A La Nuit Serge Lutens for women

this jasmine is very alcoholic!!like some kind of sweet candy with alcoholic syrup (granatine?).
also balmy deep and intense
it remember me nasomatto feminine scents(narcotic venus);
i like it.
pleasant more then some other jasmine

update:here is a slightly fecal note..I think is musk plus honey very fecal--bee-animalic
update 2:sorry fecal note composes flower notes (see wikipedia.com:- skatole-indole)
Lutens style but very simple this time

For me this is the best jasmine soliflore ever created
and layered with Santal Blanc, also by Lutens, even better

Best to test first, I agree with airubgirl and a lot more, I read in her review, makes perfect sense . Especially about the love and hate factor. Of course I'm an admirer of Serge Lutens, but this one made me hysterically scrub and scrub, nothing wrong with sillage nor longevity.
The scent itself though, in combination with my skin and my olfactory taste makes me choke with abhorrence.
The worst crap smelling scent so far, I very much regret to say..

Seriously the best TRUE Jasmine perfume there is - Perfection, absolutely natural scent - I will always love it. I Love you Serge for making this possible.

for me this is the perfect representation of a scent trek made jasmin.

This is clearly an homage to night-fragrant flowers, mainly gardenia and an indolic jasmine. I normally don’t like florals, but will make an exception for this one. Initially there are some greenish, moist notes that give the impression of a real flower, but as these fade away it becomes slightly spicy.

A clove note is present in many night-fragrant flowers, so it’s completely in keeping with the general theme. It’s strong, it’s assertive. At first it has major sillage even from a tiny dab, but within 3-4 hours it’s gone. For a floral, I like this, but not enough to wear often.

As with all Lutens it's either a love or hate relationship it seems. For whatever reason his fragrances evoke a very intense yes or no in the wearer. I have sampled many of this line, own quite a few, and while I can appreciate them for the art that they are, most I would never wear.

A la nuit is one I do quite like and I do wear. For whatever reason on me it is a very soft, almost soapy jasmine and I mean that in a good way, a very, very expensive soap that leaves just enough of the scent to linger and float on the breeze without overpowering those in it's wake. There is nothing cloying or overpowering with my chemistry. Just softly sexy, with enough sweetness to really ramp up the mmmm factor!

On first spray I get a burst of jasmine, think summer monsoon, a bit humid, and a breeze floats over the jasmine and it's scent drifts in the wind. The heart notes are soft and sweet with the honey coming into play, to it's final stage the green, crisp, fresh jasmine that stays true to the flower. Nothing chemical here on me. Very clean and linear in this stage, but very nice indeed. Lasts for hours and stays true.. While I can't say I love this frag, I can say it's very wearable and quite pretty. I would recommend trying a sample first, as with all this line.

It´s too strong, artificial. I could not wear it, this is a big stinker.
Just horrible.

I had hight expetations for this one, but it's far too strong and cloy I could not wear this. If you want a beautiful jasmine get Olene by Dyptique, is one of my favorites for summer.

A La Nuit is all about hot southern nights at the peak of summer... nights filled in with the annoying hiss of cicadas and stuffy sleeplessness of a long-awaited thunderstorm, when, longing for some fresh air, you open a window and the whole madness of night flowers is rushing into your face - sensual sweet jasmine, bewitching tuberose, honey-spicy petunia... This perfume is very dense, sweet, intoxicating, its intensity comes to the limits of possible perception - one drop is enough.

...Вымаливала молний ночь,
Чтобы самой себе помочь
И руки к небу возводя
Дождя - шептала ночь - дождя.
Был от жасмина пьян жасмин
Всю ночь творилось что-то с ним
И он подглядывал в окно
Где было шорохно, грешно,
Где чуть мерцая простыня
Сползла с тебя, сползла с меня
И от слиянья наших тел
Жасмин зажмурился, вспотел.
Друг друга мы любили так
Что ты иссякла, я иссяк
Лишь по телам во все концы
Блуждали пальцы, как слепцы.
С твоей груди моя рука
Сняла ночного мотылька,
Я целовал еще, еще
Чуть-чуть соленое плечо
Ты встала, подошла к окну
Жасмин отпрянул в темноту
Сползали волосы на грудь
И прикрывали как-нибудь...

Евгений Евтушенко

Lush jasmine that gets thin as it dries down, then develops that unfortunate mothball-indole note. It's okay, but this has been done a whole lot better in other perfumes.

So I'm on a search for a true jasmine scent. And A La Nuit is not a very good jasmine scent. I do smell a true jasmine note in it but it is overpowered by the honey note. And to be honest, I don't find honey and jasmine working together very well. Jasmine has a beautiful fresh sweetness to it but the thick sweetness of honey seems to hide it. So I decided to continue my search for a true jasmine scent and leave A La Nuit for others to enjoy.
BUT as it lasts a long time I could still smell it on my sleeve the next day as I had tested it on my wrist. And there it was! My beloved jasmine. With only a slight hint of honey. What should I do now? Still buy it and spray it on my clothes a day before using them?

This is probably the easiest perfume to review. Its like putting jasmine absolute on your skin. Its all fresh picked jasmine, on a sunny, crisp day.

Not very strong, on me. Sillage is kind of lacking too.

Very linear scent. But if you adore Jasmine, this is a must try.

Im a little bored with it to be honest.

Pow! Juicy, juicy jasmine! Intensely strong and sweet on application, but calms down after a while.

On me, this is ALL jasmine (okay, a bit of honey, too), turning softer and creamier with time. I do like this!

I don't know if I sense benzoin or grenadine in it. Mind you, I need to train my nose to recognize ingredients. (And if that means I have to keep testing fragrances -- well, then! -- I'll just HAVE to!)

A La Nuit is to die for. This is the ultimate jasmine scent. Jasmine is the star of the fragrance, but this jasmine isn't shrill. It's warm, sultry and sweet. This smells like the essence of a real jasmine flower, not soapy or indolic in any way. I'm going to be needing a bottle of this, stat.

This. is. The One. An absolutely swoon-worthy jasmine. A La Nuit is a pure, rich, fleshy and REAL jasmine scent. I literally feel like I just put my nose far inside a blooming jasmine flower and took a long deep breath. An incredibly sultry and seductive fragrance.

For jasmine lovers (raising my hand), this is the ultimate. Christopher Sheldrake is my hero.

Got my sample from TPC today. I had such expectations but...,even though it is a very nice fragrance, it's not sweet enough for mee. The "green feel" someone mentioned is too strong for my liking. I would have preferred a more "Alien" kind of scent. Love the jasmine but too sharp, too tarte. I prefer Serge Lutens Fleur d'Orange.

oh Serge Lutens did you create this for me? All I can remember is the many effects it had on me. I was in total olfactory bliss.

Yes you exotic jasmines, lingering to haunt my thoughts and mood. This is not for everyday use, but it is for those moments that you want to be dreaming.

Wow, this is an amazing fragrance!
I have been searching for a pure Jasmine fragrance for a while now and i think i found it!
I still think the Jasmine scent of the Flying Fox from Lush is the best, but unfortunatly they don' t have a liquid fragrance of it.
If you are a Jasmine lover like me then this is the perfume for you.
I tried a lot of different perfumes (Tendre Jasmin Yves Rocher, Honeysuckle&Jasmine Jo Malone, Jasmin Sambac Matthew Williamson, Notre Flore Jasmin L' Occitane, Night Scented Jasmine Floris) and this one i defintely like the most.
I think Jo Malone and Matthew Williamson Jasmine perfumes are also really nice, but they seam to dissappear very fast on me, this one doesn' t!
Still waiting untill Lush is going to make the Flying Fox bottled fragrance!

Triple jasmine! feels very natural to a real scent of jasmine at night, when it smells more intense.Very sexy musk and benzoin, an there is a transparent film of alcohol.Intoxication, but in a good way!

A la nuit: for wearing at night, making love in bed or falling asleep with the window open, a crazy white fist in your face, edging into greener territory near the end, and someone discreetly peeing into the bushes.

Beautiful, hot, sexy, languid too, and the closest to walking past a jasmin bush in the evening and being surprised at the intensity of the flowers' aroma that I've come across so far.

This is totally out of character for me, so I've no idea how it happened, but I fell madly in love with it.
Apart from it's obvious, stunning beauty I love it for its intoxicating, bright, sunny, cheerful and optimistic nature. I sometimes feel a strange physical urge to go and have a sniff, even when I'm wearing something else, just to cheer myself up. I smell it and I feel happy, it's as simple as that.
I've read somewhere that if it was a sound, it would be the high and clear note of tinkling glass. How true!
I admit, it is a bit difficult to wear since it's incredibly potent. A tiny drop really goes a long way. Surprisingly, its staying power is rather disappointing (2-3 hours).

Jasmine bomb. White, bitter and sweet jasmine with soft green note into the honey and alcoholic tincture.
Realy beautiful and bright, rich and heady smell, but I can't to wear it.

My ex used to say, it´s like sitting under bloody jasmine bush .Very true,it´s bloody good jasmine.But I can´t smell any clove at all.

Hi Coco76, definitely you should feel the benzoin in this one. I cannot detect any lily-of-the-valley in it, so you may try it again from a different source as it does look like you have the wrong sample.

after reading the reviews for this fragrance and checking out the notes, i eagerly ordered a sample....boy am i disappointed! in fact, i wonder if i even have the right sample! all this smells like to me (from start to finish) is lily of the valley. strange, no? i cannot smell any jasmine, and certainly no benzoin. has this happened to anyone else? did i get sent the wrong sample?!

It does smell like jasmine and lilies blooming at night. A little overpowering if you like soft perfumes, however very feminine.

I adore Serge Lutens jasmine in this fragrance.

Sex in a bottle for me, but in a romantic way. It's a purely sensual, creamy, intimate jasmine -not sharp or unpleasant in any way.

Can be smothering if you put too much on though....

i love jasmine, particularly egyptian, and i am delighted with this fragrance. the various jasmines emphasize each other beautifully in this fragrance. the greenish sambac revives the tame egyptian jasmine. it is so sensual and light, really feminine and appealing. another favourite of mine. :)

Pure oriental jasmine, weightless and delicate, very gourmand for me, I like the vine character of this flower in it.