Starry Nights

Montale Starry Nights EDP opens with a strong projection of very sweet, floral, citrusy, fruity, and green notes. The opening is delectable, fresh, unique, elegant, and inviting. The rose, apple, bergamot, and lemon are the opening most noticeable notes. The apple note in this fragrance is evocative of granny smith apples, is a green, sour, sharp, delicious, and fruity note, it is enhanced by the citrusy and sour accords of the bergamot and lemon. The rose in this fragrance is prominent, slightly powdery, sweet, sensual, floral, and dense. As time passes, the bergamot and lemon lose some intensity, simultaneously the patchouli develops a fresh, sharp, and green accord that continues with the line of freshness created by the initial citruses and the sourness of the apple. Towards the dry down, the white musk and powdery notes develop, the white musk is an inoffensive but projecting accord, fresh, and lemony. The powdery notes are also a projecting accord, the add a mild powdery touch to the fragrance. The jasmine and amber are support notes, a distant white floral note eclipsed by the prominent roses, and a resinous sweet touch resulting from the amber. The fragrance is relatively linear, the opening features the apple, citruses, and roses; in just a brief moment, the citruses take a step down, the patchouli climbs to a second-place close to the rose and apple. Towards the dry down, the white musk, powdery notes, and amber complete their surfacing process. The white musk joins the group of featured notes while the powdery notes and amber take a second seat as support accords. Once Montale Starry Nights EDP has reached its full dry down, it can be summarized as a strong projection, sweet, rose, sour, apple, green, patchouli, bergamot, white musk, and resinous fragrance with faint white floral accords. The fragrance feels comforting, complex, delectable, delicate, delicious, dense, elegant, exotic, exquisite, more feminine than masculine, floral, fresh, fruity, green, heavy, high-quality, imposing, intense, intimate, inviting, long-lasting, mature, modern, musky, nicely-blended, playful, powdery, resinous, refined, rich, sharp, seductive, sour, sparkly, special, sweet, unique, versatile, wild, zesty, and very pleasant. BATCH REVIEWED: 2020 (#F013864983) WOW RATING: 10/10. The combination and intensity of notes, sweet, sour, fruity, floral, and ambery creates an impressive fragrance. DISLIKE RATING: 1/10. The fragrance is sweet, and the rose is a prominent note. UNIQUENESS: 10/10. This is a unique and easy to recognize fragrance. MASS APPEAL: 8/10. This is a fragrance that most people will enjoy. PROJECTION: 6/10. Very good, about 6 feet around the wearer. SILLAGE: 10/10. Outstanding, 10 feet and beyond behind the wearer. APPLICATION: 2-4 atomizations. LONGEVITY: 6/10. Very good, about six hours, it projects well for over 4 hours. SEASONS: Winter, spring, summer, fall, colder days, daytime, nighttime, and climate-controlled environments. OCCASIONS: Formal events, outdoor gatherings, office, casual, holidays, vacations, romantic, dating, clubbing. This is an office-friendly fragrance. VERSATILITY: 8/10. A versatile fragrance, ideal for casual and formal wear, mild or cold weather. GENDER: Feminine. The fragrance features sweet rose, sour apple, bergamot, green patchouli, and white musk. Although the rose is just one of these accords, its intensity is noticeable giving the fragrance a feminine touch. AGES: 20 and above. RECOMMENDATION: Montale Starry Nights EDP can be purchased for about $90. It is a unique, impressive, and great performing fragrance. This is a great buy. BLIND-BUY: No, sample it first. SIMILAR: These are examples of fragrances in the same genre. Bond No 9 Greenwich Village EDP is a fantastic, very sweet gourmand vanilla, praline, musk, ambroxan, white floral peony, water lily, jasmine, and litchi fragrance; Gris Dior is a great, mildly sweet, rose, patchouli, mossy, and resinous powdery fragrance; Montale Intense Cafe is a very good, sweet, coffee, vanilla, and roses fragrance; Montale Ristretto Intense Cafe is great, intense, very sweet, coffee, and roses fragrance; Montale Sensual Instinct EDP is a great, intense, very sweet, praline, rose, and fine mossy fragrance; Tom Ford Noir De Noir is a great, mild, roses, patchouli, oud, vanilla, and truffle fragrance; Montale Starry Nights EDP is a fantastic, intense, sweet, rose, sour, apple, green, patchouli, bergamot, white musk, and resinous fragrance. SUMMARY: A strong projection, sweet, rose, sour, apple, green, patchouli, bergamot, white musk, and resinous fragrance with faint white floral accords. The fragrance feels comforting, complex, delectable, delicate, delicious, dense, elegant, exotic, exquisite, more feminine than masculine, floral, fresh, fruity, green, heavy, high-quality, imposing, intense, intimate, inviting, long-lasting, mature, modern, musky, nicely-blended, playful, powdery, resinous, refined, rich, sharp, seductive, sour, sparkly, special, sweet, unique, versatile, wild, zesty, and very pleasant.

An Enticing First Impression: Montale Starry Night Acquiring new perfumes is an exhilarating experience, and often, sellers include samples of other fragrances for us to try. This can be a dangerous practice for our wallets. Such was my case when I encountered Montale Starry Night, a sample included by one of my perfume vendors. A Citrusy Blast with a Powdery Twist Upon the first spray, I was greeted by a bright, zingy, and fresh citrusy accord. It was bold, assertive, and slightly offensive, yet I found it utterly delightful. The initial impression was reminiscent of my first encounter with Aqua Di Gio Profondo. However, while Profondo veers towards an aquatic direction, Starry Night settles into a powdery embrace. I detected subtle floral notes intertwined with patchouli, lending a masculine touch to the fragrance. While it might not appeal to everyone, it was love at first sniff for me. Impressive Sillage and Longevity The sillage is decent, and the projection is exceptional. With a single spray on my wrist, I could catch whiffs of Starry Night enticing my senses with every movement. The longevity is equally impressive, offering 8-10 hours of wear when applied to both skin and clothing. The Quest for a Full Bottle So, what more reason could I have to resist acquiring a full bottle? This is where my misery began. Turns out, this reasonably priced Starry Night is a rare gem in the marketplace. I inquired with several recommended sellers, but none had any in stock. Damn! For two long months, I waited, until finally, it appeared on a local seller's page. Mission accomplished! And as soon as another seller opened a pre-order for Starry Night, I didn't hesitate to join for a backup. Now, I can enjoy Starry Night every day, not just under the bright open night sky but also in the broad daylight. 10/10 for sentimental reason

In my hopes of finding a Spring/Summer fragrance from the house of Montale, I really think the last post hit in on the nail... "Middle Eastern open complete with oud kick and saffron bite"... "citrus followed by the greenest of green apples"... "Upon dry down the fruit lends a boozy quality akin to champagne"... & "magic of patchouli cloaks itself in powder"... PLEASE don't forget the FAMOUS MONTALE ROSE! The one thing that I can relate is the value of the Montale performance, it goes and goes all day! This semi sweet fruited floral musked scent falls right in the middle of being a uni-sexual scent. Not to detour a gender confused individual, but I think either a man or woman could enjoy this scent. If your a guy that's comfortable smelling a little pretty and enjoys a brighter bold scent than the usual Montale beast... this scent is for you. After a few months of wearing I have fallen in Love! As the sweet apple and rose is mixed with patchouli settles down I am getting a lovely drydown with incense coming through...

I had a perfume delivery this morning with a sample of Starry Night in the package. I tried it and whoa did this thing wake me up. I thought I WAS awake.....I had made a coffee, fed the cats, brushed my teeth and trimmed my fringe.....but Starry Night WOKE ME UP !! Such a super fresh airy bright reviving sniff, like a boxer being given smelling salts after a knock out punch to the face. I can see how, for the maker, he related it to being like a bright clear cold starry night instead though. It has not gone powdery on me at all but is an extremely bright minty citrus wood. I like it for its reviving effect on me as a type of morning medicine but it would make me sick if I had to smell this all day, purely because its so masculine aftershave-ish. I prefer very pretty type perfume bubbles. I would not mind catching wafts of it on someone else around me during the day however. It would be worth my while purchasing a bottle to use in the morning 'in the air' as a house freshener to wake me up.

They were right when they said it smells masculine, the sweet apple the tangy lemon, and the powdery note from the coumarin(present in all tonka fragrance) the sharp musk that reminds me of Gold Intensitive Aoud and PDM Galloway makes it smell masculine. The rose reminds me of intense cafe But that dry down, that drydown is to die for... when it all blends perfectly together as one fragrance. They tried to paint the dark velvety rose with bright stars using the apple, citrus, and the powdery note. This smells so sublime after it dries up. All the notes perfectly compliment each other even thought they juxtapose one another just like looking at a starry night. I can't get enough of the drydown, it smells like a warm and fuzzy feeling in a cold and windy night, It's dusty and tad sweet similar to Dior Bois d'Argent. I assume that the powdery accord in the dry down is a harmonization of ambrox, coumarin, eugenol, and ISO E super.