Vol de Nuit

Bois de Jasmin, May 2005

Victoria gives five stars to the original Vol de Nuit and prefers the extrait for the richness of its accords. Its balsamic, leathery notes evoke for her a wood-paneled library, candles and a fire; the eau de toilette, thinner and fresher, remains excellent.

In December 2010, she adds a note on the reformulated version, which she calls “a shadow of itself”: a flat lemony opening, a pale base of musk and moss, dominant cinnamon. In her view, the eau de toilette, despite its thinness, conveys the original structure better.

The Non-Blonde, August 2014

Gaia Fishler mostly wears the vintage extrait, which she likes to layer with an old eau de toilette that is greener and earthier. She finds in it a cool green iris, jonquil and galbanum, and a base of powdery iris drifting toward a slightly leathery vanilla.

She considers Vol de Nuit a deeply romantic and evocative fragrance, one she learned to love over time. The floral bouquet seems to her “tall, lean, and pale,” perceived as if from a distance, through a sheer veil.

Kafkaesque, April 2022

Kafkaesque’s author, a self-described vintage purist when it comes to the old legends, likes the current extrait and does not find it bad. The author regrets that oakmoss restrictions have weakened the green character a chypre should have in abundance.