Tendre Nuit

This is gorgeous and might be my best blind buy in the last year. I sampled it and immediately purchased a full bottle. I feel like I've smelled this before but I'm not sure when or what it was. I was scared of the ambroxan in this but it's not leathery or oudy in the least which is what I always get when I smell ambroxan (JHAG Not A Perfume, etc.) This is wine-like, red wine. I'm still not the best at describing fragrances but I can say that I'm in love with this one. Sillage is moderate but I have a feeling that this is one of those scents that I may consider moderate in sillage when really it's projecting like crazy. It's stunning. IMO this is a safe blind buy. Edit added 8/28/23...One fragrance that this closely resembles is Gentle Fluidity Gold. But that's still not the one that I'm referring to when I say I've smelled this before.

Wow- this stuff is so good!! When I tested this on paper I was not the biggest fan, but on skin I'm loving it. This opens with almond, vanilla, and it feels like there is a bit of cherry tobacco in this. As it develops I get a creamy musk (ambrette), a bit of rose, and a delicious vanillic almond/heliotrope...I also still get a hint of cherry tobacco. I was a bit worried about the ambroxan in this (it's an aromachemical that makes me nauseous)- and although I could detect the ambroxan on paper, I don't get it when I wear this on my skin. I find this to be unisex, leaning feminine. I'm so glad I gave this a chance. Honestly, this whole house is underrated. Also, I see this is being compared to MDCI L'Homme Aux Gants-- while I love that one, I don't find it at all similar to Tendre Nuit.

It's interesting reading the previous review. Mu thoughts are, if SL Feminite du Bois and Byredo's Seven Veils had a baby. Both are loves of mine, and this would fit very nicely in my wardrobe . . . Just not so much in my budget. Oh well, I'm enjoying my little decant thanks to fragrance ferries! This is not vanilla heavy at all to me. It's more resinous and spicy and a bit powdery. There's a touch of a sweet fruit like green apple, if I sniff close. Warm, but very wearable in this hot climate. What a beauty!

Recently purchased this on Parfumdreams.co.uk and this fragrance is stunning, very long lasting (8+hours) and the sillage (exceeds arms length for about 4 hours) Ive worn the fragrance once and I received 2 compliments. To me this smells like if Guerlain Spiritueuse Double Vanille & Maison Francis Kurkdjian Gentle Fluidity Gold had a baby. Scent 10/10 purchased a back up Longevity 9/10 Sillage 8/10 Price 10/10 discounted at £81

i don't get rose as much as i do almond and vanilla, as well as something vaguely fruity... reminds me of maraschino cherries. pleasantly sweet, spicy; fairly quickly settles into a skin scent which makes it a lot more elegant to me.

(22) ★★★★★ ici, quelle romance! flushed pink, once bitten, twice shy choosing love again

So warm, sweet and comforting....love love love!!

I bought it. Sold it. And am now considering a future repurchase. The reason I sold it, aside from a half-assed attempt at downsizing, is that there's a harsh woody powdery note at the top that I found irritating. That same note showed up on my skin with Xerjoff La Capitale. I'm not sure what that note is, but it's something I associate with a lot of the overtly aggressive perfume houses that have made themselves indispensable players on the fragrance landscape over the past decade: Mancera, Xerjoff, Terenzi, etc. I suspect that it's the note that makes most of these fragrances last an unholy amount of time. A few days after mailing off the package with Tendre Nuit I came across the test strip I had sprayed a few days before. The scent was still going strong, more than a week after having been sprayed. That painful top note that made me get rid of it in the first place was long gone. The scent coming off the test strip was a gorgeous dreamy vanilla-laced Dr. Pepper. And I was able to enjoy that test strip for another 2 weeks. It's what I expected of BDK Rouge Smoking. Do I really need any more fragrances? Absolutely not. But when I find a bottle on deep discount a couple of years from now (everything eventually gets there), I'll probably repurchase.

This is a perfumey fragrance, by which I mean, I don't find that it's about the individual notes representing themselves, but rather that it's a synthesis of all the components that, added up, equal to more than the sum of the parts. Yes, there is a touch of almond, a blush of rose, a hint of vanilla. But the overall effect is a powdery, soft, early dusk in summer, you are dressed for a cocktail party but are slipping away, just for a moment, from the swirl of lights and people and music, stepping out the French doors and into the dim, still back garden, walking slowly across the flagstone terrace to look out over the lawns and the flower beds that recede into deeper shadow, the air is dry and cooling down but not yet cool, the fireflies are just coming out, and you are taking a moment of quiet reflection before heading back to join the buzz and the sweep of the laughter and dancing.

Extremely potent and heady, large projection. Warm, sensual, inviting, truly a night-time scent. Benzoin, vanilla, almonds and rose, and lots lots of cashmeran. If you despise anything synthetic, this perfume is not for you. But I wonder if they changed the formula, as when I smelled it in the store, it mostly smelled like milky, lactonic almonds with just a hint of sweetness, almost like Prada Infusion d'Amande. And in my variation set Tendre Nuit is a full cashmeran bomb, smelling so ambery, so sweet. It's a lovely perfume, just too sweet for me.

Very feminine sweet Almond/ Rose/ Musc fragrance. It's gourmand and well balanced. It's more of a skin scent but it's nice. I think if it was projecting more it would be cloying. I love this brand. In their website it's possible to buy a small size for 40 Euros. On my wishlist

I got a large sample of this with a recent purchase and have tried it a couple times now and it won’t be a purchase for me. The opening of this was a lovely and warm with a slight sweetness, but quickly faded into just cashmeran and ambroxan on my skin. It lands in a very clean and soapy type of smell on me. It’s reminiscent of opening a box of classic dove bar soap. It lasts a long time and has a decent projection. It’s not my personal preference for a perfume, but it is in no way unpleasant. For someone who likes that more powerful type of soap fragrance, this might be a nice option (depending on how it dries down on you).

Testing this out from a sample i bought. 2 time now . I do realy enjoy the sweetnes of this one. The almonds ,benzoin and rose mixing thogether mkes it almost fruity .delicious and very feminin uplifting. From a distance and in the drydown this is such a beauty. But sadly i can not get past the ambroxan. It is way to strong ,mixing with the musk here it makes it almost cheap smelling up close . God why did they had to ruin that beautiful almond rose .. I will enjoy the sample and try to find something similar but without ambroxan :(

Tendre Nuit starts off w/ a burning almond smell for me. It smells like almond wood burning in a fire or burnt almonds. There is a bitter quality here as well that I am not liking. This is the only perfume today that I did not like and that gave me a headache. An obnoxious burning almond and vanilla. The smell of burned almond/vanilla cookies comes to mind. Just a hard no. The best from this line that I got to try are Sir Galahad, Prendi-moi, and Fleur Nocturne. Tendre Nuit was the worst for me. This is a cashmeran bomb which at times smells like burning rubber or other burned things to my nose or lotion sitting in a very hot car for weeks on end. This perfume would have been so much better w/ different dry down notes. What a shame.

Why, why, why did they ruin this with ambroxan? I don't see the draw, unless it's just the way I interpret that scent molecule, but it smells like a cheap ingredient. It was going along so well and then 2-5 minutes in it just slams me in the face. Everyone's different, so my experience may not be the norm but I don't want to review further. Just letting other ambroxan haters out there know that this one is in your face with it.

i wish i was getting what everyone else is getting (i’ll have what she’s having, *wink* if u get that movie reference you must be my age). on me, this is cherry tobacco & ambroxan. reminds me of tf tobacco vanille with more cherry/fruity aspect. not my thing and thank goodness i only bought the travel spray.

Mmmm...creamy, sweet, delicious. If Coromandel and Prada Candy had a baby this would be it. When I first smelled it (no idea about the notes) I thought- mmm white chocolate! And cream, some vanilla. Something sexy caramel-benzoin-like in Prada. Full, rich and gourmand all the way. Benzoin is definitely leading the dance here, followed by vanilla and almond. Musk-like part is cashmeran and ambroxan, and rose and pink pepper are more rounding and balancing the whole story with soft spiciness (which I do smell more on the paper and clothes, but on my skin all I get is creamy gourmand stuff) If I didn't already own the mentioned perfumes I would have seriously thought about purchasing this beauty. It is right up my alley, and an all together well done oriental gourmand fragrance. p.s. many thanks for the beautiful gesture by Isabey house for sending samples of all their perfumes completely free of charge <3

I appreciate the almonds and the delicacy of this fragrance, a sweet, "skin-perfume" type, velvety vanilla, and I can almost detect a peach in the background. Smelling it next to another woody vanilla perfume, I detect the floral notes, violet and rose, very light. I think without another perfume nearby to compare, I wouldn't have noticed them as much. Milky as if the world suddenly slowed down. If what you want to project is a thick, compassionate and cordial soul, this composition, extremely lactonic, is definitely suitable. Not for me...

If you like sweet florientals, you must try this fragrance! On my skin it opens up almost edible - vanilla-almond cream, and it settles to a sweet and a little sour, creamy, spicy rose. If I should describe it in few words, I'd say, flirty and sensual. If it was a color, it would be dark pink. The staying power is very good, the sillage is moderate. It will be interesting to test it in colder weather. Under the heat of +30 degrees Celsius it does not open fully, I feel.

Creamy powdery sweet almond roses. Just like that, sharp roses buried within bitter almonds, benzoin, pepper, & sweet amber. There is something overly peppery and very spicy as i think it's the sichuan pepper as it's makes my eyes partially teary. It's cute but settles to spicy hot instead of rosy sweet almonds. I need to test it more, next time on skin it will be.