Naomi Campbell At Night

I'm really pleased with this blind buy. There are several perfumes I love in the beginning but they (and it feels heartbreaking)don't dry down well on my skin. NC At Night seems to carry the best parts of these perfumes AND dry down well on my skin. Naomi Campbell At Night brings me the sweet effervescence of Cinema without the cloyingly sweet drydown. It brings me the lipgloss makeup-box vanilla powder of Christina Aguilera By Night without the plastic cologne drydown it turns into on me. It brings me the sugar powder vintage essence of Rosamor without the baby wipe drydown that happens on me.(Most of these perfumes I referenced smell great on my sister, it's just what my skin does!It ruins them. I want to make it clear I'm not dissing these perfumes, because they work so beautifully on others;they just don't work on me in the end, but there are elements I've loved so much about them.) Also from NC At Night I'm getting a lovely almond scent reminiscent of Sula Vanilla Blossom, but more complex. And there's a reminder of Men's Joop, but feminized.I just read over my review and realized it sounds gushing and sentimental, but I don't know any other way to write it. I'm just happy.

Its very wierd with this perfume actually. I dont lie it that much when i smell the bottle, but the vanilla comes to be topnote in this perfume when sprayed on my skin. So i love it, but i dont smell the bottle, thats a wrong impression to get of it:)

I tested it today, it is much more then I expected. It is sweet and cute, cuddly, seductive and playful... I was pleasantly surprised. Can be a nice winter daytime to go fragrance. Very nice.

I got Naomi Campbell "Mystery" for Christmas from one of my aunts back when I was in junior high. I liked the way it smelled in theory but for some reason I didn't find myself wearing it a lot. A couple of years afterwards I found it again and since I had heard that scents go bad after a few years I poured the whole 50 ml thing right into the sink. Now, 10 years later and an active Fragrantican, I read that it is discontinued and lots of people like it and want to get their hands on it... yeah. Sorry folks. That aside, in "By Night" I smell a bit of "Mystery", definitely. I think the responsible notes are the tonka bean, plum and sandalwood that are present in both. The packaging of "By Night" is absolutely garish, but I quite like the scent. It is very sensual, sweetish but at the same time deadly serious while still being wearable. I could imagine Naomi Campbell leaving a trail of this lingering in the cab she takes home after going out on a Saturday night. Being quite affordable, I might even look past the packaging and get a fullsize, who knows.

It's crazy how much this smells like Rochas Tocade. Makes sense though, considering the notes. Both feature vanilla, green leaves, geranium and jasmine. The vanilla in both of these fragrances is milky, and somewhat reminiscent of vanilla ice cream. In contrast to the sugary, cotton-candy vanilla I've found in most current gourmands. The main differences between Tocade and Naomi (At Night) are that Tocade is "thicker", sweeter and has a semi-smoky ambery base. Tocade is a very typical 90's vanilla similar to say, Avon's Far Away. The base of Naomi is more about heliotrope and sandalwood. So they're vanilla-centric, but not really gourmand. Touches of green and lemony-aromatic geranium don't so much detract from the sweetness as remove the food factor. It's like a lighter interpretation of a classic 90's vanilla. Which is interesting, considering it was released in 2012.