Nuit Etoilee Goutal for women and men

A pink summer cocktail based on fruity syrups with a small mint leave on top.

After testing the scent on a paper blotter, I was really impressed. Ethereal, light-green forest scent that has changed so many times during 4 hours. I was really excited to try it on me.
Unfortunately, that was a disappointment. It starts with very sweet notes I that remind me of black currant leaves and forest berries. If I was searching for sweet fruity perfume, I would be happy. But I was excited about the green qualities described in the reviews below and appearing when tested on paper.
The only green note I can smell is mint. It’s beautiful, very delicate and natural, one of the best I had a chance to try. So sad it’s overpowered by the sweet berries. I can’t smell any pine, fir, or angelica notes, which is disappointing.

On skin, the scent does not develop. It only gets a bit less sweet and looses intensity over time, to disappear almost completely in one hour. I’m not a fan of strong perfumes but the silage and longevity of this one is an extremely low for me. It stays bit longer on fabrics.

To sum up, a nice fruity, inoffensive summer fragrance with very poor params as for EDT (and not great even if it was EdC). Nothing special, forest berries - yes, a forest - not at all. If the smell was a color, it would be light pink, the light green qualities appeared only on paper. Gives me a bit of Miss Dior Cherie vibes, probably because it’s dominated by sweet berry notes (strawberry?). Not for me, not what I was expecting based on notes and reviews.

It reminds me so much of the smell of a small pine wood at the Atlantic coast in the south west of France where I spent some summers, that I just bought it. To me it basically has just two dominant notes: peppermint and pine. So it instantly evokes the memory of sitting under these pines and drinking water with mint syrup (a tipical french summer drink). Pines have a pretty strong smell when it's very hot and dry und this fragrance has reproduced it perfectly. Does it remind me of a stary night? Yes, but one in a pine wood. Can it be worn during the day? Sure, the mint gives it a cooling effect, very appreciated on hot days. I addition, it might help with intellectual work like aromatherapy. I love it, but if you don't love the smell of mediterranean (or nordic) forests and associate mint just with toothpaste, it might not be the right scent for you.

Subtle yet bracing mint accord with notes of pine/conifers. Fairly simple, but done with such a light hand that I can't help but love it. I even grabbed a back-up bottle. The currently sold EDP is very close and worth trying.

One word: winter Christmas in a bottle love this ❤️

A forest fairy perfume (or an elf). Freshness from the mint, pine, then citruses. Smells natural to me. After 15 min It's really like if I rubbed myself with sweet mint and pine needles. The citruses are prominent after 30min or so. Overall an unusual and smart perfume. Not girly, nor manly. Only downside.... it's not long-lasting. I need to reapply every couple of hours or so. It's wonderful if sprayed heavily in hair though. I cannot believe they discontinued that one, again.

A wonderful woody aromatic masterpiece. There's blue mint, golden citrus, and evergreen woods. There is a hint of honey and powder. It's a lovely, fresh, nature-inspired scent that evolves on my skin to be more citrus than fir or pine. Overall, this is a lovely, summery fragrance. Nuit Etoilee is ideal for hot weather and is also unisex. It's quite lovely. Gorgeous!

Mint, Green, sweet, floral/woody, slightly spicy.

unfortunately the type of mint that turns toothpaste-y. i got a little bit of this on my fingers when i opened the vial and couldn't help but feel like i accidentally got toothpaste on my hands. it's not a bad scent by any means, but i would rather not smell like i'm boasting about my oral hygiene routine

I wanted to like it! I was so excited to put it on. But when I sprayed it, all I smelled was mint! Even on the dry down, when the pine and fir starts to come through, they take a back seat to the mint! I got a headache. :(

This is unlike anything I've ever smelled and it's very unusual, I can't stop sniffing. It's woody and sweet and it really does evoke the feeling of a starry night in the woods. It's one of those reminiscent smells that brings up all sorts of memories that you can't quite place.

A lot of fine notes here I suppose, but in my picture they're all hidden behind a giant glass of minty Mojito coupled with a jumbo size pine freshener, photobombing everything else, taking all the attention and making for a truly disbalanced composition. Blame it on my chemistry or my selective nose, I guess, because it's hard to believe this is intentional. Yet there's this undeniable feeling of spraying myself with some kind of reed diffuser liquid, not really intended for skin.

Amazing opening! the mint as a fresh and herbal as Heel's menthe Fraiche but it adds layers of coniferous notes and a sweet background. I would wear it to just about every casual occasion ever but I cant bring myself to purchase until I finish the Heeley but it will be what I replace it with, not that its better but it will be a nice twist on the genre.

Nothing more than a very pleasant mint bubblegum !

Sweet pine and herbal anise first on, very strong and almost like essential oil. Dries to add oranges that smell real, but the citrus and anise notes make it smell very much like a vintage oily cologne. I tried it years ago and got much more of a Christmas pine scent, but this new sample smells more like 4711 on my skin, plus anise. It's okay but I don't need more.

This one is gentle and not boastful, and among my large collection I had kind of forgotten about it, until I received a sample of Fizzy Mint by Valmont (which is not in the database for some reason, even though others from the same line are present) and I realized it felt really familiar. They are both quite nice, thought Nuit Etoilee has a bit more roundness, likely from the immortelle.

I can forgive a fragrance for having a short life span if it imparts a good non-linear journey. This starts out bright and minty, then dives into the forest of frosty pines, and finally rests in a gentle bed of immortelle before fading out.

Nuit Etoilee (EDT) is frosty, mossy pines contrasted with warm, sweet balsam fir...rendering it cool, crisp, airy, and magical. The mint is the smell of the raw leaves, more herbal and somewhat metallic (in a beautiful way). Angelica and immortelle in the dry down imparts a raw, mildly honeyed, musky feel.

More subjectively, this beautiful fragrance, especially in its opening, evokes fond memories of my Mom when I was very young, and the smell of her pocketbook (I recall this smell because I loved digging into it for her stationery with which to scribble or draw). The combination of Wrigley's Doublemint gum and its shiny wrapper, traces of her perfumes, her cosmetics, the leather of her bag, even the ink of those PaperMate pens. We lost her over six years ago, so to have a fragrance that conjures up such a personal scent memory associated with her, lends even more magic to Nuit Etoilee. I am truly happy to have it in my possession.

I bought this bottle of Nuit Etoilee for a special cold night here in Texas. Not very often does it get cold enough to snow in Texas except for last night. Oh last night was that special night the notes in Nuit Etoilee came to life for me. I live out in the country with open pastures all around and acres of thick oaks, cedars and piney woods out behind my house. I stepped out into the cold crisp night air with snow still falling and covering the ground. The Nuit Etoilee that I wore on my arms and the crisp, cold night air mixed with snow made the most beautiful scent that my nose ever had the pleasure of sniffing. I lifted my arm to my nose as I watched the snow fall out of the night sky down onto my face and breathed in deeply to let those scents waft together and enter my memory. Oh my, the cold mint and pine were just gorgeous! To add to the overwhelming beauty of what I was smelling and experiencing at that moment, I had a cup of hot steamy coffee in my other hand. Yes...I hope heaven smell like this!

A dry, arid scent. Light and unisex, leaning masculine. Oh, if only the fir, pine, immortelle, and angelica notes had been stronger! I merely smell a well grounded, earthy mint. Very little more or less. I realize it's a sophisticated, woody mint, but I would recommend this to mint lovers ONLY.

However!


It was a half hour after writing this review and a friend walked past, saying, 'You smell so good!' She described what she smelled as 'mossy'. She noticed little or no mint. Go figure. So I can confidently say Nuit Etoilee will be perceived quite differently by various noses!

I had really high hopes for this fragrance, having read the reviews... however when my sample came I was disappointed.
Perhaps being just a beginner to the world of fragrance marred the experience for me, or maybe it is my skin chemistry, but this smelt like second hand vape/shisha pipe for me. I was reminded of the smoke they use in theatre productions or in a nightclub.
Interestingly however my partner likes this on me; it is very rare for him to like a perfume on me. He can be anti-fragrance at times. So don’t be put off getting a sample as you might love it.

I don't understand the hype around this fragrance. I'm so confused about the difference between the reviews and what I smell that I almost thought the juice in my samples has turned or is fake, but it's 4 different samples, so not sure how it is possible. I don't smell any nighttime magic, stardust or herbs, only pine nuts in CdG-style industrial oil, and a weird smell of plastic dolls. And someone chewing a mint gum nearby. With that said, it's not a bad smell, it's just very different from the reviews.

I got nuit etoilee at the beginning of the pandemic and I completely forgot to review it, it is a very easy perfume to wear compared to others Goutal's it is dry and minty soothingly minty unlike Gio by Armani

I find it dry and cold not fresh, I enjoy wearing it I reach for it often compared to songes or grand amour

it is not something that can be compared to anything on the market right now but since I know most people reading reviews (at least I do) try to find a way to connect with the fragrance in case they are thinking of a blind buy I would say that it is a little bit like acqua di Gio by Armani with the mintiness but nuit is done in a more sophisticated way and it is also drier but very wearable

I want more than powdered sugar from this.There's beauty here but the fragrance is a bit of a tease, like snow flurries...it should dazzle the imagination with a silent, bracing coldness, more conifer, and a slightly bitter mint. Another review mentions smoke; I'd actually like more of that quality, and layering it over L'eau Guerrierre 20 takes it in that direction.

What a captivating and unusual smell! This could be perfect for those who have seen - smelled - it all.
Cool and relaxed. Like standing in a conifer wood in the mountains.

This is quite beautiful! On my skin I smell the mint, pine and citrus notes the most. I'm not usually a big fan of things that smell of mint but the mint in this is so refreshing. They sure named this fragrance right. It reminds me of a cool summers night where the air is fresh and picks up hints from the forrest. The scent smells "expensive" and I'm sure the ingredients within are high quality. I also have to mention the bottle. It matches the scent. Very lovely indeed. My only complaint is that the EDT version sits very close to the skin and doesn't project very well. It seems very light. Maybe the EDP version is stronger? I'm not sure. It's not enough to deter me but I thought it was worth mentioning. Bottom line, I absolutely love Nuit Etoilee and I'm sure this is going to become one of my absolute favourites! Classy with a capital "C."

A starry night? Yes, indeed... this fragrance makes my heart shiver because it is poetical and an artistic creation, just like Vincent's Starry Night. The smell is aromatic and atmospheric, cold and distant - an aromatic forest and moonlight. Have you ever looked into the night sky and felt at home? This is how Nuit Etoilee smells to me - like the distant cosmos, and yet so close, so intimate, so familiar, so home like. This perfume is definitelly not to boost attraction and receive compliments, it is a scent of contemplation, a thoughtful scent. The gorgeous blue bottle contains notes of pine and fir smelling like an enchanted forest - run throught it wildly! The note of mint serves to create atmospheric, clear, crystal silence. Oh, the wonderful warmth and light sweetness of immortelle and tonka beans! In addition to all this mixture there is my wonderful lovely powdery iris. I love the concept, I like the expression.

Mint growing wild in a forest.

Opening is a pungent mint note, with lots of green leaves and pine needles. I’m really enjoying my house sample, it’s fairly challenging and based off the listed notes, I wasn’t expecting Nuit Etoilee to be. There’s a little bit of a mentholated cigarette feel to this, but not so much that it’s a dislike.

There’s no sweetness to take off the edge, that’s what makes Nuit Etoilee unique in today’s overcrowded gourmand market. With citrus and herbs, almost like something you would expect at a spa. Nuit Etoilee is in the vein of other Goutal’s: Ninefeo Mio (stronger citrus and wood) and Quel Amour! (Spring flowers and green notes).

The trademark “natural smell” of Annick Goutal is delivered. My juice is a lovely chartreuse green, and the blue bottle is gorgeous. I will save my remaining sample to wear in warmer weather. For now Nuit Etoilee is a strong like.

Light refreshing forest-y anise is what I get. An enchanted forest scent. I don’t know why it comes off as anise to me
but reading back through previous reviews I see I’m not the only one that got that vibe. I don’t get mint necessarily. It’s a beauty but sadly fleeting on my skin

Ethereal poetry: a lazy walk on a chill late afternoon in an enchanted forest.
Leaves under your feet, remnants of morning dew drops glistening on the grass while a shy setting sun is peeping through the rich foliage.
Annick Goutal's scents are rarely scents only, they convey feelings, emotions, states of mind.
Here we are transported in a calm, soothing place where there's no room for hatred, negativity, blue thoughts.
Mint, fir and pine gift this scent with a rich freshness with the addition of a stupendous lemon which never fully takes the stage.
Ethereal, I said, but not ephemeral or too light: the night is still ahead of us (we are only in the afternoon, remember?). Wait, please, wait for the night to reach its fullest and you will be gifted with a sweet drydown by the fava tonka smoothing the initial blast of freshness: the scent becomes deeper, stronger, riper.
A MASTERPIECE

ترکیبی جالب و شفاف از بوی پوست لیمو شیرین و نعنای له شده . استارتی بشدت فیزی و تلخ .جوری که چشمهای من بعد از تست سوخت . روند عطر حس سبز میگیره کاملا یونیسکس و تابستونه. اگه خیلی حساس باشید میتونید کمی حس صابونی و بن بن ابنباتی هم احساس کنید .

ترکیبی جالب و شفاف از بوی پوست لیمو شیرین و نعنای له شده . استارتی بشدت فیزی و تلخ .جوری که چشمهای من بعد از تست سوخت . روند عطر حس سبز میگیره کاملا یونیسکس و تابستونه. اگه خیلی حساس باشید میتونید کمی حس صابونی و بن بن ابنباتی هم احساس کنید .

I’ll tell you my impression of the aroma through the image.
It used to be a fresh summer morning, when the grass is still covered with dew, when the smells are clean, sonorous and voluminous. An old wooden house built in a pine forest, where it is always so easy to breathe. A young housewife at home collects young mint leaves and other fragrant herbs in her garden to brew aromatic herbal tea with dried citrus peels. Make a drink for yourself, drink it slowly, sipping a fragrant drink from a large ceramic mug, enjoying each sip, sitting on the open terrace, wrapping yourself in a warm plaid, picking up bare feet for yourself, and listening peacefully to the singing of early birds, breathing in the green bliss of the new days and think only of the good. While her family sleeps, this Sunday summer morning is only hers, this fragrant freshness is only for her, this is her personal time of silence and juicy, fresh aromas of nature ...
An attractive, soft, mildly refreshing scent that evokes pleasant sensations and thoughts.

I just love this scent! I wore it to a summer evening wedding under the stars, and it was exquisite. This scent now takes me back to that night, full of loveliness and promise.

Nuit Etoilee is warm yet cool, soft and sparkling, magical yet approachable. And apparently discontinued. Grrrrr.

The opening was promising: a fresh mint plant with a hint of smokiness. But as the time passed, it turned more and more to smell like mint tobacco. Not a burning cigarette, but the smell you get out of the package. My boyfriend said it reminded him of a mint vaper. Urgh, I don't want to smell like I smoke and cover it up with a mint. :(

Another unisex mint fragrance by Annick Goutal Nuit Etoilee - Starry Night. Beautiful name, beautiful aroma.
The first thing that comes to mind when he heard "Starry Night" is of course the world-famous Van Gogh painting, which he wrote in the hospital for the mentally ill in the difficult period of the artist's life.

Who has ever seen this masterpiece, he will remember it for life. This is not only one of the most famous paintings of Van Gogh, but also one of the most visible paintings of all Western painting.

Can you say the same thing about the same aroma Annik Gutal?
Time will show, but rather, this harmonious and beautiful aroma on a fouge theme will suit such admirers of mint, greens, astringency as I am unlikely to become a masterpiece, such as Ellipse Jacques Fath ... Let's see if 50 years later will tell about Starry Gutale?
But .. at the moment for me this fragrance is the most beautiful fragrance "about mint".

The most unusual in this fragrance is that it combines the fresh air of forests or meadows, pounded mint leaves in the hands with sweet notes that absolutely do not spoil the fragrance, but only subtly decorate! Have not met the sweet-green flavors before!

Very unusual and piquant. It can be said that the aroma is very similar with the taste of mojito-invigorates, refreshes and simply gives relaxation.
Asexual fragrance is only for peace of mind and relaxation, which Van Goghu lacked, like Starry Night with turbulent swirling streams and bright Venus ...

Very light and hard to smell...yet somehow projects decently off my arm.

Annick Goutal - Nuit Étoilée Eau de Toilette

Pine needles + mint leaves.

I live at the foot of a mountain range, and just before the dawn breaks I would rise up to hike its wooded slopes. "Nuit Étoilée" reminds me so much of those mornings when the air was brisk and the forest floor littered with leaves.

I've just tried the EDT on a humid summer's evening, and it held up. I'm curious how it develops in cold weather though as a cold winter night outside is what it calls to mind.

Prominent throughout is a NON- toothepaste-y mint; one that is the natural garden variety. It lends a brisk, open air, big, dark night sky feel. It suits the blue bottle well. Citrus is present throughout noticeably. The pine plays a quiet role, and luckily, is not of the urine variety.

Development for me was minimal with just a hint of something creamy in the background entering later. I did not care for the scent when I sniffed my arm, but I was catching enjoyable whiffs of it as I went about my night, so it may be one that performs best wafting from afar. Traces lasted past a shower.

Although unisex, it's a little too light for the lumberjack I'd typically recommend this for ;) But if brisk, fresh and cold is one's thing, then this is worth a try. It reminds me a little of 4711 Original. For a cozier pine, I'd try Byredo Gypsy Water and Lauder Sensuous Noir for a more complex, mysterious, and alluring use of pine.

Longevity - tenacious
Projection - 1 spray remains in your personal bubble, near skin
Occasion - casual wear, non-date night, times when the scent is for you

This perfume is surprisingly potent. My very first impression was that it is rather thin like a thin and fragile but beautiful fabric that wears & tears easily ... but then when you wear it you find that it is as it were reinforced by unseen kevlar fibres (or carbon nanotubes, or whatever). I actually received a very earnest compliment on this, walking down the street with a wind blowing! That's how robust it is!

And another peculiarity of this that I hadn't noticed until someone on the forum drew my attention to it, is its resemblence to Amouage's Sunshine Men. When I first read that assertion that there is a resemblance, I thought (and replied on the thread saying so) " ... nah! it doesn't ... " - but then when I put it on it kept reminding me of something and teasing me with the association ... and then it clicked! I also say now that there is a 'core' of resemblance between this and the Amouage. But there are also significant differences to the extent that there is by no means redundancy in having both.

And I know this is a bit minty also, and that elsewhere I have held-forth on how much I hate mint (because one time I could only get mint-flavoured nicotine chewing-gum & it drove me mad); but this is an outstanding example of how there can be ecxeptions about things like that. The mint is actually woven into the composition really very ingeniously.

For some reason this keeps bringing to mind a time when (I was about 18) a very reverend senior lady in the neighbourhood was showing me around her greenhouse! Not a particularly unexpected déja-vu: but it is a very strong one. I can't figure out whether the smell of the plants was conspiring to be somewhat like this fragrance (which is distinctly possible), or whether the connection is otherhow - but it assuredly is a connection.

(I wrote Bracken Man at first rather than Sunshine Men for the Amouage perfume. It definitely is Sunshine that I'm talking about.)

Nuit Etoilee is a beautiful fragrance indeed. Fresh mint with soft lemon in the opening. Then cold mint with edgy pine in the drydown. Ethereal and romantic. Poetic and philosophical. I think that it would be too heavy if it were stronger and maybe, just maybe, the real beauty of NE is its softness.

This frag is a spearmint (sweet) mint and a blast of fine and lemon in the opening, the citrus then dissaperas and only a WARM blend of mint and pine remains. Like walking in the woods and seeing the beams of a sunset jumping around the trees. This is a very SOFT scent, that can be worn by women and men.

I prefer to wear it on a grey cloudy summer day. It's a bit "too fresh" for Winter.

I don't usually like Annick Goutal scents, out of 5 bottles I owned, I only kept this scent. The blue bottle is also very pretty.

This for me smells of a fresh winter pine forest. It’s like nothing else I own and I love it’s uniqueness - such an antidote to super sweet and heavy perfumes in their multitudes! There is something decidedly soft and fairytale-like about this despite it being quite a green and clean scent. It’s beautifully blended and I get intertwined wafts of lemony citrus, pine, fresh herbiness, and a quiet powdery sweetness just beneath the surface. Once it completely dries down it’s a soft yet clean skin scent on me with low projection. This is an earthy fragrance that gives me Winter’s night vibes, but which would be nice in hot weather too I think. My only bugbear is that while I love the smell, I’m not sure I love it to wear all that often - I’d be curious about whether others think it smells strange on me. I would not call this a “pretty” scent, or one likely to get compliments, even though it’s so very lovely in its own way.

Still, a highlight from the more recent Goutal releases, even if I was surprised by the weird proximity to Nomad Tea. In any way, Nuit Étoilée manages to continue the grand landscape narratives the house was so unique in creating with their 80's releases. The original blue square bottle was also a perfect fit, sadly gone now with the utterly average new-fancy-bottle-normalization, Goutal, as many formerly decent brands experience.

The word ethereal seems to be such a good descriptor for Nuit Etoilee. I could hug a man returning to the cabin smelling of this pine. Not grandpa’s pine tar soap, but the lingering caress of green needles against plaid. I can smell a flesh-and-blood forest faerie bathed in the essence of Nuit Etoilee. I can even smell the sweet head of a little forest babe in the gentle, perfumed air.

I lived in Minnesota for seven years and know well the smell of the Northwoods. Nuit Etoille evokes impressionist memories. I was reminded of a North Shore hike with my uncle, a legendary hiker who had me sampling old man’s beard and rubbing the needles of coniferous trees to identify their olfactory imprints. Here my experience meets Nuit Etoilee. I don’t smell sawed wood like the cedar cabin or the pine chest or industrial logging. I smell the essence of one who has arrived home after a day in the forest. I smell the oil of the needles like delicate breath exhaling into Minnesota’s starry night sky.

Nuit Etoilee introduces itself in a strange way...an intense, almost-nothingness almost like atomizing witch hazel, lemon, and mint. When I say mint, I don’t mean spearmint. I mean basil encroaching on black licorice. Nuit Etoilee maintains that licorice standoffishness probably halfway through the day, and then I begin to pick up a sweetness in its movement. It stays true to itself throughout the day, without sillage yet ready to exhale once more as I move. It’s the impression of a forest world with no literal trees or essential oils. More importantly, a reminder that you were there.

Sipping hot Moroccan mint tea in a cold pine forest. I love it, Nuit Etoilee has an ethereal quality to it and is definitely not an everyday perfume for me but I feel like I will crave this when I'm feeling whimsical. The mix of mint and pine is rather magical!

My only gripe is how soft and fleeting this fragrance is. It has a sparkling, cold quality in its lightness and closeness to the skin but I find myself wondering if I'd like it more if it was stronger and lasted longer...or would that be too much and make it cloying?

An interesting one for sure. The bottle is so pretty, too.

First of all, a very good scent, even though it took my beloved a while to start appreciating it as much as it deserves. After she did, the bottle became empty much too quickly. It was my first Annick Goutal scent and I liked it from the first sniff. At the beginning it is a blast of citruses (more lemon - or citron as they say in the notes - than orange) and mint with a slightly sweet vibe. On me the citruses are gone first and the remaining mint becomes mixed with the pine forest smell. It is a beautiful combo. After the mint flies away, the forest stays there, but to me it smells very light and close to the skin. It seems my nose is getting old though, beacause other people could smell the conifer trees on me from like a meter away and did comment on it (they liked it). Tonka bean is listed in the base notes. Ususally I can easily detect this particular note. I don't say there is no tonka bean in Nuit Etoille, but I think it does not characterise this composition at all and is not important to this frag as a note on its own. Maybe it supports the conifer, I don't know. As for the longevity and sillage, from the beginning I felt I needed to spray it a lot over me (5 sprays at least). The atomizer here is unforgiving, you can't control the amount of perfume sprayed and it's always generous. So the bottle I had became empty all too quickly, like I mentioned at the beginning. As I think of it, I haven't yet encountered another 100 ml perfume flacon with such a short lifetime, at least in my hands.

I very much liked the descriptions of firy, piny, minty/citrusy, coldish, earthy natural non-perfumy scent, but based on the reviews here, and as I am always slightly resereved to everything I read (a matter of character, I suppose), I wanted to to test and check few things, plus performance in general:

First:
Does it work (for me) as wintery scent (there was quite a lot of Christmas associations here), or is it really one of all-year-rounders I'm becoming less and less inclined to (I kinda like rediscovery-game in the beginning of each particular season), or do its minty freshness and frequently mentioned coldness make it wearable on warm days, or in the heat?

Well... It did not strike me as a scent for warm weather, inspite of the opening which clearly suggested the things would go in that direction.

Second:
About conifer/fir - is it light, sublimed, almost transcendental, like in Bryedo Gypsy Water (which I really love, but I find it too overpriced for actual performance) and Eau des Melveilles (where piny note swirls around like in the real summer breeze by the sea), or is it dense, litteral, natural(istic), demanding conifer of more wintery type, like in SL Fille En Auguilles, or L'Artisan's Fou d'Absinthe?

Well, it is the second kind, only more generic. So, you must really, really want to smell conifer/fir all the way to the drydown. It is quite dense. And certainly there's something sweet attached to it.

Third, last and trickiest:
How does citrus/mint accord from the opening blend to piny / conifer accord?

This is egzactly where I have a problem with Nuit Etoilee: I can clearly see and understand the concept of EDT, I understand the evident contrast and the way this fragrance is suppose to work, but my senses simply refuse to blend the fresh, cold, minty-sweet (almost summery, day-like, bright) opening into further developement, where balmy, thick, and much darker (almost wintery, not egzqctly night-like, but deeply shady) conifers dominate.
This just does not happen for me.
Instead of blended picture, I repeatedly get two scents /two pictures ovlerlaping in a way that makes the whole perspective impossible to be perceived by my senses, and my senses confused instead of intrigued by contrast.
And I don't wear perfume because of intelectual concept.

However, I do very much appreciate the concept itself, and I seriously plan to test EDP version.
Maybe the full picture will be magically revealed with a drop of amber...

This will always stand for me as an Awful Warning against rash and unconsidered decisions.

I bought it blind at T K Maxx partly to encourage them to stock interesting niche brands, partly because the bottle was so pretty and partly from sheer curiosity. Having tried it, however, I couldn't convince myself that admiration of its originality, indeed uniqueness actually added up to anything more than a sort-of-like, sometimes.

One day, quite unexpectedly, I found myself craving it, and all day I simply adored it, it was wonderful, how could I have so misjudged it, etc, etc. I felt I simply must buy a back-up bottle, and my finger was poised over the button when my better self gave me a stern talking-to; I must stop all this rhapsodizing and give myself a 24hr cooling-off period. And sure enough the next day it was back to well-I-think I sort of like it, a bit.I still haven't finished 50ml.

Has anyone else ever experienced this kind of strange and fleeting enthusiasm for a fragrance?

A snowy ice queen. This is a winter wonderland cold icicle scent which blooms when the mercury descends. It is a cold blast of mint & conifer candy cane & is perfect for Christmas sleigh rides & midnight walks. It is one of the most elusive fragrances I own & it took me a while to coax it out of it's igloo and become acquainted - well worth the time & effort. Wear while watching another ice maiden Kim Novak bewitch James Stewart in 'Bell, Book & Candle'.

A confused mint opening leads to a confusing dry down of toasty immortelle, sweet angelica and synthetic pine. Maybe it's just my chemistry, but there's something sweaty and off-putting about the overall effect. This one's not for me.

I'm sad this didn't work for me. It is practically all bitter citrus tinted with mint on me. Only for a very short period did the confiers shine through. At that point I liked it; But then it rapidly became sticky immortelle pancakes with synthetic citrus and a whole lotta mint. I have no idea how orange juice with mint pancakes are supposed to be evocative of a starry night, but whatever.

Oh my god I love this. First blast is something almost alcoholic, citrusy and minty and not altogether pleasant, but it quickly burns off and settles into something coniferous and green. It's a pine forest on a crisp winter morning, sans dirt, but for once, I'm okay that this scent is missing the fresh dirt, the moldering wood, the mossiness that I generally want in my forest perfumes. This isn't an atmospheric smell. It's far from realistic - I've never smelled the woods like this, so clean and perfect - but it's still beautiful, an Impressionistic painting of a forest somewhere, still under a layer of snow, with oranges. It's entirely fantasy, and I'm okay with that.

Nuit Etoilée doesn't make me think of a starry forest night. This was an attempt to bottle the winter morning sun that comes slanting through the branches of the trees: pine needles, sunshine, nose on edge with cold. Peace in a bottle.

Now I know what unisex perfume should be - it should imitate Nature itself. Cool starry night (later plus fire smoke!)is miraculously achieved.
Yes, perfectly, safely unisex.
On dry down on my skin is resinous-smokey in a perfect way. Reminds me of Terre d'Hermes which my husband has, but not in a masculine way.
Happy with it!

Love it! An old pine dresser drawer filled with peppermint candies. For sure what I was craving! Wood+Mint love.

I like the evocative or suggestive fragrances of moments, sensations, environments, trips or places, since these types of fragrances have more value, power and personality than others that simply smell good.

That happens to me, among others, with Nuit Etoilee.
From the beginning I perceive that nightly freshness, powerful, of a breeze of air: citrus and mint accompanied by the woods that contributes all that character that has this fragrance: a forest of spruce and pine mixed with each other raising that menthol character even to balsamic of NE, thus increasing even more that nocturnal character evocative of the aroma. The drying, although does not last long, has a woody point more balsamic and sweet tinted by the angelica that recreates an atmosphere of calm.
In this case, I clearly perceive that walk through this landscape, wooded, calm, cool, even nocturnal, with only the lighting of the powerful light of the stars, diluted colors, intense blue, marine, green greens and white lights that blink all around peace and tranquility.

If it were not for the moderate duration and weak wake would be a sensational fragrance because the composition and the aroma itself is excellent.

Rating: 7.5

Definitely test this before you buy. I love the smell of pine, I love woodsy and fresh scents, and it has to be unique, so this one seemed like it would be right up my alley. On me, however, it just smelled like a muddled mess of scents that did not mesh well at all together, with a layer of mint over it. Ick - disgusting in fact. I did not smell anything fresh, pine or a forest. I envy the people whose chemistry works well with this, because I'm sure it is lovely.

Minty freshness, mixed with a pineforest. And somewhere in that forest there is a house with a whiff of smoke coming out of the chimney. Is there anyone else who can smell smoke in this scent? Lovely by the way. I think I'm going to try/buy the edp too. Intriguing.
Edit: should have stuck with the edt, the edp is smoother, and has less edge than the edt. So, if in doubt: pick the eau the toilette (in the square male bottle it is often lower priced).

Nuit Etoilee - absolutely stunning. Perfect forest perfume. Cold and wet, yet warm and cozy somehow. Crisp and elegant. Gorgeous!
And the most beautiful bottle and colour. It's just how the perfume feels - cool and warm and comforting. Perfection.

I got a biiigggg collection of samples and perfume for Christmas (thank you so much my rocker chick ;) ) and this sample was one of the gorgeous scents. This is probably one of the most different and unusual scents I have ever laid my nose on! At first, I didn't know if I liked it or not, and then I decided that I absolutely did not like it.....I LOVED it. I'm reading reviews that this is not a big projecting scent, but I don't think I really care, because I can raise my wrist to my nose just fine....lol....not EVERYTHING that I wear, do I need everyone else to enjoy. This creamy, minty, piney scent even smells like the color blue to me (perfect bottle color choice). I am usually a very warm scent kinda gal, but this is the best "cold" scent I've ever tried. Can't wait for my bottle to come in!

The perfect winter/Christmas scent. Cold, crispy, but somehow warm inside. A real masterpiece.

woody aromatic heavenly starry night. i concur - this is a masterpiece.
don't fear the mint. it works.

doing a side by side EDT / EDP:
I did a 1000 piece jigsaw of that Van Gogh painting. it took me days and by the time i finished i had ended up studying every brush stroke and every hue of blue, gold and green.
Both perfumes share the blue mint, the golden citrus and the evergreen woods.
there is a sweetness and a touch of powder.

EDT is brighter, more airey, more "perfumed", outdoorsy, less sweet. i am sensing more angelica in this one, or perhaps it shows up more, because this base has no amber to cloud it.
EDP has the EDT structure, over a thick chocolatey amber, that to me smells rather like Elizabeth Shaws after dinner chocolates (both the orange and the mint flavours). this version heads towards edible and of course is stronger.

the EDT remains light, fresh and airey. greener.
the EDP's more golden, sweet amber wafts under my nose from the start.

i sense more woods than i expected in both dry downs, beneath all the green needles.

both silky smooth and uplifting.

the EDP is walking indoors from the snowy night, shaking off the boots and opening the door to a warm room, lit golden by the xmas tree. warm dark embers in the fire, a blue armchair, with a decanter, a glass and that choc for Santa.

the EDT is leaving this cosy room behind and taking that starlit walk in the cold forest.

i prefer (and so does my 6 year old) this one, the EDT. and that's perhaps is because the woods is my favourite place to be.

i would recommend them both. both are beautiful.
try the EDP if you love the sweetness of amber and prefer that touch more oomph that an EDP gives.

I smell citrus, mint and pine needles. The notes sound as though they would be harsh, but they are soft and sweet.

Unique and tranquil, just as I had imagined. Cooling, refreshing contrast to Texas three digit heat.

The conifers are very prominent in Nuit Etoilee, but it's not a true-to-life foresty scent. It smells natural, but it's also a bit ethereal. It's more like a fairytale forest: crisp and airy with sweet resinous depth. It slightly reminds me of Elixir des Merveilles by Hermes.

All in all, Nuit Etoilee is really lovely! The performance could be better, though; it has a moderate lasting power (approx. 4-5 hours) and it stays close to skin.

Very nice, refreshing, cool pine needle scent.
First whiff is strongly alcoholic, but pine needle scent comes through soon enough along with some minty freshness. On my skin, no citrus scent develops, but only piney, fir scent.
Delicate silage and not overpowering.

I had a heavy head from lack of sleep, so spritzed Nuit Etoillee around my wrists and back of neck. It gave me such a fresh wake-up feeling as if I took a stroll in the mountain path.
Lovely & delicate perfume, which I look forward to using in the summer and fall.

walking through a cold crisp evergreen forest hand in hand with my lover, we stop and both gaze up at the same time at the clear winter night sky and see stars wink at us - it transports me there - I love this scent

it is soft but a bit chilly, and cool evergreen - I get more fir than pine - and I have very fond comfort memories of pine, spruce and fir scented baths as a child so these notes are so appealing and comforting to me

its not everyday im able to find a mint based scent

as much as i wish i knew of more that i was able to get my hands on it just hasn't come to fruition

Nuit Etoilee opens with a mint note thats almost edible it sets the mood almost instantly uplifting you to wanna get out and cease the day

the combination of mint pine and fir lays the foundation of whats to follow in this scents pyramid breakdown

right off the top the earthy tones would just be to much but because its followed by a duo of citrusy notes which makes it all come together in a olfactive medley

i would say this is a summer day scent perfect for roaming around in a urban city that forces you to be with in close quarters of others since im afraid thats the only time you will get noticed as this scents biggest down fall is its ability to project :(

and only for that reason i find it not to be bottle worthy

on to the next

Just goes to show that when it comes to olfactory sense our taste can change even for a while. Having overused heavy, oriental scents for the past 3 years I was looking for something a little fresher but still smoky and resinous. Recently in a thread I came across Nuit Etoilee. I was always weary of citrus notes being rather harsh but not in this case. Nuit Etoilee is a beautiful match of lemon engulfed i a resinous spicy pine and mint enhanced ever do gently by tonka bean and with nuances of immortelle and orange. Very feminine classy and elegant, I am glad to own a bottle. It can be easily worn by a man too. Pure smoky, citrucy bliss.

Review is for EDT
Wooden open terrace is lit by lamps from the kitchen and real green-tree is standing there, waiting when last icicles will drop and melt down, so the tree will make it's fragrant way into the living-room. The house will start to smell like winter forest, fir aromatic needles and resinous aroma with droplets of galipot that cover the bark. Nuit Etoilee will fill the hall, the dining room and climb upstairs, to change the real world into surreal. Definitely bright, minty fir with teeny-tiny touch of citrus.

This edt smells like zesty lemon tea to me. Very very happy lemon tea. I feel like it cleanses my lungs, and clears my head. It's more like aromatherapy or a mood booster for me, than a perfume really. It's just something I would wear for my self on a day I'm feeling down and need a little lift me up.

EDIT: tested the EDP too, but I actually prefer this one. They are very similiar, but this one is has a balmy smooth feel to it that i miss in the EDP.

The EDP is so superior that I squirm when I read the reviews and suspect the EDT is what has figured in them. The iris/amber combo in the EDP is amazing. If you like the EDT at all, persevere; Seek and ye shall find a masterpiece.

So inviting as are the mint and pine notes, is the dark blue color, somewhat turquoise bottle (mine is the square one) ... but I was a bit disappointed with the scent itself. It imediatelly reminded me of the ultra cheap Paris Elysees Handsome for men, most of all because the so caracteristic smoky smell. Explaning: mint and pine? I was expecting something more fresh, a feeling of openness, if I´m saying this correctly. But it seens to be rarely the case (Esencia Loewe, Agua Brava, Polo green itself). This strikes me quickly as a masculine scent, which I was already expecting because those green notes.

I think this is a very natural smelling fragrance. It opens up with a very prominent mint note that eventually fades into a very realistic pine and fir (maybe a bit too realistic) dominant fragrance. The transition is quite interesting to me because the fragrance shifts from an initial minty fresh opening into a very green, piney base.

It doesn't Smell like pinesol or any kind of cleaner though. It smells like someome chopped up a pine tree then heaped all the logs, branches, leaves and chips into a corner of the lawn. Imagine sitting by a window, or on the patio while the scent of that felled tree moves in your direction. I think the pine note also has a resinous woody quality to it...almost the same vibe I get from varnish if that makes any sense.

I didn't get it before but after a few wearings, I actually detect, in a more than subtle way a very present tonka note. I think I've smelt it before but have only now realised what it actually is. I think the tonka adds just a tiny bit of flavor and sweetness to the woody pine facet that dominates the latter stages of this fragrance.

I actually noticed it because I own a bottle of viaggio d'Africa which has a very prominent tonka note that I think is used for the same reason as it is used in this however, in VDA its used in tandem with the vetiver to a much greater extent. While these two fragrances are very different, I think the tonka is very similar. They both smell like tonka seeds after the fibrous fruit was consumed and left to dry. Let's say after heaping the pine tree together you throw a few tonka seeds in the pile. The seeds may not over power the pine smell but they add just enough to take the sharp edge off the pine.

I think that this fragrance is more a work of fragrance art than it is a mass produced crowd pleaser. It's not bad at all but I don't think its everyone's cup of tea. despite the name I think it's best suited for daytime and works best as a casual fragrance. I think it'll do well in warmer or cooler climates. longevity and sillage are okay but could be better. I haven't received any compliments as yet.

Will I finish my bottle? I most certainly will. Will I purchase again? Maybe not. Am I intrigued enough to try other fragrances by AG? Yes I am. Do I recommend? I recommend that you at least smell this if you like minty, woody, resinous, natural fragrances.

Very lovely spring summer warm weather fragrance that actually works well in any season for that matter...opening is very citrus minty and then pine & fir enter the scenario with orange & angelica presenting also...the warm pine and immortelle drydown smell remarkably similar to Serge Lutens' Fille en Aiguilles' drydown...a very enjoyable & versatile casual all season EDT fragrance.

Sillage: moderate
Longevity: moderate to long-lasting

Bursts open with a vibrant citrus/mint accord that is almost overwhelmingly aggressive before it settles into a calmer green sweet minty peppery accord. It's actually rather surprising from this house in that it's strong. I think this will be a grower. Right now, for me, the jury's out.

I recently fell in unexpected love with Annick Goutal's Nuit Etoilee. I say unexpected because I usually gravitate toward heady orientals and gourmand scents, but somehow I became absolutely enamored by the scent profile of this fragrance.

Unfortunately, longevity and projection are minimal at best.

Hoping I can get some help finding an alternate fragrance that matches Nuit Etoilee's notes but offers way better staying power and projection.

Any ideas?
ANY and all suggestions are welcome-- desperate to hear about scents that offer than same citrony, piny, minty vanilla that makes Nuit Etoilee so magical to my nose!

Breath freshener spray....that's it....spot on! I know that was meant to be a negative review but, it's the best description!
This scent (and I LOVE it btw!) is the exact reaction your mouth gets to a lovely, more spearminty than pepperminty, breath spray.
Your senses become deadened with minty freshness and frozen ponds. You become a huge tastebud that can detect the feel and smell of minty freshness (much LIKE toothpaste), pine needles and cold mountain air while walking across a frozen pond.
Chewing gum....maybe a bit, yes. But these aren't a negative, provided you SEEK and love this experience!
This is so fresh, the next morning I can pick up my clothing and it smells like I left my shirt out to hang in storybook forest. This has the ozone people mention in some reviews I've read.
This is equivalent to brushing your teeth, rinsing your mouth, spraying breath spray, blowing into the cold frosty air, and then walking through the little puff of cloud you make. All the while standing in a pine forest and licking a icicle off a pine tree.

This is a frosty dream.....

I tried this today. First, second, third squirt- I was in heaven. I nearly ran to the counter to pay for a full bottle. However, on the way to the counter it changed (yes, that quickly) to orange biscuits. Yes, orange biscuits. I smelled of orange biscuits. So, I turned myself around, walked back to the shelf and replaced the bottle. For £84 I don't want to smell of orange biscuits. Weird.

Finally. I have been wanting to sample this and today I got the chance. It's pretty much what I thought it would be - beautifully made but just a bit too Christmas-y for me. In fact I'm reminded of a room scent that used to be available at L'Occitane. It was called Winter Forest and I had both the oil for burning and the little metal tin of solid cubes of perfume that fit into the most gorgeous pomander... like a metal "orange" that opened up to reveal 4 sections covered with a filigree screen that allowed the scent to escape. Beautiful. Wish they still made them. Love this kind of scent for my environment but not for wearing.

Masterpiece .... hit my soul, this perfume was able to bring me back in the woods when I collected mosses, resins ... there were pine, fir, pine needles, my hands smelled like this, everything was this smell ... all around nature. Nuit étoilée Evolves slowly, has a complex parfume, and it takes days to interpret. After about 20 minutes it turns into full-fledged starry night in a forest .. I love this scent, and I think that will buy! One And Only! It 'the first perfume I try Annick Goutal, and I was surprised! :) My soul thanks .. ♦♡

Sillage: 5/10 (it is light on the skin, but just reapply after a few hours)
Longevity: 8/10 (Takes about 6-8 hours on me)
Scent: 9.5/10 (Perfume divine, unique, magical, majestic, captivates the senses and do not let them more)
Overall 10/10

According to my taste is a timeless scent, so you can wear in Summer, winter, spring and autumn. Suitable for any occasion :')

Very very light scent that makes me think of nature. I like the mint, fir and pine notes in it. I knew this was going to be good. It's unisex for surel.
I sense some tonka bean, but it's still not sweet.
The only problem is it's lightness. It's so light, I don't know if it's possible to detect on someone or not. All I know is, I have to rub the paper strip on my face to sense it.
It would be lovely on a cloudy summer day.

Blind buy yesterday at Winner's (reduced to $36.00!!). This is beyond my expectations! In a world of cookie cutter scents, this is truly unique. Feels like being in a forest in winter, with a cold, shivery feeling (must be the mint). Absolutely love it!

Sexy and relaxing and the same time. Great for a cozy fall day !! Love it , not over strong just right !!!

I love this one from all my heart! It's just like some kind of the miracle in the blue bottle! So mysterious like a forest from some fairytale. My absolutely "zen", that gives me a full harmony with myself and the world around me.

Opens with a burst of minty citrus leading onto the pine and then a pungent burning rubber smell.Is this the Immortelle?What a disappointment.Any one want a partially used bottle?

Simply GORGEOUS! I am totally in love with this fragrance. All together I get the scent of potpourri, but by the notes I do get how some can pick up mint, citrus, and woods; for some reason it just reads as one thing to me. One thing is for sure it is very feminine IMO, and Im not sure why but it makes me think of lace. I cant really imagine a man (who wears only male frags) wearing this comfortably. The only drawback to this one is that the longevity lasted about 5 hours on me.

one of my recent purchase ONE WORD I LOVE THIS SCENT from goutal its very refreshing. It does makes you think of a cold weather snow flowing walking on the road with pine trees all around for me this scent very relaxing and calming reminds of childhood. I really love the pine note here the top notes are somewhat very common but does not last long as the pine kicks in right away making the scent more brightly or cooling as it dries down the scent becomes greeny with just a small kick of sweetness all notes blends together very nicely performance 5-6 hrs moderate projection. I got mines for 62usd niche quality, smell wise, performance wise, average.

Smells like resinous Christmas. Rather wonderful. Almost a Christmas version of Mandragore, with shared notes. Completely unisex.

I tried this one in a boutique and at first remained deluded because I expected pine to shine sooner. And it does not give you the pine at first. But then it really starts to shine, and this is really great - it's not a flat simple perfume at all. Very well done.

For me it's an August perfume, because it delivers the same contrast: hot day and chilly dark night, when pine trees smell so wonderfully radiating their natural woody scent with the heat accumulated during the day...

Another Annick Goutal perfume I only have a 1 ml sample of, and another one that's hard to decide about after two wearings.
I was very excited to try this: because of the combination of the name and the notes, both lovely, I imagined a very fresh but interesting scent, like a cool night in a pine forest. And that's exactly what this is, although it's definitely heavier on the mint than on the pine, and I got little or no citrus in the opening. This is the colder sister of Ninfeo Mio, the same forest but in a colder season when the sun isn't hot enough to evoke that warm smell of lemon and fig trees and the resin in the trees (but the mint plants somehow thrive in abundance).
So I like Nuit Etoilee very much, but I think mint is just one of those notes for me, where liking is as far as I'll probably ever get, because I'm not falling in love with it...I'd like a bigger decant, though, just to make sure, because I don't feel like I'm done with this, either.

I love this so much, it's like leaving your windows open for a cool night breeze. The opening has this juicy leafy green-ness with the mint and pine that I just love! It feels outdoorsy and natural without being too "wild," if that makes sense, like a night walk through a park. It definitely has a cool, evening feel to it, like that woodsy smell that starts rising from the ground after the sun is down.

It starts out really crisp and leafy with a lemony citrus sparkle, then gets more woodsy-evergreen as time goes on, and in the drydown it has a hint of powdery sweetness to it underneath the warm pine. It has a touch of resin to it. Although it stays mainly green, the resin is ambery-sweet rather than bitter/dry. It's actually kind of interesting how it transitions from cool to just a little warm, I'm curious to try the EDP, which is supposed to emphasize the warmth a little more.

Fresh, cold mint and pine, with a warmer dry down. Very cool scent without being aquatic or watery in the least. Unisex, a great mint and pine scent for anyone. Fresh without ozone or marine notes -- I usually don't like marine notes so this was important for me. It was also nice to find a scent with mint in it that a woman could wear that wasn't too sweet -- I like mint but too often it has a sugared quality to it. This isn't sweet but just fresh.

It's pleasant. It smells of a freshly shaven man chewing spearmint gum out in the bracing cold air of a pine forest.

It isn't strong. It is airy and transparent. It reminds me of a breath fogging up a window.

I don't know why there aren't more pine fragrances out there. It took me a while to find the perfect one. Velvet Forest Wood was too watery and I'm not meant to wear Quorum or Pino Silvestre. Eau de Merveilles was nearly perfect with it's strong elemi note, but it was very changeable on my skin. Sometimes it was ORANGE, ORANGE, ORANGE and sometimes ambergris and sometimes lovely piney smelling elemi.
I hesitated to try Nuit Etoilee because of the mint note. I'm just not a fan. Well, luckily it is very mild and natural smelling on my skin. Nuit Etoilee is definitely, for me, all about pine with a bit of orange and tonka.
It's a bit sharp, but never reminiscent of car air freshener or cleaning products. Drydown is deeper, more resinous with a bit of natural sweetness coming from the maple syrup vibe immortelle has.
Highly recommend this to anyone seeking a pine dominant scent that isn't ultra masculine Burt Reynolds style.

Sorry but to me, It is the worst creation of Goutal.
Not clean, not fresh, it is not strong, it is not dark.
A light balsamic notes that give me a strange odor.

Fortunately, longevity and sillage are moderate-low.

scent: 4/10
longevity: 5/10
sillage: 4/10

Got this yesterday as an impulse, unsniffed purchase. I love it!
... but, am-I the only one to get a Christmas-y vibe from this?

I’m not usually a fan of perfume with such heavy woody notes, but I got a decant from a fellow fragrantican and was determined to give Nuit Etoilee a fair shot. I am really impressed by the uniqueness and style of this fragrance.

Yes, it is woody. The first 5 minutes were rather citrusy, but then a lovely piney woodiness. There are pine and fir trees here, but with an amazing sweetness; it’s either like eating cookies under the Christmas tree…or like lemonade spilled on pine needles during a deep woods picnic. The sweetness is not a candy sweetness, but it is lovely and mellow; as this scent evolves, it also gets slightly powdery as well, but just a touch. The mint and citron continue to add brightness and lightness, like sunlight glancing through branches.

After 2 hours, it becomes more powdery and the sweetness becomes more floral, with the unique herbal sweetness of angelica and immortelle. So “floral” in the sense of coming from flowers, but not in an overtly feminine way; these flowers bring the scent of ancient healing and comfort, but not a medicinal scent. With the pine and fir, the angelica and immortelle, the citron and mint—I feel like I’m the cottage of a wise and practiced healer, a midwife and wise woman. That said, I think this could be a really diverse fragrance, for any season or for either gender.

Sillage is fair, longevity about 3 hours and then fading to not much. A fascinating scent. (Of note—for those who have tried the Etsy micro-niche “Winter Kitty” scent by For Strange Women; I think this is a more elegant, sophisticated and complex version of what that scent was trying to capture).

This has a lovely bright opening - minty and citrus, very clear - and then becomes green, with tree resin and anise, before finally finishing smoky and (dark, unsweetened) chocolatey. What I love about Nuit Etoilée is that it plays between cold and warm, light and dark, masculine and feminine.
I can imagine wearing this in the summer, at an outside café table, sipping pastis, just as easily as in the winter hiking through the woods or sitting by a log fire. I find it lasts surprisingly well, and I get lovely whiffs of smoke, tonka or mint eight hours later. The sillage is typical for a Goutal: you'll smell it when you're close to someone, but you aren't going to knock out unwitting passers by.
I bought this "blind" as I had faith in Annick Goutal - I haven't come across any Goutal perfumes that I do not like, and I found a good deal with Escentual where they also included a free 10ml handbag spray in a really cute blue box. Perfect for topping up and travel!
My greatest fear was that it would smell boring, as mint and citrus with wood get used a lot. But despite the natural quality of the notes - it really does smell like walking through forests - it smells interesting, complex and different. Some critics feels this is not one of Goutal's best, but I strongly disagree. It works a clever dichotomy and smells just beautiful.

The lemon and mint give a crisp open, revealing a mid of sweet evergreen. This cold scent is lovely and simple, yet its lightness doesn't bar charisma or the base's virtue of demure sexiness.

I got a sample of this as a gift from a lovely Fragrantica member; so far it's my favorite from the collection she sent me.
I tried it before I looked at the notes, and I didn't realize there was mint, it just smelled like a breath of fresh air. The citrus and conifer didn't seem harsh, rather herbal or as if you'd crushed some needles beneath your feet. The top notes really didn't last long at all, but then my skin absorbs scent at a ferociously fast rate.
I get hints of the sweetness of the angelica, and the immortelle adds fullness to the tonka bean while the citrus and fir linger like smoke.
I found it absolutely delightful; I love tonka bean as a base because it's so rich.
Longevity and sillage are something that are useless for me to evaluate, as nothing lasts very long on my skin. I sprayed the Nuit Etoilee four times throughout the last hour, and already it is almost completely gone. What's left is lovely, spicy, and warm. Yum yum

Nuit Etoilee is unique. The combo of pine/fir came across too masculine for me, but the scent itself is nice. I wouldn't mind a room fragrance of this as it is calming, but I don't really want to smell like this.

Like a peppermint flavoured stick of rock with a touch of pine. Lovely. The only thing I don't like is the bottle - beautiful blue colour with gold accents, but it's too clunky. Not the pretty, elegant bottle I expected.

Annick Goutal - Nuit Etoilee

Another comforting scent, the main highlight for this scent is the pine trees/conifers, light orange smell, and mint. It invokes a feeling of a walk in the forest with some orange trees somewhere. if ever you are nature lover this will carry you to that special place. :-)

Nuit Etoilee is a magical, aromatic composition inspired by the scents of nature. There is the sweet warmth of the woods and the fresh coolness of the night, brightened up by sparkling citruses. I really love the concept behind this fragrance; the bottle, the name, the colour – all match the scent perfectly. It truly resembles a cool, starry night in a forest...The dense, soothing aroma of dry pine bark is truly intoxicating, and the cool freshness of mint and citrus – invigorating. The mint, although quite prominent in the opening, isn't too cold or sharp. It's soft, sweet, and smells very true and natural, like a real mint leaf; rather than synthetic and 'toothpasty'. The drydown is sweetened by the immortelle flower, which has a thick, syrupy quality. There is also my beloved note – tonka bean, which is only slightly present in the base, but enough to give the overall composition some beautiful warmth and depth.

My boyfriend always says that Nuit Etoilee smells like a really good air freshner. Although I can see where he is coming from, I think there is far more to this fragrance than just that. This is a very rich, complex and unusual composition, and I think that it takes some time to truly understand it and appreciate its originality. To me, Nuit Etoilee is very special and unique, so special that I often cannot think of an appropriate occasion to wear it... Sometimes I like spray it just before going to bed, and wrap myself in its sweet, soothing aroma... But I think it could work quite well as a refreshing day perfume for the summer.

Overall, I'd say that Nuit Etoilee is one of the most unusual and interesting fragrances that I have ever come across. I really appreciate Annick Goutal for their quality and originality, and Nuit Etoilee is by far my favourite creation from this niche house.
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Hell this is awesome! I was recommended this by you guys on the forum and I blind bought it and wow, I'm not dissapointed!
The initial spritz is very unusual in that its woody and lemony mixed together and I find this a strange combination of notes. The first 20minutes left me perplexed as to what exactly I could smell in this one, but having had quite a few AG fragrances I knew that I had to let this settle a while.
The pine note is very refreshing to me and it really complements the citrus notes. I am trying desperately to find peppermint in this composition but I can't smell it, perhaps I am anosmic, but what I do smell is a gorgeous, fresh, lemon fragrance which has undertones of pine needles, which just add to make this the most devastatingly unusual and enchanting fragrance. (I would love to try the EDP now).
Later on in the drydown, I find that the sweet orange helps to turn this into something much sweeter than in the initial spray.
Annick Goutal is a genius perfumer, I love her beautiful and artistic olfactory creations and this one is certainly art.
Whilst I wear this scent I can imagine a winters walk in a swedish forest full of fir trees which sends an aroma of fresh pine as the wind blows past my face.
Do I see a starry night? Not really, but thats what art is all about, it's the perception of the artist which is the reality, however I have a good enough imagination to let me transport myself into a wonderful wintery forest as the sun is setting and its rays stream through the trees.
Beautiful, mesmerising perfume.

"Enjoyment in nature and solitude" indeed. I tend to veer away from scents with accords listed with green, citrus and aromatic together as many don't last above a couple of hours on me and I have to stick my nose to my skin to smell anything. However this scent keeps being recommended and I decided to go against my prejudice. Thank goodness I did! OK so I don't picture star-filled dark blue night skies (that's very much Vol de Nuit or L'Heure Bleue territory), but I totally am feeling the nature walk and the pure, pure air, the glorious fresh pine scent that sadly left me cold in Serge Lutens' Chypre Rouge. The pine here is practically joyful if a smell could be considered as such. The sweet mint and citrus notes are just as cheerful a note in this.The sillage is rather quiet for me (but I am rather fond of loud monsters of the Amouage kind)but the longevity is acceptable, around 6 hours now and I can still smell it pretty well around me. So if you are looking for this exact description: cool scent of woods and enjoyment in nature and solitude--> do try this scent. You will not regret it.

The bottle is a lovely shade of blue, almost like a starry night like satin blue. I have always admire annick goutal's fragrances but have yet to venture out due to many reasons. So, when chance presents itself in the form of this lovely bottle, how can one refuse it. I do not love it to bits nor do i hate it to the core. Nuit Etoilee is one of the more interesting fragrance that i have come acrossed for a while. On me, i get the sweet orange and peppermint strongly compared to what else i can detect. It wears demurely, soft, woodsy almost like soft leaves carressing my skin in the forrest. Nice work.

In my opinion, another masterpiece by Goutal.
I needed time to understand it, but what a beautiful scent to wear, when you want and where you want, althought I think it deserves better than an office use.
You can find in it its Family DNA : Sables, Mandragore, L'eau d'Hadrien, even Ninféo Mio...
If you like mint and citrus for the bright freshness (les étoiles), if you like pine and immortelle for the depth (la nuit), this one is for you. Average sillage and good longevity.
A nice trip in forest, under a "nuit étoilée".

[...] Mon auberge était à la Grande Ourse.
- Mes étoiles au ciel avaient un doux frou-frou

Et je les écoutais, assis au bord des routes,
Ces bons soirs de septembre où je sentais des gouttes
De rosée à mon front, comme un vin de vigueur ;
[...]
Arthur Rimbaud, Ma Bohème.

It's all about conifers and immortelle on my skin. They take the main stage, without being a single bit apologetic about it. There is very little room left for the other notes, which means that I can hardly detect any mint or citrus in the composition.

My skin seems to be really amplifying the immortelle. I am struck by its caramelized, toasty sweetness as soon as the perfume comes into contact with my body. Later on, it becomes aromatic, slightly spicy and almost smokey, like a crackling fireplace on a winter evening.

Christmas is just round the corner so a little earlier I pulled out a couple perfumes that go well with the atmosphere but otherwise don't get much wear from me, as I find them too self-assertive on most days (Jungle L'Elephant, Lolita Lempicka). Nuit Etoilee doesn't seem to have much in common with that lineup - it's not as conspicuous, and most definitely not a gourmand. But there's just something in the perfume's blend of coniferous and aromatic notes that smells very festive and joyous, and I'm not just talking about how the pine and fir notes bring to mind Christmas tree:)

It's a great Christmas, or wintery, perfume, but since it also makes me think of fields of tall grass in burnt yellow hues I'm presuming that it would be just as perfect on a late summer day in the country. 

Very natural smelling, non-perfumey, holds close to skin but lasts a good while.

I loved the idea behind the fragrance, and the presentation and the top notes seemed appealing.

The opening is beautiful. The fir and pine with mint and citrus, superimposed on a subtle slightly syrup like sweetness, is evocative and truly lovely. On my skin this lasts perhaps only 20 minutes.

Then in the drydown, what is left is a steady linear accord that must come from the combination of angelica and tonka and immortelle all together. It is quite close and has limited projection but it does last well for many hours.

The drydown accord is fullsome, soft, rounded, gentle, mellow, subtly sweet and comforting, but to me it is not in any way masculine.

It's the sort of thing I might smell when I gave my favourite aunty a hug, and it is really pleasant and somehow comforting. Because of the drydown, I can understand how this might become a signature scent for some women.

I am going to keep a decant so that I can enjoy the lovely opening from time to time. Definitely worth trying

Lovely. Bought blind from TK Maxx 100ml for £30.Read the reviews here before I opened it and am not disappointed.I really like it and sprayed it on my husband too. He came downstairs to tell me he loves it and will be borrowing. It reminds me of Herba Fresca by Guerlain. What a bargain. I'm not worried about projection or sillage because am just happy to smell this on myself for a few hours and if I have to reapply thats great!

Lovely. Bought blind from TK Maxx 100ml for £30.Read the reviews here before I opened it and am not disappointed.I really like it and sprayed it on my husband too. He came downstairs to tell me he loves it and will be borrowing. It reminds me of Herba Fresca by Guerlain. What a bargain. I'm not worried about projection or sillage because am just happy to smell this on myself for a few hours and if I have to reapply thats great!

I really tried to love this- it is such a beautiful concept, trying to capture the idea of the sky with stars at night. But this was a failed attempt. I got none of the pine- just orange and peppermint. And everyone knows brushing your teeth after drinking orange juice is one of the most disgusting tastes ever. I tried this on me twice and also sprayed it onto a handkerchief, but could not tolerate it each time.

Maybe it's just me, but this smells exactly like strawberry shisha, with some peppermint and green notes added.

A cool, starry night, old growth trees with thick bark, mysterious moonlight, tramping on dried pine needles and leaves, sweet scents carried on night air, having no particular place to be but here. This perfume is one of the few that moves me to tears, I love it so much. For once there is truth in advertising.

I've been on a mint kick this summer, but I'm very disappointed in this one. On first spritz I get a boring lemon cleaner scent with a touch of mint. 15 minutes later, it's so weak it's almost completely non existent on me. It was pretty much gone within a half hour. If I take a HUGE close whiff, I can kind of smell a very vague fir note. no longevity and no projection. I'm never making a trigger happy blind buy again. Just because there's alot of great reviews on a perfume, does not mean it'll work for your own chemistry. Lesson finally learned..always sample first.

Sweet, citrusy, minty, grassy, with a cooling sensation is what I get from the opening of Annick Goutal’s Nuit Etoilee. This stage is stunning, beautiful, as if I was camping in a national park in a summer night, let the breeze bring the smell of grass and trees, while watching the starry
night sky.
As the scent develops, the cooling sensation gradually disappeared, and leaves this slightly sultry-sweet, powdery, balmy as well as sultry/see air type of amber-ish smell (which is quite similar to what I can smell from Lolita Lempicka’s Coral Flower). Oddly I feel quite uncomfortable, and need some space mentally, I guess I can't do sultry powdery scent.

Nuit Etoilee has a promising start as I anticipated, if only it stayed that way and smelt of more a cooling, citrusy-dominant scent… Sadly, the dry down is a bit too overwhelmingly powdery-sultry to me (I’m not a big fan of LL’s Coral Flower).
Oh well, I’ve tried.

Spring in a bottle! Lovely!

I am new in my exploration of fragrances from house Goutal, but despite the great number of fragrances they produce, they will have difficulty excelling my experience with Nuit Etoilee. This sample is doomed and will be quickly consumed by my unslakeable thirst for this fragrance.

I normally dislike lemon scents in my perfume, but this one opens with a mildly bracing lemon/mint that thrills me. The fragrance then broadens into a forest of conifers. This is rather like drinking limoncello by a campfire on the first nippy night of the year.

Vie Cafe's description is wonderful, and she invokes the cleaning product vibe, though in a good way. I'm amused she said this, because when I wore this, I thought "if God had a pine tree freshener hanging from his rear-view mirror, it would smell like this." So would his urinal cake. NOT that I know what a urinal cake is or have ever seen one, since I'm female, but...

On that note, I would be thrilled to be in the company of a man wearing this, but I think worn with confidence by a lady, it will be to the enjoyment of all those around her, as well as herself.

This scent is a marked departure from my usual penchant for spicy and floral orientals, but what a wonderful departure it is. This is on my short list of perfumes I vow to own very, very soon.

fresh and cool with the pine and mint, tranquil and mellow with a slight splash of citrus. A lovely and relaxing fragrance.

Amazingly, the test spray on my wrist lasted for hours and hours, well perhaps about five or six hours,which I find quite long, plus the drydown did not substantially change during all those hours. I say amazing because most reviews here said that it had poor longevity.
I do love how it smells - I find it so refreshingly and oddly masculine.
I'm planning to buy a bottle next time I return to that store.

I cannot say anything that hasn't already been said about Nuit Etoilee. It is magical, it feels like a breath of fresh night air, when the wind loses its heat from the day and it starts to get cool outside, and you can smell the firs, and the woods, and see the stars. Those nights, and this perfume, can make you feel kind of crazy and happy at the same time.
Balsam fir smells a bit minty/citrus/pine which they've conveyed beautifully.
Nuit Etoilee I think would wear well any time of year. The only reason I don't love it is because I wish it was stronger and lasted longer. The strength/longevity are not bad for an Annick Goutal, but I really wish this projected more and lasted all day vs. wearing close for 4-5 hours. Still I highly recommend this.

Wow! This is a strange and mystical fragrance. It begins with a fresh blast of citrus, and cool mintyness and then almost straight away it is followed by the pine.

It is cool and warm all at once. I can see the story behind this. It as if the mint represents the cool icy night air, then you enter the forest and the contrast with the warm yet fresh pine and fir greets you. Finally as you go deeper into the forest the air is warmer and you are surounded by the gentle woodyness of the trees and bark beneath your feet.

It is fresh and invigorating, yet very interesting. Absolutely unisex.

Amazing! Smells like after eight mints!

Annick Goutal perfumes have a mystical quality to them -- they call to mind forest fairies, nymphs, and unicorns. Nuit Etoilee certainly fits into this imaginative landscape.

Strangely, the notes here don't seem like they would work: peppermint and pine would not be my first choices for favorite fragrance notes (I don't want to smell like toothpaste, and I don't want to smell like a cleaning product). BUT...I find myself enjoying this immensely!

The mint in the top note is quite prominent, but it is tempered with a bit of sweet orange, juniper berry, and fir needles. This exudes a cool freshness -- what I would describe as "crisp." As the crispness settles, a hint of spices comes into play. I smell cinnamon and nutmeg (though not listed on the official notes). The honeyed, syrupy wonder of immortelle begins to unfold after a short time and grows more prominent and more seductive after a few hours. This mingles with fresh wood notes of pine and fir. This is not an intense, rich wood, but rather a bright, cold wood covered in snow.

I most often associate winter with rich, sultry, exotic scents, so to find a winter/holiday perfume that is refreshing and crisp (yet still cozy) is unexpected. As with most Goutals, the sillage and longevity is not great, but I think this fact adds to the mysticism and elusiveness of the AG fragrance experience.

If you've always wanted a signature cold weather or holiday perfume but don't like heavy orientals or gourmand scents, this would be one to consider.

I am not a fan of Goutal, but Nuit Etoilee captured my attention.It smells interesting, attractive also, then the pine note bothers me, smells a bit like a cleaner. So I am on the edge with it, I like the light sweetness also, I guess time with tell if I can truly enjoy wearing it .
Well I gave it to a friend, too masculine to my nose.

For me very similar to Eau de Guerlain :)

Crispy and refreshing citrus aromatic scent, very high on citruses on my skin, mint is also present, but mostly this all goes around citruses. Fir and pine is also there, but almost not noticeable.
Even though everyone seems to love this, I can pinpoint few downsides to this "cologne" on my skin:
1) It smells like cologne and doesn't seem anything "unique" on me at all
2) I basically sprayed the sample all over my both wrists and it is almost non existent what so ever after an hour

It is good, yes, it smells refreshing and tasty, but would I buy this for the price tag looking at the bad longevity? I don't think so.
One date with this one and I would never call again.

I am getting a slightly different experience with the Annick Goutal Nuit Etoilee but an equally beautiful experience nonetheless. From first spray to dry down, this is a real gorgeous and creamy scent. I don't know why but I am getting a lot of freshness from the mint yet it remains luscious with hints of milky sweet nuts which I can only imagine is coming from the tonka beans. Wow! Such a scent that could evoke visions of dreamland. It stays close to my skin but still quite easy to detect its subdued but appealing presence. It is now my favorite scent from Annick Goutal.

This is just so beautiful. this one brings me straight into winter wonderland. whit crisp snow. Cold air.a walk in the forest just breathing in all the beauty off this presuos moments off peace . joy and happines being out and free off all burden.. A realy calming fragrance for shure.. This i just new i wanted a bottle off as soon as i tryed it. I did not think in a million year that this looking at the note whit pine and al would be somthing for me.. boy was i wrong.. This is the moste exciting experiance i have had white a fragrance in a long longe time .. I was just blown away by its beauty ;) .
Yes i had to try it a few time thinking can this realy be true ,is it to masculin.. do i realy want somthing like this whit this notes .. And all my heart an soul sayed yes .. i retested and retested his and could not get enough off it;)
A real gem at this time off year . whit cristmas coming up and for this moments you want to remember all the memorys off crisp winterdays and christmas times ;) Offcourse not everybody will feal the same do to different kind off memorys and such . but this to me hit home big time .
Want a bigger bottle off this for shure .. Bought a 15 ml but nead more ;)

Quite a simple but beautiful composition. They really were bang on the money with the description and feeling of this scent. The idea of a starry winter night is just beautiful and whimsical.

The scent opens with quite a prominent mintyness with greenery and pine there too. It smells very natural, light and effortless. It's incredibly innofensive and something different. It's one of only two Annick Goutal fragrances I've smelled and I really like the vibe.

The florals in this are delicate and fresh which would make this a gorgeous summer scent.The citrus element is also done so well it compliments everything fantastically without overtaking.

I'm not usually a fan of mint in fragrances but this one is nice.

When it dries the mint stays there but softens more letting the florals in the perfume become that tinge more prominent.

The only downside to me is that it just hasn't got enough punch! I like my perfumes to be a bit more fierce. Having said that..this perfume is supposed to be ethereal so it does it's job in that respect.

I didn't expect to fall in love with this. But I have. This is a little gem to cherish...just lovely. It takes me to Estes Park in the winter after a snowstorm, the kind that covers the pine trees, the sky full of stars, then coming inside by the fire to drink hot peppermint tea. Yes, Christmas in a bottle.

Then there is the drydown. It is just heavenly.With a vintage feel. I get powdery, could it be the tonka bean and angelica? Because it cetainly is angelic. The pine and mint stays softly in the background. This is my first experience with Annick Goutal, and I have to say I am very impressed. It now tops my must have list...it's just lovely! This for me, is a Rocky Mountain Christmas!
Exquisite.

The first puff and inspired by the thought of the New Year. But somehow it quickly died down, and it was dusty smell past the new year, putting the Christmas decorations in a box for storage. And like a holiday, and it was over before it started (((

I have fallen in LOVE. Nuit Etoilee is a perfect example of the depth and soul of Annick Goutal's fragrances. I was initially only attracted to the beauty of the frosted midnight blue bottle. My first encounter with the fragrance found it too sweet. I didn't know how to appreciate the pine and fir balsam notes at the end. However, the salesperson gave me samples of it (after I have purchased another AG fragrance). Wanting to give this dark blue beauty another chance, I used Nuit Etoilee over the next few days after getting back home from work.

It grew on me. Like an evolving relationship, Nuit Etoilee got under my skin, and I found myself anticipating getting home after work so I can spritz it on my shower-fresh skin for the evening. I started to really BE ABLE to imagine the magical world that is bottled in this fragrance. The pines and firs in the frosty Siberian night started to beckon. And I am hooked.

This is a very comforting fragrance. It may not let you into its magical fantasy world easily, I am warning. But give it a chance.

Nuit Etoilee has recently become available in the Eau de Parfum strength, and can be purchased at Saks. The more potent concentration has better silage and stronger conifers. This is a beautiful, cool, evergreen forest scent. I'm glad to see the Eau de Parfum is on the market now.

For few reasons I love it: it reminds me of what my son smells like when we come back from a walk in frosty forest. Nuit Etoilee brings this association to my mind - of a crisp, biting air around in the coniferous forest hidden under the snow. Other association is rather summery - sometimes I pick fresh, aromatic mint leaves in the heart of the forest, they smell and taste much better than the garden ones. But this again brings winter to my mind - I use dried mint leaves to make a tea in the winter. And there's a smell of a heated pine forest cover in the summer during the drydown in Nuit Etoilee. Such a realistic interpretation, I really adore it. Like I adore northern coniferous forests in my country.

Annick Goutal is one of my favourite niche houses. I couldn't bring myself to hate her even if I tried. But I must be honest when I say that her new release, Nuit Etoilee, strikes me as being quite odd.

As a child, my mother would often make my lunch, aiming to keep me as healthy as possible. My favourite was her tomato and lettuce sandwiches, with a thin slice of mild cheddar cheese. For the first hour of wear, all I could smell from Nuit Etoilee was my mother's home-made sandwiches.

Essentially this fragrance is very green and fresh. It smells like a rain-washed garden, or better yet, a lush vegetable garden. It's the kind of scent I love smelling within my natural surroundings, but I tend to shy from wearing it on my skin.

I think if you like Ninfeo Mio, you may indeed enjoy this fragrance. Both of these perfumes really embrace that natural, earthy, garden-like vibe. You'll either love it or hate it.

The drydown smells less like a salad sandwich and more like a musty pine forest. Once again, I enjoy the scent on fabric or on a card, but not on my skin. The only time I'd really feel at peace while wearing this fragrance, would be if I were pottering around in a garden, walking through a mystical forest or tossing a salad. Unfortunately, I partake in neither of those three things all too regularly.

I must say that I adore the blue bottle, even though I think the colour green may have been more suited to the scent itself. I haven't given up on this fragrance just yet as I'm waiting for the weather to heat up before testing it again. On a more positive note, the longevity is excellent. Certainly more lasting than the other EDTs from the Annick Goutal range.

Late fall camping and nighttime stars distilled into liquid magic. The sparkle of first snow amongst the pines. I would have loved this except for a pesky aquatic note.

Quick move from lemon to pine and spices. Very masculine and well blended. Like a stroll in the woods in autumn feeling the wet soil and the fallen leaves after a night of good sex still sniffing hints of your partners aftershave. This one is deep and daring and requires a lady with a pair of cojones.

Like less woody, westen style of Amouage Interlute Woman.

I would really love this. But on me it is very spicy.
I am a big fan of AG perfumes, but this is for me to heavy and on me it is very masculine. I prefer NINFEO MIO. I don't understand the name neither. I would use it as a morning perfume....And the blue bottle....Why not darkblue with gold and silver....

Dont judge this by top note.very very lemony at first, but shortly turns to pine. :) I bought this because I thought it seemed like coloradoe, and it does! Very piney. I honestly don't detect much mint.this would be a sexy guy scent.not sure about women's.

What a mysterious scent this is indeed. I have not been much to Mint, Pine and Fir, but in here.. these are so well blended, so beautifull way.. I can not describe it. I used to take them to be more notes of men scents, but in here .. wow, very much suitable also to ladies. Deep and mysterious. I love.

Really like this. Lemon is first out the door, then mint, then the pines set in for the all-too-brief duration, eventually drying to a powdery nonoffensive finish. It is beautiful, can be worn at the office with no complaints from your gassed-out co-workers. I'd like to see an EDP strength of this; perhaps it would have more staying power and present a more actual picture of the scent. This seems to be the most common complaint with Goutal fragrances--too bad the company doesn't take notice.

Received my bottle a few days ago. It was a blind buy for me, which I really don't do often and don't like to do. But I took a gamble; and won! Really like this. It starts out a crisp mint and pretty much stays that way throughout. The drydown does develop with a bit of sweetness, but still remains clean.

where can i get this beauty???? I've been dying to try this ever since I found out about it!

I got my blue-wonder-bottle today and I love it.
Smell a little bit like a orange-peppermint-chewing-gum...
I can smell also pineapple, its not listet... maybe because of the Siberian pine??? ;-)
LOVE FROM LOUVE !

I really liked it, but as it happens with other AG's citrusy fragrances, it vanished from my wrist after an hour. It is unisex especially when it is faded.

I tried it this morning. I spritzed my wrist generously and sniffed. And all I could smell was a sweet minty soapiness which actually disappointed me, because it made me think about those safe, mass fragrances we see everywhere these days. The ones you sniff once, decide to buy and when you go home you never use again, and even wonder what on earth made you decide to indulge and buy. So, despite tha fact I love the colour of the bottle and had decided to start discovering Annick Goutal's fragrances starting from this one (the name is so evocative, it reminds me of Van Gogh's troubled night skies...) I went out of the shop and felt it was not for me. ALTHOUGH...time passed by, and I found out that it had developed into this very classy incense smell. Strong, elegant,almost meditative fragrance. I think I'll go back and get myself a bottle of this beauty because it is special indeed. The drydown reminds me of 10 Corso Como, which I love, and I am once again wondering how it is possible that notes so different in these two fragrances take my nose to the same outcome... This is the beauty of fragrances and chemistry. More surprises like this one please!!! :)

Ok, so I must admit I am not a great fan of Goutal scents, they just don't work for me but this one...well this is one is a different story.
I sniffed it in the store first and thought 'yuck' but I got a little sample today and sprayed it on my skin and...WOW...this reminds me very much of Hermes Eau des Marveilles only less citrusy and more resin-y, love the pine-y citrusy/herby dry down very much. It's meant to be a unisex fragrance but I would lean more towards male fragrance because of all the pine/herbs etc. Having said that, I would quite happily were it myself. Think it would work particularly well in winter time as somehow I associate this scent with Christmas.

I keep finding myself coming back to this one, although I've yet to find a green fragrance I like, something about this just calls to me "Try Me" in the slightest whisper. Perhaps it is because my boyfriend and I both share the favorite painting of "Starry Night" by Van Gogh... A sample won't hurt I suppose if I can find one.

what an absolutely beautiful scent! it really does conjure up the impression of a starry night to me.

it starts off very minty as if the pine trees are frosty and gradually changes into a more pine-y & balsam note. it's quite unisex and not very citrus to me.

I'm not entirely sure that it is 'me' but it is really lovely and feels quite different from other scents I've tried lately. happily for me I was given a sample by a charming sales lady in Fenwick's, so I can take my time to make up my mind. She also said the scent was quite spicy on her, so it does seem to be one that should be tested out rather than bought blind, as it gives a different impression to different people.

edit Jan 2013 - I did end up buying a bottle and I absolutely love it! it's really special and different.

I love mint, and there are a lot of good minty perfumes out there, but unfortunately most of them are manly-unisex.Nuit Etoilee is a different story, it's feminine. To my nose it is definitely an all-about-mint perfume,pine is very-very subtle as well as citruses, they are just a frame for a beautiful soft and creamy (tonka bean, angelica, maybe orange)mint. It's a very Annick Goutal perfume. I guess people, who like Mandragore like myself should try NE, they definitely have the same style. It also reminds me of the Eau D'Hadrien (which I don't like), I would call them relaives, but NE is a more sophisticated one.

I admit that I usually don’t wear Annick Goutal’s fragrances, so this was a pleasant surprise. Nuit Etoilee doesn’t conjure up images of starry skies or the darkness of night; however, its minty opening, mingled with bright citrus, made me crave more.

I have been trying to grow sweet mint in my garden, and it reminded me of the freshly-cut and rubbed-between-the- fingers green leaf, a leaf that I would add to a cold glass of lemonade. It offers only a hint of sweetness, and the sweet impression is counter-balanced by the subtle woody notes that follow. It never truly starts to resemble a forest as it develops, but it hints at its ever-green fir tree inhabitants. It is a refreshing summer fragrance and perfectly unisex to my nose.

I never know what to expect from a “minty” perfume, but I agree with Ineverwas that it doesn’t make me think of toothpaste. The mint likes to play hide-and-seek, and I catch glimpses of it here and there even after the opening. Nevertheless, I find myself wishing it had clung longer and had even more of a presence. I suspect it is more of a top note, and thus, difficult to sustain in the later phases.

Lemon, lemon, lemon...unfortunately, that is all that develops on my skin with this fragrance. Even as the notes merge from top to mid, and into the drydown, I only find a citrus note with a very slight conifer undertone.

I'm soooooo disappointed with it!!! I was waiting this new creation from long time and I just tested it in the mall near my office. On my wirst it smell like an old and cold ashtray! So sad...I love soooo much Les nuits d'Hadrien or Mandragore...and I hoped that Nuit étoilée be in the same direction...never mind! I wait for a new creation...I still love very much Annick Goutal and her fabulous perfume bottle.:)

I've had the pleasure to test this in avant-premiere at my local luxury perfume shop and I'm wearing Nuit Etoilee on my wrist as I speak.

I can tell it's a beautiful, fresh, nature-inspired fragrance that on my skin develops into a bit more citrus (lemon in the forefront) rather than fir or pine. The conifers are there too but they keep in the immediate background and together with a very leafy mint (definitely not the toothpaste type here), they bring an authentic outdoorsy air to the composition. There's also a specific dryness that's apparent as the perfume dries down, that's none other than my lovely friend the immortelle flower. Works very nice in here.

Overall, this is a beautiful, cool night in a forest indeed, I do get the cracking cones metaphor in this scent (something crisp, woody, dry), but there's also a lot of citrus going on that turns it into a very summery scent.

Nuit Etoilee is perfect for hot weather, perfectly unisex as well. It's very beautiful, but I still think I prefer Ninfeo Mio for my citrus, woods and nature fix :)