Kenzo Homme Night

WEATHER / SEASON : all-year around (just go easy on the sprayer during warmer days) TIME / : night and day WHICH MAN ? : Mainly youngsters (teenagers + young adults). I'd develop that part below... SCENT / FEEL : 16/20. I know many male 'fragranticians" are bored with the current trend of fruity scents. But if you want TROPICAL fruity scent, not the usual citrus/red fruits/apple, etc. this is a fair candidate. Not groundbreaking (I do get the sun tan lotion comparison) BUT well made. I got mainly mango (top and middle) and tonka beans (drydown).. AND some coconut-y smell, all throughout, which is strange because it's not listed ! Must be the result of woods and spices being mix with mango? i don't know, but I know I love it. It's not a linear scent at all, it does evolve. You go mango > coconut (?) > tonka and spices. It's quite well blended in my opinion, it evolves quite naturally, and the drydown is creamy with the tropical vibe remaining. LONGEVITY : 8/10 - Very good longevity as usual with kenzo. I get a 8h+ from this one, and I love the fact that the top notes (mainly mango and that coconut-y smell) linger on for a fairly long time as main notes (~2h) and you still can detect them in the drydown. It even lasts longer on clothes. PROJECTION / SILLAGE : 7/10 . Quite powerful for the first hour, then becomes a skin scent, but with fair projection (I'd say 1-foot projection for ~4h) and the sillage is rather weak. Which is weird, because, if oversprayed, it goes on the cloying side. OVERALL : 15,50 /20 NOTES / ADD INFO : Many were disappointed with this one because of the deja-vu "teenage" smell it has. I do understand the disappointment. It seems Kenzo tried to go mainstream with this one, they wanted their Le male or 1-Million it's quite a letdown compared to the other Kenzo offerings if you expect the Kenzo "originality" when it comes to their fragrances. I guess they need more money and wanted to launch something more accessible, likeable by the majority (I do like Kenzo pour Homme, but I detect a slight nail polish remover in it that kept me from buying it). BUT this one wins as a candidate regarding TROPICAL scents available to men... When requesting a tropical scent for men its always the same 4/5 bottles : Virgin Island Water, l'Artisan Timbuktu, Tommy Bahama St Barts Sail, Jennifer Lopez Deseo... You know what? I prefer this ONE over those others. Looks like the only 'tropical' note available to men is coconut, this one at least has mango, which is a rather rare and interesting note. And It does the job very well as a tropical. Nice to wear for all seasons as well, just make sure to use it sparingly during summer (though not sure a more mature man, says, in his 50 would pull it off. Maybe still too fruity to some)

★★★★ It definitely took me some time to appreciate Kenzo Homme Night. For me, it was always one spray on a paper strip without focusing on the scent, basically thinking about the original Kenzo Pour Homme as a far superior fragrance. I have tried Virgin Island Water by Creed, Diptyque Philosykos, Heeley's Coccobello and South Water by Lili Bermuda while I was looking for a tropical fragrance. All of those fragrances smell wonderful (with a preference to Coccobello) but I always felt they are too unisex and suitable for daytime. I decided to try Kenzo Homme Night in the end, but actually give it a full wearing, and I did the same with Davidoff Cool Water Night, only because I wanted to use a tropical fragrance only for night time and specifically for clubbing. Kenzo Homme Night on my skin opens with a wonderful lush mango note that is uplifting and energetic, almost sporty I dare to say, but without making it a sport fragrance. I guess it feels sporty due to the coriander and grapefruit combo as top notes. After a few minutes, the magic happens. It turns really woody and even smoky, I can't smell the vetiver but I can definitely smell the guaiac wood and tonka bean that gives the composition the depth it needs for being a masculine night fragrance. What's fantastic about it is that the mango is always there, even when the base notes start to dominate and turn it slightly dirty and deep. Some people say it smells of coconut but don't be fooled, it's just when the tonka bean kicks in correlation with the mango. The tropical character stays there for the fragrance's whole lifespan, which is a total of 9 hours or more with great projection for at least the first 4 hours. In my book, that's success in today's standards when everything fleets in the first hour (yes, I'm looking at you Creed) Is it original? Well, tropical fragrances smell similar most of the time, but I have never encountered the depth of Kenzo Homme Night in any other tropical fragrance, and that is why I give it a gold medal as the ultimate masculine tropical fragrance. The longevity, the projection and the good price beats it all, a fragrance that's aloof, lazy in a summer way but utterly seductive and masculine. Wear it with sexy flip flops or total white trainers, your summer t-shirt and aloof shorts and you are that guy in the club that people sniff secretely, the guy that is hard to resist. Thank you Kenzo, please wake up and go back to your creativity because -in the masculine spectrum- it has already been a while since Kenzo Pour Homme, Kenzo Air and Kenzo Homme Night. I'm out, the summer night is calling...

Kenzo Homme Night is an original take on coconut for men that is never too beachy or excessively summery.It smells fairly sweet though quite well-balanced as well, ends up being very long-lasting with satisfactory sillage, and remains quite unfairly off the radar. At the same time it stays healthily distant from other Kenzo pour Homme offerings, and more than a flanker should be a perfume on its own merit. I am a bit biased here because I like Kenzo Homme Night quite a lot. I wear it sometimes in the spring, at daytime, and fits many different occasions without being inappropriate. If you are looking for something "coconutty" that does not remind you of women's coconut perfumes, I believe this fits the bill. Apart from that, I can smell a little bit of pepper probably, and a fleeting undertone of mango,oh wait, or is it fig? Be careful if you like your coconut to smell fresh, like with Virgin Island Water or "cocktail-smelling" like with Tommy Bahama Set Sail St Barts or Calvin Klein One Summer 2014. Those lean towards a fresher interpretation of notes, in my opinion. The Kenzo is more like raw coconut flesh, for better or worse. In a way, KPH could be a distant, masculine cousin of Bronze Goddess (by Estée Lauder) maybe. I would give it a 9/10, but you must like coconut (conspicuous by its absence in the notes description) to enjoy it.

It’s not going to be everyone’s cup of tea. I really like it though! It’s very much a ‘fun’ (or easygoing) fragrance - I’d say you either enjoy sweet tropical/holiday fragrances or you don’t, I guess. All I can really pick out from it is sweet coconut. It’s just really pleasant, not remotely ‘serious’ at all. It doesn’t smell in anyway the same but something about the linear sweet (and synthetic) scent made me think of Black XS Potion. Not a criticism. I had to check the box to see if Kenzo Night was an EDP, it isn’t, it’s just that it seems really long lasting but isn’t loud. I’m having a blast with exploring Kenzo, after KPH eventually really grew on me after initial indifference and putting aside. Now I have discovered Tokyo, which is truly outstanding and a personal favourite now. Got Kenzo Aqua Kenzo on the way too.

Tried and bought it today as I fell in love with the mango accord which makes this new perfume unique for sure. It has a remarkable, tropical soul. "Kenzo homme night" is linear and the main note is a coconutish mango accord surrounded by some splashes of sour grapefruit, mild spices and soft vetiver under a sweet note of tonka. It has a great potential to be an interesting spring/summer perfume suitable for middle age gentleman. It has a nice, long lasting but moderate sillage. To my nose is more tropical and fruity than seductive and intriging. A great, fun fragrance for fruity coconut, tropical perfume lovers.