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.

Spicy and delicious, I got much more than I was bargaining for as a blind buy for something like 20 bucks. I'm quite impressed with this scent and have found myself NOT wearing it so I won't run out. the sweet cinnamon note is so natural and warm, and the fruit is not a fresh variety, but smells of some sort of cobbler warm from the oven. Very gourmand, yet grounded by the woods. Night is an appropriate title, it seems lush and dark, like deep purple velvet. I'll be stocking up on this while it's cheap!

I bought a small bottle of this (the long tube that is about a third of an ounce and meant to be carried in a purse) a few years ago, and I'm not sure whether the version I have is supposed to be a different formula or what, but The Judith Leiber Night perfume I have is a very mild scent that stays politely close to the skin and smells a bit like vanilla, under-ripe apricots, and toasted almond biscotti. What's the deal--has this been reformulated?

Got this as a blind buy for $12 ! At fist I wasn't sure. its a BIG scent. Heavy, floral, spicy and has a wide sillage. This scent is not for wall flowers. You will be noticed in the fragrance. It smells expensive and sensual. Like a floral perfume , that mixed with a spicy Chanel scent for men, and a bit of insence in the air. Sexy, voluptuous and dramatic.

Really nice, but I don't get incense. Sweet but not overdone. Fresh but round and powdery. Spicy with good note of cinnamon. Patchouli is fresh and sits well here; nothing dirty or overbearing. The peony is smooth and heavy (not screechy) and boosted by the other florals. Everything is plush and feminine. Lasts forever. A really good sweet, spicy floral!

If there is an equally stunning, expensive-smelling fragrance out there you can pick up for around $20, I'd like to know what it is. This is a beautifully blended cinnamon/amber/jasmine magic potion that I absolutely adore. I also get rave reviews from men when I wear this so there's that as well. This is truly one of my treasures. 10/10

If this perfume wouldn't contain cinnamon, it would be almost identical to Dita Von Teese by Dita Von Teese. For me the cinnamon in this one is too outstanding. Although, the fragrance itself has very good quality, pretty bottle and the scent isn't bad ,I'm afraid it's not my cup of tea. This should be a great gem for cinnamon lovers:)

NIGHT, by Judith Leiber, is pure MAGNIFICENCE! I love this so much, I have added it to my 'favorites'. The beauty of 'Night', is it's light florals and very mild spicyness, delicate sweetness and woodsy warmth. It finishes with a perfect, powdery end, making it one of the most beautiful of all my parfums.

I adore the bottle, it looks just like a JL minaudiere, and the art deco style is my favorite in design. Another reviewer had complained about the "plastic" cap and "fake crystals," trimming it, but the one on my bottle is nice, albeit a bit flimsy. It takes about two minutes for the fragrance to unfold on my skin, and I love it from the start. A sweet peach and caramel scent, with just a hint of cinnamon, on a base of musk. To me it's a warm fragrance that draws you in and makes you feel as though you've come home. It's the way I want my skin to smell; the way I want to be remembered. Reading the reviews from others makes me think my nose might not be very sophisticated. I should have smelled amber, and probably did, but since I sometimes wear amber oil I'm accustomed to an unadulterated version of the scent. Suppose the peach-caramel could be read as amber, but in the straight oil there is a woody component that wasn't here. And no one mentions musk, where for me it's the comforting part of the smell. Maybe it's just my skin? I'd purchased this blind on ebay for about $15, it's a bargain at that. Not enough sillage for me, though, nor does it last long enough. I'd recently purchased some Clinique Aromatics White, and this is like a watered-down version of the fragrance it evolves into, after the overly-loud white patchouli fades. But the Clinique has the sillage and lasts quite a long time; it would be my evening choice, and I'd wear this for the daytime.

This is an instance of a perfume being big a bit much, but these also being the thing that makes it beautiful. There is a lot to like here but there is also a lot of it. It opens with a massive cinnamon and spice bomb that is a shock to the senses, but it does dry down to a warmer, though certainly not subtle, incense mood. Even at it’s quietest it is still quite bold, heavy, and powerful. It’s lucious and seductive as well, though, so I am torn. I can imagine there being a right time, a right place, a right event for this scent as it is intoxicating and alluring in its own way. I think this is one you could have on hand for special events and you’d have to apply it early enough to let it settle. But you’re not going to get a lot of day wear out of this and I can see those around me feeling assaulted by its presence initially. Overall, it’s different, enticing, and a statement scent for sure. Something about it is truly unique, just not very practical or easy. Maybe I will get a teensy bottle for those rare moments call for this type of statement.

I've been so so wrong in blindly buying this based on reviews and the fact that I just love Leiber by Judith Leiber. Worse than Chergui Lutens in my book. This is a bombastically potent sickly sweet bomb. Well, you live and learn. So far out of 3 JL scents I tried I love 1, hate 1, haven't finally decided yet but so far don't particularly like 1 more, and I don't even want to try the 4th according to the notes in perfume pyramid. UPD: tried it for the 2nd time - beautiful sprind day positively affected my perception of this scent. I sparayed one tiny spray that stayed with me for 4 hours, and it was rather pleasant co-existence I have to say. Still a bit too sweet to be my regular scent, but I smelled lily this time and some fizzy champagne-like smell I cannot pinpoint - maybe it was lime, as I now try to guess looking at the scent pyramid. Still no insense, but awful caramelized patchoulized amber that bothered me last time wasn't present. So I will try it again when it's warm and then I'll decide whether to keep this.

I found 2 bottles of this body lotion at TJM for $4/per. I popped one open and thought, 'This smells like something I already have.' So, since I am an avid layer-er of scents, I bought these. This lotion is the shimmery, pearlescent-infused type that makes your skin glow under the right lights. I got it home and started going through my collection and I found it's twin...not an identical twin, but almost. Adrienne Vittadini's Amore is so, so very almost just like this lotion. I don't know about the EDP itself, just the lotion. I now layer these two together for evenings and they harmonize beautifully. I guess my Mary-Kate perfume has found its Ashley counterpart. It's a wonderful spicy experience with warmth and depth..the incense and musk blend well and who is going to turn down something that makes you shimmer in dim light? I like it. Don't love it, but I do like it.

This is for the purse spray with three refills of the EDP. Price was under $17.00. The container is beautiful and makes a statement of its own: This is a classy quality perfume. A very soft relatively simple Amber oriental. Many orientals are much more dramatic, but this one is a more refined and wearable perfume. Longevity is moderate and sillage is low. This is suitable for the office and just about anywhere else. The cinnamon in the top notes is not in your face like a Christmas pot popurrí. It is, as other reviewers have noted, comforting like homemade cinnamon rolls. Having said that, it is not gourmand. Michael Edwards classifies this as a soft oriental. The dry down is woody and incense, and the Amber remains throughout. I wear this in the fall, after a surfeit of lighter citrus fragrances I use in the summer.

A blind buy due to curiosity and the reviews. I got a great deal online, specially for a blind buy. First impression, I knew I had definitely smelled this before. I knew that whatever it was, this one has Cinnamon and lots of it! Its a sweet spicy cinnamon explosion, with the oud darkness, and powdery dry amber. It doesn't necessarily smell cheap, definitely not what I paid for. This is along the lines of Jennifer Lopez's JLux (black bottle) and Zoa Night Perfume Parfums Regine with the art deco included, but with cinnamon added to it. If you like those two abovementioned, and/or you like woody rose incense and cinnamon (you have to like cinnamon as its a dominant note on this one), then you'll enjoy this. I can see this being a bit cozy in cold Winter weather. Or an evening scent in the Fall.

What a big surprise! A feminist aromatic- woody scent by definition, very interesting, warm but not sweat, citrate over powdery a thing very hard to control but still the perfumers of this fragrance did it, what can I say, it's the brand of a working career woman who knows what she wants from her perfumes and knows what to ask from the perfumer, an aromatic fragrance for career women, which is both deep and fine and very good blend with citrus. To be even safer they decided to present it as an evening scent, isn't necessary, I wear it in the winter as my day perfume, perfect match. It has nothing to do with that stinky boudoir smell called Dior Addict! I don't know who voted for this, but I advise them to compare it again and drink the water between smelling them, nothing in common at all.

I love anything spicy and oriental. Knowing this I was intrigued with the notes in this perfume. I had to try it. At first spritz I was a little overwhelmed. It's VERY strong - but the dry down is absolutely lovely and the longevity is good. I liked it so much that I bought a large purse spray - this is something that I need to be in the mood to wear. I wouldn't buy a whole bottle of it but it is a good scent that will be fun to wear now and then. The only way I can describe it is to say that it's dark, mysterious, warm and intriguing. It makes you want to know more about the woman who is wearing it. It casts an aura that says I am confident and sexy.