Nuit et Confidences

I generally adore most fragrances from Annick Goutal. This one, Nuit et Confidences, is a beautifully done vanilla that straddles a very fine line of being appreciated by their existing client base who prefer more naturalistic scents as well as being profitable with a younger crowd who love their vanillas and sweets. Nuit et Confidences starts off very non-gourmand with a powdery vanilla and citrus opening. At first I was reminded of Atelier Vanille Insensees and Creed Sublime Vanilla. It's very pretty, soft and pleasant at the beginning. It could easily be something you enjoy wearing but also something that's office friendly. After about an hour or so, it dries down to a much sweeter vanilla with woods that almost makes me think of some sort of taffy candy over a floral-orchid type vanilla. It's a little bit like Van Cleef & Arpels Orchidee Vanille (which I also have and love). It definitely leans more gourmand once it dries down but not fully and still has a floral and woody vibe. In case you have Vanille Exquise, also from Annick Goutal, I will share that it is not especially similar with that one except maybe at the very start. Vanille Exquise is less sweet and has that angelica note that remains in place throughout. This one doesn't have angelica although the vanilla note used is quite similar. I have both Vanille Exquise and Nuit et Confidences and wear them both. I love Annick Goutal. I love vanilla when it isn't overly-sweet. The bottle is adorable. This is a must have fragrance for me. It has good longevity but doesn't project much. I'd describe it as a strong skin scent if that makes sense. If I spray it on my clothes I think it projects more. It's really well done. EDIT: just needed to add that this has almost no resemblance to Guerlain SDV. It’s of similar high quality, but SDV is so dense & boozy. It’s not boozy at all. Nuit et C is more cloud-like, not heavy sweet.

I love vanilla, but it is actually surprising how few vanilla fragrances I actually like, let alone love. This is IT for me, and if I ever find another vanilla perfume I love as much as this one, I'd be very surprised. What I love about it isn't that it's particularly unique - it actually doesn't have any surprising notes to it IMO - but it perfectly balances different elements I like. It's slightly boozy, smoky, sweet but relatively less so than an average vanilla, and softly woody towards the end. It's is like a warm soft cloud, but at the same time it's also like a mildly sweetened vanilla custard - comforting things. I found a lot of other less sweet woody vanillas boring, like Eau Duelle, Un Bois Vanille and Vanille Insensee (I particularly dislike the last one for its citrus note, which smells like a cheap artificial lime dessert to me). This one has zero harsh edges while still being interesting enough - the black pepper/incense opening is a little ashy and it took me a while to get used to it, but I've grown to love it too. I'm very sad that I live in such a warm climate (whoever said seasonal fragrances are a marketing ploy has never lived through 34°C 99% humidity weather) because I can only tolerate anything warm smelling for three months of the year. Also, bonus for the gorgeous bottle!!

I began wearing this gem in 2021 when I bought it blind based on the amazing reviews. It really is superb. The sharp pepper note does not last long on me at all. A few minutes after applying it, all that is left is a creamy, alluring scent with the musk giving that sexy edge. I am on my third bottle and I love that it is not easy to get, meaning there's no way you will smell like everyone else. Oddly enough, I do not care for this in the bottle, meaning when I sniff the bottle there is something sharp and off putting to me. All I can think of is that the pepper/ incense combo really stand out while it is sitting still and not on my skin. Now, I will add that it is VERY sexy and sensual. Two of my exes both commented on this one and both of them loved to lean and sniff my neck when I was wearing it. If you like Angel, this may work for you as I like to call this Angel's tame cousin. This also conjures up thoughts of LouLou and the discontinued masterpiece, Lolita Lempicka L, which I adored. Very well done fragrance from a top notch perfume house. It would be hard to go wrong with this one. Love it!

I am so in love with Nuit et Confidences. I call it my Earl Grey Rooibos perfume. The bergamot and slight bitterness give it an Earl Grey tea vibe, while the creamy smooth vanilla reminds me of rooibos tea. The pepper and very subtle incense makes it more interesting than an ordinary vanilla--and it is a vanilla, for sure. I *love* the pepper. Fortunately, I don't get a lot of whatever white florals are supposed to be in this. It's not challenging, but I don't want it to be. It's the sort of fragrance that when I spray it on my wrist I feel slightly feral, like I want to start gnawing on my arm. But like... because it's so delicious and comforting that I want to possess it inside me. I have romantic feelings for this perfume.

I’m trying to get better at identifying notes, so resisted looking here until I had time to form an opinion. I completely agree that Nuit et Confidences has a dominant vanilla, the same vanilla Guerlain uses in many of their perfumes. But instead of Spirituese Double Vanille, I picked up Angelica and thought it was more similar to Guerlain’s Angélique Noir, another one of my favorites. No doubt I also love this Annick Goutal. It may not be the most unique perfume, but it has good performance, on par with Angélique Noir. I can’t pick out the incense, it’s just a slightly gourmand vanilla floral. It’s wonderful.

Having the other two from Oiseaux de Nuit collection, I expected nothing less amazing from this one, which didn't fail me. The scent is mesmerizing but from the first spritz it reminded me of something I've worn before. It's rather dirty and sweet vanilla, just the king that I like. I figured out it was similar to Mac Velvet Teddy, which is supposed to be a dupe for Tobacco vanille. I consider it to be even more similar to this one, apart from the tobacco note. This one is slightly more subtle but with a rather good longevity. I like this dark and captivating vanilla fragrance.

This perfume is so lovely, just as I expected, with this Goutal series. I also own Dior Addict and Loubirouge and would put Nuit et Confidences in the same category. Vanilla but with something a bit more adult - not candy sweet in the slightest but rich, creamy, beautiful and FB worthy. None of the notes overtake the others, rather each unfolds gently as the scent warms on skin. The opening spice of pepper is brief but not at all unpleasant. The tonka and incense give way to a warm vanilla base. This perfume gives me mid 2000's Olsen twins casual hippy glamour.

Opens with a lovely, lively splash of peppery citrus, and then a beguiling tendril of smoke begins to curl through it, ushering in a dry, rich, dark vanilla that is unadulterated by even a single grain of sugar. For some reason, I get the impression of a hole-in-the-wall Parisian café in the 1920s—stained glass, almond croissants on chipped china, hand-rolled cigarettes, a charcoal-smudged artist covertly sketching the young lovers necking in the corner... you get the picture. Worn-in, spirited, and effortlessly sexy.

Beautiful, refined, sophisticated. A boozy vanilla with woody feminine background. Longevity when I myself can smell it on me reaches from a couple of hours to a day. At the beginning I thought it has rather intimate projection, but it seems to be more than that - a male colleague standing about 1,5 meters from me complimented me on how beautiful I smell, and that came from a very reserved man who barely comments on anything. I wore it for the first time, so I was happy about such a charming feedback.

Hang on...this smells quite similar to Dama Bianca. I bought this first, at that time I had never tried Dama Bianca. Then I bought SDJ Cheirosa 40, no wonder I thought I smelled that before. I love Cheirosa 40 and bought Dama Bianca later as an upgrade, that was when I really felt this 2 are quite similar, not identical but very similar. If you like Dama Bianca but not quite happy with the performance, you might want to give this a try, this last longer that Dama Bianca, on clothes and on my skin.

I love this fragrance! It does remind me of a more complex, slightly dryer Cheirosa '40 (missing that sweet plum in the opening?). It smells to me like an aromatic vanilla, not gourmand. The tonka-incense-vanilla combo gives me a tobacco-esque vibe that I absolutely love. I do not see myself getting tired of this one. I feel like it can be worn any season, any setting. Sillage is light unless you over spray. LOVElovelove! My first Goutal. I am looking forward to exploring more from this house.

Smells so good! On me, I get smokey vanilla, incense smell. This fragrance is far more complex then I thought it was originally. It is an instant love and I am already considering a 100ml backup bottle once I find a nice deal. I wish I would have gone for the 100ml but I didn't think I would love it this much. I thought it was just a simple vanilla perfume. Oh well! Longevity is amazing I smell it my coat days after wearing it and sillage is soft and wafts up unexpectedly. Smells romantic.

I am so in love with this perfume, I can't stop smelling it, I feel beautiful wearing it. I get mostly vanilla and tonka, it's very airy, soft, sweet but not too sweet, an elegant fragrance. To me, it's perfect. I love Dama Bianca and was looking for a similar fragrance but cheaper, coz Dama Bianca literally evaporates on my skin after 30 min which is very disappointing since it's so expensive . I found this, and I like it better than Dama and it's cheaper and lasts longer.

I threw this sucker on and was like, woah pepper. But then the dry-down was as if Annick Goutal decided to roundhouse kick me into an out of body experience where scent memory made me ugly cry in the middle of fussing with the case thingy. What that memory is? No idea. To say I was startled is an understatement. This is gonna smell super powdery on some peeps, but on me its spicy and vanilla. And also an existential crisis in a bottle. :)

I am just starting my journey into fragrances, and what an exciting journey it has been. To my untrained nose, this smells like hot chocolate, vanilla, and a little bit of woods. In fact, it smells similar to Orchidee Vanille by Van Cleef and Arpels, which I do enjoy, though I much prefer Nuit. It has less synthetic vibes. I do not have any issues with longevity, it lasts at least 6 hours on my skin. The bottle is also beautiful!

Like previously mentioned in the section below i too see similarities with Dama Bianca however the vanilla is more similar to orchidee vanille. Nuit et Confidence is a lighter version of both, it is like a vanilla cloud that opens a bit citrusy but not as sharp as the quince in Dama Bianca. I find this is more versatile and easy to wear and it actually became my favorite vanilla after Angelique Noir.

This is my favorite perfume, love at first sniff! I absolutely love this and I would keep sniffing this. It's sweet, smoky vanilla. Probably one of the best vanilla I've smelled so far. Plus the bottle is just gorgeous. However this scent is more for myself because the silage is low. I love it and it is my "secret" perfume that I tell everyone that I love but don't disclose the name lol

This us a perfectly lovely vanilla, more sophisticated than Vanilla 28 but not as woodsy as SDV. The closest scents I have to this are Note Vanillee and Orchidee Vanille. It reminds me most of Note Vanillee, but Note Vanillee has a bit more punch out of the gate. Would be a redundant buy for me, but the bottle is a stunner, and how do you say no to a beautifully blended vanilla?

I love this perfume! I was lucky enough to find a partial of it and it's such a gorgeous bottle.... If you like boozy, sweet vanilla scents then I really don't think it's possible to dislike this perfume. The sillage isn't bad at all, I'd say it's average. Definitely a more "grown up" take on vanilla but it's still sexy, alluring, addictive... I love it uGH

A little more floral and feminine version of Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille, I think I actually like this one more The Guerlain SDV. The longevity and sillage is absolutely incredible. I received my bottle half way spilled and hong up the pom pom to dry outside and sillage was good 6-7 feel away. Smells amazing. I absolutely love it.

A beautiful, elegant vanilla. Nuit et Confidences is very similar to Cologne of the Missions, but with added brushes of soft, abstract white petals, a pinch of black pepper, and a curl of incense smoke. I enjoy it very much. That said, it is not especially unique, and the sillage is very soft, despite the name and theme of the fragrance.

Love the scent, but the performance is very disappointing. It’s way too soft, even after over spraying on clothing. I will use this a lot when I’m home relaxing and it will allow me to switch to another perfume easily. Edit: this seems to stick to my clothes until the next day. Reminds me of Diptyque Eau Duelle edt but even softer.

Incredible smoky vanilla. Smells nearly identical to Le Couvent de Minimes Cologne of the Missions, but better. There is some added frankincense in this, which elevates it. At first spray my eyes rolled back into my head, and after wearing many times, I feel the same. Projection is moderate, and the lasting power is amazing.

I love this stuff! This is my signature scent when i'm at work. To me, its pleasant but still a little different and interesting enough for me to wear daily. For me, this is a great daytime scent. yes, it can be worn and night and is advertised as such, but because of the lemon opening, it makes it wearable for the daytime.

Mysterious little thing! Incensey sweetness paired with the vanilla and a comforting musk.The spice is like a single green peppercorn hovering around. It gives me something sweet like a plum or peach pit in there? Interesting and I'll be wearing it in cooler brisk breezy weather. It isn't heavy or thick.

This is great for a fall or winter day. It is not as strong as I like my night time scents to be. It also does not last. If this has more project and lasting power, it would be one of my favorites. It smells so good! For the price and the below average performance, it's hard for me to recommend.

The opening surprises gently with a fleeting note of plum laced with a hint of alcohol. Soon, sweet vanilla takes center stage, gracefully sidestepping any overtly gourmand tones. The result is elegant and refined. Longevity and sillage are both commendable, especially when worn on fabric.

This is a wonderful, sweet, yet smoky, vanilla perfume. It is a rich, creamy, chocolatey type of vanilla. Very gourmand imho. Lasting power is pretty good, sillage is decent. I own Guerlain's Spiritueuse Double Vanille and, although I see some similarities, I do not consider this a dupe.

Similar though not an exact dupe for SDV. They're both amazing. I get followed around by men in them. I love this and also love that it lasts a bit longer than SDV. Annick Goutal has a new convert. Yummy and sophisticated at the same time in a way very few houses can manage to create.

Love and adore this fragrance. It's my go to fall and winter scent, and what I come back to after exploring new frags. I compared this with Guerlain SDV and decided I only needed one because they were so similar. I like this one better probably because I smelled it first!

If you love tonka bean; buy. This is a warm "no fuss" expression of tonka bean. Reminds me of a vanilla tea in autumn 🍂 or spring. It's light on first spray but dry down it is interesting and keeps you interested. Tested during winter and I am a huge fan

Loved it from first wear: pepper and incense intermingling to lift it up, while the tonka and vanilla create a deep scent. Long lasting (8h+) and consistently moderate projection for many hours. Best of all, I can smell it all the time during the wear.

Smokey, smooth, sensual, rich. Love at first sniff. First time I ever say "oh my god" at loud when smelling a fragrance. Juicy and dry at the same time. I'm overwhelmed. Every time i sniff it I smell new things..... gorgeous. I need me one now.

Wow! It's amazing! I'm in LOVE! Sexy, elegant pepperly spicy vanilla. Not too sweet, a bit smoky. I can smell the bergamot at the beginning. There a some white flowers too in the background but not so distinctly! The bottle is so beautiful!

I always have a tendency to buy similar fragrances in 3's. I recently got SDV and Dama Bianca and this is if both of them had a baby. Although this is staged as a night fragrance, i'd totally feel comfortable wearing this during the day.

This is very soft and sensual. The perfect vanilla, not cloying/sickly sweet - just beautiful and soft. Reminds me a bit of the vanilla in Cuir Beluga. If SDV smells anything like this, it’ll be my next purchase. I love it.

But who said that this perfume is feminine? I strongly disagree. This is a unisex perfume because incense and black pepper add warmth. Sensual, delicate, clean, sweet ... and sweetness is not only feminine. Very good.

In looking for a replacement for Atelier Cologne’s Vanille Insensee I came across this one. I’ve tried quite a few and this one is the closest by far! I am really excited about it and would recommend for others!

I absolutely adore vanilla scents that smell elevated and this is one of them. While it’s quite sweet, I can definitely detect the spice and a pinch of citrus. Beautiful for those colder nights!

SDV was too much for me and Encore une Fois missed something, but this right here, this is perfect. Beautifully blended resinous boozy smokey vanilla. An absolute love.

It is really nice, warm sweet and sexy. Grown up sweet. Truly for the night out. Great silage and longevity. Bottle is beautiful too. Well done AG.

This is the beautiful, elegant, not-sweet, romantic vanilla that all the other vanilla fragrances are trying to be. It's one of a kind!

A very dry balsamic vanilla that has intense tonka with a hint of incense and musk. Lovely and smokey and a little marshmallowy, too.

Gorgeous and refined vanilla. Very versatile. And i get a beautiful scent bubble (not beast mode) when i wear it. Just perfect.

The smoke was what i wanted but i dont get it at all😳 Just another sweet vanilla to my nose.

I like oriental fragrance, this perfume smells really expensive

I find it smells similar to Goldfield & Banks - Silky Woods!

Nuit et Confidences is basically a boozy vanilla on my skin. It starts with boozy, even a bit syrupy plum pudding, an aspect that also frequently appears in boozy amber such as Parfum d'Empire Ambre Russe and Hermès Ambre Narguilé, for exemple. The creamy, sweet vanillin soon surfaces, along with a subtle tobacco touch, probably a facet of tonka bean. But the boozy plum fruity aspect is still the dominant element compared to creamy vanilla. The fragrance is fairly linear on me. The combined effect of boozy plum, creamy vanilla and a soft touch of smoky wood and tobacco, strongly reminds me of Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille and Le Couvent des Minimes Eau des Missions. Nuit et Confidences appears more fruity and more youthful than the Guerlain, while Eau des Missions has a deeper resinous undertone than the Annick Goutal offering. Nuit et Confidences has a heavy to moderate sillage, and lasts about 8 hours on my skin. Although technically I don't find anything alarmingly jarring to my nose in Nuit et Confidences, I can't help considering it redundant and unremarkable. Boozy vanilla/amber is such a crowded genre, that one can find anything ranging from budget friendly to high-end offering, from frilly fruity gourmand to handsome smoky tobacco. In comparison, Nuit et Confidences lacks the nuance and has a relatively strong emphasis on the fruity boozy plum, which leaves me the impression that it's engineered to exploit the gourmand trend and make a quick sale. I would recommend it to those who is on a quest for a gourmand boozy vanilla, mostly because its price is more approachable than a few high-end options. However, style-wise, it's a completely different animal from the other Goutal fragrances before 2015. Therefore, I would not recommend it to fans of Goutal's previous releases.

This wasn't a blind buy per-se I had smelt this before but not really thoroughly tested it. So in that regard, I guess this was a 'myopic buy' not a blind buy (Haha! Sorry. I'll see myself out after this review). Right off the bat, we have a bright, zingy bergamot waddling happily over fields of sweetness like a toddler, eventually disappearing into the horizon within 30 min at the most. I'm not sure if this is what provides the 'boozy' undercurrent to this decidedly vanillic fragrance but I think it is: the sharpness of the bergamot reminds me a bit of those lemon rinds you find in thick drinking glasses swimming in ambery liquid. It's the fact that it's so juxtaposed with the warmth and sweetness of the vanilla that brings out this boozy note. As the perfume dries down, the aforementioned thick glass containing the liquid slowly morphs into a wooden cask. The fragrance, still very vanillic and sweet, becomes darker, dryer but not denser. It's weird...it's still the same composition, but it's like the texture is changing: whereas at the beginning it was goopy and kinda lemon-rind oily, now it's getting smoked in the air. I have no idea if this description did justice to the scent, or if it swayed you to buy it (or not) but I hope it was comprehensive enough to imagine its smell. I really like it actually: it's not a love, but a polite version of those thick, syrupy and heavy-hitting perfumes I tend to like. I feel I can get away with wearing this at the office and in summer. That's my two cents. EDIT: Sprayed this on in the evening and woke up this morning with the scent still clearly lingering on my arm. Nothing extreme, it's quite soft, but still definitely there and at this point it's a beautiful ever so slightly smoky vanilla. Delicious but not sticky sweet. Love it!

Impossible to dislike. Nuit et Confidences is a pretty mix of different vanillas I’m familiar with. It has that same caramelized woody/fruity vanilla thing I get in Vanilla Woods, Cheirosa 40, and Dama Bianca, with less of a fruity touch. It’s hard to explain but they all have a specific kind of vanilla to me, although the last two are more sheer in texture. Nuit is also mixed with the smokiness, resinous, slight pepperiness of Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille. I can also see why people think of Diptyque Eau Duelle, even though it’s drier than Nuit, because of the pepper touch, but for me I thought of the ones prior which others agree with too. If you don’t necessarily want that many vanillas in your collection and already own the mentioned, then this may not be for you. Regardless, this is a beautiful fragrance that performs moderately on me, meaning those with performance issues may need to re-up after some hours.