Nocturnes de Caron Caron for women

I ordered this perfume based on a memory of trying it out back in the '80s when I was a teenager. I did this from a memory of 25+ years ago. I received it yesterday and immediately put some on, and I was dissappointed, thinking I remembered it wrong. It wasn't terrible, just a little disappointing.

Flash forward, after an hour of wearing it--NOW it was the wonderful smell I remembered. Beautiful memories started coming back of orange, sandalwood and vetyver blended so nicely.

I will be wearing it again today!

Belive it or not this is a perfume in a class of its own. Caron proves itself to be a quality house with quality goods.
Anyhow The Caron girl is this time quite the lady, not too heavy on the opening of neroli. A pleasant afternoon tea in the garden with a gin and tonic, a pretty dress and a handsome man.
The sun is setting the tuberose comes out to play. Too many gin and tonics and that handsome man in the garden. Sultry summer gardens and musky forbidden pleasures.
A fantastic fume for the adventerous perfumelover, you can really notice the development of the notes. I have alot of trouble with synthetic neroli and jasmine and florals in general....but this is a delight.........

My bottle of Nocturnes de Caron is pretty new (so I'm assuming it is reformulated as well). I'm not familiar with the previous editions of Nocturnes, but the EDT I have is a very gentle fragrance, like a soft caress. No sharpness at all- rather, very smooth and sandalwoody. I enjoy wearing it, and my husband said "mmmm, something smells nice"...

I'm relatively new in "Perfume world" but as I smell and as I'm starting to understand the Caron scents are really something special. One by one, very good, a must have. Nocturnes de Caron especially.
I have had Caron En Avion and Narcise Noir for a long time, but till now I didn't use them a lot, seemed to me somehow too serious. This summer I found out super poudery Royal Bain de Caron and I've added it to my collection. Than followed Nocturnes, Parfum Sacre and Fleurs de Rocaille. They are all beautifull, clasy and timeless.

Very nice every day scent, nothig special but wearable and pleasant. Fresh aldehidic orange with some roses, well balanced with vanilla-amber. Very good composition - if I compare with some modern every day fresh scents I can say that Caron Nocturnes is an elegant chic perfume.

I don't even how I got this one.
I get many mini's and fragrances people don't want anymore, so that's how I must have ended up with this bottle/

Mini's I don't list, but this is an exception.
It's 10 ml and it says: Cologne Fraiche; something I've never seen with this fragrance.

I'd say it's strong enough and truly fraiche.
Classic, elegant as well and yes, an evening fragrance.

I may consider buying the EDP.

I waver between "like" and "love" with Nocturnes. It was the signature fragrance of a very good friend of mine in the late 80s/early 90s, so I hesitate to adopt it for my own. At the same time it's such a lovely fragrance I am sometimes tempted.

This opens with ylang ylang and jasmine/rose accord on my skin quickly followed by tuberose as if it's blooming on a warm day. Then, after drydown really begins the genius of this composition come out - there is a clean edge to the florals that is extremely mature and well balanced. I mean mature in the sense of refined, not stodgy, as this fragrance would wear well on a young woman as much as an older one. It's unapologetically feminine yet strong, sophisticated enough to be taken seriously.

The orange is mysterious but distinct in the way it works with the more prickly aspects of the fragrance to pull the sense of green, if not actual leafy or grassy green notes, along with all those flowers. This tempers the floral notes and lends the whole a slightly cooler feeling, though it's not at all a cold fragrance.

Hm, seems that I am veering toward the "love" end of the spectrum on this one. I will keep testing it to see how this affair goes.

Nocturnes is Beethoven's Pastorale Symphony, Movement 2, The Scene at the Brook. It invites creatures of the woods- nymphs and fairies- to cavort in a secret place in an enchanted, moonlit glen. The sweet odor of orange blossoms wafts through the fragrant forest in ambrosial ribbons as the creatures coadunate in a sublimely choreographed pavane.

Then the dawn approaches and the creatures vanish with the dew drops. The moonlit glen is found to be littered with fairy trash-- stale mead, stagnant water and wild boar droppings. Too bad it couldn't go on, but it was a hell of a party while it lasted.

Nocturnes is a beautiful and less heady reinterpretation of Chanel N5, this version is between Liu (Guerlain) and First by Van cleef (but without the horrible black currant note).

This is a very lovely floral fragrance. I think may be Orange blosoon and the aldehydes takes center stage, but all the other notes are very well balanced.

Classy, subtle in the dry-down; on my skin after 5 mins of applying feels a lot like Chanel No 5- Eau Premiere, but then it becomes a lot more subtle. In spite of what others here say it does not have a great lasting power on me, but I find it very soft and charming!

I get the feeling that this one reminds me on a Jil Sander´s "Jil" the original and Priscilla Presley´s " Experiences". I mean the drydown are almost the same.
I do not like "Jil", but this one is very nice: woody, spicy and surprisingly i do not get much rose notes or powder in it. I can´t get rid of the smokey note, just like a tobacco or something. And it is absolutly not disturbing me. The drydown is sooooo nice and warm.

Can anyone tell the differences in bottles? I have found the black boxes with black lids, the black bozes with blue upper part and also the oval bottles in a white boxes. Which one is better? Anyone has any experience with that?

For me it is partly similar to Carthusia Aria di Capri - the same smell of the expensive face cream. But Carthusia is more creamy. Nocturnes is a little old fashioned, but the elegant expensive scent.

Today I received my bottle of Nocturnes in the new design, pack blue ...... I opened the package, took out a welcome bottle. I sprayed it on my wrist and started to sniff. Hmm, I thought I got a very different fragrance, not the Nocturne, which was in my late 80's the 20 century .... Nocturnes is no longer available in the old design?? Only in new?? I could not get a copy of perfume??

Nocturnes is a classical fragrance, aldehydic, flowery, and elegant and in spite of its date of birth (a child of the 80's!), it's neither loud nor vulgar. Fortunately enough, it seems to be "intact" - i.e. not yet reformulated. Nocturnes is neither exciting, nor a milestone, but I find it very versatile, very wearable and ladylike. Excellent longevity and sillage. I also love the original bottle and packaging.

Lasts and lasts and lasts........!

The opening of Nocturnes EDT is like an assault! Sharp, prickly, green neroli is incredibly bracing taking its first breath. It does quickly round out into a sweeter more rosey hue and a deep, mysterious orange. As the perfume progresses I lose a lot of differentiation of notes and it quietens into an incredibly soft floral, like a whisper.

I don't particularly care for citrus is my perfumes but Nocturnes does this very nicely. The tuberose, also a problem area for me, is very subdued here. Whatever aldehydes are here, are not of the musty, attic-dwelling kind, they are very gentle.

Nocturnes has defied everyone of my dubious expectations and I am seriously impressed. I feel sweet and feminine and pretty wearing this. No mean feat I may tell you!

Nocturnes is a big letdown for me! I'd never smelled it before but ordered a bottle from a perfume website that had it on sale and I was hoping I would love it but I definitely don't! As one reviewer here has mentioned, it is "old school", which isn't necessarily a bad thing depending on the perfume and some old school ones are very nice. For me though, Nocturnes is actually quite unpleasant. I thought it smelled quite sickly, cloying and too powdery. There was a very annoying note in it which I can't put my finger on but it really wasn't very pleasant. I tried to give Nocturnes time to settle on my skin but I found the smell so off-putting that I had to wash it off after a few minutes so I'll definitely be returning my bottle and getting a refund! Also, what came to mind when I was trying to think what the perfume reminded me of was medicine .. maybe Pepto Bismol!

I'm very disappointed because I was expecting Nocturnes to smell lovely but it doesn't at all. The bottle though (which is the curvy, retro one) is very nice!

Today I received my bottle of Nocturnes. I sprayed it on my wrist and started to sniff. Hmm, at the begginning I get something extremely soapy and oldschool, The dominant note is definetely rose. The rose smells just the same as my grandmoms perfume oils with Bulgarian rose. I can't understand those who find some spicyness in Nocturnes, because I'm not getting any of those.

Nocturnes has a really feminine and classic scent. The scent is really elegant.
I can't yet say if I'm gonna wear it, cuz I'm in my early twenties, so I shall try and see if it works out.

Definetely not a perfume for those fruity/gourmand lovers.

The ideal woman for wearing Nocturnes would be a feminine, classy woman, wearing a light dress in a summertime.

UPD: As time passes by (it's almost an hour since I sprayed Nocturnes) I start to enjoy it more, so there actually might be a chance that I will take Nocturnes to a night out :)

Ou, and the bottle - LOVELY :)

UPD: I wore Nocturnes today before going to a beach - it's gorgeous and a keeper definetely. And the lasting power for EDT is amazing. After a swim I could still feel it on my neck.

I smelled a sample of this years and years ago (well in the 80s as a teenager), in a sadly long-gone tiny posh cosmetic and perfume boutique.
I was entranced by what I remember to be the scent's 'grassiness'.
I've remembered it for years and bought a bottle of Nocturnes last year from a net seller.
The first sniff was exactly as I remembered it, I was delighted.
Now, I would say that the top notes of Nocturnes are verrry similar to those of my long-lost Armani Armani, their first female fragrance.
On wearing it however, Nocturnes took on a very much unwanted spicy note for me.
I'm a bit baffled by what the culprit could be, looking at the notes portrayed above. I would have said maybe carnation (yick). Maybe it's the ylang ylang actually. Something with horrid eugenol in it I'll bet.
Anyway, Nocturnes is one of those that I gave to my Mum because she doesn't mind spice and she wears it occasionally.

For me Nocturnes was a surprise from a far away world. There is something so nostalgic about the top notes, something so delicate that it cannot be true. The lilac, mimosa and iris combine into something unique, meditative like a blooming garden in summertime nights, bringing new flower scents with every waft of wind, dusky and romantic. The aldehydes make it a slightly soapy, warm scent, soft like a whisper from your beloved. Very recommended for romantic walks by the sea. This scent is unique, I cannot think of substitutes. It is a love of a scent.

I love Nocturnes. It is bright and soft at the same time, cheerful without being loud. The sillage is very subtle, like a faint scent of orange blossoms. In my experience, this perfume is extraordinary when exposed to tobacco smoke-- somehow, the smoke brightens and heightens the fragrance so that the warm, orange blossom sillage really blooms--really nice for a person who dislikes cigarette smoke. Very elegant for any occasion, inoffensive to even the most allergy prone person I know, and graceful. This is a perfume to experience for a few days in order to take its measure-- a smelling strip alone does not tell the whole story.

I found that aldehydes in Nocturnes really sparkle in cold weather, on a bright sunny freezing winter day it becomes a really sophisticated "french" fragrance, clean, classy and refined, while in warm weather it loses it's character, it's chic. Powdery flower bouquet, lifted by clean aldehydes, sort of "wilts" in warm weather.

This is SOOOOOO green and sharp I couldn't like it. The notes look good on paper, but it just didn't work on my skin.

Aldehydes make it clean/soapy. Dry down is slightly woody, spicy and soapy. Faint floral note, faintly green, very much like Chanel #5 without the powder and lots of pepper. Not sure where that’s coming from, but pepper is all over this, underneath the nice clean top. It’s odd, and I like it and hate it at the same time

I am a man,but I can say that the top notes of this fragrance is so sophisticated and elegant. Sorry, I have no idea about the ending because i didnt use this

A really nice aldehyde scent! elegant and delightful. Classic!!!

Nocturne is very light and soft, smells like white flower under the sunshine, and it's feminine and decent at same time.

I recommend this one to all those who fear/hate aldehyde fragrance. You must try Nocturne out before making your mind, otherwise you'll miss a truely beautiful experience!

I say so because I used to fear aldehyde myself, they're loud, thick and sometimes makes me sick. But when the first time I meet Nocturne, I change my mind totally.

A very decent perfume, however, too powdery for my nose.