Nightcap

10/10 LOVE MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE OREBELLA FRAGRANCE. Hear me out :) This perfume is my soulmate. She deserves so much more love, and discovery. She's magic ! She's the alternative feminine version of Althair, which i wear a lot. The resemblance in the dry down is 95%. Try spraying both, letting the bossily fire in Althair dry down, and you will see. I go through bottles of it at the speed of light, 2 sprays stay all day and sometimes till night, sillage is astronomical on this fragrance. Will always re-purchase, i am a lifelong customer now. People need to understand these are oil-based perfumes, must be shaken before use, and it's moisturizing oils will penetrate the skin so deeply, they become part of you, they melt with your dna in a epic ever everlasting dance, where the perfume becomes you and you become the perfume. This is a fragrance that does not smell as when you first spray it. The tangy cola at the beginning ( which i love ! ) then mutates into the warmest, softest VANILLA, CARDAMOM LOVE STORY, where Guaiac and Labdanum are their wedding witnesses. Nightcap fragrance is a warm lover; she's a sweet, warm hug in the night that makes you feel grounded and happy. She's sensual, earthy, feminine and masculine, she's an aphrodisiac for the love of life. She is majestic, powerful, sexy and subtle in her seduction. Magnetic. She's Aphrodite! All Orebella's creations are truly disruptors in the industry . They are all free of the bad chemicals that disrupt your hormones and health, and they nourish your skin. For something "this clean" as a brand, it's astonishing how they smell better then regular, famous and super expensive " synthetic" traditional Perfumes. Don't even get me started on the bottles. They are heavy, like treasures. This one resembles a Smokey Quartz Crystal that emerges directly from the center of the earth. If it was a frequency it would be 528 hz, element earth, and emotion pure Love. Gorgeous brown sugary woody tone. Definitely a collectible. Lots of Love for this brand !

It's strange, but at first blast this smells a little minty to me. The ginger heat somehow registers as fresh, and almost toothepaste-y coldness. It settles down, and I begin to feel the warmth taking over, the cardamom is quite nice (but it's polite and I actually crave way more cardamom in my fragrances because it's one of my very favorite notes). There is wood here...but soft woods. Not a true sandalwood (but it's rare lately to smell anything that authentically registers as sandalwood). And YES, I can smell a pinch of labdanum. Which...is my favorite note ever. This is actually quite subtle overall, not a loud perfume by any stretch. Absolutely, absolutely in keeping with it's name, it totally is a bedtime fragrance! So, it's worth mentioning that I feel as if the point was accomplished here. Warm, soft, spicy woods snf a cozy harmony of ingredients. That being said, I almost feel wistful for just a little heavier of a dose of all of these notes (because this sort of thing is exactly my style). I do however, envision myself owning this for mellow nights indoors. So. My conclusion is that this is a VERY solid, super refreshingly awesome mainstream release...BUT I hope there can be an intense version at some point. I love this, but I'd love it so much more if the volume was turned up. This is ambient and soft...but I want the concert version 😘

I have a sensitive nose and have been desperately trying to find a perfume that I love that doesn’t give me a headache. This is the first perfume I’ve been able to wear that “tells a story” throughout its wear that does not give me a headache and I’m so obsessed with it. The opening is a zingy spicy ginger that gives way to a creamy lactonic vanilla - like the most delicious chai you’ve ever had. The vanilla isn’t sweet by any means, it’s creamy and very mature. As the perfume dries down the ginger lightens and the woodsy notes begin to peak through. The woodsy notes along with the creamy vanilla makes me think of walking in the forest on a crisp fall day and somebody is roasting marshmallows in the distance. There was also another familiar scent I couldn’t quite put into words until I read the reviews for this scent - Vanilla Coke! There is certainly an effervescent quality to this scent that makes me think of a soda, but it’s not overpowering to me, it’s just an extra quality that makes this perfume smell familiar and comforting. Nightcap is the perfect witchy fall scent that surprisingly lasts longer than expected. Although it doesn’t project much (which I prefer), this scent stays with me through all 8 hours of my work day and I find myself sniffing my arm throughout the day when I wear it.

I wonder if some of us are missing the point of these fragrances. My understanding through doing a bit of research on the formula and the ethos is that Bella Hadid has some chronic illness concerns - migraines, some other inflammatory conditions that make traditional perfumes tricky for her to wear. My understanding is that's why she went alcohol-free, certain ingredient free, bi-phase scenario etc. I've not seen or read anywhere that these are supposed to be beasts or have atomic projection - in fact it makes sense (with the above considered) that they wouldn't. She's also apparently a bit of a self-proclaimed "hippie" "witchy" type - into aromatherapy and journaling and manifesting blahblah -- "wellness" for better or worse. Based on just that, these seem to be a direct hit in my opinion. Seems to be, she's trying to speak to the folks like her - with some of the same considerations - to make the wearing fragrance experience accessible to er'body. "Celebrity" "supermodel millions" whatever - feel how you will. Objectively though, as a product designed + marketed effectively. It's a bullseye. I'm not crazy about the first three scent profiles - they're nice but un-thrilling to me. I do, however, LOVE this Nightcap one.

A few weeks ago I saw a display for Nightcap upon entering my local Ulta. Out of curiosity I stopped to look at it and was immediately accosted by a sales associate who proceeded to urge me to try it and raved about how much she liked it. She gave me a slip of paper to spray it on, and I wasn't super impressed with it there, but when I tried it on my skin I absolutely loved it. I went back today and bought the 100mL bottle. It's not a sweet vanilla on me at all, which I like--I find sweet fragrances really cloying. On me it's almost like a vanilla-flavored pipe tobacco scent, with a lot of depth (I assume this is mostly coming from the patchouli and sandalwood), which makes me lean more towards declaring this a unisex scent. I'm surprised that a lot of people are comparing it to desserts because to me it smells more like something one would smoke than something one would eat. I didn't get much of the ginger at any point, but it's been about four hours and there's still a hint of cardamom there. I do remember that the first time I tried it, I could smell it on myself even after I showered (!!) so it has some serious longevity.