Nuit de Noel Caron for women

I wore this exclusively for a very long time, almost to the point that my own nose was "numb" to it and it became a part of me. All I can say is it is unique in this day of foody-fruity scents, and males loved the scent on me. It never felt particularly floral to my nose, much more chypre.

"Nuit de Noel" (despite the name) has nothing to see with Xmas Eve as the intention of the Nose behind it was to create a beautiful feminine fragrance to be worn on that special occasion by all those ladies who wanted to smell "good".
What to add that hasn't been already written... Well, it has been (ach!!!) reformulated but...It hasn't been killed - completely! - compared to other wonders from the past. I keep on using it some times; on me - if used with care - it's nice ; )
But due to its rich formula I find it more suitable for the cold season, than for summer... although the alchemy between a fragrance and the "holder" is always an incognita. A charming one!

I expected a lot...but it reminds me too much of the TABAC Aftershave of my uncle (nice man anyway). I tought they mixed it in the shop with TABAC!
Too much wood and even leather; a very nice men's perfume!

Absolutely amazing. The strangest is that during dry down for some reason I got peach out of this???

Certainly something I may consider getting as its really a beautiful winter scent. (I also do not get christmas from this but I guess some of us won't)

Please listen to:"Marc Almond & Boris Grebenshikov - Nuit De Noel"(You Tube).The song by the Russian decadent Alexsand Vertinsky.

I was intrigued so I bought a sample. It doesn't smell at all as I expected. There's almost a base of Perfume Sacre in there but with a more powdery note. I don't detect anything that suggests Christmas night although my husband thought he could smell a little incense (I couldn't). I don't dislike it but there's no real charm there.

I agree with eilismaireg that this doen't smell like christmas. The way I imagine it, a christmas scent would smell like oranges, spice, and frankinsense with a hint of pine, and Nuit de Noel smells nothing like that. What I mainly pick up on is a huge, creamy ylang ylang note (and also something that reminds me of bergamot, which is not listed in the notes). Most perfumes with a lot of ylang ylang are sexy, but this doesn't seem sexy at all. Instead, it is rich, stately and old fashioned.

There is nothing in this scent that reminds me of Christmas. It's a slightly sour, sherbety, powdered floral scent in the top notes with a good dose of indole in the heart notes. It has a general musky mustiness in the drydown which gives me the same feeling as L'Heure Bleue, though this isn't as melancholy. It does have a 'quiet' feeling which may be the Christmas Eve reference, and it's most definately nostalgic. This is not boring, by any means but it is an acquired taste, as it smells a bit like an ancient clothes chest which has been opened. The old make up, the tang of sweat, the faded floral posies. Another scent for the corpse bride........

I just get all the notes in this wonderful scent starting with the Jasmine, then Ylang Ylang the rose and so on. I love the amber underneath the creamy floral - it just reeks class and dressing up in your best - this is a very classy fragrance and in some ways does remind me of Christmas - obviously to do with the dressing up part and the fragrance! But for me there is more than that - this isn't something my mother would wear (heck I had to forcefeed her perfume) - but it does remind me of being very small and watching for santa over the snow covered field - there is something very past about this fragrance - but I cannot put my finger on it at all.

I am a Caron fan and I bought this blind after reading the reviews on here - and I am very glad I did - one for the deepest winter and definitely for Christmas! Warming, alluring, enrobing!

Great silage and long lasting! 5*

The version that I have is the vintage parfum. What this has to do with Christmas night, I’m not sure, but it’s lovely nonetheless. It starts out as a strong, sharp, aldehydic, classic chypre with notes of leathery violet or violet-scented leather and oakmoss. It’s dry and non-sweet, with very little in the way of overt floral notes except a hint of ylang-ylang. Sillage is moderate, and longevity is at least 6-8 hours.

It has the feel of so many vintage perfumes where the top notes have become pared down to their essentials, revealing the structure underneath more clearly than probably was intended. To me, this is one of the wonderful things about sampling vintage perfumes. Time has taken the knick-knacks out of the room so that the elegant design and craftsmanship of its furnishings and architecture are revealed.

Nuit de Noel is a beautifully crafted and very wearable fragrance for a lover of vintage chypre-type fragrances.

This is a classic fragrance! I love the warmth of the scent, it is so welcoming, so re-assuring of a lovely time. It does remind me strongly of Chanel 5 but even nicer and warmer. I really think this is such a powerful fragrance which has such of longevity life on your skin.
Ylang-Ylang and musk- just dreamy- a passionate fragrance!
Forever Unique.

This perfume is warm, cozy and delightful like a loving embrace, while at the same time it manages to exude the charm and elegance of an upper class evening event. Caron's interpretation of the Christmas night is absolutely beautiful: warmth, grace and wealth, tradition, happiness and endless style. I would definitely attend this dinner party.

As for the notes in Nuit de Noel, sandalwood and oakmoss tend to dominate the composition, while the creamy flowers (rose, jasmin, ylang-ylang) keep somewhat in the background and add a feminine touch to the heavy oriental composition. I actually detect some similarities to Chanel Coco, but Nuit de Noel is less pungent and spicy. It also resembles Estee Lauder Eau de Private Collection, but it's thicker and more oriental.

As a strong oriental, I recommend this perfume for evening wear and (although I do not usually advocate age discrimination and there are always exceptions) I think this perfume would suit someone 30+ a bit easier. You need some guts to match this aristocratic beauty.

The incense-like opening does, in fact, remind me of Christmas Midnight Mass. Suprisingly for a spicy incense scent, it remains fairly close to the skin. As it develops, the incense fades into a rich, velvety spiciness, warming further into a powdery light spice mix. Interesting, complex and delicate.

I came across a beautiful vintage black art deco bottle of this perfume today and I was wowed. It is so rich and warm. Spiced rum and sweet amber mingling with a touch of musk, cocoa and tobacco is what came to mind. I think the vintage cologne would be a wonderful fragrance for a classic gentleman as well (especially those favoring Taylors). Evening fragrance for certain. Absolutely enchanting.

I've always been interested in Caron’s fragrances, because this house has a lot’s of big perfume hits back in the 10’s or 20’s.

Despite my desire to buy blind some Caron’s great fragrances, I have been ignoring them for a long time duet to the almost depressed and Overly Exaggerated comments about Caron’s reformulation. Like: ‘’Caron ruin fragrance legends with reformulation’’ ‘’Now Caron’s fragrances smell horrible’’ ‘’ I have such lovely memories of it and the new formulation defintely doesn't have nothing of the original’’

Thanks God! I Don't Take this So Serious and decided to purchase some decants.

and guess what?..

I make an order of almost 20 good fragrances, 5 of them were from Caron, and let me tell you, that this 5 beauties, smell far better than the others fifteen, and also so much better than a lot of fragrances out there. I Don't try to say ‘’Things Don't Change’’, I know that they change, everybody change and Guerlain and Chanel change too, but they are still pretty. And finally I don’t work for Caron, Caron don’t even exist in my country. I only jugde what I smelled.

(Nuit de noel Edt Review)

Deep, Rich and well blended woody powdery scent! Caron give me that 20's retro feeling and i just love it!

Its complexity and smell are very similar to Habanita, but Nuit de noel is more woody elegant and light.

It's very powdery, but this is the charming side of this fragrance. Lasting power is good.

I am absolutely mad for this perfume, and I'm only testing the edt! I can only imagine what the parfum must be like! This is insanely good stuff- if Chanel No 5 smelled like this, I would be able to understand why it's such a top seller. It starts off a little 'huh?', like most Carons, but it only takes 20 minutes to start smelling amazing (I think that's pretty good for a Caron). It reminds me of No 5 in some ways at the start- it goes on a little soapy and the rose, jasmine and ylang ylang are there- but it's like all the bad parts of No 5 were removed (the nasty lemon!) and instead when the base peeks it's head out, it goes sexier than 5- there is marvelous incense. This is very sexy stuff, but it's still sophisticated and classy. Makes EL Youth Dew and Cinnabar look juvenile, imo. Less Christmasey and more sexy than Bois des Iles edt... The mousse de saxe base is absolutely to die for! I can't wait to try the extrait!
Edit: Tried the vintage extrait the other day, and it is, indeed, out of this world.

I absolutely adore this scent in all it's smokey dark sensualness. Upon first spritz the floral top notes of rose, jasmine, and ylang-ylang make a brief appearance before they become slowly wrapped in the smoke and fire of incense mixed with spices and a hint of sensual musk. Hours later the incense mellows and sweetens mingling with dark woods and musk. This juice is magic on my skin, my signature scent at least for now as I can be fickle.

For those wondering about the name it's fairly clear to anyone raised Roman Catholic of a certain age. The perfume has a rich "incense" note that probably comes from the amber and oakmoss. For anyone who's gone to midnight mass on Christmas eve it brings back every memory of incense, women dressed in their best wearing Chanel No 5 and Shalimar--the most wonderful sensual experience that one can have, particularly with a pipe organ vibrating your bones as you hear Jesu Joy of Man's Desire or Hark the Herald Angels Sing. (I digress.) This is one of the few scents I wear as perfume, which means you must treat it with care and a bit of suspicion. The sillage is amazing and it lasts forever--perfect for the kind of parties where you'd wear pearls or mink but very definitely a grown-up perfume--not the kind that would have pink-themed ads. Wearing this requires taking yourself seriously and being able to recognize the right occasion. When treated with respect it may not love you but it will elevate you.

(Vintage Parfum Review)
I need to add a second review because this is a completely different fragrance. Below I state that I had a 2 hour wait to get something I liked, and that I prefered a 'darker' scent.

No such comments for the vintage. This turned lovely; absolutely jaw dropping lovely, at the 30 min mark. Gone are the annoying airy wisps and the ushering in of a too strong white floral acord.

Vintage wears as a luscious, ylang ylang led oriental chypre. It is much oilier than the newer version, and hte mousse de saxe drydown lasts well over 12 hours.

What happened with this? What I tried last night was one of the best parfums I"ve tried...EVER. I'm going to request another modern parfum from a different source to see what my thoughts are. Perhaps my old version was exposed to oxygen or something.

This is wonderful and I'm happy to know it can still be purchased. It was my aunt's favorite winter scent.

A softer less urbane version of Chanel no 5 this fragrance has a certian country elegance to it picturing oak
trees lined side by side riding in a open horse drawn carrige to an elegant
southern plantation full of white magnolias or going to a ketucky Derby wearing your finest.

The opening has a aldehydic note next
is the scent of bergamot and at it's base is rose gives it a powdery texture
unlike chanel no 5 caron's nuit de noel
avoids the clinical amount of Aldehydes
and sharp citruses and adds a warm amber note that is inviting.
this is perfect also winter and christmas eve parties.

(Parfum Review)
I'm beginning to think Caron is the cat of all fragrance houses. You can put it on, give it a scritch, even tell it you've missed it since you last wore it; and it still won't play nice until it's good and ready.

This has one of the longest wait times I've seen to turn pleasant- two hours! Yes, i spent two whole hours thinking i found a Caron stinker. But nope, after it's cat nap it sent a little jasmine purr my way, playfully wrapped in that Caron base that I've come to love.

I find it hard to believe that the florals are the top notes, because I can't detect them at all until well into the middle act. But when they appear, ooh, what a gorgeous scent. If you like soft jasmine and ylang ylang this is a good one to try. This is not my favorite Caron, as I like darker, more 'rounded' scents (like Or et Noir), but an appreciated fragrance, certainly.

The opening of Caron's NUIT DE NOEL packs a powerful punch: a bunch of aldehydes, oakmoss and florals assert themselves with the initial spritz. It's a rather confusing sort of brouhaha, in fact. Within minutes, however, things calm down quite a bit.

A dark murky, slightly alkaline period ensues, with flowers--above all ylang ylang--peeking out here and there amidst the musky fog.

In the drydown, the mustiness becomes dustiness, as though the moisture of the moss has all evaporated away, leaving behind the remnants of a dried floral arrangement. Or perhaps dried roses pressed in books as keepsakes. I like this drydown, soft, powdery, rose-laden and nostalgic.

NUIT DE NOEL is not a boring fragrance at all, nor is it like anything thing else that I've tried! I would have to agree with another reviewer, however, that this is a chypre floral. And the Christmas Eve reference altogether eludes me...

My mother has worn this for years as her dress-up fragrance, so to me, the aldehydic Chanel-ish florals are the epitomy of black tie. The vintage edp is classic: A opening announcement of aldehydes and jasmine, ylang and rose, blending down to a powdery oakmoss-vanilla base, but always holding that elegant jasmine rose floral. It has the metallic edge the older aldehydes carry that always remind me of fine jewelry. Is suppose anyone with a younger nose will find it old-fashioned, but to me, this is lovely. Downside: I cannot wear it. The jasmine and oakmoss conspire to smell clumpy and medicated on my skin, very unlike what it smells like on my mother. I don't get the effortless elegance, I get medicated foot-powder. (En Avion does this on me, too.) Oh, well, a lovely scent in the vintage. The new juice is the same mix but sadly thin and somehow sharper all around. It goes to the nasty on me even faster. I recommend this in the vintage if you can find it.

Although classified as an Oriental floral, I would consider it a Chypre. It starts with citrus notes and ends with oakmoss, traits of most Chypre or "mossy woods" fragrances. Despite the name, I like this better in summer than winter, when the notes really warm up on my skin.

Very musky.Ylang ylang rules! I was trying to figure out what it reminds me of - Charlie! It`s Charlie`s grandpa...:))I can`t wear it for a long time cause it gives me headache.