A La Nuit Serge Lutens for women and men

Applies super floral white jasmine. Even though it’s realistically clean, the bright/sweet flower leans quite feminine.

While settling, honey warmth grows with no decrease in how strong it projects strong indolic jasmine. Mild musk works its way out of the background to provide a little dry contrast.

Pure, but too linear - which almost works since it’s so dense/deep. Craving more complicated layers.

A divine Jasmine scent that you must definitely try in your life if you intend to buy Jasmine perfume. All compliments are meaningless, because it's so wonderful. Paradise for White Floral lovers, unfortunately, they have discontinued production of this divine fragrance.

It's beautiful, royal and very floral. The jasmine has small hints of sweetness and honey. I am not a jasmine girl, so for me this fragrance is hard to wear. It's very powdery, slightly musky and is a bit too animalic and indolic for me. I agree that the flowers are beautiful, but they simply are a bit overwhelming for me! I can however see how beautifully the perfume opens up. It goes into a musky and sweet direction.

Realistic jasmine, but I can also detect ylang ylang in it.

saidesses,
Now, it's available on the official site.
NOT discountinued!

Lutens & Sheldrake excel themselves in the deceptively simple Soliflore’s .
This maybe the greatest photorealistic Jasmine out there. I’m transported back to Tunisia on a hot sticky evening. ❤️

This is a grand and majestic jasmine upon first spray. It has all the facets of jasmine bundled up into one - the lush white petals, the astringent green stems, and the signature, undeniable (but tame) indolic humidity. At first spray, and for 30 minutes, you are met with a beautiful and almost overpowering bubble of this intoxicating jasmine scent; however, once you step out the door into the real world, and by the time you make it to your train station to commute to work, A La Nuit has already disappeared. The longevity on me is not good. The sillage is great while it lasts, then suddenly evaporates into nothing. But wait! You might say, I sprayed on my clothes! Well, it still disappears, unfortunately.

One of my favourite scents ever, it's unavailable on the official site (discountinued maybe?)

jasmine, full frontal and unapologetic. the petals are sweet, airy, creamy, and fragrant, and speckled with dirt that gives a cooling, slightly mentholated touch. the dirt here is less like potted soil and more like dirtied skin after a "tussle" in secluded corners of the garden. I imagine that this garden leads up to an old victorian mansion of slightly crumbling brick, barely visible from the outside due to tall overgrown hedges that haven't been trimmed in over a century, casting a gloom over the whole courtyard even in bright daylight. the interior is cobwebby with cold marble floors, but occasionally there are slight upkickings of dust as if someone were roaming the halls — the village people say it's haunted.

when the scent of jasmine draws near, you know the spirit is close behind. you meet her in the garden at midnight. the shadows cast by the surrounding jasmine bushes are a deep indigo beneath blue moonlight. she still has last night's sweat clinging to her skin, like remnants of heat that linger from the previous day, until the flowers release their passionate petals and open themselves to the night.

Simply put, the greatest jasmine perfume I've ever encountered.

I have now resumed my relationship with Serge Lutens perfume house . In the past, the samples I had tried adorned the fragrances with way too many spices, hard hitting or resinous notes or edgy , quirky notes for faint hearted me . I just couldn’t pull them off despite appreciating their complexity , craftsmanship and uniqueness .

I , then found in the Serge Lutens perfume house, a group of simpler and less in your face florals to which I have now amassed 8 bottles . I believe there is a market for those who love his workmanship and quality ingredients but prefer more wearable perfumes. Simplicity done perfectly is outstanding in itself . 💓

Anyway, now here I am , trying the original samples that put me off years ago. I am giving A La Nuit another go.
I am trying not to let the benzoin, grenadine and cloves notes hinder a positive decision. Besides, I am a-white floral lover and A La Nuit has always been talked about . I’m just hoping I don’t get indolic, cat piss, fecal or baby’s nappy kind of Jasmine that some reviewers have complained of .

A La Nuit , starts with intensive Jasmine notes, mixed with the benzoin base. The Jasmine is very heady and indolic but not overblown as the green notes keep it fresh and light . The combination of the honey and the faint musk give the green notes a soapier feel.

After 30 mins , the Jasmine softens . I’m glad I didn’t get cloves or the grenadine notes.

This does reminds me a touch of Clair Obscur by Keiko Mecheri in the opening notes . I own but rarely use due to its linear , indolic Jasmine . However , A La Nuit is sweeter, soapier and fresher after the initial heady blast and that is so my cup of tea.

I like and appreciate A La Nuit after the heady Jasmine notes have subsided. As with a lot SL’s fragrances I own , the initial opening notes are explosive in intensity - sometimes all notes all at once . Quite deceiving when first sampling .

With A La Nuit , I’m glad I waited after the indoles merged and dissipated , this is the stage of the perfume that I like especially with the soapy , green notes . Being in the bell jar bottle range it is pricier and very hard to purchase in Australia so I’ll have to buy it in Paris next year . Yes , it’s bottle worthy .

Pulled my original 2000 bottle out this afternoon after an incredibly stressful day, sprayed it on and what a joy! Sweet and green and so uplifting. Absolutely the best juicy jasmine out there. Opulent, comforting. Thanks, Serge Lutens, I needed it today. Lasts forever on me, but skin chemistry is half the battle with any perfume.

For a start, trying to find a full bottle of this has been difficult - not sure if this is being discontinued or there are stock issues but hardly anywhere in the UK has it so when I found it I thought I’d struck gold. I’ve been on the hunt for the most accurate smelling jasmine and I’ve yet to come across a fragrance that does. Like others have said, it comes close but it’s just not like the flower (even the blooms at night). That said it is a lovely, pleasant and feminine fragrance. The longevity on my skin is only around 6-7 hours which is a let down. On the whole I don’t regret searching high and low for this but instead of it being this incredible Jasmine fragrance I was hoping for it’s more ‘meh’. This will probably end up being my day to day spring/ summer fragrance.

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I was conflicted about this one, as I’m not a fan of that hippy shop stinky variety of jasmine used in fragrances, which is all I’ve mostly experienced. Fortunately, while I can smell a soapy jasmine, the kind used in nice soaps, it’s not the head shop type which scents incense and oils. This is very fresh. Though I’ve smelled many varieties of jasmine vines, this one is not familiar to me. It smells more like lilac, white lilies, LOV, cool, greenish. I get no clove but lots of mothballs. It smells like a chilled flower shop with fresh flowers. Nothing sweet about this. I find it grown up and it fills an open spot for me.
It’s gentle in projection and strength (I made an exception for the time being).

8/10-It is a truly lovely soliflore.
It’s like when you smell lilacs or white lilies for the first time. Except in fresh flowers I don’t get mothballs.

Jasmine galore and I’m here for it.

I purchased this one in the bell jar option, as its such a beautiful one from Serge lutens and deserves the extra special bottle to be housed in my collection.
It opens with the cloves and green notes suddenly then it very quickly settles into the heart note of jasmine, along with a little honeyed benzoin detected within the base.
As others have said - this is a fantastic jasmine soliflore. It absolutely radiates a feminine energy and it feels like standing in the moonlight whilst enhaling the flowers themselves. Despite it leaning feminine I am also sure that some men could pull this one off with confidence too. I would actually love to smell this on a man who could own it.

This is a true to real life capturing of the Arabian jasmine plant, known as jasminum sambac for it's botanical name. There are different types of jasmine plants and they all have their own scent, with jasminum sambac being the most strong, heavy and indolic of them all. The juice in this one is probably heavier than you think and lasts longer than you realise, as with the smell of this flower it is quite easy to experience olfactory fatigue and go nose blind to it on yourself. So I'd caution against over applying an reapplying it too much. Although, if you're a lover of jasmine, I am sure you'd want to actually drown in this liquid.

I grow the actual plant on a huge trellis at home that sits in front of my sunny South facing window. When it's in bloom my room is filled with the narcotic scent of jasmine sambac. The perfect white flowers, like bright white stars, all exhales their perfume like a goddess breathing into the atmosphere of this mortal world. This narcotic breath is bewitching and it comes most alive during those warm summer evenings.
Having this experience in perfume form, whenever I wish to and when my plant is not in flower, is a real privilege and joy to me. I cherish this perfume and would recommend it to any other person who adores the jasmine plant too.

Cold, gothic, dry and a bit melancholic realistic jasmine blossoms under the moonlight. I love it!

@BeauParfum it is 90% of jasmin asean jasmin, not sweet, green and a little of clove, musk for who likes JASMIN
fils de joie is so sweet, musky as candy, a little as 10% jasmin, and other things FOR who likes sweet
Serge Lutens La Religieuse : most of the scents are incense, civet, musk, 5% floral FOR who likes incense
coco76 it is true, jasmin somehow is close to Muguet as floral and green

Wanted to see if I would enjoy a jasmine soliflore as I love jasmine in perfumes. It's pretty and smells natural. I will say I still don't smell what people refer to as indolic, which I suppose is "fecal" but jasmine has never smelled fecal or dirty to me. Maybe a bit earthy I suppose. Anyway, now I know that I prefer a jasmine perfume with more layers.

I'm surprised I haven't reviewed this yet - I'm over half way through a well-loved bell jar of A La Nuit. As everyone says, this is the best jasmine soliflore of all time - that's not a compliment it's just a fact. A close relative from the same house, Sarrasins, is occasionally trotted out as a potential contender but it also has leather and touches of fruit (as well as much less indole)... A La Nuit is only jasmine and nothing else.
The scent presents a hyper-realistic, note-perfect rendition of a jasmine plant in full bloom. It's hard to add more to it because any emotional associations one could have with the scent are simply the associations one has with jasmine. A La Nuit on my skin perhaps has the barest suggestions of morning dew from some green notes but this is less than 1% of the impression I get - it's just the flower overwhelmingly.
It's worth noting that jasmine is widely used in perfume but much of the time has its indole removed. Indole is a small molecule (the core part of tryptophan) which is naturally produced both by certain plants (like jasmines) and by the bacteria that live in the human gut. Smelled alone, it ranges from mothballs to fleshy, faecal touches but it is a natural part of the scent of jasmine and underlies its seductive heat. It is presented in full force here in A La Nuit but never strays into crass or unpleasant territory.
The linearity of A La Nuit can pose the risk of olfactory fatigue, however, which can lead to reapplication and risks becoming a jasmine nuke, so do dose carefully and ideally on your extremities so your nose doesn't get tired (speaking from personal experience). A La Nuit goes a clear 7 hours on my skin and is unisex because it smells like a plant.

This is hands down my favorite jasmine perfume. It's authentic and not at all cloying. If you've ever lived in New Orleans, it smells exactly like the Lower Garden District on a warm spring day: delicate, sweet, bright, humid, and just slightly vegetal. The only downside is that it's not a very long-lasting scent, at least not in my experience. Still, it's a great daytime perfume--unique, feminine, natural, and subtle. If you don't like white florals or indole, this perfume definitely isn't for you--but, on the flipside, if you like strong and sweet white florals, you might find this a little too natural. The perfect perfume for someone seeking an authentic jasmine scent. Maybe stick to sample sizes because of the lack of longevity, though!

A beautiful jasmine solifor delicately combined with some green, musk, and benzoin notes. It's not heady or cloying, and the sillage and longevity are moderate. It reminds me of a sunny summer day in Venice - balmy breeze and star jasmine bushes. Truly gorgeous.

I really would like to get a chance to try this since im a jasmin lover, but I cant find it where I live.
If any has tried one of those 3 - which are the jasmin scents I ve tried:
- Serge Lutens Fils De Joie
-Serge Lutens La Religieuse
- Grand Bal Christian Dior
Is it similar to any of them Or is it different on its own??

There's not much left to say since all those great reviews below have already captured the essence of A La Nuit perfectly. Still, I can't stop myself from writing that this is the best jasmine soliflore I came across so far. Greek jasmine hedges on a hot afternoon in a bottle, indolic and beautiful. It's colder in my country of residence and people do not plant actual jasmine outside so I am more used to jasmine's tamer brother, mock orange (Philadelhus), but I still enjoy A La Nuit a lot. Moderate sillage with moderate to weak longevity, depending on the temperature outside.

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A very true, strong jasmine. I am talking of a decant I have and cherish dated 2005. Indolic with a passion... if indolic scares you, steer clear! (Don't know about the current reformulation.)
One of my preferred SL (together with Chergui and Fleurs d'Oranger).
To me it smells so intense, so true to the real flower, like you are standing in front of a full blossoming Jasmine bush, in a hot summer night in a mediterranean country. Hence the name...
It reminds me of Morocco or Tunisia: it is luxurious, warm, very feminine.
Must be used with a light hand as it can be very "upfront" and strong, possibly cloying or headache inducing to some noses... especially in summer.
Not office friendly, neither similar public close gatherings (i.e. avoid on planes, cinemas or similar). To be worn with proper attire and with a poise, otherwise it will wear you!
I love to smell it on my skin when temperatures cool down, to remind me of summer and vacation days.
Defintely a must try for any jasmine lovers.

I would like to know how this compares to the newer Lutens (night) jasmine, Fils de Joie.
A la Nuit is very well made, with all the glory and the limits of soliflores. Honey and nitro musks are very light allowing the jasmine to shine through, and it's a very pure, crystalline jasmine we have here, with the merest hint of greenery.
Personally I am somehow gutted that on my skin is very similar to Arpege by Lanvin that shows a lot of clean, soapy jasmine when I wear it, and nothing else.

A lovely and delicate jasmine soliflore that showcases the flower in all its delicate glory. The perfume has a brief opening with an accord made of green shoots and clove. Almost immediately it heads to the jasmine heart which is comprised of all the three main varieties of jasmine. The perfume settles on a sweet powdery bed of benzoin, honey and synthetic musk. A radiant feminine leaning scent with moderate sillage, projection and good longevity, this is a sheer exercise in beautiful blending with simple high quality natural ingredients. Simply beautiful. Enjoy!

I remember smelling A la nuit in 2006 or 2007, but decided against buying a bottle at that time because I was more into the other Lutenses, Chergui, Fumerie Turque etc.
Last year I suddenly wanted a heavy jasmine fragrance and my search led me to A la Nuit. Of course now it’s almost impossible to find. Sigh.
Today I was looking through my samples and low and behold, what do I see there? A la Nuit? I didn’t know I had that. I think it’s maybe 4 years old? Anyhow.
I sprayed it on my wrist, all excited to finally greet this beauty again...
??? Wait. Is this really à la Nuit? But, I already have an identical scent. Grand Bal!
So there you have it. I don’t need to hunt for a bottle then sell a kidney to buy à la Nuit. I have 125 ml of Grand Bal ❤️

*this is my opinion, on my skin and to my nose.

This is less indolic than Joy by Jean Patou (vintage) and more indolic than Nasomatto Nuda. All about naturalistic jasmine.

The first honey note is complete sorcery. It drops the jasmine bomb and flies away.


This jasmine has an uncanny translucency that recalls the lilac in En Passant. It feels as if you are standing near it, rather than wearing it. There is dew and earth and snapped stems and wispy trails of honey. 


After the first few minutes, it's achingly light, as some others have mentioned, and it seems to drift in and out in a naturalistic way. It's lovely if you want to feel like you're walking through a garden, but perhaps frustratingly elusive if you want to feel like you're wearing perfume.

This is the most authentic jasmin you can get. I use it, before sleeping, to ease my nostalgia to my country , summer, vacation .... It is really that good.

Too beautiful to be worn everyday. I just can't imagine I'm running out this beauty.

Strong, sharp, aldehydic, clean jasmin-soapy scent.

While Diptyque Olene smells like jasmine green tea, A La Nuit smells just like a bush of star jasmine flowers in full bloom in the California spring. Designer fragrance lovers who enjoy scents like Alien or Armani Code probably won't like this, as those fragrances give us a romaticized sketch of jasmine rather than a photorealistic picture. A La Nuit is for the fragrance lover who appreciates everything about a real jasmine flower, warts and all. It opens up with indoles galore (yes, it's slightly cacapoopooey) and will prevent anyone who hates white flowers from ever trying a jasmine fragrance again. But hear me out. A La Nuit later softens into a beautiful, sweet, creamy and narcotic jasmine. The scent hypnotizes you and forces you to keep sniffing. If you have smelled fresh jasmine and think that it is a seductive scent, then you should at least give A La Nuit a try. To me, it is the epitome of a star jasmine fragrance.

Pretty scent that does not last very long , unfortunately .

I purchased A la nuit recently and I freaking love it. It smells devine. Smells like jasmine green tea from Ahmad Tea that I drink everyday. Its fresh green jasmine, slightly sweet from honey, I get just a lil spice from clove and just sliightly indole. The jasmine note blows my mind of how lovely and natural the smell is. Love love love A la nuit so much. The longevity and sillage is moderate on my skin. It’s a great perfume for summer.

Love love love this one. Jasmine all the way. Such a beautiful fragrance. Both men and women can wear. Longevity fantastic on me. This is an all day fragrance, I could see smell this in my hair lying on my pillow.
I also feel this is an all season jasmine. One of my favorites from Serge Lutens of all time.

Exactly the smell of the jasmine flowers under the window of my room when I was a child here in Indonesia. So beautiful and fresh. I wear it everytime I want to reminisce my childhood. Amongst my favorite jasmine fragrance, or easily one of my favorite fragrances.

This is my Holy Grail perfume & one of the best jasmines out there. The honey turns it from what could be too thin and light to an actual jasmine bush blooming at midnight in a mediterranean garden. It's also my biggest fragrance heartbreak, because I'm lucky if it lasts an hour on me. Even so, I know one day I'll cave and buy a full bottle anyway... it's that good.

Too many notes in the listing. I thought this was a soliflore because I can only smell pure jasmine. Best jasmine scent I've smelled so far, by the way. It's a pity that it didn't make it into the new black labelled bottles. Now you can only find this beauty in the bell-shaped bottles and that means a higher price.

Amazingly soft and delicate perfume. A memory of the night flowers, powdery jasmine, subtle but very good projection. Feminine, not for the 'testoteronic' man but may be a surprise. This is my first Serge Lutens love.

No way this is unisex! I usually don't care about the labels put on fragrances and wear what I want but this is just too feminine to wear as a burly guy!

The opening is amazing! One of the best jasmines I've smelled but the animalic part is not for me. I couldn't pull this one off. The animalic part does fade but it doesn't smell good on me.
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Opening verges on jasmine overload, but within 15 minutes this floral scent mellows into a mesmerizing beauty. I get medicinal - indolic - tropical in that order, possibly because three different jasmine flowers were used in this creation.

Benzoin and honey are blended with a masterful, light hand. I like A La Nuit but only in summer heat, and it’s more night than day. Life is about 2.5 hours on my dry skin.

Oh my God I looooove this. This is the jasmine I’ve been missing in my life. This is almost euphoric it’s so sunshine fresh and uplifting like a perfect summer day. It’s like standing in front of a jasmine bush and inhaling the natural beautiful green from the flower to the leaves. This is demure and angelic. I read that this fragrance is a combination of all the different types of jasmine and the use of the jasmine flower from the bud all the way to it’s demise. It’s giving you the whole life of the jasmine flower from it’s budding first minutes to it’s animalic death. Such innocence here like a little fawn nuzzling the dewy soft jasmine petals on a forest floor. There is a gentle quality to SL fragrances that I’ve experienced that lull me into a quiet mood. My 5 year old smelled this on me rolled his eyes up and sighed. Then he said, “I want to go outside.” Yeah....so good it makes you dizzy and want a walk in nature.

Anyway, this fragrance is definitely a jasmine lover’s dream. If you truly love jasmine but not too indolic and spicy like you find in Lust this is a nice option for you. I love both fragrances that celebrate the jasmine flower. This fragrance has a sort of flower on the vine quality that I’m very much digging. This jasmine is delicate, soft, heavy on the stem, and dripping with dew and very green like it’s alive. In fact I’m surprised that Dew isn’t among the notes listed. It just smells that way naturally. Must be those green notes that are sharp at first like the stem of the flower snapped in half right under your nose then it dies down and lingers just adding a tiny bit of freshness. The honey in this isn’t syrupy or thick like it is in Elie Saab or even that noticeable. It’s INCREDIBLY light. I feel like the description is missing the word “Fresh.” But not in an aquatic way, this smells like fresh cut narcotic jasmine. There is also an animalic twinge there. This jasmine seems to go though all the stages from fresh all the way to it’s demise. Now that I have a more developed notes I recognize just how animalic this fragrance is it’s got a musky quality of jasmine that the green note and the menthol like clove slices through with a vaporous knife. All the other notes in this fragrance just support that beautiful jasmine note so smoothly and brilliantly and are basically creating a jasmine soliflore. All this creates a photorealistic fresh realistic jasmine. So far I’m very impressed with Serge Lutens. I can’t wait to add more from this house to my collection. Monsieur Lutens is a poet with scent. Like any great artist he takes me to a visceral place. But his art is a place of beauty, positivity, nostalgia, a zen like meditation. I’m gives me a rush of dopamine. I know I sound a bit overboard but I feel this fragrance. It has a soul.

Oh.My.God! This is the most authentic jasmine scent I've ever encountered, hands down! The opening is so divine, it's like being surrounded by thousands of jasmines on full bloom with a hint of something sweet (honey?) then die down into very soft, airy and lingering ones. I used to love picking jasmines and pressing them between the pages of a book as a child and this just brings back those good old days... a must-try for those who enjoy jasmine.

This is the best jasmine ever. The first spray is a burst of very green jasmine and a slight sweetness to it. It has the perfect amount of green note and honey without getting too sweet or too green. The search for my jasmine scent stops here.

I've only worn this today so will add to the review later but...while I get the pretty night blooming jasmine and swere benzoin, I feel like I get quite a bit of honeysuckle in the drydown. Anybody else?

i have a jasmine bush about 4 feet from my front door that i pass every day. to my nose: a la nuit is the purest most vivid jasmine fragrance i've ever encountered. while it is a straight forward smoosh-your-face-in-a-jasmine-bush sort of jasmine, i think the effect on the wearer is not so straight forward at all, as it creates an air of a bit of confident mystery. upon smelling it for the very first time (about 6 months ago, now), the initial honey blast was WAY too sweet for my taste, but i've developed a bit of a pavlovian adaptation to it as the jasmine is the reward. on me, it is quite strong but with only moderate sillage. gave a bottle to my white-floral-obsessed mother who was so entranced by it she got through half the bottle in 6 weeks....this fragrance definitely has that sort of hypnotic power.

I have to add to my previous review. This is one of those situations where the subjective nature of people's loves, likes, and dislikes astounds me, not to mention the role of body chemistry. To me this is so achingly beautiful that I can not imagine anyone not falling in love with it! But that's the nature of all things fragrant and creative - one person's treasure is another's trash. This may be my favorite jasmine of all time, though it is perfectly acceptable for others to think differently. Viva la difference!

Death by Jasmine. Not a bad way to go— suffocated under the beauty of a million jasmines.
Really the ideal Jasmine Queen.

This is a perfect California nights jasmine, if you live in LA you will find this jasmine everywhere along the coastline (especially in the santa monica area). This along with Van Cleef's California Reverie is a masterpiece, but VC's version is fleeting and almost non-existent past the 15 minute mark. I love this one, it is much more affordable and lasts a decent amount of time.

@churinl review is spot on. Sweet indolic jasmine...but not overwhelmingly animalic...just very subtle.

Intense elegant jasmine! Possibly because Sheldrake combined a multitude of jasmine notes, this jasmine goes through several subtle transitions . . . from tropical to fragile to hothouse. The secondary notes hover in the background, never coalescing into an intrusion, simply adding context for the white stars. This bloom is intrinsically sweet and in lesser hands it would be syrupy, but the fragrance comes across as delicate and fresh. There's a depth that draws your nose in ever closer. A classic.

@icecube - thank you. I have just corrected my review.

Just received a bottle in the mail today. First impression is a soft to moderately indolic jasmine, slightly dirty. Just enough to keep it interesting. As she settles, a touch of honey shows up to sweeten things up, and she settles on a bed of light musk - not animalic, just sort of airy. It is a cool, autumn day today, with temperatures in the 50s, and the longevity is moderate and the sillage is soft. I can't wait to try her in the spring, as I imagine warmer temps will really open things up. This is a big love for me - the jasmine I have been looking for!

Honeyed indolic jasmine petals and leaves. I love the honey in it, but I can't get past something that's synthetic and plastic about it, which prevents me from loving it completely. I can also detect something sour in it (grenadine?) It's nice, but there are still better jasmines out there (Lust, Jasmin Rouge, Madagascan Jasmine, etc)

Over the years I've tested this on several occasions. My collection lacks a good jasmin and I love several of Lutens' other offerings. So I kept thinking I should at least like this. But something felt so wrong with every test. I couldn't pin it down. Yes there's jasmin, but in a way that really bothers me.
Recently I went for a full confrontation hoping to settle this once and for all. I purposefully oversprayed, as in 8-10 sprays. And finally I could identify what was bothering me: after the short-lived opening of jasmin this becomes full on lilley of the valley on me. That was it all along. Now a sniff at the cap will already reveal the dreaded lotv, so I'll admit defeat with this on.

This is really dead by Jasmine. I like more night blooming jasmine with airy and clean aspect. This one is indolic and too harsh for me.

Killer Superfund jasmine. My first impression of this was bad. I decided to use up my sample during a heat wave, and it did well under those conditions, so I've made a kind of peace with it.

The top is plasticky, with almost a sour cherry note to it. When the green bud aspect comes in, the fragrance still smells synthetic to me. Like the time I bought Concord grapes at the farmer's market and discovered "grape flavor" is based on them, I realized sometimes real things smell fake. That's A La Nuit.

My mental image of this is a bored mall salesclerk snapping gum and looking at their phone. The mood isn't sensual, but hostile with plausible deniability, because of the surface pretty. That could be a perfume I need.

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Scent & Qualiy: 10/10
Longevity: 6/10
Sillage: 6/10
Creativity & Uniqueness: 6/10
Affordability: 6/10
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Overall: 6.8+ 0.5= 7.3/10

2/10

I find this one similar to Fleurs d'Oranger, or maybe all of the Serge Lutens's perfumes are kind of similar to each other? Cause I have recently found them, but even if they are, I am totally a fan.

Both of them have something nostalgic, something childhood-like, but not childish. Something so natural, primal and positive. But not primal in an animalic way, nor positive in a candy way. They have brightness and beauty that can really be unisex (although in my opinion, very sensual and feminine), there is not too much of anything.

If I had to describe them in one word, I would say sincere. And I appreciate this among everything. I really feel like myself wearing them. Plus, they are long lasting and have perfect lively performance.

I actually prefer Fleurs d'Oranger. A La Nuit is more serious and reserved, for my taste is more "normal" and unisex. Jasmine really dominates at first here, but I have to say that at the beginning I've sensed something plastic in that jasmine, which I didn't like, but it disappeared quite quickly. Then it developed into calming yet strong beauty that is leaving me feeling just perfect. Calm, but tickling somewhere deep down.

I have a bush of jasmine sambac in my garden and I was used to the beautiful airy and optimistic rendition of jasmine from say, "Parlez moi d'amour - eau fraiche"by Galliano. Sadly the latter doesn't perform incredibly.
The combination of jasmine and cloves makes up for the" industrial " jasmine, if I may put it so...jasmine on steel, jasmine on chemicals. But the smell might not be so chemically as I first thought, upon smelling some white hyacinth from my garden, I found out nature can make up such" monstrosity" of smells. I like it though, it's a flowey piquant to the extreme.
Luckily for some, it tones down quickly, it becomes a skin scent within hour and you dont have to worry about giving people headaches. I wouldn't pay for this, not for the smell or for the staying power , I got it from my sister, who couldn't handle it at all.
Best use I found for this yet during cold season mix it with Dior Addict and maybe Kenzo Jungle Elephant for that warm spicy and sweet scent I crave so much.
The search for an airy, yet resistant jasmine is still on.

Jasmines fresh cuts.

The essence of the jasmine is lost within the fresh green cuts as I keep on sniffing jasmines in the background as if there were a single jasmine flower within a green field .
As it goes colder the strength of the jasmine grow bigger but by bit to overcome the scene. It has some rancid in the jasmines as I believe the jasmines used here are Indian jasmine which is famous of being quite strong and has big amount of rancidity.

The honey in here is trying so hard to sweeten the jasmines but the musk is adding more rancidity and I believe there is red roses as well because of the slight sharpness I am detecting.

This is for jasmines lovers and it has nothing to do with "nuda" by Nasomatto.

Sweet jasmine tea. This is rather a feminine scent, and for casual, friendly occassions where you just want to be comfortable and yourself, rather than for times when you dress to impress.

I wore this on my wedding night. Yes it's floral, it is jasmine but an overly sweet heady jasmine, too cloying for my taste. I finished the bottle and even recommended it to my daughter, I bought her a bottle at Harrods when I visited her in London a couple of years ago, but I never bought it again for myself. I don't know why, I liked it at the time but somehow it didn't make its mark on me.
Having spent some months in Egypt in my childhood, I can never forget the heady and hypnotic fragrance of Egyptian jasmine. This was close, but no cigar.

I've been told this is the go-to for people who want a niche jasmine as-close-as-you'll-get-to-a-soliflor. Not 100% realistic (by which I mean slightly artificial-smelling - wish they'd left out the other notes especially musk/honey which are faint but do affect it). But yes, this is probably as close to real jasmine as you're going to get in a fragrance.

Like.

For Jasmine lovers. Or for lovers in general... very passionate sweet bouquet of freshly cut jasmine. Not for everyone, but I enjoy it. Two sprays are the maximum your nose can survive. The scent of these beautiful night flowers consider to be an afrodisiaque, so men complimenting me "this is the way each woman should smell". Women are not so loyal. Competition?))) No, we are just from different planets: Venus and Mars. I love my feminine planet. It smells like jasmine, probably...

This is a "stinky" jasmine if worn alone and sprayed as a regular perfume (one or two sprays). It is so heavy not every person would want to share a car in this cloud. However, it is an amazing clone of jasmine smell. I just have to find out how to use it as a layering scent and how to "dilute" it with some softer or sweeter fragrances.

Swear to god, I get Twizzlers on the first spray. Must be the grenadine. Then I get spicy honey, and of course jasmine, but this combination makes it more interesting than your regular old white floral. This is jasmine mixed with waxy plants cooling after a long humid day in the sun. In fact, this is a very Southern perfume. I have smelled A La Nuit before, on a New Orleans patio or a Tallahassee veranda. Oh, you havent tried it? Bless your heart.

This is the kind of jasmine that I don't like, it's not a heady narcotic tropical sweet jasmine like the jasmine sambac kind but a rather bitter, jasmine green tea kind of jasmine..

Jasmine - living, blooming, exotic, heady jasmine. This is one of the few fragrances that comes close. I was encouraged to go with A la Nuit by the spouse. He even purchased it for me as a gift. Yes it is beautiful but after the initial few moments, I become anosmic to it. Everyone else gets to enjoy it, just not me. I am working on finding a new home for her now, where she will be better appreciated.

The Valkyrie's Vigil by
Edward Robert Hughes
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Serge Lutens 'A La Nuit' is delicious but... it just doesn't last for more than 2 hours. Something so beautiful yet so fleeting just isn't worth it.

(Note to the Lutens HQ; please make a longer lasting version)

This is my gold-standard jasmin. Where as others mix in other white flowers that ruin it trying to clean her up, this is just raw and unapologetically jasmin, stripped naked, petals bruised and crushed into crumpled bedsheets.
The honey, the grenadine, those are the drink on your lips, the musk the scent of your skin, the green the grass beneath your feet...there is nothing extra here.

It's in the eye of the beholder whether or not this is vulgar or art, for some this will be too lewd and indolic, for others it will be pure and aesthetic.

This is a filthy beast in the best possible way!
All the animaliac notes (those indoles!) without trying to gloss them over with soap and sugar. No, this is feral and has never lived indoors,so be careful.
I wouldn't dare wear this in the light of day, it's too dark and narcotic, and would likely turn fetid in the noonday heat.
It opens sharp and a little harsh, but when it dries down, the warmth of the resins and honey come out, there's a nice interplay of honey and jasmin indoles there, and then it stays thick and and consistent.

Quite simple, JASMIN IN A BOTTLE.

Lovely!

Oh my, as a true Jasmine lover I see I did not even write a review for this one, eventhough I am on my second bottle.
This is the only perfume I have ever repurchased (apart from CK one, but that is mainly because that was the first perfume my 13 old self bought back in the days and therefore I have a weak spot for that one)
Yes I love this one, but I still miss something...I miss creamyness.
Out of all the Jasmine perfumes this one and Nuda from Nasomatto are the ones I reach for the most.
But still...I don't know what it is with me these days, but after years of trying countless Jasmine perfumes and not finding what I am searching for (which is a replica of Flying Fox from Lush or the Godiva shampoo bar) I just feel discouraged.
Almost as a revolt, I find myself returning to my good old CK one, which doesn't even come close to what I wish I would smell like.
But I am just fed up with Jasmine fragrances either being super indolic or smell like a random white floral green citrussy mix.
A la Nuit is a good Jasmine and in a way it satisfies my Jasmine cravings, but it just has some sort of 'bitter' note to it that i find in many soliflore Jasmines and that I am not too fond of.
But no shade on this perfume, it still trumps most of the other ones out there!
I decided to not throw in the towel and I just ordered 15 new samples of Jasmine fragrances, so I will continue my search.

This fragrance is like a sunset--really good for about an hour.

If jasmine is one of my favorite notes, why I don't have a true jasmine perfume? The reason is that jasmine is so easily 'too much': too narcotic, indolic, animalic, and if used judiciously, can be too easily overwhelmed by other notes. I like my jasmine tempered, so I knew I would need to have patience with this one.

A la Nuit opens with an inhale of lush jasmine blossoms, bushy, profuse; you are surrounded with no escape. If you don't like this sensation in life, you probably won't in a fragrance, either. It soon becomes more spacious, softening with soapy tufts of white, honeyed cream. The woody drydown surprises with uncommon grace for such a a big floral fragrance. I would not wear this for seduction, but someone might.

"Death by Jasmine"......I love it!

Death by jasmine... If you love jasmine like I do, not the poor old typical jasmine that all white flowery perfumes have,but the absolute, mesmerizing Midnight, freshly bloomed one.... Then go for it. One of the most beautiful fragrances and my first serge lutens.

Cassiano - I just want to let you know that A la nuit in french means To the night if you translate it to english.
A night in english translate une nuit in french.
As in so many languages it has a subtle meaning that only the people speaking the language knows and in french this is very common.
I see in many of your translations of Serge Lutens perfumes - it does not give the right meaning behind.
I dont mean to correct you just to give the right meaning and understanding of the name as to me they often seems quite poetical.

Must love jasmine. This was a blind buy that I knew I would love because I am a jasmine lover. This perfume makes me feel like I am standing in a garden full of jasmine covered in rain drops. It has a fresh, dewy qquality to it that keeps it from being a sneezy floral. The honey and musk are there too, but jasmine is the star of the show. I adore this fragrance, I wish the longevity was slightly better, but it's so beautiful I'm willing to overlook that.

Jasmine plays an important supporting role in some of my favourite floral scents. But in A La Nuit, it takes centre stage - and it delivers the performance of its career.

In A La Nuit, jasmine is not typecast as the indolic counterpart to its fruitier cousin, ylang yalng. Neither is it a narcotic angel whose sweetness is always overshadowed by its bolshy, rotten step-sister, tuberose. Here, jasmine stands alone in all its multifaceted glory. It is sweet, delicate, intoxicating, sap-green and waxy white. It's a stunning rendition that really showcases jasmine's depth and breadth.

Jasmine's supporting cast in A La Nuit consists of sweet honey, laundry-clean musk and a tiny drop of creamy oriental resins. It's a near-perfect accompaniment.

Overall, this isn't just the best jasmine scent I've smelled - it's the very best white floral I've tried, period. Blissful, transcendent, naughty and nice - it's a minor masterpiece.

A La Nuit
Two of the best Jasmine dominated frags on the market today is this one and niche house Sammarco's Alter.

A la nuit explodes out of the bottle with pure jasmine. Its honeyed benzoin base appear a bit later, but it is just a wonderful realistic jasmine soliflore at this price point.

I use it to layer and femme other frags like opium, and add interest to gourmand chocolate/patch frags. I wish lasting power was better. A seductive stunner that can be worn alone or with other frags.

KABOOM! A huge firework explosion of hyper-realistic beautiful narcotic jasmine!

Captures the green buds, creamy sap, sweet nectar and heady indoles, delivered courtesey of a huge suckerpunch to the senses.

Sadly, it's longevity is as fleeting as a firework too and it burns itself out in a few hours. But what a couple of hours!

a dry, herbal, synthetic, plastic white florl that smells of jasmine, lilly of the valley with maybe some gardenia; it is odd, sweet but not cloying, a bid medicinal

I agree with SuzySchnabel, this is all about jasmin. But A la nuit has the freshness I found lacking in another jasmin perfume I recently tried (Jasmin Kama by Rania J). The green notes here save the jasmin from being cloying, so even though I'm not a jasmin fan, I can enjoy my sample.

Too, too much, overpowering and suffocating.

What a huge jasmine! Top, middle and bottom jasmine - fresh and clear with tenacity. To the average sniffer, this will be too strong. It is gorgeous, just not for me.

One spray on me:
Sillage: a foot
Longevity: 2 hours at arms' length then waft here and there for the next two
Rating: 2/5

A La Nuit arrived in the market in 2000 and its name means, in English, "to the night". Serge Lutens compares its fragrance to a ladder with rungs of silk, in which the perfume exudes until it reaches heaven to explode like fireworks.

A La Nuit has notes of white honey (considered one of the most valuable in the market, because of its sweet content, its purity, and its color), benzoin, cloves, musk, green shoots and three types of Jasmine: Moroccan, Egyptian and Indian (also known as star Jasmine).

Obviously, this is a perfume dominated by jasmine. For this reason, is one of the few perfumes of the House that is classified as feminine. If you don't like fragrances with jasmine very present, so don't even think about meeting A La Nuit. However, even if it is the case, I'm sure you will admire the quality of this creation.

A La Nuit touches the skin showing all possible facets of jasmine. In the first phase of evolution, it is possible to feel the indolic jasmine, the sensual and the fruity, as well as the dirty jasmine, the carnal and the green. It's like diving into an absolute of jasmine that exhales with perfection. Then, about 2 hours after application, the floral aspect becomes calmer and you can notice nuances that are greener and vegetable, so to speak. I believe it is the smell of green shoots. At the same time, a slight sweetness lards the base of the fragrance and the musk also becomes more vivid.

At this stage, I find myself intrigued by the distinctive aroma and I wonder if I would have the courage to buy a bottle for my own use. So, the reason speaks louder than the emotion and I remember that A La Nuit is not a perfume made for men, according to Serge's option. It worths saying that in addition to project very well, it also remained for more than 10 hours on my skin.

I can see several women wearing this perfume: the single, the engaged, the innocent, the naughty, the naive, the smart, the simple or the elegant. As well as all the nuances of jasmine were bottled in a fragrance, with A La Nuit all women can be one.

This is Godly beautiful! So beautiful it hurts! It touches so many strings in me I hardly was aware of, like a beautiful song which stayes in Your mind and drives U insane with its poisoning obsessive beauty. For me this is jasmine yes, but a bit more on the tuberose side, which is a plus. I keep reading about lasting power, my skin keeps it, and keeps it long and transforms it into a tuberose so real that I keep aching for more!

ahh the opening is that strong jasmine that reminds me of some jasmines from lush, but a little smoother. it's strong and true. jasmine can often go wrong on me, but i am loving this one in the opening. it's one of the most realistic jasmines i've ever smelled. a bit of greenery becomes apparent after being on the skin for awhile. the image that comes to mind is laying in the grass on a warm evening surrounded by jasmine bushes. mmm. the greenery gets stronger and balances with the jasmine after awhile-less heady, more leafy. i can't wait to try this in summer when the weather is warm, since it's winter now. i think then it'll be amazing.

The image of an orchestra always comes to mind when testing A La Nuit.

The very first few moments of the perfume are slightly cacophonous - the orchestra warming up. What you smell is an intensely natural interpretation of jasmine, of smelling jasmine in real life, the whole plant. There's the heady scent of the blossoms themselves, of course, and also their leaves, and maybe other leaves in the garden. There's the mildest hint of the minerally dirt they grow in. There are gusts of wind in this garden, all is not calm.

Very soon, the orchestra finds its note, and comes together: now we have the blossom proper, and how beautiful it is. Intoxicatingly rich, but somehow delicate as well.

At around the half-hour mark the orchestra adds (to my nose) a base note of perhaps ylang-ylang, or another yellow flower; this transforms the jasmine briefly into an almost-tropical gardenia accord. This stage is round and beautiful, but rather short-lived; the orchestra soon finds its original note again.

And this is the note it holds, unwavering, for HOURS. Now, it's a beautiful note, but imagine the terrible beauty of an orchestra holding one note. What started off as gorgeous and tranquil becomes, only by repetition, madness-inducing.

I get basically no development from A la Nuit, no warmth or melding with the skin. Just this persistent, too-real jasmine always hovering about me.

I think it's a work of art, but totally unwearable.

Oh boy. This is the best jasmine I have ever smelt! A massive hit of jasmine (and tiare?) which lasts all day. I was feeling blah this morning, sprayed this on and it was an instant pick me up and made me feel glam. Deep, sexy, floral glam. Love it. Thank you so much to Xrayer for the sample!
Addition to my first note - I have been resniffing the empty vial of this at intervals because it is SO beautiful. It reminds me of the garden out front of the little house where I grew up, of my grandmother and my mother - and of true first love, the love and the heartbreak sting. Addictively beautiful.

I feel heartbroken with this perfume. It's the purest, most beautiful, similar to the real thing jasmine perfume I've ever had the pleasure to smell, but, it doesn't last. At all. It's like falling in love with a incredibly attractive and funny man that you know in advance is gonna lose interest in you and break your heart. How unfair.

I loved the intense jasmine smell on the blotter, but on my skin it simply faded to almost nothing within an hour. I recommend to try this on your skin before buying it.

I usually love jasmine scents, but this one smells somehow medicinal on me. I find it very unpleasant. Kind of sickening.

My search is over for a daffodil perfume! I had no luck with any of the narcissus fragrances. They all smelled like cheap motel soap on me. Then I got A La Nuit as a very inexpensive blind buy and there it was. A big field of yellow daffodils on a coldish Spring day. There are no daffodils in the blend, but on me that's all there is until the dry down. Sadly it comes too soon.

My early Spring time morning is gone in about half an hour. Sillage is moderate. I have to recommend spraying some on your foundation garments to keep it alive for longer.

I will buy it again and again. When you've searched so long and then find something this perfect you don't mess around.

Jasmine in a bottle. Creamy, sultry, lovely. It smells just like the jasmine plant we had in our backyard, when I lived in South America. It's truly beautiful. However, I have the same problem that woodlandalk described: it smells powerful for 15 minutes then calms and fades to skin scent after 1 hour. Which to me means not very long-lasting. But it's a pleasure to reapply, so no prob. ;)

I love Serge Lutens.

If you could jump into Indian bazaar art/calendar art from the 1970's depicting Radha-Krishna in a garden, gazing into eachother's eyes, completely in love, the scene might smell like A La Nuit. Jasmine, though I know it comes in many forms and from many regions, "feels Indian" to me. A La Nuit is complex and deep, yet pure and understandable at the same time - like the love of Radha-Krishna.

While creamy jasmine is the dominant note in this composition, a subtle greenness reaches around the heart of A La Nuit with perfect timing, before everything feels too thick. A La Nuit gets a little "barnyard" on my skin, but I like pulling the anamalic notes here! Radha was a gopi (a cow-herding girl) and the anamalic notes further fuel the scene in my head of gopis amongst gentle cows and the divine love of Radha-Krishna.

This fragrance lacks projection after about an hour which would normally make me irritated, but with A La Nuit it seems fitting - like someone else is meant to get close to you to experience it. I'll reach for this on amourous nights when I am open to imagining, experiencing and immersing myself in love, love, love.

Absolutely agree with a previous review that A LA Nuit, SL is reminiscent of Beige, Chanel- the same sweet, fresh, spicy, honey, white floral vibes.
But if Beige is a jazz, A La Nuit is a saxophone solo of this jazz mine.
If you like the note, you'll definitely enjoy the whole performance.
Splendid jasmine! Sparkling, tingling, teasing, transparent and musky
You feel like being immersed in a plant world with just a slight hint of trees and leaves here. No fauna. No predators, no danger, no darkness. Only flora is blooming and the spring is blossoming; the nectar of Life is accumulating..
Even for me, such a lover of animalic and balsamic notes, this flowery scent is a sheer infusion of optimism and luminosity. Simply Chic!
When I wear this beauty, I wear a happy outlook on life.
"I'm not fixing things.I'm living with a joy in knowing that things can be fixed."
And I love jazz, indeed!

Edit: I wish this perfume had more lasting power and sillage, but my husband is of a different opinion, as he always smells this scent on me far longer than I do so myself !?
LA Nuit drydown is on the upbeat: nipping, crispy-fresh and bitterly green, -reminds me, somehow, of Pleasures, Estee Lauder. Pleasure to die for!

This is pleasant! Very different to the other jasmine scents I've been sniffing lately. This is lighter and more floral, not as indolic as many others. Kind of reminds me of lilacs just a bit. I can smell the honey a little, but not much, and really nothing else. Unfortunately it doesn't seem to last long.

A strong white floral, with a hint of green and woods, A La Nuit blooms on your skin in a sweet haze of white jasmines, a touch of greens, a hint of what I take to be narcissus, all sweetened with a drop of honey. The jasmine is full but polite, it is not skanky or indolic, it just reminds me of fresh blooms saturated with scent, in a squeaky clean universe where flowers would never dare smell earthy or dirty like the soil they sprang from.

My big problem with A la Nuit, and I don't know why I'm the only one mentioning this, is the staying power. Sure, in the first hour things are beautiful, but this perfume really starts to sputter out on me rather fast, and by two hours in I am down to a skin scent. Four hours in I am left with but a faint musk drydown that I have to bury my nose against to detect. So that kind of ruins it for me.

My review ends here, but I must digress a little. Today I used a coconut-scented shampoo to wash my hair with, and that scent stayed with me ALL DAY. WHY DOES THE PERFUME IN MY $5 SHAMPOO LAST LONGER THAN MY $75 PERFUMES??!?!

There are some perfumes that I'm okay with a short life, some colognes, some bright summer citrus perfumes, a few 'natural' niche houses (like Annick Goutal, but even with them I'm starting to run out of patience.) Generally though I am tired of my perfumes crapping out on me after an hour or two. Am I the only one?

This is realistic jasmine a hundred times over. Soapy, fresh, green, and soft. I don't detect any other notes in this one, just a strong but gentle jasmine. If you stuck your nose straight into a jasmine flower, this is what you would smell.

A beautiful woman with long curly blonde hair wearing a white gauzy dress. She lives in an enchanted garden and writes poetry up in the willow trees. However, she's awfully hard to catch and disappears without a trace within an hour. You love her, but the frustration isn't worth it.

This is my second perfume from SL brand, after my signature Fleurs d' Oranger!
The opening is a bit strong with the honey dominating a lot the pefume. But, after some minutes the jasmine rules together with a fresh green note that makes the perfume freshly flowery! I love soliflores so this is a keeper! Beautiful perfume for all Jasmine flowers.
It does not stay long, so I need to reaply, but I get many compliments!

Edit: Had to give it away....it created me very bad headaches :(

I decided to try A La Nuit after reading various blogs and articles about Indolic perfumes. The name kept popping up and it piqued my curiosity since, though I've probably smelled indolic scents, I'm not sure I could identify which ones are or aren't. So, I bought a sample based on the name alone, without even knowing what was in this. I assumed it was either jasmine or other white florals of some kind - I just wanted to see what made this different from other white florals. If it truly was 'dirty' or 'fecal'...

Right off the bat, it's a very powerful scent. A sweet and smoky burst of jasmine, accompanied by pleasant green notes. I'm still not sure I understand indoles, but what I do get out of A La Nuit is a very believable, deep floral experience. It's like sniffing actual jasmine in a dewy, grassy field. But those green, grassy notes quickly dissipate and it develops into something much sultrier.

Whew, there's that smoke again! I can tell it's the cloves causing the back of my throat to tingle, because it's exactly the same sensation as being around second-hand smoke from clove cigarettes. (Which luckily reminds me of my late teens, hanging around in clovey smoke-filled concert venues). That smoky quality also dies down a little bit, and leaves just a lingering trail of smoke and spice, like an incense stick burning out. Ahh...

If this indeed features indoles, fear not - this isn't fecal at all. Is it 'dirty'? Well, maybe in the way that soil can have a rich, pleasing earthy scent. Also worth noting - various types of African/Indian jasmine were used in this composition, and it shows. It's absolutely exotic and fascinating.

Yes indeed, there is some jasmine here, and yet......
Very linear for me. I am fond of the white flowers so this is an easy scent to like. I am really enjoying my sample and a little goes a long way, so it will last a long time
Having said that, I feel that something is missing to make this frag complete. Would I purchase a FB, no.

Edit November

I think I might get a better reading of this frag if I apply a spray from a bottle rather than dabbing from a sample.

This is the first jasmine in my quest for the perfect jasmine scent.

Edit, 2016. Still the best jasmine that I have found, so far.

Wow this fragrance is so addictive, i don't know what to say. The jasmine is a real live blooming bush in the garden just after sunset and the aroma is intoxicating. Its has a slightly sweet edge coz of the honey and the cloves stops it going over board. There is also a tenderness and mystery about it It's just poetic i don't know how to describe it...but i think i have found my signature scent.!!! Actually this is how i would describe this fragrance......

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate:
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date;

On the hunt for my perfect jasmine, I sampled A La Nuit. It smells very much like Montale's Jasmin Full. Both perfumes really pay homage to the jasmine flower. However, I will add that both perfumes contain a slightly bitter, stale soap scent about them that is unpleasant. Where this quality starts out strong in Montale's perfume yet ultimately disappears entirely, it is not so strong in A La Nuit, but it never quite goes away. For this reason, I prefer Jasmin Full.

Edited to add: I own La Religieuse, and while I do not like the top notes, the drydown is really beautiful. The jasmine in the drydown is sweeter and more tender than in A La Nuit. A La Nuit is jasmine in full bloom. La Religieuse is the delicate little buds.

I was at a Shiseido counter and the sales assistant relentlessly kept trying to sell me a red lipstick, I am not a red lipstick person! She gave up, and showed me Serge Lutens A La Nuit and said "this is red lipstick in a perfume". She gave me several samples of this to try. This is not just red lipstick in a bottle but pure Lust! Stark and overbearing jasmine that is animalistic and sweet. You check into Jasmines brothel and never check out! There is honey in this but thank goodness its just enough and balanced with a bit of green and freshness.

A small memory from jasmine and I: There was a hipster scene bar in the middle of the city where I used to live, the kind of bar where people smoke strange things, drinking micro brew beer, art work everywhere, bands playing... it was really "cool" but how I found this place is because the whole wall/fence that was hiding this bar was completely covered in jasmine and left a huge trail of it's scent in the area. A friend and I were walking to another bar and next thing we know "Wow, what is that smell?! Where is that coming from?!" we instead followed the jasmine scent to find this scene bar. It was fun to have some Wiccan girl describe me her soul, the universe, and a hot guy in tattoos and piercings flirting with me. True story! The bar has been renamed many times but always kept that jasmine covered wall. A La Nuit reminds me of that time and smells like realistic fresh jasmine, leaving a solid trail of flowers for you to trip and fall headfirst into its pungent heart.

This has got to be my favorite jasmine perfume. Unforgettable. A must have for jasmine lovers!

Sweet sweet sweet jasmine. Incidentally my favourite note, so I'm a clear fan of this, but it lacks what could have been done with and to jasmine by lutens....it could have been dirtied, made greener, it could have been lifted into brightness or deepened into sexy nuances...in " a la nuit" it sits pretty and sweet, with medium sillage and staying power, but doesn't quite develop into anything as misterious as the fragrance name implies.

Fantastic…. A burst of clear jasmine ringing like a bell, after a few minutes settling into one of the best jasmine scents in existence, very green, very fresh. Mine lasted 4 hours at least and I can still smell faint honey. It is delicious. I don’t see why women shouldn’t smell of a perfect flower if they want to; certainly it cheered me up and other people loved it too. The Perfume Guide is just a Guide - I would take this over Angel or Calyx, any day. Sorry, Luca. I love it. :)

Bottled romance. A la Nuit is sensual, feminine, poetic and intoxicating, and reminds me of something that I'd wear on a balmy summer's evening or to a ballet concert. This scent dances on my skin, with the jasmine floral slowly fading into a creamy honey before it disappears. I am in love!

When I looked to my left I noticed a jasmine shrub into the night. Jasmine. Beautiful, fresh jasmine was in bloom and wafted over my eyes. I didn't have to open them to see the stars. Moving slowly the warm breeze fell over me like midnight meringue.

In the morning I shivered and pulled the sheet tighter over my body. I went to close the balcony door when I saw the jasmine flowers were bowing their heads. They left their guard and I took up mine.

A Narcotic, Night Blooming Jasmine...

Serge Lutens A la Nuit is a truly beautiful and authentic smelling jasmine composition. It contains three different types of Jasmine (Moroccan, Indian & Egyptian), as well as honey and green notes.

It evokes very well the natural smell of Jasmine at night. If you've ever been in a hot or warm climate, like the mediterranean or middle east or in asia, and smelled Jasmine growing in long green vines along a wall or in a garden, this is it. A la Nuit is a Jasmine lovers dream.

For me this Jasmine is a beautifully composed, wonderfully authentic smell of natural Jasmine flowers, with a soothing and calming effect. It can be a little too much if you do not like Jasmine as much as I do, but I think this Jasmine is tame enough to appeal to most people. It has a "green" quality and is surrounded by notes which slightly soften the intensity of the heavy, indolic Jasmine. The green leaves, honey & musk give the impression that you are in a tropical forest, drenched in a soft glow of moonlight, with a cool wind cutting through the tropical, humid air. I find it green, refreshing, and most of all... wearable. If you want a full, authentic Jasmine experience, this is a good place to start.

There is something so beautiful and pure about jasmine. My mom has always worn jasmine which is why I think I have such a fondness for it. Upon first spray it's quite heavy and a bit headache inducing for the first 10 minutes or so. The dry down is soft and close to the skin. This smells kind of similar to the perfume by Jennifer Aniston. I hate to say, but, it smells a little too mature for my taste. I also can't justify spending so much on a fragrance that simply doesn't last (Literally a half hour then POOF! it's gone!). Pretty, but, I'll pass.

exactly the way i remember jasmine,and how incredible SL can catch the entire scent from the flower not only i smell blossoms but with petals, leaves and even stems. So fresh!

This review is based on a decant. I don't have a trained nose but on my skin I get mainly beautiful jasmine with a green undertone. With that said, I'm actually a little disappointed as I was expecting indolic jasmine. I get moderate projection and good longevity on my skin.

What a beautiful jasmine scent! This jasmine feels like cashmere. It is so smooth and warm and cozy. Probably one of the nicest jasmine scents I've ever tried. Very well done!

A La Nuit is exactly what I suspected it might be: a beautiful jasmine soliflore--graceful and clean. Luminous with fragrant jasmine petals and barely a touch of natural indole, just as you might find on a jasmine bush prolific with newly opened blossoms.

However full-featured the flower's fragrance is, it does not present much in the way of a deep sensual aura on my skin a' la Nuda by Nasomatto. Somehow I find that although beautifully accented with complementary notes, it tempers the true essence of the jasmine flower.

With or without carnal intentions, A La Nuit remains a well rounded quality jasmine perfume blended delicately with greens, honey and cloves. A La Nuit is more wearable than most jasmine fragrances as the supporting notes cleanly cut through the typical headiness while still being potently floral.

Where Christopher Sheldrake masterfully harnesses the beauty of jasmine, she is still captive in her ivory tower.

Personally, I prefer Alessandro Gualtieri's interpretation. In Nuda, he is obviously very intimate with this blossom and lets her run beautifully wild with her aphrodisiacal power. Where A La Nuit is jasmine, Nuda is jasmine intense.

I feel I have to counterpoint the previous review and its emphasis on a cumin note. We all smell differently, so here's my experience.
I wish I could detect any cumin in this fragrance, or any hint of animalics for that matter, but instead, to my nose it's nothing more and nothing less than a glorious photo-realistic jasmine with a slightly sweet base.
I personally try to sneak cumin in in all my blends, and adore the perfumes where it's used generously, as in Vero Kern's Rubj edp, but I understand some people associate it with lack of hygiene rather than raunchy encounters.
However, please don't be put off from sampling this beauty as I believe cumin is non-existent here.

So this is what night-blooming Jasmine is! A la Nuit has been a great education in perfumery for me :-D

I had long ago written off the entire Lutens line, based upon a generous free sampling of ~ 30 SL perfumed wax domes, provided directly by the House itself- Nearly all of the 30 frags. sampled seemed heavily laden w/ Cumin, Pot, Cigarettes / Beer-spilled Ashtray, Cigar Tobacco, Leather Jackets, Stale Bong Water, Patchouli, Smoke, anything & everything that smells either very masculine, &/or like the 80's head shops we frequented as teens, + endless all night partying... Someone always ended up spilling the bong water (usually me :) - An odour one never forgets.

However, A la Nuit was not among the above samples. Based on glowing reviews, & seeing A la Nuit on sale @ FragranceNet, I blind-bought a bottle. The reviews are all true- The Jasmine is pure & intense.

One caveat: The blend contains just the itsy-bitsy-est amount of stanky, cursed Cumin! Or, is it possible that this is what's meant by "indolic"? Rank Stank. Is that the "animalic" component? I HATE that note. It's quiet (and brief) enough, and the Jasmine is so sublimely supreme, that most won't be bothered by it- In fact, no other reviews detect it at all :) I guess I'm hypersensitive to even the slightest inclusion of cumin (or indoles?).

Monster sillage & longevivity. Thankfully, SL packages this w/ both an atomizer & a splash/dab-on (screw on) cap- Owner's choice. Beware risk of over-application. POTENT! I've learned to dab very sparingly (vs. spray, which dispenses much too much)... Too much of this immensely intense 'fume left me suffocating in my own wake.

PS: "Sarassins" is SL's "other Jasmine" less indolic, airier, softened, blended Jasmine- Yet still a powerhouse in itself.

Ammended- I gifted my bottle to a friend. Though I dig Jasmine blended in small amounts in so many other 'fumes, this intense Jasmine was just too indolic/overwhelming for me, even 8-10 hours after application. Furthermore, it smelled just like Jasmine CPO (ie, Al Rehab "Full"). Hopefully its being better-loved by its new owner

This is my first Serge to sample and I fell instantly in love with it! Gorgeous blend of jasmine and honey. It is so soft, creamy, and airy. If money were no object, I would hit the buy button today!

If Lush Lust is the loud, dark, sweet, naughty, carnal, fleshy, creamy, indolic jasmine, A La Nuit is the exact opposite of it; a calm, bright, sweet, nice, gentle, airy, creamy, radiant, soft, real blooming jasmine.

I gave mine away because I like my jasmine scents more dirty, but it's definitely a very good scent, maybe even a blind buy if you are sure you want a true, non-indolic, very realistic jasmine scent and nothing more.

Jasmine garland in a bottle. Pure, natural and exotic. A La Nuit and Olene by Diptyque are my fav realistic jasmine fragrances. They're really similar to my nose. Olene has more complexity on greenish and floral while A La Nuit sweeter and heavier but also more concentrate jasmine solifore.

It does smelled like lively, alive dewy jasmine but can be cloying(and too indolic) if you're putting it too much. Aside from jasmine, green bud and honey I cannot detect any other notes at all. Projection quite heavy but not last long. Only 3-4hours on me and completely disappear.

Recommend to all jasmine lover. You'll be surprise by how real jasmine is in A La Nuit.

A very clear and sparkling jasmine that is uplifting and true to the essential oil. In fact it reminds me of this Egyptian Jasmine I brought back from Cairo for my girlfriend many years ago.

There is also a hint of green making the jasmine smell fresh like it's just been plucked from a bush. Great if you love your jasmine straight up without other notes. But may be lacking if you expect more complexity from your fragrance.

Great jasmine though!

I'm enjoying something of a jasmine-fest this evening - wearing A la Nuit and in another room burning a beautiful Indian jasmine incense.
(Thanks to @Galya for generous decant!)

Reading the reviews and comparisons between A La Nuit and Sarassins it's obvious that one of the dividers is indolic jasmine - i.e fecal notes. I have absolutely no issue with fecal notes in A La Nuit because they seem to be there, naturally, but haven't been ramped up deliberately, which usually annoys me because it stands out as fake (I've used pure absolute of jasmine as bath oil and A La Nuit feels very authentic)

I can see why people would prefer Sarassins to A La Nuit in as much as Sarassins is more complex. But this evening I'm just enjoying jasmine. A La Nuit reminds me a little of my very first perfume, when I was about 13, which was the Body Shop's Jasmine.

It's simple in that sense, but A La Nuit has much more depth. And yes, you could buy a very high quality jasmine absolute, but that would set you back about as much as the perfume!

What Lutens seems to have done is add a fruity note which (reminds me of pear-drops at first, a bit like acetone) which combined with Jasmine's natural banana/green quality makes this really project an aroma (as Jasmine flowers do in real life). The fruit and clove notes also cut through and lift jasmine's viscous heavy quality (it's viscous and heavy in absolute). The dry down seems to suddenly drop off after two hours into a mild benzoin/jasmine skin scent, though it lingers longer on clothes

Indole notes have been compared to a horse-sweat smell,and I spent many a day in my youth brushing down sweaty horses and ponies while working in horse stables - maybe that's where my tolerance for sweaty perfume notes stems from!

The upshot is, I love jasmine, and will happily wear this on sunnier days, or perhaps layered with other perfumes.

Sillage (on my skin anyway) - powerful for 15 minutes then calms and fades to skin scnt after 1 hour.
Longevity - around three hours but lingers longer on clothes

A beautiful jasmine fragrance, remindes me of the now discontinued Nassamota Nuda. If you love your heady jasmine you'll love it.

The scent of Jasmine is alluring enough as it is, but the flower gardens in my native Cyprus just OOZE of Jasmine after dark. The baking hot sunshine that radiates on the flowers during the day causes the aroma to be released ten fold at night, in my opinion.
This is my first Serge and Lutens fragrance and is quite an amazing one. You don't need a lot, as the scent is quite concentrated as it is. Just a spritz and you can expect it to last all day. This scent amazes me by how "close" to the real thing it really is. I feel like I have my face buried in a flower bed of jasmine plants when this is down to the heart notes.

I'm not the biggest jasmine fan in the world, but I wanted to love it. So I got a sample of this from my friend that runs an indie fragrance boutique in my city. It smelled amazing on the tester strips, and I was dearly hoping that it'd smell just as amazing on my skin..my skin loves to KILL jasmine, making me smell like mothballs and litter boxes.

This was way worse...my skin just cannot pull off jasmine, aside from Thierry Mugler's Alien or my Jasmine oil.

A La Nuit smelled almost exactly like coppertone sunscreen...and it lasted several hours, so this wasn't a great experience at all.

With a sigh, I guess it's time to throw in the towel in terms of finding a new jasmine fragrance.

The most realistic jasmine I've smelled in a perfume. A bit green at first, but then it's just jasmine, and it's perfect.

It is a real pity it's got such week lasting power, especially considering the price.

Such a joyous scent! The jasmine is almost aggressive in its intensity and yet it remains both luminous and sunny.

For me A la Nuit is a perfume for winter mornings when the sun doesn't seem to rise at all. I surround myself with the summer it conjures up before stepping out of the front door in the morning, and I actually smile through the slate and the blizzards in wintry Finland.

When the first cloud of jasmine petals has retreated the sillage becomes moderate and if applied with some restriction I find that A la Nuit is actually an excellent scent for the office.

And how it glitters and glimmers in the dark of winter!

Dark, delicate jasmine and moody musk. Very pretty, and a bit enigmatic; a fragile floral with a projective punch (apologies for all the alliteration, can’t help myself). Assuredly feminine, though not what I would call sexy, rather, seductive in a reserved (work/every day appropriate) adore me from afar kind of way. There is, however, a playful undercurrent to it that keeps it fresh, alive, and anything but flat-out funereal…the dreaded fate of many a darkish floral.

I’ve read that some people have problems with the longevity on this one but I have to say that I sprayed it on in the morning (2 quick spritzes) and it was still floating happily about me when getting back into bed that night. Gotta admire its tenacity.

THIS....is a jasmine bomb. If you like jasmine you will probably flip over backwards and hurt yourself when you smell this. I am not a jasmine fan but I appreciate quality and this is a high quality jasmine fragrance. It is very realistic and you get a full on dose of it. The other notes take a total and complete backseat to this. This is all about the jasmine and nothing but the jasmine. It isn't my thing but it is very well done.

the best jasmin i've ever tried!

Best jasmine scent ever. A bit too strong, almost medicinal, in the opening, then it turns wonderful.

A muddled, almost "grimy" opening on my skin turns to a pleasant if very short-lived jasmine soliflore. Won't be a repeat buy for me.

This is a must try for Jasmine lovers. I agree with Vie Cafe that it is almost an exact replica of the essential oil I have. It opens as a true jasmine bomb - so much so that you might wonder if you applied a bit too much. But after it swirls around and teases you a bit with its exuberance, it settles into its sensual nature. The greens play hide and seek with the honey and that chocolatey essence that benzoin imparts (at least to my nose),and the whole experience is quite delightful and a bit spritely!

I must tell you. Early this evening I took a bath, moisturized my skin with jojoba oil and applied Al la Nuit. I went to the market and encountered two men who remarked on how "pretty" I was. I tell you, it was A la Nuit - that, and perhaps the Spring twilight! Magical combination. Do try if you appreciate jasmine.

I agree with the comment that this is a gourmand white floral fragrance. Dewy and a bit green - naturally sweet jasmine made richer by a distinct honey note. It develops quite beautifully, with a musky/powdery dry down on my skin. Don't notice much clove (phew) or benzoin. This is quite lovely! Hubby likes it too!

From the wax sample
I smell clear jasmine all the way, maybe because the sample doesn't last. It is kinda like jasmine tea. I've been looking for this kind of fragrance since I miss the Jasmine sambac from the backyard scent. Very enjoyable and beautiful.

I swear I smell lilac in the opening phrases of this. Beautiful lilac, though. Very true to life.

I spritzed à la nuit when I was at Ogilvie's in Montreal. After 10 minutes, it had settled into a powerful yet soft jasmine smell. A little bit of green, a little bit of sweetness. A lot of happiness. A perfect spring and summer scent. I was enthralled.

So I bought it online and today, I decided to try it again. Same sharp and pungent opening of concentrated jasmine juice. Same drydown into a softer, almost soliflore, jasmine cloud, with a hint of green. But... I also smell something else... Like a faint suggestion of sweet rotting meat. Not sure I like this part.

As an aside, à la nuit reminds me of the original Lumière de Rochas that my sister used to wear back in the early '90s. From memory, Lumière is more translucent with a touch of an oriental base. If not sister, they are first degree cousins.

For some reason I can't add that this stuff smells super similar to another jasmine perfume I own, Demeter Fragrance Jasmine. At first spray I get a punch of jasmine, which I like. Cool, calming jasmine flowers, and I can't really smell anything else - whatever else is in this is understated next to the power of the jasmine.

Was looking for a bit more depth than this, but I will wear Demeter Jasmine and this fragrance side by side on another trial and see which lasts longer.

You can really smell the blend of the sweet accords of green branches and honey.

Wearing Serge Lutens A La Nuit is part of my search for a jasmine perfume that will enchant my husband, a jasmine fan, while allowing me to enjoy it as well.

When I first dabbed it on it was so very pretty. I felt transported to a rain-dampened garden redolent of tuberose, gardenia and jasmine. Very lovely, light-spirited and sexy. My husband loved it, and it didn't overwhelm me with some of the white flower notes at the top. It made me feel sophisticated, feminine and soft.

Sadly for me, it dried down to almost nothing within two hours, and for me the sillage was negligible. Definitely a perfume to enjoy up close, and when it doesn't need to last long. Next time I try it, it will be right before I slip on some silky lingerie and slide into bed next to my handsome man.

Enjoy it, though. It's an ephemeral beauty!

This is one of my new all time favorites! I bought a small sample and fell in love with the fresh and slightly sweet jasmine fragrance that smells almost exactly like the jasmine bushes around my house. Oddly, when I purchased the full bottle it was a slightly more green scent at first, but still wonderful and FULL of jasmine in the dry down. The honey undertone is not sugary, but just enough to conjure the fragrance of pollen.

This is such a true to life scent that whenever I wear this I am immediately transported to a spring night, walking down a street lined with jasmine flowers. I cannot say enough good things about this, it is truly beautiful :)

If Athenais de Montespan wore perfume (well, she most certainly did - that is to say, if she were alive to wear it in THIS century), it would be A La Nuit. This is a lush, *sweet*, slightly indolic jasmine blend. Jasmine. JAAAASMINE. Did I mention there is jasmine in it? It is STRONG and will take your breath away. I am one of the strongest consummate jasmine lovers of all time, so this was immediately a hit with me. Others may not like the slight indoles of the topnote or the fact that, yes, the drydown is far more gentle and subdued than you would imagine. But the drydown is lovely in that it disguises itself as your natural scent - it comes out of the pores, almost. This fragrance is beautiful both in winter and summer, to evoke dreams of Baroque lushness in the cold and to bloom in humid heat.

I feel rather more jasmine in Fleurs d'Oranger rather than in this fragrance. So I prefer it to A La Nuit.

I can't say that I like this fragrance and can't agree that it smells jasmine too much.

Lovely initial jasmine aroma transforming hellishly within fifteen minutes into the scent of a neglected closet full of mothballs and clothes covered in plastic. Skin chemistry be damned.

it's truly beautiful, the opening vividly brought to my mind summer nights, under a patio with jasmine plants in blossom. then it becomes softer and greener.
and suddendly disappears.
I wore it from a sample, lasted on my skin not even two hours.
such a shame, if only this beauty was more long lasting, then I might consider spending so much money for it.

The most sophisticated jasmine fragrance ever! It's so beautiful. It smells like a bush of jasmine on a cool summer night. It's soft, lovely, and warm on my skin. I feel luxurious when I wear it. Definitely give this fragrance a try if you love jasmine!

Edit: I layered this with Tam Dao. I literally went "Ahhhhhhhh" it was so lovely. The sandalwood and the jasmine blend so beautifully!

And the projection?? It s really that little??

I was expecting jasmine, but all I experienced was a punch of tuberose, which I detest. Strange.

Pure beautiful seductive jasmine, dries down with a honey and slightly spicy note. Just beautiful. Very delicate and lovely fragrance. Not your typical in your face Lutens at all. I love the softness of this one.

Jasmine is a beautiful, seductive, and mysterious flower--let's face it. Jasmine serves as the floral centerpiece of many a perfume because it also blends so well with just about everything else--even purple goo, as in the case of Thierry Mugler ALIEN. In this case, Serge Lutens A LA NUIT is a jasmine soliflore with a bit of a twist, whose name is "clove".

The opening of A LA NUIT evoked immediate memories of a recent wearing of Molinard JASMIN, which I do believe may be my favorite soliflore--of any flower, not just jasmine--of all time. Both are strong, creamy, slightly dark--night-blooming!--and breathtakingly beautiful. Both smell very natural to my nose, and I suspect that both compositions do showcase the real thing, not hedione or some other synthetic substitute.

The difference between the Molinard and Le Grand Serge jasmine soliflore becomes more and more obvious as A LA NUIT dries down. A clove note not initially obvious to my nose begins to make its presence known until the point where I feel that clove has almost taken over the star role of this perfume. However, I am *very* sensitive to clove, so I'd encourage all jasmine lovers to try this perfume on for size, as it may well be your jasmine dream come true. Mine remains the Molinard soliflore.

Unadulterated indolic jasmine. With a drop of honey in it it makes me think of that one drop you add to warm milk before bed, which doesn't really change it only makes it better and in this case enhances the authenticity of the flower. Quite an animalic one though, I would reserve this for evenings. One of the best jasmine scents I've tried.

What a lovely jasmine scent:) beyond fresh, pure, clean, soft, feminine.....
Jasmine and grenadine are a perfect match.
All I want to say is thumbs up and Yummzza for this one!

I looove the duo Lutens-Sheldrake, they create such incredible gems! And jasmine is one of my top favorite notes. So i was expecting to fall head over heel for À la nuit... not quite though. I tried it numerous times, at every new test telling myself I just had to ease into this intoxicating jasmine (my favorite kind!!!).

The start is great with its squeaky, neon green jasmine that yells HERE I AM!!! I like the lily of the valley that appears next (vaguely similar to diorissimo for a minute), combined with the oily, dense jasmine scent, it is quite interesting. Jasmine, when used in such a heady way, often has a faint exhaust fumes smell that gives a nice edge to the overall scent. So far, so good.

But after about 30 minutes, the magic is gone. A dissonant overripe banana note appears, and it just won't go away... It is by no means overwhelming, and i hoped i would just be able to ignore it, but no such luck. Sadly, that ruins it for me.

It's smells like a toilet aromatic...
white flower with a bloody smell
I was shocked when I test it.

So far my favourite Serge Lutens fragrance! I sometimes find SG's scents to be perfect on paper but all wrong when you actually smell it, on my skin they tend to be overpowering and to musky. Much to my suprise this was not the case with A La Nuit. I orderd the sample out of curiosity to see how Lutens does a feminine floral compared to his more woody/musky/tobacco/leather fragrances and i have to say i was pleasantly suprised. What i smell is sweet grenadine with a really good jasmine and honey, it is nice to smell a really good jasmine as i often find a bad one can be too sharp and cloying. To me the good jasmine makes this fragrance, it is softened by the honey which is not overly sweet and the grenadine adds a somewhat fruity dimension on my skin. To me it smells somewhat like Jean Patou Joy which my Grandmother used to wear but it is in no way a perfume for the older generation, the grenadine see's to that! It also reminds me of L'artisan Parfumeur's La Haie Flueurie but with a much better jasmine and sweeter!

A nice and fresh oriental, full of Jasmine. Maybe the most feminine Lutens creation, along with Sa Majeste la Rose. The others can be worn by us, men. It does not scream "Lutens" as the others: Tubereuse Criminelle, Arabie, Fumerie Turque, Chergui, but it manages to be borderline avantgarde. It works even for teen girls.

I am very glad to see honey listed as a note here, because for hours after smelling A La Nuit I was wondering why it reminded me of another Serge Lutens creation, Miel de Bois. Turns out it was the honey accord which made them slightly familiar to my nose.

Despite the honey note, A La Nuit is mostly jasmine. It's a pleasant, somewhat soapy and cuddly type of jasmine, that when applied to the skin, almost becomes a skin scent.

A La Nuit is less fresh than I thought it would be. It settles rather warmly on my skin. The honey and benzoin create a somewhat balanced and smooth blend which in turn prompts a feeling of feminine sensuality.

I realised while smelling A La Nuit that this is a jasmine scent devoid of indoles, that chemical component that makes some jasmine based fragrances smell like cat pee or fecal matter. I can see how this has become a well-loved fragrance since its release. It's simple yet beautiful. A clean and intimate jasmine blend, perfectly inoffensive.

I like A La Nuit, but I much prefer the louder and darker Sarrasins. However that is due to my rather odd tastes. All in all it is a perfect example of a jasmine fragrance composed with a lot of thought and expertise.

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
indole
Lutens style but very simple this time

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 Is one of the best TRUE Jasmine perfumes available, absolutely natural scent moments sometimes indolic, other times so weet & fresh - I will always have a bottle. I Love you Serge for making this possible.

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.

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.

...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.

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.

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?!

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.