Scandal By Night

This blind buy stumped me for awhile, it’s a sneaky scent that has 3 different perfumes in 1. Upon first spray, i get a honey cherry sweet almost syrupy (but not quite) type fragrance that is light and not very memorable, but nice. Then as it dries down about 15+ min later, this fragrance starts to smell very similar to Olympea / Olympea Intense. I thought I was crazy smelling Olympea, but saw another review that mentioned the same thing. It really seems to have a salt note like Olympea, I swear. Then as it further dries down, the tuberose comes out, mixes with the salty honey, and ends up smelling very similar to Marfa by Memo Paris, only a more sweet and floral with fewer musky herbal notes. I’d say this is a great option for people who like Olympea and Marfa and are looking for something similar/an amazing combination of both, that is more wearable and more addictive-smelling. My bottle isn’t a super strong beast mode fragrance like the reports of silage and longevity seem to imply here, I’d say it’s a lighter fragrance with 3-5 hrs average performance. Spraying several sprays definitely didn’t fill my tiny bedroom, this is sitting close to my skin with a foot or two projection max. It performs well enough that I keep smelling myself, but not so strong that others can tell when I enter the room. I’d say it performs and lasts like most average perfumes nowadays, may need a couple resprays to get it to last 8+hrs/all day. Seems to last a bit longer on clothes, though, my shirts will still smell faintly of this the next day. I’ve been wearing this during hot summer days and it smells very nice, but I don’t have much humidity in my climate which I think makes a lot of perfumes cloying in the heat for certain people. I actually like this more than Marfa and Olympea. I'm not sure if the discontinuation rumors are true - it seems like every one of my fav frags have discontinuation rumors here on fragrantica, though they are all very available from countless credible suppliers as I noticed when I rushed to buy backups (probably unnecessarily). A quick web search led me to several top online frag retailers who I've purchased from in the past selling this scent. Plus all other Scandal flankers review boards seem to be filled with recommendations for By Night as the BEST/favorite Scandal flanker, which I'd 100% agree with, I'm not sure why they'd discontinue something so well loved. If you're having trouble finding it, try layering Olympea or Olympea Intense with Marfa, it’s probably the closest you can get! Though Scandal by Night performs better IMO than Olympea and is comparable in performance to Marfa. I really didn't need to order a backup bottle, but the longer this sat on my skin, the more I fell in love with it. It smells expensive. SO ADDICTIVE. Sexy. Very good quality. I remember 15 yrs ago stealing a few sprays of JPG le male+flankers from guy friends of mine and thinking how the bottles are so funny, but the juice was the sexiest I ever smelled. I get that same feeling for this femme JPG fragrance, like I just cannot get enough. No synthetic/sharp cloying notes. I'd only warn against it if you dislike tuberose or olympeas salt note. Perhaps those who dislike honey may not like this, but the honey here is a salty soft ambery honey, it isn't as sharp and cloying as honey can be in a lot of other frags (for example, it does NOT remind me of the honey in Lady Million). IMO this was the best blind buy I ever found, and I'd recommend it for anyone, but I do know everyone has different tastes so I know this isn't for everyone. It seems sweet enough that younger people would love it, but it's mature enough that I don't feel like a teenage vanilla sugar bomb. Update-every time I smell this fragrance, I love it more and more. It’s one of the most beautiful scents I own. I own a lot of fragrances, I thought this would sit on my shelf unused, and somehow it made it into my top 5 almost immediately. A true beauty. I wish it lasted longer, I typically get 3-5 hrs of true performance from it, it can last on clothing 8 hrs but goes faint after 5. Otherwise it’s absolute perfection. I feel bad for my other fragrances as they will not be getting the attention that this one does. I ended up ordering 3 backup bottles, which is how you know I'm in love with a frag!

Scandal is one of my top favorites so I was happy to receive Scandal by Night as gift but I wasn't sure I would love it because cherry is a tricky note for me. fortunately there's no need to fear cherry in Scandal by Night, cherry is done right here. when first sprayed, Scandal and Scandal by Night have a lot in common but they're recognizable. the honey note is a bit tamed in SBN so the sweetness is less intense compared to OG Scandal. don't get me wrong, it's still very sweet and the honey is still dominant, just slightly softer when I compare it side by side with Scandal. the other difference is due to the strong cherry note in SBN. the cherry is easily detectable but it's not too strong to make this all about cherry. it also doesn't have a medicinal aka cough syrupish vibe. it's pretty and easy to like. I love how honey, cherry and flowers(I don't pickup tuberose as a seperate note but I can detect orange flower) are blended together to create this sweet, sexy scent. patchouli doesn't bother me in Scandals and to be honest I don't detect much tonka here. drydown is mostly a vanilla-orange flower combo on me. I love Scandal by Night but the OG Scandal is still my favorite among these two. both have very good longevity and leave a lovely trail as I walk(I checked the batchcode of my bottle of SBN and it's made in 2018 so I don't know if the new formulations are weeker or not). اسکندل و اسکندل بای نایت شباهت زیادی باهم دارن هرچند قابل تشخیصن. اولا که بای نایت نت عسل ملایمتر و شیرینی ملایمتری داره. البته کماکان عطر بشدت شیرین پ کاملا عسلی هست اما اسکندل اصلی از اینم شیرینتره. دومین فرقشون مربوط به نت آلبالوی غالبی هست که تو اسکندل بای نایت وجود داره. آلبالو براحتی قابل تشخیصه اما نه درحدیکه عطر رو کاملا آلبالویی کنه و اصلا حالت دارویی و شربت سینه طور نداره. پچولی تو اسکندلها اذیتم نمیکنه و تونکا رو هم حس نمیکنم. شروعش یه ترکیب محشر از عسل و آلبالو و گلهاست و درای داونش هم عمدتا ترکیب وانیل و شکوفه پرتقال. من اسکندل بای نایت رو هم خیلی دوست دارم اما بین این دوتا، هنوزم خود اسکندل رو بیشتر دوست دارم. موندگاری هردوشون هم خیلی خوبه و یه رد بوی عسلی محشر پشت سر آدم به جا میذارن

Absolutely the best of the scandal line in my opinion. It’s extremely sweet so if you don’t like sweet perfume retreat from this. Don’t even look at it anymore. The cherry in this scent is pronounced but so is the honey, jasmine, and tuberose. In fact it’s loud and probably the sweetest fragrance in my collection and I have La Vie Est Belle and Girl of Now. I would say if you like GON you’ll probably like this. They smell very similar because almond often smells like cherry and vice versa. The scandal line also has a bit of an animalic edge due to the honey joining with the white florals. When both of those are this strong they can sometimes verge off into pissy bee’s hive quality. So,once in a while that occurs to my nose with this fragrance and other times it doesn’t. This also has a smoky, woody, tonka, sandalwood dry down. Some days this fragrance is gorgeous to me but sometimes this fragrance verges on cloying and too much. Update: I’m confused about this fragrance. Yesterday I put it on and it was verging on offensive. It was tooth achingly sweet and cloying. It also became so animalic on my skin with that thick honey and musk that it all made me a little sick. It’s just too much of everything. Extremely sweet, extremely floral, extremely animalic in a skanky way. It’s hitting people over the head screaming at them. You know that girl that’s beyond belief pretty naturally? But she’s wearing too much makeup? Like WAY too much makeup and her lashes are literally 3 inches long and don’t look right? Like, Gurl you don’t need all that calm down you’re pretty. She doesn’t realize how beautiful she was to begin with. It’s out of balance. That’s this fragrance. But other times this fragrance is sweet and sexy cherry/honey/ floral. Idk guys it’s not a safe blind buy.

Perfectly syrupy and robust frangrance, as though as cherries melted into honey in a feverish combination! To me it feels quite linear at first, a mere cherry-honey fusion, although as time goes by the scent blossoms into something almost smokey as the honey - once so strong, at first - subdues into the background for the tonka beans and vanilla to shine, obviously still heavily accompanied by the cherries. It's not merely "cherries", still very very ripe indeed, to the limit of almost being spoilt, even. Needless to say - on my skin the tuberose stood second to the cherry as it took a leading role on the performance throughout all day. Positively cloying and inebriating, glues to the skin like magic and in spite of it all I do not imagine this to be a pleasant scent for the summer, humid neither the spring time. It's a heavy concoction, to say the least. A very intoxicating perfume indeed, bewitching. In my opinion, certainly not an office fragrance as it might induce headaches in some (such as my mother, who hated this sweet bomb). Suitable for all ages, however almost vulgar due to it's scandalous nature indeed. Now, sadly, all that's left to do is reminisce and - hopefully - collect, as soon as possible. Here in Brazil some stores still carry this scent so I'm severely inclined to stock up, seeing as in some countries it is no longer available. A scandal indeed to abandon such fragrance. RIP our beloved cherry bomb 🎀

* full 30 ml with box available for swap * I tried both Scandal and Scandal by Night and immediately bought this one in the 30 ml format (it does not have the legs on the cap, the cap is plain metal and the legs are just a little tiny tiny pendant attached to the bottle). Both are incredible but this one is just amaaaaazing. I don't usually wear heavy fragrances like Black Opium etc, so I was skeptical about this, but... It is just divine. The original is thick, dense, rich honey. This has a hint of tuberose that calms the fragrance down a bit, yet it is incredibly longlasting, sillage and projection are amazing too. I know tuberose divides the crowds but I love it. Incredible creation. hint: two sprays are more than enough. Overspraying might lead to headaches. Other than that, enjoy this gem. I hope they never discontinue it. edit: wow, I've said it before and I'll say it again... This is a masterpiece in perfumery. I have never had a perfume that is so addictive and intoxicating in makes me feel like I'm on my own personal planet. Whenever I feel like I need something to pick me up and make me feel protected I spray this on. This cloud of honey and tuberose just cuddles me for over a day with just two sprays, one on my wrist and one on my neck... It is simply stunning. A real work of art. I am not one for very sweet or gourmand perfumes, but this is just a must have for me.