La Nuit de l’Homme: the YSL fragrance that plays with light to captivate. How does one reinterpret a perfumery bestseller to make it darker and more powerful? By offering it the night and its hazy, sensual mysteries. La Nuit de l’Homme, released in 2009, delivers a juice that is more powerful and suave than its illustrious predecessor, L’Homme, from 2006.
The bestseller among YSL men's fragrances: La Nuit de l’Homme. La Nuit de l’Homme, released in 2010, follows the success of L’Homme, whose primary purpose was to celebrate contemporary men. L’Homme is a magnetic, charismatic fragrance. Yves Saint Laurent subsequently offered several flankers, including La Nuit de l’Homme. Darker and more powerful than its elder, La Nuit de l’Homme is a chiaroscuro nectar that reveals masculine seduction in its entirety. La Nuit de l’Homme is a fragrance that deserves to be worn at the heart of the night, where seduction becomes more enigmatic.
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A trio of perfumers behind La Nuit de l’Homme
Yves Saint Laurent once again called upon Anne Flipo, Dominique Ropion and Pierre Wargnye to create the elegant fragrance La Nuit de l’Homme. All three had already crafted fragrances for the Yves Saint Laurent house. Pierre Wargnye, Anne Flipo and Dominique Ropion all work within IFF (International Flavors & Fragrances). Anne Flipo is considered one of the most talented perfumers of her generation. Intuitive and sensitive, she is behind numerous successes such as La Vie est Belle or So Sweet by Lolita Lempicka. Dominique Ropion is likewise highly talented, meticulous, with unmatched expertise. He is behind great fragrances such as Ô de l’Orangerie by Lancôme and Lalique le Parfum by Lalique. Pierre Wargnye is no less talented. Rather discreet, Pierre Wargnye is behind several international successes such as Only the Brave by Diesel and Lanvin l’Homme Sport by Lanvin.
La Nuit de l’Homme, between contrast and duality
La Nuit de l’Homme presents a distinctive architecture, and its notes were chosen to create an extraordinary contrast, an exceptional duality. It is a fragrance halfway between sensitivity and virility. Mysterious and captivating, La Nuit de l’Homme opens immediately with a contrast through the duality of bergamot and cardamom. Cardamom is a rhizomatous herbaceous plant that produces the spice of the same name. Cardamom seeds are used in Indian and Asian cuisine. In perfumery, it is obtained through steam distillation of the dried seeds. Cardamom gives off camphoraceous, zesty, aromatic and resinous tonalities. The heart of La Nuit de l’Homme combines the aromatic tonality of lavender with Virginia cedar. Also called “red cedar,” Virginia cedar is native to the United States. Its growth is very slow, and at 20 years old, the cedar measures only 4 m in height. To extract the cedar's essence, the roots are steam-distilled. In perfumery, Virginia cedar is a reliable material, giving off scents that are resinous, earthy, dry and also green. It is said that the scent of cedar recalls the pencils of our childhood. Finally, the base of L’Homme Intense carries vetiver and coumarin, offering one last contrast and revealing the full sensuality of the fragrance. The bottle echoes the codes of its elder, tinted for the occasion with a most sensual gradient of black and gray.