A La Nuit

Oh my God I looooove this. This is the jasmine I’ve been missing in my life. This is almost euphoric it’s so sunshine fresh and uplifting like a perfect summer day. It’s like standing in front of a jasmine bush and inhaling the natural beautiful green from the flower to the leaves. This is demure and angelic. I read that this fragrance is a combination of all the different types of jasmine and the use of the jasmine flower from the bud all the way to it’s demise. It’s giving you the whole life of the jasmine flower from it’s budding first minutes to it’s animalic death. Such innocence here like a little fawn nuzzling the dewy soft jasmine petals on a forest floor. There is a gentle quality to SL fragrances that I’ve experienced that lull me into a quiet mood. My 5 year old smelled this on me rolled his eyes up and sighed. Then he said, “I want to go outside.” Yeah....so good it makes you dizzy and want a walk in nature. Anyway, this fragrance is definitely a jasmine lover’s dream. If you truly love jasmine but not too indolic and spicy like you find in Lust this is a nice option for you. I love both fragrances that celebrate the jasmine flower. This fragrance has a sort of flower on the vine quality that I’m very much digging. This jasmine is delicate, soft, heavy on the stem, and dripping with dew and very green like it’s alive. In fact I’m surprised that Dew isn’t among the notes listed. It just smells that way naturally. Must be those green notes that are sharp at first like the stem of the flower snapped in half right under your nose then it dies down and lingers just adding a tiny bit of freshness. The honey in this isn’t syrupy or thick like it is in Elie Saab or even that noticeable. It’s INCREDIBLY light. I feel like the description is missing the word “Fresh.” But not in an aquatic way, this smells like fresh cut narcotic jasmine. There is also an animalic twinge there. This jasmine seems to go though all the stages from fresh all the way to it’s demise. Now that I have a more developed notes I recognize just how animalic this fragrance is it’s got a musky quality of jasmine that the green note and the menthol like clove slices through with a vaporous knife. All the other notes in this fragrance just support that beautiful jasmine note so smoothly and brilliantly and are basically creating a jasmine soliflore. All this creates a photorealistic fresh realistic jasmine. So far I’m very impressed with Serge Lutens. I can’t wait to add more from this house to my collection. Monsieur Lutens is a poet with scent. Like any great artist he takes me to a visceral place. But his art is a place of beauty, positivity, nostalgia, a zen like meditation. I’m gives me a rush of dopamine. I know I sound a bit overboard but I feel this fragrance. It has a soul.

I have now resumed my relationship with Serge Lutens perfume house . In the past, the samples I had tried adorned the fragrances with way too many spices, hard hitting or resinous notes or edgy , quirky notes for faint hearted me . I just couldn’t pull them off despite appreciating their complexity , craftsmanship and uniqueness . I , then found in the Serge Lutens perfume house, a group of simpler and less in your face florals to which I have now amassed 8 bottles . I believe there is a market for those who love his workmanship and quality ingredients but prefer more wearable perfumes. Simplicity done perfectly is outstanding in itself . 💓 Anyway, now here I am , trying the original samples that put me off years ago. I am giving A La Nuit another go. I am trying not to let the benzoin, grenadine and cloves notes hinder a positive decision. Besides, I am a-white floral lover and A La Nuit has always been talked about . I’m just hoping I don’t get indolic, cat piss, fecal or baby’s nappy kind of Jasmine that some reviewers have complained of . A La Nuit , starts with intensive Jasmine notes, mixed with the benzoin base. The Jasmine is very heady and indolic but not overblown as the green notes keep it fresh and light . The combination of the honey and the faint musk give the green notes a soapier feel. After 30 mins , the Jasmine softens . I’m glad I didn’t get cloves or the grenadine notes. This does reminds me a touch of Clair Obscur by Keiko Mecheri in the opening notes . I own but rarely use due to its linear , indolic Jasmine . However , A La Nuit is sweeter, soapier and fresher after the initial heady blast and that is so my cup of tea. I like and appreciate A La Nuit after the heady Jasmine notes have subsided. As with a lot SL’s fragrances I own , the initial opening notes are explosive in intensity - sometimes all notes all at once . Quite deceiving when first sampling . With A La Nuit , I’m glad I waited after the indoles merged and dissipated , this is the stage of the perfume that I like especially with the soapy , green notes . Being in the bell jar bottle range it is pricier and very hard to purchase in Australia so I’ll have to buy it in Paris next year . Yes , it’s bottle worthy .

So this is what night-blooming Jasmine is! A la Nuit has been a great education in perfumery for me :-D I had long ago written off the entire Lutens line, based upon a generous free sampling of ~ 30 SL perfumed wax domes, provided directly by the House itself- Nearly all of the 30 frags. sampled seemed heavily laden w/ Cumin, Pot, Cigarettes / Beer-spilled Ashtray, Cigar Tobacco, Leather Jackets, Stale Bong Water, Patchouli, Smoke, anything & everything that smells either very masculine, &/or like the 80's head shops we frequented as teens, + endless all night partying... Someone always ended up spilling the bong water (usually me :) - An odour one never forgets. However, A la Nuit was not among the above samples. Based on glowing reviews, & seeing A la Nuit on sale @ FragranceNet, I blind-bought a bottle. The reviews are all true- The Jasmine is pure & intense. One caveat: The blend contains just the itsy-bitsy-est amount of stanky, cursed Cumin! Or, is it possible that this is what's meant by "indolic"? Rank Stank. Is that the "animalic" component? I HATE that note. It's quiet (and brief) enough, and the Jasmine is so sublimely supreme, that most won't be bothered by it- In fact, no other reviews detect it at all :) I guess I'm hypersensitive to even the slightest inclusion of cumin (or indoles?). Monster sillage & longevivity. Thankfully, SL packages this w/ both an atomizer & a splash/dab-on (screw on) cap- Owner's choice. Beware risk of over-application. POTENT! I've learned to dab very sparingly (vs. spray, which dispenses much too much)... Too much of this immensely intense 'fume left me suffocating in my own wake. PS: "Sarassins" is SL's "other Jasmine" less indolic, airier, softened, blended Jasmine- Yet still a powerhouse in itself. Ammended- I gifted my bottle to a friend. Though I dig Jasmine blended in small amounts in so many other 'fumes, this intense Jasmine was just too indolic/overwhelming for me, even 8-10 hours after application. Furthermore, it smelled just like Jasmine CPO (ie, Al Rehab "Full"). Hopefully its being better-loved by its new owner

A La Nuit arrived in the market in 2000 and its name means, in English, "to the night". Serge Lutens compares its fragrance to a ladder with rungs of silk, in which the perfume exudes until it reaches heaven to explode like fireworks. A La Nuit has notes of white honey (considered one of the most valuable in the market, because of its sweet content, its purity, and its color), benzoin, cloves, musk, green shoots and three types of Jasmine: Moroccan, Egyptian and Indian (also known as star Jasmine). Obviously, this is a perfume dominated by jasmine. For this reason, is one of the few perfumes of the House that is classified as feminine. If you don't like fragrances with jasmine very present, so don't even think about meeting A La Nuit. However, even if it is the case, I'm sure you will admire the quality of this creation. A La Nuit touches the skin showing all possible facets of jasmine. In the first phase of evolution, it is possible to feel the indolic jasmine, the sensual and the fruity, as well as the dirty jasmine, the carnal and the green. It's like diving into an absolute of jasmine that exhales with perfection. Then, about 2 hours after application, the floral aspect becomes calmer and you can notice nuances that are greener and vegetable, so to speak. I believe it is the smell of green shoots. At the same time, a slight sweetness lards the base of the fragrance and the musk also becomes more vivid. At this stage, I find myself intrigued by the distinctive aroma and I wonder if I would have the courage to buy a bottle for my own use. So, the reason speaks louder than the emotion and I remember that A La Nuit is not a perfume made for men, according to Serge's option. It worths saying that in addition to project very well, it also remained for more than 10 hours on my skin. I can see several women wearing this perfume: the single, the engaged, the innocent, the naughty, the naive, the smart, the simple or the elegant. As well as all the nuances of jasmine were bottled in a fragrance, with A La Nuit all women can be one.

I'm enjoying something of a jasmine-fest this evening - wearing A la Nuit and in another room burning a beautiful Indian jasmine incense. (Thanks to @Galya for generous decant!) Reading the reviews and comparisons between A La Nuit and Sarassins it's obvious that one of the dividers is indolic jasmine - i.e fecal notes. I have absolutely no issue with fecal notes in A La Nuit because they seem to be there, naturally, but haven't been ramped up deliberately, which usually annoys me because it stands out as fake (I've used pure absolute of jasmine as bath oil and A La Nuit feels very authentic) I can see why people would prefer Sarassins to A La Nuit in as much as Sarassins is more complex. But this evening I'm just enjoying jasmine. A La Nuit reminds me a little of my very first perfume, when I was about 13, which was the Body Shop's Jasmine. It's simple in that sense, but A La Nuit has much more depth. And yes, you could buy a very high quality jasmine absolute, but that would set you back about as much as the perfume! What Lutens seems to have done is add a fruity note which (reminds me of pear-drops at first, a bit like acetone) which combined with Jasmine's natural banana/green quality makes this really project an aroma (as Jasmine flowers do in real life). The fruit and clove notes also cut through and lift jasmine's viscous heavy quality (it's viscous and heavy in absolute). The dry down seems to suddenly drop off after two hours into a mild benzoin/jasmine skin scent, though it lingers longer on clothes Indole notes have been compared to a horse-sweat smell,and I spent many a day in my youth brushing down sweaty horses and ponies while working in horse stables - maybe that's where my tolerance for sweaty perfume notes stems from! The upshot is, I love jasmine, and will happily wear this on sunnier days, or perhaps layered with other perfumes. Sillage (on my skin anyway) - powerful for 15 minutes then calms and fades to skin scnt after 1 hour. Longevity - around three hours but lingers longer on clothes

It took me a while with it because I want to try to make justice to what is a reference with regard to jasmine scents. This is a first batch bottle (batch F) when Lutens went under the company name Symbole Luxe International. I am stressing this because consistent rumours allude to some reformulation during the years 2005-2006 (not all palais are created equal then). A La Nuit contain(ed)s three kind of jasmine: Moroccan, Egyptian, and Indian that show a different olfactory profile. The severe restriction in place since 2005 and the more stringent after 2013 impeded the subsequent formulation to be as rich in this material making up the deficiencies with hedione above all and other aromachemicals. But what makes it special is not only the three types of jasmine, but also the difference in the harvesting period, from June to early October to have a full olfactory spectrum of the jasmine. As companies nowdays rush, this is no longer a feasible option. Th opening is so rich that it is like being submersed by the white petals of this beautiful flower. It is extremely indolic, heady, and animalic; it's heaven. Add the spices, especially cloves and a good dose of sticky honey (mildly urinous) and you get the complete picture. It calms down eventually within he first hour when the greeness emerges neutering that headiness of the opening. The jasmine becomes ripe surronded by a lot of foliage. It is at that point that a freshness emerges rendering A la Nuit completely weareable even for modern noses, although a hint of indole is still there. The gorgeous drydown of benzoin and a rich unsweetned vanilla envelopes you in the most elegant ways leaving intact clear whiffs from the jasmine. You cannot experience a jasmine like that given current restriction. But, if you like the vintage heady animalic sensual vibes of what I have just described, two very good (and different in feel) alternatives are Medusa by house of puente Alter by sammarco What is your favourite jasmine? Consider following me on IG @alexolympia6

I purchased this one in the bell jar option, as its such a beautiful one from Serge lutens and deserves the extra special bottle to be housed in my collection. It opens with the cloves and green notes suddenly then it very quickly settles into the heart note of jasmine, along with a little honeyed benzoin detected within the base. As others have said - this is a fantastic jasmine soliflore. It absolutely radiates a feminine energy and it feels like standing in the moonlight whilst enhaling the flowers themselves. Despite it leaning feminine I am also sure that some men could pull this one off with confidence too. I would actually love to smell this on a man who could own it. This is a true to real life capturing of the Arabian jasmine plant, known as jasminum sambac for it's botanical name. There are different types of jasmine plants and they all have their own scent, with jasminum sambac being the most strong, heavy and indolic of them all. The juice in this one is probably heavier than you think and lasts longer than you realise, as with the smell of this flower it is quite easy to experience olfactory fatigue and go nose blind to it on yourself. So I'd caution against over applying an reapplying it too much. Although, if you're a lover of jasmine, I am sure you'd want to actually drown in this liquid. I grow the actual plant on a huge trellis at home that sits in front of my sunny South facing window. When it's in bloom my room is filled with the narcotic scent of jasmine sambac. The perfect white flowers, like bright white stars, all exhales their perfume like a goddess breathing into the atmosphere of this mortal world. This narcotic breath is bewitching and it comes most alive during those warm summer evenings. Having this experience in perfume form, whenever I wish to and when my plant is not in flower, is a real privilege and joy to me. I cherish this perfume and would recommend it to any other person who adores the jasmine plant too.

Absolutely agree with a previous review that A LA Nuit, SL is reminiscent of Beige, Chanel- the same sweet, fresh, spicy, honey, white floral vibes. But if Beige is a jazz, A La Nuit is a saxophone solo of this jazz mine. If you like the note, you'll definitely enjoy the whole performance. Splendid jasmine! Sparkling, tingling, teasing, transparent and musky You feel like being immersed in a plant world with just a slight hint of trees and leaves here. No fauna. No predators, no danger, no darkness. Only flora is blooming and the spring is blossoming; the nectar of Life is accumulating.. Even for me, such a lover of animalic and balsamic notes, this flowery scent is a sheer infusion of optimism and luminosity. Simply Chic! When I wear this beauty, I wear a happy outlook on life. "I'm not fixing things.I'm living with a joy in knowing that things can be fixed." And I love jazz, indeed! Edit: I wish this perfume had more lasting power and sillage, but my husband is of a different opinion, as he always smells this scent on me far longer than I do so myself !? LA Nuit drydown is on the upbeat: nipping, crispy-fresh and bitterly green, -reminds me, somehow, of Pleasures, Estee Lauder. Pleasure to die for!

A very true, strong jasmine. I am talking of a decant I have and cherish dated 2005. Indolic with a passion... if indolic scares you, steer clear! (Don't know about the current reformulation.) One of my preferred SL (together with Chergui and Fleurs d'Oranger). To me it smells so intense, so true to the real flower, like you are standing in front of a full blossoming Jasmine bush, in a hot summer night in a mediterranean country. Hence the name... It reminds me of Morocco or Tunisia: it is luxurious, warm, very feminine. Must be used with a light hand as it can be very "upfront" and strong, possibly cloying or headache inducing to some noses... especially in summer. Not office friendly, neither similar public close gatherings (i.e. avoid on planes, cinemas or similar). To be worn with proper attire and with a poise, otherwise it will wear you! I love to smell it on my skin when temperatures cool down, to remind me of summer and vacation days. Defintely a must try for any jasmine lovers.

A La Nuit is, very simply, a jasmine soliflore. For only a very brief few moments in the opening do you get the very dry musky, indolic, mothball quality of jasmine, cleverly achieved with a very light clove note. The rest of the perfume throughout its life is jasmine. Citrusy and sour, clean and soapy musky, a bit of banana like ylang-ylang, a bit green and creamy like tuberose - all of the qualities of jasmine are present and accounted for, and it’s gorgeous. It stays close to my skin, like freshly laundered white linen in warm sunshine, for hours and hours until, finally, at the skin scent the perfume goes a touch sweet and in a calm direction with honey and musks. There’s not much else to say really. It’s very simple, just like seeing the jasmine flower - but then the flower introduces itself to you via your nose instead of your eyes, you catch a whiff of the flower on the breeze, your heart pitter patters, and a smile runs across your face. That’s A La Nuit.

While Diptyque Olene smells like jasmine green tea, A La Nuit smells just like a bush of star jasmine flowers in full bloom in the California spring. Designer fragrance lovers who enjoy scents like Alien or Armani Code probably won't like this, as those fragrances give us a romaticized sketch of jasmine rather than a photorealistic picture. A La Nuit is for the fragrance lover who appreciates everything about a real jasmine flower, warts and all. It opens up with indoles galore (yes, it's slightly cacapoopooey) and will prevent anyone who hates white flowers from ever trying a jasmine fragrance again. But hear me out. A La Nuit later softens into a beautiful, sweet, creamy and narcotic jasmine. The scent hypnotizes you and forces you to keep sniffing. If you have smelled fresh jasmine and think that it is a seductive scent, then you should at least give A La Nuit a try. To me, it is the epitome of a star jasmine fragrance.

This is a must try for Jasmine lovers. I agree with Vie Cafe that it is almost an exact replica of the essential oil I have. It opens as a true jasmine bomb - so much so that you might wonder if you applied a bit too much. But after it swirls around and teases you a bit with its exuberance, it settles into its sensual nature. The greens play hide and seek with the honey and that chocolatey essence that benzoin imparts (at least to my nose),and the whole experience is quite delightful and a bit spritely! I must tell you. Early this evening I took a bath, moisturized my skin with jojoba oil and applied Al la Nuit. I went to the market and encountered two men who remarked on how "pretty" I was. I tell you, it was A la Nuit - that, and perhaps the Spring twilight! Magical combination. Do try if you appreciate jasmine.

i have a jasmine bush about 4 feet from my front door that i pass every day. to my nose: a la nuit is the purest most vivid jasmine fragrance i've ever encountered. while it is a straight forward smoosh-your-face-in-a-jasmine-bush sort of jasmine, i think the effect on the wearer is not so straight forward at all, as it creates an air of a bit of confident mystery. upon smelling it for the very first time (about 6 months ago, now), the initial honey blast was WAY too sweet for my taste, but i've developed a bit of a pavlovian adaptation to it as the jasmine is the reward. on me, it is quite strong but with only moderate sillage. gave a bottle to my white-floral-obsessed mother who was so entranced by it she got through half the bottle in 6 weeks....this fragrance definitely has that sort of hypnotic power.

This is hands down my favorite jasmine perfume. It's authentic and not at all cloying. If you've ever lived in New Orleans, it smells exactly like the Lower Garden District on a warm spring day: delicate, sweet, bright, humid, and just slightly vegetal. The only downside is that it's not a very long-lasting scent, at least not in my experience. Still, it's a great daytime perfume--unique, feminine, natural, and subtle. If you don't like white florals or indole, this perfume definitely isn't for you--but, on the flipside, if you like strong and sweet white florals, you might find this a little too natural. The perfect perfume for someone seeking an authentic jasmine scent. Maybe stick to sample sizes because of the lack of longevity, though!

This is absolutely intoxicating naturalistic jasmine with honey. Exactly like putting your head into an actual jasmine bush. I've yet to smell any other jasmine perfume that could come even close to the real thing. Since I've had it, I'm bearing a curse of comparing all of them to A La Nuit. No replacement has been found yet. It's intense, very easy to overspray. Don't think it's headache inducing if you don't overspray it - I would've noticed. But if you do, I think it could be, potentially. For this? Worth risking in my opinion. Just to say it again: A La Nuit is NOT DISCONTINUED. They moved it to the bell jar collection, it's available from the official website now. It sure made it less accessible though.

Jasmines fresh cuts. The essence of the jasmine is lost within the fresh green cuts as I keep on sniffing jasmines in the background as if there were a single jasmine flower within a green field . As it goes colder the strength of the jasmine grow bigger but by bit to overcome the scene. It has some rancid in the jasmines as I believe the jasmines used here are Indian jasmine which is famous of being quite strong and has big amount of rancidity. The honey in here is trying so hard to sweeten the jasmines but the musk is adding more rancidity and I believe there is red roses as well because of the slight sharpness I am detecting. This is for jasmines lovers and it has nothing to do with "nuda" by Nasomatto.

This is a grand and majestic jasmine upon first spray. It has all the facets of jasmine bundled up into one - the lush white petals, the astringent green stems, and the signature, undeniable (but tame) indolic humidity. At first spray, and for 30 minutes, you are met with a beautiful and almost overpowering bubble of this intoxicating jasmine scent; however, once you step out the door into the real world, and by the time you make it to your train station to commute to work, A La Nuit has already disappeared. The longevity on me is not good. The sillage is great while it lasts, then suddenly evaporates into nothing. But wait! You might say, I sprayed on my clothes! Well, it still disappears, unfortunately.

My search is over for a daffodil perfume! I had no luck with any of the narcissus fragrances. They all smelled like cheap motel soap on me. Then I got A La Nuit as a very inexpensive blind buy and there it was. A big field of yellow daffodils on a coldish Spring day. There are no daffodils in the blend, but on me that's all there is until the dry down. Sadly it comes too soon. My early Spring time morning is gone in about half an hour. Sillage is moderate. I have to recommend spraying some on your foundation garments to keep it alive for longer. I will buy it again and again. When you've searched so long and then find something this perfect you don't mess around.

Jasmine garland in a bottle. Pure, natural and exotic. A La Nuit and Olene by Diptyque are my fav realistic jasmine fragrances. They're really similar to my nose. Olene has more complexity on greenish and floral while A La Nuit sweeter and heavier but also more concentrate jasmine solifore. It does smelled like lively, alive dewy jasmine but can be cloying(and too indolic) if you're putting it too much. Aside from jasmine, green bud and honey I cannot detect any other notes at all. Projection quite heavy but not last long. Only 3-4hours on me and completely disappear. Recommend to all jasmine lover. You'll be surprise by how real jasmine is in A La Nuit.

This is one of my new all time favorites! I bought a small sample and fell in love with the fresh and slightly sweet jasmine fragrance that smells almost exactly like the jasmine bushes around my house. Oddly, when I purchased the full bottle it was a slightly more green scent at first, but still wonderful and FULL of jasmine in the dry down. The honey undertone is not sugary, but just enough to conjure the fragrance of pollen. This is such a true to life scent that whenever I wear this I am immediately transported to a spring night, walking down a street lined with jasmine flowers. I cannot say enough good things about this, it is truly beautiful :)