Mona di Orio Nuit Noire
Today I’m wearing Nuit Noire by Mona di Orio. It features the top notes of orange flower, cardamom, ginger, orange guinee; heart notes of oliban, cinnamon, tuberose, sandalwood, clove, cedarwood, and base notes of amber, leather, musk, and tonka bean. Now let me tell you what it smells like when I first srpay it on. It smells like rotting oranges. This is the most diplomatic description I was able to come up with. My husband, however, once flat out said it smelled like dirty diapers. Now, why would anybody in their right mind want to wear a perfume of such inappropriate nature? For me, it was the luxurious drydown. Yes, I’m willing to put up with the first thirty minutes or so of this indecency for the sake of a knockout drydown.
Nuit Noire is a deep, animalic, succulent floral oriental with an excellent staying power. It’s a gutsy scent - not something I could wear often. I tend to exercise caution around it since it does have the potential to be an irrevocably wrong scent for the day. I almost doubted my choice this morning and hid my wrists in my pockets while in the elevator for fear of being banned from the building. My fears are gone now, and I’m enjoying its unmistakably genuine beauty.
Nuit Noire can be purchased from Aedes and The Perfume Shoppe. For more retailer information, please check the Mona di Orio web page.
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16 comments June 13th, 2006
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