Collection Parisienne

Nuit de Sable bdk Parfums 2019

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7.3 / 10 151 Ratings

According to EssenceVitae Research Team A perfume by bdk Parfums for women and men, released in 2019. Furthermore The scent is spicy-woody. It is still in production.

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Main accords

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Guatemala cardamom

Indonesian nutmeg

Cumin

Heart Notes

Sand

Turkish rose absolute

Rose oxide

Base Notes

Australian sandalwood

Ambroxan

Musk

Tonka bean absolute

Perfumer

Marie Schnirer

Ratings

Scent

7.3151 Ratings

Longevity

7.7125 Ratings

Sillage

7.1125 Ratings

Bottle

8.1118 Ratings

Value for money

6.773 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 21.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the "Collection Parisienne" collection.

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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/24/2024

9
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 9
Scent

Lecker234
17 Reviews

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Lecker234

Very helpful Review 7

Desert sand in a bottle - who would have thought that possible?

"Sandy Night" is the name the creative minds at BDK came up with for this fragrance. Well, it sounds a bit better in French than in German. This name is not inappropriate, in my opinion - it doesn't necessarily have much to do with a night, but the other part of the name fits all the better: sand!
Sand is a very authentic scent - to my complete surprise, because sand doesn't have a particularly distinctive smell; at least that's what I thought before I smelled this fragrance for the first time.

Nuit de Sable proved me wrong: this fragrance covers all the facets that remind me of sand and its surroundings - more precisely, this fragrance experience coincides with my memories of desert sand!
What stands out the most here is the pure desert sand - you really have to have smelled the fragrance to understand it. A totally unique creation! Although it wasn't my first encounter with the scent "sand", it was the first time I could actually smell the sand in question.

Now to add that the fragrance not only reminds me of sand, but also of its surroundings - the scent goes far beyond sand alone. The everyday hustle and bustle of an oasis is added to the mix:

Cumin, nutmeg and cardamom are sold at the bazaar, sandalwood is used for incense and the men dressed in thawb trail a massive cloud of musk fragrance behind them. These are wonderful memories of vacations that this fragrance brings back to me.

That completes the description for me: Sand as far as the eye can see, backed by musk that steers the fragrance in a clean direction, refined by spices that bring a certain amount of tension. Since Nuit de Sable is not only a unique and creative fragrance, but also a uniquely successful and, above all, very wearable fragrance that brings back wonderful memories for me, it is my undisputed BDK favorite!

02/11/2023

3
Pricing 10
Bottle 4
Sillage 10
Longevity 3.5
Scent

Dandylion
3 Reviews

Dandylion

Cumin absolue

I had great expectations for this one since Ambre Saffrano is my preferred from the line and I thought I should try a new one.

I can’t stand Gris nor Rouge. For me, unbearable. Too sweet, two chaotic.

So, I got to test it on a paper stripe firstly since I didn’t want to do it right away on my skin.

Intoxicatingly cumin. The only ingredient I could smell within the first ten minutes. Somewhat nauseating…

Lets say I were in the kitchen and suddenly the cumin jar fell open over my head. That was the feeling. And I got sad because I really wanted it to work :/

I kept sniffing it and after half an hour I could smell the cardamom on top of the cumin. It doesn’t smell artificial but not pleasant rather overwhelmingly spicy and by that I mean the cumin-bomb effect on me.

Now after some hours it smells sweet and woody and I think I can recognize the musc and the synthetic ambroxan but absolutely nothing from tonka or sandalwood. Zero.

I am some disappointed. Perhaps I will still try on my skin but the clerk told me if it doesn’t catch me on the first paper strip sniff it’s not worth trying on skin. So ‍️

09/16/2021

9
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Connie
165 Reviews

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Connie

Very helpful Review 12

Creamy sandalwood..

I love and adore Gris Charnel and Rouge Tuxedo from BDK. Therefore, I would of course also test Nuit de Sable. Nuit de Sable is for me a fragrance that simply smells very good but for me personally too little feminine and too little perfume radiates.... I find the 100% unisex and see the purely personally a bit more on a man than on a woman. As a woman I would find the right fit, if I were for example now in the Emirates on the road. Here was the in the heat and in the oriental environment also come for me as a woman in question but here in Europe in the north, is the me personally a bit too masculine and too woody but the smells fantastic..

Nuit de Sable smells good, even very very good but that has just very much light wood and spices. Rose I smell quite honestly not at all, but a lot of sandalwood and nutmeg. In the first few minutes the scent is very spicy and again I have to think of Emirates ... Spice souk and heat... Cardamom, nutmeg, cumin etc, all very noticeable.... In drydown it becomes very woody and very sandy.... I immediately have the smell/scent of sand in my nose when I spray on the scent. Sand that is almost glowing hot. In addition, aromas of sandalwood that are very very present.... If you imagine a piece of wood that is almost burning hot in the sand on the beach, you can imagine a bit how the fragrance smells.... Ambroxan lends the fragrance at the same time a kind of powderiness..

The fragrance becomes softer and creamier as it progresses and at some point the spices totally withdraw and what remains is a very creamy sandalwood that smells really incredibly beautiful.... The base is the most beautiful but even here the scent smells like an extremely good smelling cream with beautiful woody notes and not like a perfume..

I must test the further..Who stands on creamy woody fragrances should test the fragrance for sure..

Addendum : Now that my tester is empty for weeks, I miss the fragrance somehow... A flacon must her..

06/19/2021

9
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 7
Longevity 8.5
Scent

Patpow

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Patpow

Very helpful Review 17

Cardamom and sandalwood from bdk

Nuit de Sable is a creation of the French Marie Schnirer (9 fragrances on EssenceVitae). Enthusiastic about classical music, dance and singing, the well-travelled young perfumer studied chemistry at L'Université 7 until she transferred to L'École Supérieure du Parfum (both in Paris) - an institute (unique in the world, according to herself) for the creative and commercial study of perfume art and business. In 2017, she co-founded Maelstrom (laboratoire de parfum indépendant), an independent development lab in Paris, with Yohan Cervi (creative director) and perfumer Patrice Revillard (12 fragrances on EssenceVitae).

In 2019, Schnirer created Nuit de Sable for bdk (named after founder and CEO David Benedek). Although - much like Maelstrom - a newcomer to the perfume business, the Parisian perfume house, which was only founded in 2016 and is likely to be known to a wider public in particular for Gris Charnel, Rouge Smoking and Crème de Cuir, is currently the most popular client of the three young Maelstrom creatives. (Other clients include Panogue Paris, Téo Cabanel and Visiteur.) Nuit de Sable appeared at bdk in La collection Parisienne. This association may be more than a marketing strategy: while Parisienne Schnirer was inspired for Nuit de Sable by a summer stroll in the gardens of Paris' Palais Royal (the brief probably came from David Benedek), bdk's headquarters are just a stone's throw from this stately oasis in the heart of the French capital, and Benedek's parents' perfumery is also not far from the gardens, which are said to have played a major role in perfume house founder Benedek's childhood.

Nuit de Sable, the 'Night of the Sand', Schnirer has dedicated to cardamom. The capsule fruits of the plant, originally from India (today often imported from Guatemala), contain an essential oil that exudes a fresh, sweet-pungent aroma. In this it resembles the characteristics of ginger, which is related to it. Cardamom, which can also be somewhat reminiscent of eucalyptus or peppermint, plays the main role in Schnirer's fragrance composition. In the top note it is accompanied by a fine, fresh nutmeg, and in the heart note it is joined by aspects of a 'deconstructed' rose - "ne gardant de la rose que certaines de ses facettes "*: in particular the green freshness and the fruity honey sweetness. However, Nuit de Sable does not smell floral through the use of these single, isolated facets of the rose scent. Rather, the eau de parfum wants to represent the totality of aromatic diversity, density and heaviness of a hot summer night in said, windless, shielded from the noise of the city and lushly planted (also with roses) city gardens, which completely surround the city palace built for Cardinal de Richelieu in 1627.

In the course to the base note, the interplay of cardamom dominates with a creation that Marie Schnirer calls 'chord of hot sand' and which she composed solely for Nuit de Sable. The 'hot sand' is (unmistakably) composed of light sandalwood and dry-salty, mineral notes. (The illusion certainly seems very well done here.) More technical than olfactory, the often unjustly maligned ambroxan (synthesized by Firmenich) also lends Schnirer's Nuit de Sable depth and a certain, pleasant muddiness. After a few hours, the bdk perfume fades out like a vanilla-sweet, slightly mineral sandalwood scent. It seems a little unfortunate that the nutmeg, which gives the fragrance a very pleasant, dry-fresh spiciness in the top note, lacks any imprint as it progresses. Overall, it also seems desirable to me, heart and base notes would not be dominated too quickly by sandalwood.

Nevertheless, as a friend of cardamom and sandalwood fragrances, I am very happy about Marie Schnirer's young and independent fragrance creation. She has created an excellent, warm cardamom perfume. If you love Ford's Oud Wood because of this unusual fragrance component, and if you also appreciate sandalwood scents like Essence No. 8 (Elie Saab), Indian Sandalwood (Dunhill), Monsieur Beauregard (Penhaligon's), and others, you'll probably like Nuit de Sable right away.

To the Nachlesen:
[https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr%C3%BCner_Kardamom]
[https://maelstrom-paris.fr/qui-sommes-nous-2/]
[https://maelstrom-paris.fr/notre-equipe/marie-schnirer/]
[https://maelstrom-paris.fr/2020/02/25/nuit-de-sable-bdk-parfums-fr-en/]*
[https://ecole-parfum.com/]
[https://bdkparfums.com/eu_en/#project]
[http://www.theworldc.com/interview-david-benedek-ceo-of-bdk-parfums/
[https://de.wikipedia.org

Statements

5 short views on the fragrance

NicheOnly 2 years ago

Woody scent with some sweetness in the top and spices as it dries, rose barely noticeable. Spices become sharper as it dries / in heat.

MariaS 2 years ago

8
Scent

Its a very spicy sandalwood scent. The cumin is intense, the rose isnt very noticeable just gives a floral vibe but still the spices prevail

Try89 25 days ago

Personally do not get a lot of spice from this, starts of milder than expected then the musky rose comes through

Meadhbh 4 months ago

9
Scent

Spiced sandalwood, desert rose type scent. Super evocative of blasting desert heat, if not always the most wearable.

K8chi 7 months ago

10
Scent

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