortlessly, becoming my favorite winter night fragrance with ease. Mysterious Night opens with its dominant notes, oud, amber and rose, topped with saffron and grapefruit. the touch of medicinal notes from oud and saffron and the little burst of citric freshness causes this perfume to smell, for a moment, like a very high-end baby wipe. floral fragrance, a bit sweet, a bit fresh, a bit powdery, and medicine-y. it's nice, frankly, and smells very cleanly. it only lasts for a bit however, before the real magic starts in the mid. in the mid you are confronted by a beautiful and enveloping dense fog of amber and rose. the rose in this fragrance is sublime, a touch powdery but not in the grandma camp, bright and red and not green or vegetal, it's gorgeous. the amber in here is almost infinitely sweet and warm, sniffing it causes the smell to pass your olfactory system and warm your entire body. it is the pinnacle of comforting perfumery. "but hey," you say, looking at this review weird as hell because i keep talking like i wanna marry this fragrance, "what about the oud?", and dear reader, lemme tell ya: the oud in here is, by all accounts, the most friendly, designer-y oud i've ever smelled, and that's a compliment of a high order. a tad medicinal, very warm with a little booziness, it's a star. it is the highlight of the fragrance. i don't think Mysterious Night will please the hardcore oud heads, but to anybody that has doubts about oud or has had trouble with ouds in the past, try this one. it is a movie star. it's beautiful from all angles. i don't think a single person on this planet could bring themselves to hate it unless they just hated woody notes in general. if you're completely new to oud, this is a great start. like a lot of ouds but want one that's wearable and won't terrify your next tinder date? bingo-bango, bucko, you found yourself a winner. think you hate ouds? unless you've smelled this you can't know you're right, and after you smell it you'll probably know you're wrong. into the drydown, the oud and rose persists but underneath that beautiful, sensual amber note. now joined by the leathery nuances of labdanum, this is where the sexyness becomes more overt. it just smells unambiguously hot, with rich spicy woods and warm amber and sweet tonka and softly leatherlike labdanum. it just gets it right. this will make anyone, man, woman, or otherwise, smell fantastically alluring. not saying it'll make you instantly slimmer and give you a better jawline or anything but on the olfactory front, Mysterious Night has you fully covered. i'm not a promoter of the Fragrances Get You Laid ideology but, if they do and i'm just an ugly hag who never leaves my house, this will do it with ease. Boring Review Stuff: Middle Eastern People Get All The Good Perfumes Edition • Longevity and projection is terrific, which is another point for this line because the more widely available The Ones apparently last like ten minutes. i get 9-10 hours with this and it projects strongly for at least 4 hours. • Pricing is complicated, it goes for radically different prices on different sites, usually in the 80s and 90s. i got my 100ml bottle from Fragrancebuy. it was $60 dollars and some change. it's a tester but it comes with the cap. that's the best price i've seen from a seller that ships to the states, so go that route if you don't mind having a less pretty box. this fragrance is by far worth that much imo. • night time only. winter and colder fall nights only. this fragrance would turn into a cloying nightmare in any sort of direct sunlight. climate controlled environments would be good as well, just don't go too hard on the sprays, two will do just fine. • Unisex, but like, not in the way where a guy ~could~ wear it ~maybe~. it's very middle eastern in that way, i think, that it actually just suits anyone without leaning to far in either direction. women shouldn't sleep on Mysterious Night at all if they want an alluring oud rose, because this fits the bill perfectly. The Point Of All This is that Mysterious Night from the house of Dolce and Gabbana is like a sexy, expensive, luxurious baby wipe, and is both an incredibly friendly oud rose and an incredibly sexy The One flanker. anyone with any interest in either should get this, and anybody that just wants a nice cold-weather scent with a sensual comforting warmth should as well. 9 Dolce & Gabbana Does Not Love Americans/10 - 博

Oud on its own is hard to get right. Oud rose, albeit being very repetitive, is also very hard to get right. Oud, rose, and saffron? It takes a lot of skill and a lot of luck to get this even remotely right, that's what this does to a T. Being from an area where oud is common in every shape and form, i've smelled my fair share, and can say that the oud in this scent is surprisingly in the background at the start. Don't get me wrong, this is a beastly, STRONG, punchy, and dominating fragrance. Its warm and amber heavy and sweet but by the same token has a refinement that i don't often see. The top notes are definitely a mature floral, a deep, dark, boozy sweet syrupy rose that never borders into being obnoxiously plasticky or "jammy" rose, and a strong whiff of some properly distilled, very smooth, high end negin saffron. This blends perfectly well with an herbaceous note which i'm supposing is the clary sage, and a slight hint of something oddly refreshing. Many point to this refreshing note as grapefruit, but i honestly just don't get that from it. The beginnings of this scent are its brightest, arguably sweetest and most floral points. Its when the dry down comes along that the true magic and "mysterious" qualities of this scent appear. This is when the tonka bean, labdanum, and wood notes increase in strength and beautifully compliment the earlier sweetness. Its seductive, warm, cozy, but sophisticated, refined, royal even, and plays off body chemistry beautifully for me and nearly everyone who's worn it IMO. The most frustrating thing about this scent is its ambiguity, which in all respect, give its name some credit. This scent won't be for everyone (especially if oud roses and sweet ouds aren't your thing) and i can see where some could be put off by it, however if there is something D&G nailed 100%, it's definitely the Arabian, khaleeji dna coming through this. This is the perfect scent for a date where you want to impress, a high end meeting, or a very formal setting where you truly want to turn heads and seem like you have a cool vague backstory of your adventures in some remote location. I prefer the mysterious night over its other siblings in the line, and much prefer it over the original "one" edp, however i do enjoy layering the two when i'm looking for a change in routine and find that they do compliment each other quite well. Not something for everyone, but worth a try if you want to broaden your horizons and really feel, for lack of a better term "like a rich arab" A solid from D&G, one of their best in my humble opinion!

Just please take a few moments to read. The first word that comes to mind, is exotic. This fragrance is not for every day. Buy this. Put it away. Take it out for those special occasions, events, important times in your life. This is a fragrance that you plan to wear, not to just spray a couple of blasts (that’s all you need), to go for a run, shopping or even date night. I wanna be the guy at the Manhattan Hotel roof top event that people remember as the guy that smelled soooooo damn good. And you will be that guy with this fragrance. I want to wear it all the time. Every day. But I won’t. In the thousands and thousands of fragrances out there, I’m sure that there are plenty of them that smell similar. But the truth of the matter is, is that only a few hundred fragrances actually get out to the mainstream market. Only a few hundred that you can get your hands on. This is one you must have in your collection, or at least something that you find special. Very special. I see a successful, well dressed man, probably in his 40’s and above, “donning” this exquisite scent. I can see James Bond wearing this. And who’s sexier, more confident, stronger, more sophisticated than 007, in my opinion. Was a blind buy for me. All reviews were split down the middle among users, but were more on the positive side from the more respected and popular, in my opinion, reviewers. It is inexpensive for what you are getting. $70.00 for 100ml (3.3oz). So again, my advice is to buy this, stick it on shelf, let it collect dust. But don’t forget to occasionally take it out, dust it off and give yourself a couple of sprays to remind yourself of what you have. Plus you get to enjoy smelling yourself for the rest of the day. Enjoy & Peace.

This is an incredible and unique rose Oud saffron perfume. The open is a blast of a photorealistic saffron, the kind of saffron you'd find in a Persian household, not the sweet artificial smelling note found in BR540. The rose follows through right after, mixed with a hefty amber. The rose note is very unique to this fragrance; it's sweet and jammy but not like your typical rose you'd find in most rose/oud perfumes. The mid notes are more rosey and amber, while the saffron gradually fades away. At full dry down, you are greeted with 4 notes, but toned down: saffron, rose, amber, and Oud. This thing lasted on my skin more than a day, and the smell continued to develop and change every other hour that I would take a whiff. I am very impressed with the quality and complexity of this perfume. This is the kind of scent that most niche houses strive to accomplish. An almost perfect fragrance blend. Granted, people's opinions on different smells are very subjective. It's still a rose oud fragrance so you'd have to be into that. Regardless, it is undeniable that this fragrance is a true masterpiece. A very complex perfume that continues to impress as it develops for hours; reinventing the wheel of a style of fragrance that has been done over and over again for centuries, and yet managing to create a unique version of that style, making it its own, with tremendous longevity and incredible projection. Well done D&G! Well done!

The first 30 minutes is a bit medicinal up-close but from further away it smells just great. You get grapefruit for the first 15 minutes and the oud is that camphor-like smell you get in TF Oud Wood but a bit toned down. The rose is not citrusy and has no green facets (so as many like to say it's not a 'grandma perfume' like Toy Boy as an example there's nothing like this here even though I enjoy it). You will get saffron, amber, soft oud and soft rose and they last throughout all phases of the fragrance. It's after one hour that the fragrance shines in my opinion since the other notes start to come up. The powdery part of it starts to feel more spiced and you get more woods in the air. It also gets leathery and the sage was a bit hard for me to pick up because of this, it is really well blended into the leathery notes, it does get more masculine after this one hour but still unisex. I can only pick tonka from up-close but I believe it is again, well blended into other notes to boost the woodsy or powdery notes maybe. Decent projection for 3 hours and lasts for 10 hours no problem and as a skin scent it stays forever, this long lasting part gets even better because it's followed by main notes that while toned down stay and it won't become just a woodsy fragrance with no projection after 2 hours like many other fragrances do... I was not expecting to get this scent for what I paid feels a bit niche, 9.5/10.