The weather here is perfect, at last. The days have been warm and sunny, but not too hot. The nights have been just cool enough that you need something long sleeved, and it is on spring nights such as these that I tend to reach for the headier white florals. Last night’s fragrance: A La Nuit, by Serge Lutens. Like most all the line, it was developed by perfumer Christopher Sheldrake, and the notes include jasmine (Egyptian, Indian, Moroccan), green shoots, cloves, white honey, benzoin and musk.
My testing notes from the first time I tried A La Nuit say quite simply: “your basic death by jasmine”, and that is entirely accurate, I think, for the top notes, which are as close to being buried alive in flower petals as anything else I can think of…
