Fleurs de Nuit (2007)
by Badgley Mischka

I do not understand the complaints about the name of Badgley Mischka FLEURS DE NUIT. Seems pretty straightforward to me: this is essentially a night-blooming jasmine quasi-soliflore. The jasmine definitely dominates the composition and makes this a white flower lovers-only perfume. FLEURS DE NUIT offers a big, stern, and relatively dry dose of only mildly indolic jasmine. The sillage and longevity are both excellent, and a little goes a long, long way.

I generally prefer more buttery, lush presentations of white flowers, as in MARC JACOBS and MJ ESSENCE, but FLEURS DE NUIT is nice, for what it is. (There is zero tuberose in FLEURS DE NUIT, so there's no point in comparing/contrasting it to FRACAS or CARNAL FLOWER.) Perhaps I should be glad that my 100ml will suffice for the rest of my life, as I would find it very difficult to part with the gorgeous bottle, one of the nicest I've seen. I usually keep my perfumes hidden away in the dark, but this one is so beautiful that I'm tempted to endanger the juice by putting the bottle out on display.

13rd August, 2011. (Last Edited: 14th August, 2011.)

Normally I do not like the way flower fragrances smell on me, they tend to become sickly sweet & spoiled. Fleurs de Nuit is very nice on my skin.
It smells fresh & like the aroma of flowers in the air when you pass a beautiful flower garden.
This is a nice & easy fragrance  for me to wear.
I love the bottle! Very well done & designed. 

19th June, 2011.

Easily the most beautiful bottle I own, but the juice doesn't quite live up to it. It is a light, linear, pretty jasmine. There is no "nuit" anywhere in this perfume. The jasmine is light and green, with no creaminess or indoles whatsoever. Hours later it dries down to have a soft powderiness, but even that development is a thin unassuming stage. I feel like it's halfway between Kenneth Cole Black (watery thin shrieky jasmine) and Serge Lutens A La Nuit (green honeyed velvety jasmine). It's not bad, but it's not what I want from my white florals. It lacks depth. The sillage is light and the lasting power is fine. Not a bad or "cheap" perfume, just not in the style I enjoy. It's very simple on me.

16th April, 2011.

I'm very picky about my florals...and this is my favorite floral in my collection right now! It's beautiful, elegant, romantic, and sophisticated. I'm not very good at distinguishing floral notes, but I CAN detect lilly, peach, and amber. I like it because the notes are balanced very well - not too green, not too sweet, not too heady. Regarding it's staying power, I've been wearing it now for almost four hours and I have no complaints yet.

27th March, 2011.

Fleur de Nuit is indeed misnamed, hardly the moonlit Indian garden scent of its press hype -- but the lush, tropical warmth it filled me with in the middle of winter, plus the stunning beauty of the bottle, were enough to sway me last January. It's a lovely sheer floral, simple, elegant, classy and far less ballsy than the original Badgley Mischka scent (which I love). Still, now and then FdN just hits the spot. I agree with an_oud_girl's review that the scent should be lavishly applied; for a summer garden party it imparts a beach mood. Quite lovely, but not earth shattering in any way. (The bottle, on the other hand, is the most fabulous one I own!)

9th May, 2010.

Fleurs de Nuit launches on an accord of crisp, green, and slightly fruity jasmine, neroli, and orange blossom. The white flowers are indolic, but not overly so, and the crisp aldehydes employed at the start are enough to generate a mild tingle, but not so much as to smell “perfumey.” Vanilla appears after just a few minutes and steadily intensifies, yet never overwhelms or over-sweetens the composition.

Fleurs de Nuit possesses a peculiar economy and precision of construction, so that what could have been a heavy, heady, and overbearing floral scent is not. I attribute this appealing sense of clarity to the piercing green neroli that persists into the heart of the fragrance. The scent projects well, persists more than adequately, and leaves a well-judged remnant of sillage behind itself. What puzzles me about this stuff is the name. Is it just ineptly christened, or is “Fleurs de Nuit” meant to be ironic? This is certainly nothing if not a bright, sunny meadow of a floral scent. No stars or moonlight here – just wildflowers and soft summer breezes. Still very nice, even if misleadingly labeled.

12nd December, 2009.