33 responses to “Nuit de Noel – Silent Night”

1. good lord those pictures make my heart leap

2. I have this in vintage edt and parfum, but it also smells ludicrous on me. NOT right at all, but I love smelling it anyway, a gentle, Christmas cakey scent.

   • Ha, ha. I love to smell it too, just not on myself. What are your scent plans for the holiday season Mr?

     • This year we are eschewing the usual in-the-house champagne and chicken shenanigans while the world just goes about its world outside, and we are going to Kyoto!

       So it will be all about incense and the cold night air of Japan..

       How about your fine self? A very Oudhy Noel?

       • I was going to reveal this later in its own post Neil. But since you asked I have no wish to be annoyingly mysterious. Spiced Citrus Vetiver from Sonoma Scent Studio for the eve, undecided for 25th but looking at Dawn Spencer Hurwitz’s Ma Folie de Noel as we speak. I will review this Christmas folly shortly.

         • I love your mania: planning it out in advance. I really like that Spice Citrus Vetiver – a perfect choice. La Folie de Noel really has my interest piqued! Never heard of it. But then again, she has about 3,208 perfumes so it would be impossible to know all of them.

           • Ha, yes. I was attempting to review all her Christmas ‘fumes (there is one a year since Adam was a boy) but I am going with my subjective top 3. The marzipan one almost turned me to self-cannibalization.

   • Oh my. This sounds too wonderful….

     • Mmmmm….not actually as much as I had hoped. It is creamy and VERY old fashioned.

3. Heya Jordan!!
   I have recently received a vintage EdC formulation decant of this from a buddy, it is so much less what I imagine you find too feminine in the current formulation. They work particularly well together.
   I wear NdN in the blistering summer heat and love it.
   Portia xx

   • One for the vault Portia!

4. Ahhhh, now that I want this, which formula do I need????

   • A warm welcome to you Jane Daly. Based on the comments below a discerning nose such as yours would require the oakmossed up Vintage version. I suspect you may have a similar reaction to this as you do for l’Heure Bleue sur la Rivière Lune.

     • Well, I have L’Heure Bleu, and already my enthusiasm for NdN is waning. I have a new rule – no vintage perfumes. If I can’t get anymore, I don’t want it. But from what I’ve read, Caron extraits are the way to go. Perhaps I will see what I can track down. I cuddled up in Farnesiana for bedtime last night, current edp. Gorgeous.

       • Waiting for your Farnesiana review Jane. I have the same rule; for me it is all about now, as in 21 century, mainly due to time and numerical reasons. But what was your old rule? Lol.

   • You need to try them on skin Jane.
     I’ve just read Kafkas let-down below. I think the modern is a perfectly good fragrance, it’s only in comparison with the vintage that it feels less gorgeous, more synthetic. On my skin it is still a warm, fuzzy, spicy woodfest. I also have a vintage parfum decant.
     Surrender To Chance has a wide ranger http://surrendertochance.com/search.php?search_query=Nuit+de+Noel+parfum&x=0&y=0
     Portia xx

     • Thank you!

5. I bought a bottle of this blindly based on reviews, and I was not… happy. I’m sure the vintage must smell better, but what wafted from my skin was such a huge disappointment that it’s been shoved firmly into the darkest reaches of the armoire where I store a lot of my perfume.

   It was actually my bad experience with this blind buy (after a previous bad blind buy for an Annick Goutal) that helped partially cement my decision to write my own reviews, and to make them as detailed as possible. To do the opposite of the more emotional, generally descriptive reviews that don’t give you any idea of what something smells like from start to finish. Too many of those sorts of descriptions led to my buying Nuit de Noel, including one review linked here, I’m afraid. I covered Nuit de Noel once on my site, briefly, and wrote about how — on my skin — it most definitely did not have the chestnut-y or whatever sort of thing some attributed to it. It’s an okay scent, it’s not bad, and I’m sure it’s glorious in vintage form. But I regret buying it. In fact, I’ve blocked out the memory so much that I couldn’t tell you now how it smelled on me except to say it left me utterly cold.

   As you might tell from the length of this, yes, I’m still bitter on the issue of Nuit de Noel. >:\

   • I too have an armoire of darkest reach. Hmm, the oakmossed up vintage might have been the one for you rather than the reformulation(?) you paid good money for. It certainly opened the door to your comprehensive and comprehensible (not everyone is) reviewing style so we have the unnamed reviewer to thank for your modus operandi.

     • Yes, but you kindly re-gifted yours, instead of banishing it to purgatory. Man, I can’t believe how bitter I *STILL* am about the let down, and the difference between what was promised in so many raves, and the utterly banal, boring scent that I got. I fear I’m going to be bitter over the wideness of the disparity for a few more Christmases to come. The mere thought of all thus gushing reviews for Nuit de Noel (in its current form) makes my lip curl in a snarl. The two reviews that really sealed the deal for me are not ones you have linked here, but man….. I’m so bitter.

       • One word: Vintage.

         I do commiserate with you but also celebrate the circumstance that propelled you to your unique style as mentioned above. I too wanted to love this on myself but could not.

         I do not want to go down the vintage road unless it is Karl Lagerfield: NOT Photo, NOT Classic and not even a perfume, you understand these marketing tricks I know, but a men’s cologne. There is an incredibly brief review of a mere 624 words here.

         • LOL! You make me laugh, and you’re a very good friend to comfort me in my furious disappointment by bringing up happy memories. And, amusingly enough, it’s something that Karl Lagerfeld truly DOES love and did wear nonstop, not just on the Christmas Eve. 😉 Speaking of that claim, that didn’t help, either, and contributed to my foolish decision. After having worn Nuit de Noel for myself, and having read a little about Mr. Lagerfeld’s personal tastes, I’m highly dubious about that claim and suspect it must be a marketing lie.

           • Hey there Kafka,
             I’m so sad the modern Nuit didn’t work for you. Do you want to offload it? My skin amps all the sweet and lovely, even in the modern version. It’s not as voluptuous and celebratory as the old stuff but what is?
             I think you have my email and would be thrilled to buy your outcast. I will even be in France (I think you’re French) in Jan/Feb if you’d like to lunch?
             Much love,
             Portia xx

           • My dear Portia, I would love to meet you, and indeed, offload Nuit de Noel on someone whose skin would make it bloom. Alas, I no longer live in France but in the U.S., so lunch is out. And the cost of shipping the bottle from me to you would be more than whatever little it may be worth. Early this year, the US Post Office increased its international shipping rates by an alarming amount. But forget the bottle, I wish I could meet you and Jin for lunch. I know we’d have a blast.There’s a place in Paris that I used to go which had the most lethal cocktails in baby bottles. It would have been a good way to start an afternoon of perfume shopping…. 😉 😛

           • Damnit!! We are in the USA in November 2014. Maybe we coulod make that happen then. LA, Vegas, New York and …..maybe….. Chicago.
             Are any of those nearby? I know we will have a wonderful time and I’d LOVE to pick your brains a little, it is a treasure trove.
             Portia

           • HA, I’m scheduled to meet friends in NYC in November 2014. If you’re there at the same time, we’re ON, most definitely! No funky Baby Bottle Nightclub cocktails there, alas, but I’ll find another place that’s rather excessive and quirky. lol BTW, if you’re going to LA, Vegas and NYC on one trip, your perfume credit card is going to get a serious workout! Vegas might be even better than NY on some levels. And that includes the food!

           • Yes. I am staying home from April to November to prepare. It will be a fragtastic trip.
             How fun would it be to meet in NYC!! I haven’t been there this century and Jin ever.
             Woo Hoo!
             Portia x

         • I don’t have a holiday fume. I love all my fragrances everyday of the year. whatever I’m in the mood for. I can always go for anything vintage or something that has civet or castoreum in it.

           • Castoreum is The Ingredient. Seems no one else has holiday choices either. But I hope you have great holidays coming at ya DkChocoMan.

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