Étoile d'Une Nuit

My first Annick Goutal! I was browsing the perfume counter at my local department store and was requesting feedback from the sales associate on another perfume, when she recommended I take a look at Goutal’s line. She highly recommended this one along with Tenue de Soirée, and gave me samples. At first I was really intrigued by Tenue de Soirée after smelling it on the card, but after trying both on my skin, it was clear which one was a winner. While Tenue Soirée is beautiful with its patchouli note, it is also quite sweet for my taste.. and somewhat generic-smelling. Etoile d’une Nuit, on the other hand, blew me away. Initially it has a strong powder note with raspberry at the beginning (not sure what iris smells like but I’m sure it’s there too), quite reminiscent of makeup. But my favourite part of this scent is the vanilla that grounds it all - a clean, not-too-sweet vanilla that is comforting and warm. Overall, Etoile d'une Nuit is comforting, chic and so wearable for everyday, while also being unique. I also find it has excellent longevity - I put two sprays on in the morning (wrists and back of neck) and I can still smell the lingering, powdery vanilla on my skin at the end of the day, 8 hours later. Several people including my boyfriend have commented on how nice it smells too. I purchased the 30 mL bottle and look very forward to wearing this scent this winter, perhaps it’ll replace Narciso Rodriguez’s For Her EDT as my signature. So glad I discovered this one.

Just wanted to update my experience with this— i got this a few months ago. This is my first experience with goutal and i really can tell the fragrances are of high quality. No plasticky cheap chemically accords, this is well done even if not one of my top picks. I do like it, it is feminine and classy, that is for sure. I would consider it a stoic or serious scent. It is not a flirty scent at all. I wouldnt really consider it a fun scent. I cant say i reach for it a lot, despite liking it. Today i wore it to work and i put my aroma therapy locket on with lavender oil in it. The combo was excellent! I loved the iris with a hint of a lavender essential oil. The oil has a green earthy vibe, it smells great with the iris in this scent. Just my 2cents I was thinking about putting lavendsr oil in some unscented lotion and putting that on first then this fragrance. Ill have to try sometime and report back. Update: i wore yesterday in slighter warmer springtime temps, and i have to say, it was a completely different experience and i enjoyed it much more than in cold weather. I think being just a bit warmer made the floral notes come alive? Yesterday (spring day in mid atlantic) i wore this with metal wave by allsaints. I thought one may enhance the other and i think i was right bc i got a compliment:)

I just ordered this blind based on the glowing reviews here and i wanted to try a lipsticky fragrance! I will be back to review later😀 Update: i received this and i really like it. It is a delicate, refined, classy scent. Im not sure that i get lipstick, it isnt waxy to me, it is definitely powdery. I havent worn it enough to really give a fair score on sillage or longevity, but i think this is one you could overspray and not knock people out. It is a nice go to bed scent, it would work well for conservative work environments. I would consider this an understated scent, that is a nuanced powder with little wafts of florals and musk. I am happy to have it in my collection as it fills a gap i dont currently have! I will try it more in different seasons and scenarios to find the best times to wear it and report back my observations. I think it is a safe blind buy, but not sure i would consider it youthful. It is a nice change from vanilla and sweet scents.

Creamy, powdery scent. But sweet and sour scent of raspberries makes it less sticky and old-fashioned. I think the choice of raspberry instead of citrus gives it a deep, juicy and gorgeous. It is a very nice fragrance, calm yet sexy. If I were to compare it to other perfumes, I would say that it is a fresher version of Karl Lagerfeld's Sun Moon Stars, minus the carnations. I think it's also similar to Ombre Rose. I can understand why it is called a mother's dresser scent. Unfortunately, it's such a beautiful scent, but it's a limited edition. When I asked the staff at Goutal, they told me that the other two scents in the Collection Oiseaux de Nuit will continue to be sold, but only Étoile d'Une Nuit will be available in limited quantities. I bought a 50ml bottle and liked it so much that I was afraid I would run out of this scent, so I bought an extra 100ml bottle.

A very soft, powdery and musky fragrance. Very much work place appropriate, even where you really should not normally wear perfume. I think this one would never offend anyone. I notice the peppery note, but it is not too much at all. I have two other fragrances where I think the pepper&rose is a bit much -a bit cold and a little harsh - those are Perles de Lalique and Smyrna by Le Couvent des Minimes. Those two I percieve as more maskuline. But this one is very feminine - a bit cool in some way, yet warm, if that makes any sense! Reminds me a little bit also of Kenzo Flower, but softer - and with less sillage. So, I really love this, and will happily wear it as one of my easy pick fragrances - when I don’t want to overthink my choice of the day! These kinds you can not have too much of, I think - so I am glad I bought a 100 ml bottle!

I own all three of the fragrances belonging to the Oiseaux de L’Nuit collection. All three are beautiful in their own right and all are different from one another, but Étoile D’Une Nuit is my personal favorite. I am a huge fan of iris and this is an absolutely gorgeous iris scent. It is powdery and utterly feminine and elegant. It is that delectable perfect “lipstick” scent and although I own and adore Lipstick Rose and know it is a phenomenal creation, this one ties for first place with it although I will admit LR has much better longevity. Years ago, I wore Flower by Kenzo and EDUN reminds me of Flower in a way (the powder, iris etc.), but Goutal has taken this to a much higher level of sophistication. If you love powder and iris, you must have this in your collection. It is simply fantastic.

Etoile d'une Nuit is a beautiful feminine powdery iris fragrance. Soft and enveloping, the Iris is prominent in all stages of this fragrance. Iris and citrus at the opening, Iris and the other florals (rose and jasmine) in the mid and finally, Iris, soft musk and vanilla in the base. I am not sure that I can identify the cashmere wood, but everything is really well blended and that cashmere is probably adding to the smooth powdery feel. This is a lipstick Iris, a makeup iris. This is my most iris dominant fragrance and I don't feel like I need another in this scent profile. Etoile d'une Nuit has filled that spot. As a bonus - the bottle is really nice too! If you like a soft powdery Iris, you should sample this.

There is a beautiful quality to this perfume, the iris has a mature velvety quality, like almost a soft leather, feminine, elegant...the notes really blend in so well so I can’t detect where they start, or end..it is overall an iris scent to my nose, I detect little raspberry, but there is a soft distant vanilla in the mix..this scent reminds me an elegant classy woman leather gloves, of the smoothest highest grain...it isnt too much of anything..it is a Goutal, she created a subtle yet long lasting perfume...like a shooting star crossing the sky..you can’t quite forget that perfume once you smelled it...it is like a lingering pretty scent..it isn’t like vintage but it has a timeless quality...

Am I in love, or what?! I am in love with this from the very first breath. First impressions: This is a very refined, upscale, lipsticky fragrance. I am not one to like lipstick fragrances much, but this one is so well blended that the lipstick facet (initial blast) does not make me frown. After a few minutes, like 15 to 20 minutes, the lipstick calms down and the violet comes out to play. Oh such delight! I'm looking for the "piney" facet. I can't find it. All I smell is a mixture of violets and irises, very well balanced. This is a sweet, sophisticated, expensive, very feminine fragrance. The cost says it all and it is well worth having it. This was a blind buy for me and I scored an A+.

I am back again after a year to once again say i love this fragrance! Still remains a fave for me and i think it is fine for summer as well. I think i want to try more goutal based on the quality of this scent. The blending is soooo smooth. This smells classy, elegant and refined. It is dry and heavy iris but i dont get lipstick as much as i get general cosmetics. It is powdery but not in a juvenile way. Definitely a serious scent, but not in a bad way! I wouldnt wear this for a night of clubbing lets put it that way. This is more of a...flying first class type of scent, or maybe driving your new benz off the lot type of scent. It tells people you appreciate the nuances. A big love for me.

This is a wow! This is what I call a perfect scent. I sprayed it on a paper towel just two sprays and I always do to prime the pump. And everytime I walked past the table the scent wafted to my nose. It’s still sitting there and I came down this morning and it’s just in the air. It’s so beautiful. So Feminine. Musky texture, soft, lightly sweet just to ground it some. The Iris adds to the musk in such a present and stately way. What I love most. Everyone is t smelling like this. This isn’t that basic sweet, fruity, vanilla, blah blah. You will be where you are and no one will smell like you. But you will be smelling beautiful.

I adore this. It has interesting depths beyond its immediate sweet, soft, powdery, comforting scent. I have tried so many Irises and I enjoy many - the woodiness of VCA’s Bois d’Iris, the opening of Armani’s Iris bleue and the contemplative softness of l’Iris from Santa Maria Novella. The OG Infusion d’iris is lovely but too faint imo. But this blend of Iris, Rose, Vanilla and wood somehow takes Iris to another realm - one of gentle, intelligent, calm mature femininity. I think this will be my third Goutal. Goutal could well be the house for me - quietly confident interesting moreish sophistication. Yes please.

I was surprised to like this so much. I haven't been much taken with recent Goutals, especially this range. But it really is lovely. I don't get make-up so much as a spicy, peppery rose with vanilla and iris. It coursens slightly as it dries, but is still attractive. It reminds me of Jovoy's Sans un Mot at the start, although EdN becomes sweeter in the drydown, where SuM becomes less sweet. It also has a surprising resemblance to Guerlain's Atrappe Coeur/ Royal Extract / Guet Apens, although sweeter and less complex.

this is the first newer Goutal I really like. It has a very comfy, blanky, silky feel to it with this almost eerie sweetness in the background. Interestingly, I do not only smell the three given notes Iris, raspberry, rose, but certainly a strong powdery violet and even some almost minty conifers, pine maybe? My first association was iris, violet, cold, fresh snow. It also has a lipstick note is it from the iris, but this nice cold sweetness dominates over the other notes for me.

Trying out my sample again during this dreadf heat in FL. Back when I first tried it I think it was winter (if you can call it that here in FL) and it was a lot more dry and waxier with something coming off peppery but I still loved it. Now I can definitely get some soft florals and just a bit of citrus. The iris is very prominent, powdery , still dry and a bit sweet . Ugh it’s so lovely , definitely one of the best lipsticky scents

I really love this - it is a fragrance I can wear even when I want to be quite discreet, yet smell good! I understood from some youtube reviewers, that I would like it - but it has actually become one of my favourites, as an everyday go-to, a choice that can never go wrong! I would gladly repurchase, if (or when) I finish my big bottle.

Lipstick powder iris with a good dose of vanilla, a little rose that just lifts the floral but doesn't read as rose for rose haters, though I am a rose lover, and some cashmir wood to round it out. This goes on a little peppery even though that note is not listed. Probably the iris. Love it.

I am in love with this scent. It's velvety, not too sweet, very well blended, you smell the violets, raspberry and roses very well. it's young, fresh and comforting. It lasts ages and is very potent, I tried with many different perfumes the day I got it and all I could smell was this scent.

This is the most exquisitely elegant, feminine, refined, well-blended softly musky/powdery iris-with a tinge of sweetness-fragrance in my wardrobe. Just bought a back-up bottle (a rare occurrence for me). Changing my signature all the time, but I have a feeling this is my Holy Grail ✨🏆✨

This reminds me of my mum's face..the wonderful smell when i kissed her cheeks as a child And she was wearing Max Factor powder and lipstick Who can forget that most precious memory And Anick Goutal has reproduced it here for me Thank you....