La Nuit Paco Rabanne for women

So classy for the night ! It remember me my 90 s.
Is it possible to find it in France ? Paradoxicaly it is discontnued in the country of Paco Rabanne !!!

This EdT is a strong, musky, floral-oriental chypre that smells like it was made in the 80s - and so it was, but it’s not a big, agressive floral. It’s much softer, mossier, and muskier than the typical 80s offering. I’m a sucker for this sort of strong-but-soft perfume, so it was pretty much love at first sniff.

The first thing I smelled was aldehydes, mixed florals and a mixed bouquet of musks along with the hint of a base that’s a cross between amber and oakmoss-chypre. As it dries down I smell a little of the honeyed rose and peach-plum that others describe, along with patchouli and sandalwood. At this point the sillage is gorgeous. Nothing stands out particularly, with all of it blending together beautifully to produce an amped-up version of a classic chypre. If you’re a lover of floral orientals and/or vintage chypres, it’s definitely worth a try.

This is totally not my kind of scent, but since so many of you Ladies like it, I have to let you know that it recently reappeared in Superpharm pharmacy network in Poland for a ridiculous price of 50 PLN/30ml which is an equivalent of ca. 10 EUR. Hope some of you will be able to make a trip to PL soon, or use your contats to get it. Good luck!

Although the description is 'chypre floral', the drydown reminds me very much of a cross between Opium and Youth Dew which are both orientals. I really loved it at first, but out of all my fragrances, it's now the one that I'll be using the most regularly to empty the bottle. I like it, but I'm not really in love with it. Funny how our tastes can change in a short time.

To read other people’s impressions of La Nuit, it is a scent of nostalgia, or something symbolic of an era (the late 70s, it seems, even though it was released in 1985.) I love that scent allows us to make these connections, whether highly personal or shared. To me, La Nuit is evocative of 2007 when I first smelled it. I never got the ‘takes me back’ thing. And having come up in mid 80s New York, believe me I yearn for those good old, bad old 70s. 70s New York was arcadia to the Reagan/AIDS scary 80s.

But I don’t get any of that from La Nuit. It’s the end product of a series of olfactive associations. Start with honey and civet. Honey registers to the nose as richness and starts to smell like piss as it gets concentrated. ( I know this from the comb from the hive that grew in our ceiling last summer.) Civet smells anal and then seems spicy /floral in dilution. Turn the volume up and down on these things and you get a range of strong olfactory ideas.

Set these two on the other principal notes, rose and leather, and the whole thing starts sliding back and forth between wholesome and jaded. Honey brings out the sweet and fruity elements of the rose; civet makes rose arid, spicy and hot. Honey makes leather rich and lavish; civet gives leather the nose-feel of sandpaper.

La Nuit allows others to relish the connection to an era. To me, the associations are a little more abstract. Isn’t it great that a perfume can do this to us?

Aah! My Precious. You are finally mine.

Your siblings (Metal and Calandre) and I have been waiting. Waiting for your much anticipated arrival for many many long years.

Are you the most beautiful daughter? Maybe.

My love for your sisters is sacred so you must learn to share the limelight My Sweet.

For now relax and enjoy your rank and position Dearest La Nuit as I am utterly under your spell you bewitchingly mesmerizing minx.

Too manly smells Antaeus -

Not the way I want a women to smell like.

This is the night in a bottle! It may be the ultimate gothic vamp perfume ever created. To be sprayed at sunset only! The first 20 minutes after sprayng, it seems so innocent, and then it becomes as dark and mysterious as the night. It projects like a vampires cape and at dawn disappears.

This is a chypre directly decended from Mitsouko. Granted her grandchild dresses in leather skirts, listens to Bauhaus, wears dark eyliner/lipstick, is drop dead beautiful and is really a man. That is La Nuit for me.

Th composition is feminine, yet very rough, nearly androgynous. Roses, honey, leather, waxy, butter, peaches, almost too nuch oakmoss and lots of civit. Yes, I will stress this is a sex bomb. No innocent flirting here. It means business.

This will go down in perfume history as one of the strangest and most provocativly beautiful creations ever. Sadly its discontinued. Perhaps it was too naughty? I think it was just too avant gard for most. By todays moral fragrance standards-XXX contraband! There is still some to be found on E-bay for you curiosity seekers. Its worth the search!

Fruity very animalistic chypre.

Smells like sex. Cat in heat!! The best of Paco Rabanne forever!!!

This smells very sexy. There is something in the opening that reminded me of the bitter green smell of tomato leaves. Then the glowing sweetness of a fresh rose at dusk that has spent all day being warmed by the sun. Something about the rose also reminds me of tomato, this time that voluptuous acidic smell of sliced tomato that to me all real roses have. I can definitely smell powdery old leather with a whisper of tobacco. La Nuit smolders and glows darkly on the skin! I think the sex or sweat note that people get actually smells more like the scent of dried saliva on warmed up skin. Weird, I know, but a very vivid impression. Virginal because of the true real rose but quite libertine because of the other impressions detailed above. Makes me think of think of someone who has just been initiated into the carnal by some passionate and skillful lover and is now has a profound understanding of herself. So rich! I wish more perfume was like this.

I recently purchased a 30ml of EDP of "La Nuit" and now i want more! A lot more!!!! Because this is an absolute stunner to my nose! I an madly in love!!!
Quite sharp in the beginning and a bit too powderly it very quickly settles down and transforms into amazingly attractive scent, one of the best-best i have ever tried! It is dirty sexy, boundaries-free, seductive, animalistic, a bit agressive and vulgar even, "Femme-fatale" like.... Everything what i really like. To me this is THE best Paco Rabanne scent ever creatued up to date! Dirty rose, leather, honey.... pure SEX indeed!! "she´s a man-eater...." this fragrance says, but not screams. She is flirting a lot, but never crosses the line though...
Very long lasting and i can´t stop smelling myself!
In one word, if you haven´t tried it yet, don´t even think about passing this one by!

Update: so strange, but while on my skin it is a stunner, on my friends skin it smells horrible and mud like! I guess it is a chemistry thing indeed.

No....
E' estremamente maschile,non potrei mai indossarlo.Ho sognato di provarlo da tanto tempo,ma quando l'ho provato,ho avuto una grandissima delusione.Sento benissimo il muschio di quercia naturale che non riesco sopportare che mi fa venire la nausea(preferisco quello sintetico veramente).Ho il decant 10 ml edp,chi lo vuole-scrivetemi.

It is worth to trip all over each other on
ebay for "old" chypre lovers!!!!

Top Notes: Bergamot, Lemon, Tangerine, Myrtle, Cardamom, Artemesia (Armoise)
Heart Notes: Jasmine, Rose, Pepper, Peach
Base Notes: Cedarwood, Leather, Patchouli, Oakmoss, Anamilic note civet

and who knows what else?!

It is so good it could easily be a Balenciaga, if it was not a Bandit soaked in honeyed-rose actually!

The leather note is promising but it falls
short due to the green note drydown but it's not merely a disappointment as it seems it becomes more warmer with the presence of amber and spiciness of rose
the drydown is almost like an homage to the 1845 release of Creed's FLEURS DE BULGARIE with it's warm amberic rose scent
but La nuit is more of a modern edgier
and yet less abuse-of-the-power of Bandit or a cigar smoked room like decadence of habanita, La nuit has an
reserved iciness an inner calm that bandit and habanita can't compare with
almost translucent of your soul and of
the namesake La Nuit.

Every scent tells a story every note
that a perfumer puts in each bottle has
a meaning to his or her life story or an
influence to the perfumer and everyone
has their own interpratation of what
conjures in their minds,

Perhaps for me maybe this is an metaphor
of why there's a heavy greenish opening
it has to do with the dominant worldly
woman and naive school girl sheltered and experienced and the two main notes
exemplifies well like the Leather represent the dominant woman and sexuality' and the
greenish note is the school girl yearning wistfully for her.

This is perfume is about repressed desires and a repressed sexuality in a
Bottle.

I will be blunt. La Nuit doesn't smell like a perfume to my nose, it just smells like most sweaty, animalic, bittersweet skin-to-skin sex.

I just loove La Nuit. One of the sexiest fragrances I ever had. Citrus and basil in the topnotes turnes into a heart of sweet honeyed happy roses. So far just a pretty good rose.

However, within half an hour the singing and joyful rosescent transforms itself into the most dark and whispering overblown rose, dripping of dark honey and... It's like a pulse that turns on that keeps asking you for more. And more. All thanks to the oakmoss, woods. leather and animalistic notes that now enters the heart.

La Nuit is one of the best come-hithers ever made, and I prefer La Nuit over L'Arte de Gucci eventhough it isn't half as sophisticated as L'Arte. Why? Because it is twice as naughty and consequently sexier.

Try it and give it some time of wearing. You will not be dissappointed. You will love it.

Aldehydes, plums and honeyed amber. It reminds me powerfully of the scents popular in the 1980s. It's nice, but this in not my type of scent. Heavy 80s style orientals wear me, not the other way around

A very strong perfume, I got it as a birthday present in my early 20s.
It gave me a headaque. so I never used it that much.

hi, j, (suffering disociative personality disorder as i do, you know me by another name - 4gooddogz etc.) i bought this after reading your comment, tho' it's great when there's a consensus of opinion, like here.

i adore chypres. it's amazing that a perfume type with a very basic defining feature can be done so differently.

and this one is spectacular. the top notes suggested a gentle floral, but in a garden w/bee hives (lovely) and gently fertilized with horse manure. i love that smell. ok, each to her/his/its own. mostly the floral thing.

but florals in general make me glad i discovered perfume very recently, and i would have died of boredom before jacque coty came along.

unlike almost every perfume, the flowers are still blooming. but the drydown has been well on for about 45 mins. it's the lightest chypre i've ever met, but it is, w/out any doubt, a chypre.

usually you get the flowers before or after the sex. this is indeed sexy. maybe it will get raunchy, and i don't get sex on a stick at all.

but i do get crumpled sheets, and that intimate scent that crumpled the sheets in the first place. it's just that he ran out naked into the garden just as i dozed off about 15 minutes ago, and now he's back with some lovely, gentle frangranced flowers that he tried to arrange but ended up bundling up in a damp paper towel bound w/an elastic band he which he found in the miscellaneous drawer - you know,the one jam packed w/odds and ends that never shuts all the way.

it's sex with romance. and he's definitely going to call back. if he sends flowers, thank God he will intuitively send anything but roses, bless his heart.

i can't wait to meet him, but, on the other hand, i don't think he can live up to my la nuit fantasy.

SEN-BLOODY-SATIONAL. i'm going to ebay right now to pick up 3.4 oz for $107, so i can make decants for my fr... me.

j, i can send you some if you're out. you've been great. so i'll only charge a quick thank you.

what a great perfume. anyone who wants a 20 ml decant, just let me know. there won't be many, because i've been known to go through an oz or 2 of a new fave in one day, what with respray alone, and then mixing experiments.

i just love this stuff. once again, something on my top 5 list just got bounced. don't you love it when that happens?

I paid 12 bucks for a sealed unopened box of this stuff. Skanky, but good.

I HAD to have this, scent unsmelt, after having read a heated discussion about it on Luca Turin's old blog site where someone, probably Luca, described the scent as being reminiscent of mare sweat. It certainly is evocative of something very animal and pheromonal. It is wonderful, but use with caution.

Finally I managed to get few drops of this gorgeous fragrance! This is as fantastic as the very first time I tried this. I was a teenager when this was launched, and my best friend got this as a gift, I can still remember where we were when I tried this the very first time.

For years I've been looking for this.
( Wonder why they don't relaunch these fragrances people know allready...I quess that you could use eventually less money for the marketing also..)

This felt almost too strong at first, but at the same time I couldn't get enough of this. Animalic and leathery knockout, with a light honey in the beginning. This is a truly captivating Perfume, rich, and deep, and very very Sexy.

Dropdead gorgeous.

This really is a shame it's no longer made. Blatant, brilliant sex on a stick.

I'll get this notes on this to you ASAP-it's my all-time FAVE. Also, around the same time, PR created Tenere for men-I swear it's the same base, just with a little tweaking of the heart notes. It's very good.