Judith Leiber Night

I've has this perfume in my collection for years now, and, while I really liked it, I hardly never wore it because it was so strong and cloying, with a huge incense jasmine scent that was not appropriate for my daytime work scene. It gave me a headache if worn for more than a few hours. It was a scent I could taste if I wasn't careful and precise in application. So recently I was going through my collection to get rid of those perfumes I never wear anymore, but gave them one more try. I don't know if it's because this one has sat for a few years or if my senses or chemistry have changed, but it's completely different now. (I'm voting for my senses AND chemistry have changed, thank you early menopause, scents aren't so often overwhelming and migraine inducing as before, which is good because - no migraines - and bad because I feel like I don't detect some of the more delicate and nuanced notes anymore.) Night by Judith Lieber has become soft and warm and creamy. The incense is still there and very apparent, but I also get creamy, sultry jasmine and lily. Lily just smells amazing on my skin, a note I don't remember being front and center before and really love now. Then there is the smooth patchouli and cozy softly spicy cinnamon woods. It's all blended into a soft and slightly smoky, spicy creamy floral wood that I'm enthralled by. It's really versatile on my skin now, changing from this smoky and creamy floral wood, to a more sultry moist and almost mossy deeper floral damp wood scent when it's humid out. Really it's my current favorite and won't be one I part with.

Let me first say that I was offered this at a ridiculously low price with another purchase in a perfume shop and I declined. Later I could smell it on my wrist and was kicking myself! I just got a (9ml?) mini spray, black tube, rhinestone on the top of the cap, its the edp. You can find the edt cheap but have no idea if it is any good by comparison ? It opens with a blast of fruitiness, plum and sandalwood with floral undertones. It brings to mind Black Orchid, not that they are identical but they have a feeling in common, both also bring to mind a woman nearing 50, who wears the odd item of Vivienne Westwood clothing and has dark and shiny hair. Where Black Orchid to me is somehowhat dry, savoury and 'matt' texturally, this is more of a black opal, shinier with flashes of sweet sparks. I don't really get cinnamon (very smooth and mild, not chewing gum like at all), until many hours later when it is actually reminding me greatly of L by Lolita Lempicka, I really like this and it strikes me as a very 'me' scent in the sense that it smells like something my teenage self would have worn, not that it's a teen style perfume, no, more that I was a kinda weird kid. While my peers were wearing Body Shop dewberry, I trawled department stores testing things like EA Red Door, Dune, Byblos, Krizia and later; Champagne and delighting in free samples of Joy! I could really get into this as a, not signature exactly as I'm a scent commitment phone, but as something maybe people recognised as me. At least, sometimes!

Sniffed and sample-sprayed today. This is a dead-on cross between Ellen Tracey's Bronze and Nanette by Nanette Lepore, both of which I've been wearing & enjoying lately. There's a brightness that echoes Bronze with the deep, woody smoothness of Nanette. Interesting to note that both Bronze and Night are products of Palm Beach Beaute. Lovely, but not different enough to pull $50.00 from my wallet for the 2.5oz bottle at Marshalls. Edit: It's 3 years later and ebay has boxed 2.5oz bottles for about $27.00 so very soon a bottle will be MINE, cheesy rhinestone cap & all. Hey, I'm a sucker for rhinestones... I guess it's that 5 year old in me that loves all things sparkly. And why not? :)

Wow! What a pleasant surprise! I ordered the Judith Leiber NIGHT 2-piece set from Macy's website. The set contains a 1.3 fl oz eau de parfum spray and a 3.4 oz body lotion. If you check Macy's website for special sale prices, you might catch the 2-piece set on sale @ $25. Mine arrived today and I eagerly spritzed some on. Absolutely Stunning! This is certainly one of my better blind buys, for sure. It's beautiful (and luckily for me, beautiful, without having to smell like an overdose of flowers to achieve that). And, at the same time, it's sultry. But not so sultry that you couldn't also wear this during the days. I will be wearing this one to work tomorrow.

Intrigued as I was for this fragrance, the incense note scared me. I had a bad experience with Franck Olivier's Oud Vanille, whose incense to me was like a choky house fire that never let up. I could smell nothing else, not even after hours and I like incense, burn it every evening. Finally, I gave that one to one of my sons, who said it was smoky and weird but he sort of liked it. In Night, I don't even sense it. It's a lovely scent, very warm and comforting. I can't really pick out much other than Amber and Patchouli, not individually, but it combines into something I will definitely wear.