Nuit Noire Eau de Parfum

Declared Notes

The Architecture

Dirty, dark and delicious, Mona di Orio's Nuit Noire is a throwback to perfumes worn by women who didn't work in offices, but rather used their scents to perfume fur, cigarettes... or other unmentionables. Nuit Noire starts with a surprisingly raunchy opening that combines cardamom and ginger with orange flower in a way that brings out the not-so-innocent orange flower's ripe-dirty side. From the beginning, Nuit Noire announces this perfume's rating: R, with a nod to triple-X. Incense and cinnamon-clove spices combined with the carnal tuberose then dries down, �� if you can take it! �� to a barnyard-y animalic dirtiness from leather and musk, no doubt with some sandalwood lurking around in the background. Although Mona di Orio's press materials asks us to imagine we're in�The souks, gardens, and hams of old Tunis�� (of course Nuit Noire's notes reference old Arabia), Nuit Noire's soul is decidedly Film Noir: erotic and dangerous.