Nuit de Bakélite Naomi Goodsir for women and men

If the garden with the mutated monster plants in Fallout 2 had a smell, this would be it. So post nuclear war coded.

I will presage this by saying I’m no perfumer or expert, a dilettante really, and nothing can be added here that hasn’t already been said. Tuberose must be one of those fragrances that makes perfumers tear their hair out and give up, because it can be a bully and so multifaceted that whatever you hope to get from it might remain elusive, too big or out of control.
There is lovely greenness here, plasticity elements, fecundity etc. These are all different manifestations of the Tuberose. What the perfumer has managed to do here is put Tuberose through a prism so we smell each of the different elements separately but also all the Tuberose at the same time. I’m a male and don’t really have the panache to wear this but if you were a woman why would you wear anything else?

This smells like tuberose stems freshly cut. It reminds me of hiking in El Yunque after a rainstorm. Spending a summer in Puerto Rico in ‘95 while breaking in new leather sandals and applying a fresh coat of sunscreen from a olastic bottle thats been baking in the sun. This is my summer favorite. Definitely not a safe blind by but for me the avant garde quality evokes so many memories.

This immediately reminded me of when I was at my grandma's playing with her costume jewellery by her vanity. It smells of plastic, of old lady florals and after a few hours of old fashioned rose soap. I didn't get any of the dark green or leathery notes on my skin. It's not an offensive sent but definitely not my vibe.

🍀 ASKING FOR RECOMMENDATIONS 🍀
I absolutely love the far dry down of the fragrance. The creamy part.
Anyone could recommend me a similar scent please ?
I love nuit de Bakelite but the bitter/leathery part is not what I prefer for an everyday fragrance.
I would be happy to find one close to the very far dry down.
Thank you in advance ♥️

this one is sooooo weird and beautiful - floral, plastic, leather. I love SinT's review below as a perfect description. it is truly otherworldly and fascinating.

That being said, i think i bought this too soon, every time i wear this it is headache inducing after a few hours unfortunately. I should have tested before making a semi-impulsive splurge at my local perfume boutique, lesson learned! not sure if i will keep this long term, if anyone is interested in purchasing feel free to DM xx

EDIT: Sold <3

Initially, Nuit de Bakelite had a beautiful , borderline alien opening—almost like a burning (but not smoky if that makes sense?) leathery/green plastic which makes sense considering the name. It evolves into a pleasant kind of bitter fresh/green tuberose (stem and all) with a lingering leathery green plastic undertone.

I thought it was signature scent worthy at first after testing it for a few days, but a single heavy application destroyed me, shifting the fragrance from a beautiful floral to what I can only describe as an unpleasant mix of a overpowering white floral bouquet, stinkbugs, coriander stems, and green bell peppers. Its monstrous projection and longevity demand cautious application so PLEASE sample extensively before committing to a full bottle; my one negative experience ruined it for me.

I made the mistake of buying the full bottle of it after sampling at scentbar , I did wear it for a week straight afterwards without issue but now its kind of traumatic to smell 😭 even thinking about it is enough to make me slightly nauseous now...

If anyone in the continental US wants a mostly full bottle message me. I'm willing to give it away for "free" as long as you pay shipping, I don't want this stuff near me anymore 😕

EDIT: bottle claimed already sorry

A very cool perfume. I've carefully eked out my 0.5ml sample over the last 5 years or so, and at some point soon I'll have to decide whether I want to save for a bottle. This is the closest thing I've found to Annick Goutal's Le Tubereuse (long discontinued & not even in this database I don't think), but in some ways it's even better, if only because 'bakelite' in the name gives the natural profile of tuberose absolute a more interesting conceptual dimension.

Just as difficult to wear as the Goutal, NdB's definitely not signature-scent material for me, but it's so spikily weird and beautiful, like a pointy chlorophyll-green alien with perfect skin.

This is the odor of the V-2 rocket, inorganic but turgid with ambiguous sexuality, targeting me as I goof through the dark bars on a long weekend. This weird and powerful smell is so addicting to the snoot.

Pick a handful of tuberose along with the leaves and stems. Scrunch and pack it into your leather wallet along with your bank cards and leave it in your back pocket for 2 to 3 days. Take it out and sniff it. Hard to find the right words to describe it...it's simply stunning!

it's been over a year since i first smelled nuit de bakelite and got it, i must say it leaves an impression on you. irrelevant but i have a collection of 50ish bottles and don't ask me why, but i have at times sprayed every single one on a piece of a garment to find a winner in terms which one would overpower the others and nuit de bakelite is my winner. that aside how does it smell like? the opening is the strangest green bubblegum to me, and idk why i get this milk thing sensation that u get from unripe fruits (like fig ooze), but the dry down is insane; imagine a cigarette smoke that comes out green in colour (unrelated but i always smell cigarette smoke when there's galbanum but i didn't see it on Fragrantica though i still wouldn't be surprised if it's there). this thing is strange, not for everyone, i'm not gonna hype it up for no reason bc i realize it's not everyone's cup of tea. i don't wanna say that it smells like mugler aura, but u know how that one is so strange and u can't really categorize it? in that sense nuit de bakelite is like that. they don't smell similar at all.

Fragrance that would like to recreate the smell of Bakelite using a tuberose together with green and earthy, vegetal notes with tomato leaf, angelica and aldehydes.
As soon as you spray it you are immediately in the 60s, cold, grey years, just like this fragrance. Tuberose, unlike almost all of today's fragrances, is not dipped in various sugary synthetics such as vanillin or fruit molecules or with cashmeran, but instead highlights its green and airy side with a dry and acrid, plasticky dry down, recreating the smell of bakelite with a leathery accord with styrax. The longevity and the texture is quite poor, since it is a heavy top note fragrance, but the sillage is very good

It opens up extremely green, sharp, cold and to me slightly off-putting.
In about 30 minutes it turns into a succession of:
- wood wax
- mothballs
- someone's grandma's hairspray
- and finally a pretty generic, vintage floral scent, still retaining some of the green notes of the opening.
I got a sample because i love tuberose and was eager to try one of the most iconic ones out there, but this one to me has no creaminess which i look for in tuberose fragrances, and also no boldness to my perception.
Performance on hydrated skin is average: the staying power is 5ish hours, the sillage is relatively good in the first 2-3h (and it definitely fills up the room you spray it in).
Definitely not a blind-buy in my opinion.

Aromatic melted styrofoam over tuberose. Interesting. I don't dislike it.

“Metabolism, he reflected, is a burning process, an active furnace. When it ceases to function, life is over. They must be wrong about hell, he said to himself. Hell is cold; everything there is cold. The body means weight and heat; now weight is a force which I am succumbing to, and heat, my heat, is slipping away. And, unless I become reborn, it will never return. This is the destiny of the universe. So at least I won’t be alone.”


― Philip K. Dick, Ubik

Imagine yourself enveloped in the depths of an enigmatic forest, shrouded in a dense, haunting mist—an eerie scene reminiscent of the captivating experience that is Nuit de Bakélite by Naomi Goodsir. This intriguing venture takes you beyond the usual as the familiar tuberose embarks on an unconventional path, evoking a sense of decadence. It begins with the curious scent of decomposing leaves underfoot, gradually unfolding into a tuberose of profound fascination, enhanced by its eerie verdant quality. Picture it as an encounter with playful forest nymphs by a secluded, enigmatic spring.
This unique rendezvous with the nymphs, hidden among the twisted trees and damp earth, is simultaneously bewildering and entrancing. Their beguiling presence melds seamlessly with the earthy aroma of damp leaves and fading blooms, creating a captivating yet perplexing atmosphere. This mystifying encounter finds its counterpart in the mystique of Nuit de Bakélite. It stands out by conjuring a more enigmatic and shadowy form of attraction, distinct from the overt sensuality found in traditional tuberose fragrances. The interplay of spectral green notes and a subtle leather undertone adds depth to the tuberose, crafting an eerie richness that transforms it into an unquestionably unique and haunting fragrance.

اذا كنت تبحث عن شي غير مكرر بلمسة ابداعية بأداء نووي جرب هذا عطر يحمل العديد من التناقضات جعلت من العطر متقلب
الرائحة رائحة خضراء تصارع مسك الروم خلال عمر العطر بقاعد. جلدية تابلية ابداع لا يمكن ان يتكرر ثبات وفوحان خارق

So this will be short, I have the discovery set here and this one is the one that really isn't for me. I think it's the tuberose? All I got from first spray is a strong hairspray vibe. After trying it on skin, I get a very strong, scratchy floral mix of dryer sheet and hair salon. My nose just not wired for this one, sadly. I will say however, that it's strong and it lasts forever. Much to my own chagrin, lol.

green, plasticky, ssoo powerful. the opening smells like burnt plastic and fresh bell peppers and then..it becomes generic all the weirdness is gone and you’re left with a green soft leather. if only the opening would last longer. still one of my favorites tho.

For the longest time I hadn’t tried this one in the Naomi Goodsir sample set, as I was anticipating something plasticky, conceptual, even confrontational. Wow, was I wrong. This is a flat-out masterpiece and, much as I enjoyed the other Goodsirs, this is on another level. There’s something genius in the melding of the sweet attractive tuberose, with its slightest touch of indoles being used to develop an old-school chypre aspect, which then connects into the bright greenness of angelica and artemisia. This feels like it was created through some kind of wizardry of the perfumers’ art, and I think the only other scent that melted my face in quite the same way was Ubar Woman.

I have to admit I was still on my first inhalation and my fingers were already tap-tapping their way to the shopping tab on my browser. Such is life as a frag-head - when you know, you know :D

Stunning fragrance, I normally wear more Smokey scents but I find this irresistible.
Bought it without smelling it and glad I took the plunge.
I’m no expert in describing perfumes but it’s very floral and quite strong which I like.

開出是新鮮的當歸，中調轉成人蔘糖的味道，最後是綠意的晚香玉

氣味靈魂是綠色，當歸和晚香玉捕捉的都是他們新鮮、植物本體的面向，當歸不會太藥、晚香玉不會太奶，主要給人鮮活、春天的意象，像是植物的葉面還帶著露水一樣

開出皮革的某些側面會有一些膠感或是瓜味，加強了綠色的某些面向(像是折斷植物的綠腥味)、這看人喜歡，但也不用太擔心，擴散出來不太有，主要就是一個豐沛的綠意

What a multifaceted gem! This is my first try of the house, out of the respect of meeting in person the legendary Isabelle Doyen at a small event. There is a lot going on at the same time and yet, feels to me like an innocent and decadent seduction of modernity and nature. Very fresh, grassy on me first, then it settles to almost leathery on my skin. An absolute favourite, just keeps evolving. An olfactory masterpiece!

An imaginative, multi-layered scent; I can see why there is praise for this one. The primary accords to my nose are a green angelica, a sharp tuberose, a carrot-y iris (though I don't think iris is a listed note), and something almost chocolate-y.

I like it a lot, but it feels very "nighttime" to me, and I think I would probably have limited occasions to wear it. I can imagine it being more useful in a place with cold winters, where it could also function as a daytime scent. It's just much too va-va-voom for laidback Los Angeles.

Unisex. 4/5

This is the contrast you want in a fragrance. This is marvellous. The opening is sort of sharp and somewhat hospital smell which raised eyebrows. Then as soon as I was ready to reject this creation altogether it turned into a green accord where angelica and tuberose were coming forward hand in hand. After 30 mins it's the most gorgeous, true to its nature tuberose dominant blend. It is half a spray and is projecting about a feet. Now supple and tamed after the astonishing opening. I would recommend you sample it before you buy. it's a rollercoaster for your nose. I am really digging this one. ❤️

I was excited to sample something more unusual, more "avant garde" than my usual preferences but this one was an immediate no. I think folks who are searching for an uncommon yet quality composition might do well with this. I did not. The reviewer below who says it allows one to be revered from afar is completely right: this fragrance will keep people far away from you, whether in reverence or repulsion remains to be seen. Love the idea behind it, do not love the actual scent.

Anything I have tried from Naomi Goodsir has been excellent. I love the artistry of this brand - avant-garde yet wearable; original compositions yet rooted in classical French perfumery. Nuit de Bakélite is a creative, avant-garde take on tuberose, one of my favourite notes. The tuberose is mounted on a leather backdrop and the herbal notes add a green-tinged, aromatic edge. It feels 1970s in style - a bold green floral with some bitterness from the herbs, not a million miles from Cellier's legendary style. Fitting, considering the witchy poison theme of this scent.

NdB is green from initial spray - galbanum leads the way, adding a nice vintage-style green haze. Bitter angelica is quite prominent initially, keeping things herbal from the get-go. There is a hint of peppery spice too. The tuberose is bright and clean, slightly fruity - not its typically heady, waxy white floral self. There is a camphorous quality to the green notes as it progresses, providing a bright, fresh counterpoint to the tuberose.

Ylang ylang adds a creamy sweetness, muted and pleasant. This creates a slightly tropical effect alongside the camphorous notes and fruity phase of the tuberose. The camphor dissipates, and the green accord becomes dewy and sap-like, evocative of the stem of the flower.

The leather develops in the background as it progresses, soft, suede-like and slightly musky. It enhances the green tuberose, until it dries down to a musky floral skin scent. Sillage is strong and longevity is long-lasting.

A transeasonal scent, NdB is surprisingly easy to wear despite its artiness. Unisex, and utterly cool. 4.5/5.

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐍𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐏𝐞𝐫𝐟𝐮𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐲

𝗡𝗔𝗢𝗠𝗜 𝗚𝗢𝗢𝗗𝗦𝗜𝗥 𝗡𝗨𝗜𝗧 𝗗𝗘 𝗕𝗔𝗞𝗘𝗟𝗜𝗧𝗘


𝗠𝗬 𝗧𝗔𝗞𝗘

Initiation: It opens up with a huge blast of bright, non-citrusy yet uplifting tuberose, where a vintage ozonic nuance(accord from various long-chain aldehydes) exists as the backbone, which acts as the basic building block of the scent structure. An estery, almost acetic, starchy fruity aroma(banana) exists that gives the tuberose a very unique character in the best possible way. There is quite a bit of hydroxycitronellal, which smoothens the tuberose and aids in the binding of everything with its airy muget-like profile, increasing the diffusive property while keeping the entire composition "just" smooth enough to keep it non-abrasive. Fundamentally complex while remaining minimalist.
Mid: As time goes by, the tuberose shows more of its natural beauty; the flower and the stem unite to create a fragrant symphony. This stem adds a stimulating spicy, cucumber-like nuance to the pre-existing starchy, banana-like profile, which represents an infinitely vast tuberose field over wet soil. This stage almost feels as if the epitome of nature engulfed me in its peace amidst anthropomorphic pollutants.

Base: The ozonic breeze fades, and the tuberose reveals its sensual side with its indolic nature, pushing a creamy, musky, yet earthy tone of galbanum until the very end of the fragrance, accurately representing delicate, clean-oily human skin, inducing a pheromonic effect.

The drydown, i.e. the animalic end of the composition, is not overly skanky, but rather warm, entirely orthogonal to how the fragrance began. The above accord feels like a blend of various odorous musk compounds tinkered to perfection. The indolic nature stamps an imprint of musk, connecting with the accord which reminds me of a cross between castoreum and ambrette seed tincture, leaving a base of the vintage "Golden" era of perfumery.
The far drydown may be repulsive to some, but given the taste I share for vintage perfumery, I embrace it.

𝑺𝒊𝒎𝒊𝒍𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔:

There aren’t many fragrances that revolve around a similar structured fragrances as this, but if you like fragrances like Jungle Jezebel, Annick Goutal Grand Amour, Vintage Chamade or even Chanel No.19; then you might like this. They're not similar, however certain aspects within the scent transformation reminds me of compositions as such.

𝑺𝒄𝒐𝒓𝒆𝒔:
Uniqueness in profile- 9/10
Quality-8.5/10
Blending-9/10
Pricing-8/10
(8.625)
Longevity-10/10
Projection- 9/10
ΣPerformance: 9.5/10
(9.5)

𝗥𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗱 Σ𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲 = 𝟵/𝟭𝟬

In an age where the average TikTok fragrance influencer recommends candy-floss laundry musk tragedies for smelling "like a snack" and the results-driven content-creator puts the aphrodisiac function over anything else. Ok, eff it, let's just cut to the case, there are legions of fellas (and woman who capitalize on the trope) who see fragrance as a means to an end, perhaps a rear end to be exact, or some "trim," because let's face it, that's what it's really all about, right?

Now imagine a fragrance that gives the middle finger to any hackneyed concept of what is sexy or palatable. It pushes the wearer to feel all the flavors, including the sour, the bitter, even touching upon the decidedly ascetic (at least to start), in the form of not so glamorous vegetation (think stinging nettles, tagetes marigold, milkweed) and even inorganic matter formed from a condensation reaction of phenol with formaldehyde. WHAT? And somehow, I am more moved by this than by anything that reminds us of indulging in desserts or sloppy sex (though I do have a place in my heart for both of those, let me be clear).

Nuit de Bakelite starts BITTER, SHARP, and COOL. It is a lesson in stark reality, and sheds a light on its beauty. Plants protect themselves by being unpalatable to organisms that would otherwise devour them. Now do you always want to be devoured or would you like to be admired from afar before making the next chess move? Reverence doesn't always mean touch, fondle, and grope. There are stems and secretions, arguably more magnificent than blood and semen. These elements are just as much part of the verve and vigor. Galbanum represents the chlorophyll and phloem, artemisia represents the teeth, tuberose the flesh, and the angelica root the sex, with its vegetal muskiness.

Over time, the ice melts, we peel away the layers, and the soul is laid bare and vulnerable, this is authentic naked, not merely five-minutes-tops carnal, far more meaningful. Leathery yet damp, soil, humus, reminiscent of plasticine or opening up a new toy; a bit softer, but still steadfast in staking its claim. Nuit de Bakelite is like an aperitif, better to be sipped than swallowed. "Savor the flavor" they say—well, don't mind if I do!

I'm going to try to keep this brief but I feel I have a lot to say about nuit de Bakelite.
I recall first sampling it a few years ago when these launched (I think there was only three then) and being impressed by the creativity of this line, they are for real 'eds it seems.
This is the crown jewel according to most as well, has that smoky, green, Cellier-esque, vintage nod, but with peculiar modernity and the 1940's plastic reference in the name.
Well the name is oddly appropriate because it does have this strange plastic quality, a guff of sharp but sweet musks in the opening and bizarre, green tuberose sweetened with carrot seed and angelica musk.
Then comes a flip to a mossy, leathery scent and call me mad but an association with Creed's Green Irish tweed for a moment. It's strangely enigmatic and aloof with those gassy musks but resinous and deep, and flipping back to floral and green all the time. I suspect this is a polarising fragrance but clearly very popular and I get why, I think it's an excellent concept, and execution.
Hugely powerful this one as well, had some horrendous comments from folks nearby me, which is always a treat when you like a perfume which pisses others off, oh and my car smelled of it for a about three days.
I think it's a modern masterpiece and I want it in my collection from a perfume history perspective but I'm reluctant as I'm not sure how often I'd wear it?

This one is so unusual. It starts immediately fresh, grassy green (artemesia), with a bit of bitter skunk that I want to attribute to the green notes. However, as it progresses the grassiness both sharpens into a sparkly prickly fresh spice and softens into floral bloomy powder (tuberose, ylang ylang). The bitter skunk I thought was vegetal takes on an industrial quality - a mix of burnt leather and plasticky iris.

I'm so intrigued by this springtime mix of purple and green notes. The only other fragrance I know of that does this is Tindrer by Baruti, but it is by no means a dupe. Tindrer is powdery, sweet, musky, and more feminine dew than what is presented by Nuit de Bakelite.

The play of power between fresh spicy, plasticky, and sweet powder differs from wear to wear. Overall, the melted leathery iris is a little more dominant than I would choose, but this is still curiously wearable.

Edit: Today this is perfection thirty seconds in. Dewy, sweet, soft suede, creamy tuberose, sweet ylang ylang, with no iris or sharpness. This has grown on me considerably!

This is one beautifully crafted scent. Opens with a blast of wet earth, you can smell the soil, there’s an oily presence too a bit like petrol, but the overwhelming smell comes from the leather or more so to my nose a very expensive suede jacket or kid gloves.I think that’s what’s causing the oily smell, it just smells rich I could smell it all day. Drys down to a beautiful creamy floral, definitely get the jasmine though it’s not listed.
This is so beautiful, like standing in a garden full of flowers after the rain when the ground starts to heat up, and the most intoxicating smell evolves. I don’t know why some find this challenging, but that’s the beauty of fragrance and ones skin chemistry.
This could easily be one of my forever scents,and I say I don’t like florals. HA!

After reading reviews of how powerful this stuff is, I decided to try it on in the garage instead of the bathroom. I got a perfect little hit of plasticky goodness upon opening the sample vial and managed to dab some on my forearms before spilling half of the sample onto the floor :(

In the early phase, the soft quality of the first sniff was overwhelmed by an acrid artemisia/angelica note which dare I say didn't smell out of place in the garage. Hours later, the site of the accident smells distinctly of absinthe and not much else. The artemisia (wormwood) note seems to be underrepresented in the comments here.

Meanwhile, this fared a lot better on my skin. Sweet indolic ylang ylang crept into the green accord, which warmed the fragrance a little but also vaguely reminded me of the sickly bittersweet odor of someone who hasn't bathed in months. However, the sterile industrial facets quickly regained the upper hand, and the fragrance eventually faded into that wonderful plastic tuberose skin scent I had been craving from the beginning.

TL;DR Bizarrely captivating, leans feminine... Even if the opening makes your hair stand on end, I think you should try a VERY small amount on your skin. Maybe it's my skin chemistry or maybe I'm a tuberose freak, but I rather like this on myself and would even consider it for casual wear.

This one takes you on a journey! It opens with a blast of bright greens, vibrant and electric. Then the main theme of the scent breaks through: a combo of plasticky tuberose, cold iris and sharp isobutyl quinoline. No one is talking about the iris, nor is it listed in the notes. But it's all I get (definitely not complaining). It's confident and present. This combo lasts for hours. Later, I get small whiffs of burnt leather...but it's very quiet, hiding in the background. I don't think I'll buy a full bottle b/c it's way too nuclear for me. But it's incredibly creative, bold, abstract, and just f'ing cool. I get the hype on this. Nuit de Bakelite deserves all its rewards.

i honestly adore this scent and am considering purchasing a bottle, as my sample is running low. 'wet grass' is a scent that evokes summer mornings and dewdrops and all things fresh -- and nuit de bakelite certainly is that! and yet...there's something a bit edgy and dirty about it. i think this would smell really sexy on a man, though i enjoy wearing it on days when i want to smell fresh. in my opinion it's a bit one-note, or rather, the green notes are so prominent that i'd only ever describe it as a 'green' scent.

A paradox of a fragrance. For a lot going on, this scent is still on the light and delicate side. It opens rubbery animalic on my skin, but with time, it develops into a leathery creamy green floral. This scent is both deviant and unconventional while giving off ethereal and innocence. Its coyed aloofness leaves me intrigued, dazed and a little baffled but wanting more (but only briefly because too much makes me nauseous).

Not for me this one. But I totally understand the hype.
Got it in a Bloom sample pack and sprayed it on before reading the notes / reviews which was a mistake, tuberose being possibly my least favourite scent of all. I liked the initial SNAP of ultra green notes (agree with whoever it was below who said green peppers) but then ...uh oh Tuberose Town.
I tried to quickly wipe off, didn't work, tried to mask with something else and it burnt straight through that. If I liked this scent I would have been overjoyed at the unmatched power of it instead of being mildly irked until I got home for a shower 😂

I'm going to be trying others from this house as soon as I can because this quality and longevity was so impressive

Not for me. Neroli style herbal green and rubbery at the same time. I get powdery iris and violet too. Floral creamy beneath but the rubber and bitter herbs are too much for me. Tropical tones on drydown make me curiously interested on the drydown. But the rubbery aspect persists.

Cold and curious. Initially I took Nuit de Bakélite to be a twist on the purple floral with an ambiguous mystery dimension. Medium white wine, cigarette ash and violets, I noted with false confidence. Maybe that impression of wine could be coming from a watery accord of hedione, galbanum and hyacinth? In part it recalled the greens of the 1970s.

Now smelling it with the notelist in front of me I can see the carrot seed is dominant providing the ionones of the purple flower / orris root note I picked up on, the thin, neutral leather (isobutyl quinoline?) and galbanum bring the ashiness and the tuberose and artemisia provide the watery green.

But set that aside, it's the overall impact that matters with this one. Nuit de Bakélite is a linear single accord, unique and distinctive. A smouldering greenhouse is what comes to mind, half-green / half-purple, aromatic and cold, looking to the past but standing alone. It doesn't smell like it but it makes me think of Guerlain's mysterious Vol de Nuit, it has that same chilly, unemotional "otherness". The only other connection I can make is it has some of the dry, aromatic ashiness of Hermès's Eau de Gentiane Blanche. It's completely hypnotic and I love it. A word of warning, it's very persistent — I have to store it separately and boxed up in its original packaging. Niche and vintage green lovers should investigate.

Interesting one, I got mint at first which is obviously not noted but I suppose "green notes" might be part of that.

As it dries earthiness and a dustiness comes through. You get the edge of jasmine in there but it's a fairly transparent whiff. In fact this whole fragrance gives a feeling of an open cool area with an earthy dusty feel.

Someone trying to grow a plant on the moon?

This scent is not for the faint-hearted, like once I was. If the Xenomorph Queen wore a scent before biting off heads of poor space travelers, she'd wear this one, no doubt.
At some point, everyone within the community started talking about Nuit De Bakelite, so I've set on a mission to find it and dare to sniff. What can I say, after what it has done to my nose it has to marry me!
Firstly, I was mortified. Evil, absolutely mad greens, in an old leather rucksack. Don't expect classic tuberose - what you'll find here is the most concentrated medicinal tuberose absolute. Notes of angelica and artemisia are loud, to say the least. Something about it is so scary and captivating at the same time.

When I first tried it I was relieved that "it is not my scent", but I placed the blotter in my bag and went home. The blotter made my bag smell of it, and in fact, my whole room was smelling of Bakelite for a week. My wardrobe smelt of Bakelite after I had put my bag in it.
Call it Stockholm syndrome, but the next day, I could not stop thinking about it. I started craving it, I started dreaming about it. Eventually, I got hold of a sample just to understand if I need a full bottle, which now I have.

Towards the end, it becomes soft, almost velour like. My drunk friend told me "you smell like honey". Not sure if I'd agree, but you get the picture of the full journey this scent will send you on.

It is an absolute wacko scent, not a blind buy even if you think that you love greens and tuberoses. It is an experience, and it became a revelation for me that perfumes are more scented water that is there to please your nostrils.

I wear it when I need to channel my inner dominatrix on those days when I choose violence.

This one is an ~experience~ for sure. Still processing, but I was immediately hit with the strongest green pepper smell I’ve ever witnessed and that isn’t even a listed note. There is for sure a plastic-y smell like those Perler beads you’d iron together under parchment paper as a kid (makes sense— Bakelite is plastic after all) and I’ve never smelled *anything* like this before. Amazed by how the science of mixing these greens, leather, and styrax created an uncanny plastic undertone. But it’s…not unpleasant…? Hmmm.

Whether I decide I like this or not, this is definitely the most unique scent I’ve ever tried. And it has *strong* projection and sillage. A little goes a long way.

Update ~7 hours later: While an incredible feat of perfume science, this one just isn’t for me. It’s actually sort of made me feel ill. In an avant-garde way I can appreciate what a work of art this is. In a practical way, I will never wear this again.

Warning: Two timid sprays from a sample vial filled not only an entire room, but my whole apartment. I left for a walk and came back. After about 9 hours since spraying, when I opened the front door (on the opposite side of the apartment from where I’d sprayed) I was hit with a *strong* waft of it. Wow.

اغرب واجمل عطر في مجموعة نايومي قودسير وللمعلومية له بديل رخيص في محل عطور فيصل الدايل في السعودية اسمه ديزرت

I'm obsessed with this perfume. I'm not even sure why. This is a bomb. I've got 2 decants and only 5 drops on my skin was enough to let a fantastic smell in my (small) apartment. I came back from the boring grocery store and was amazed by the ambient smell. My first love when it comes to special perfume was Aura Mugler. I guess I like green monster perfumes after all. Nuit de Bakélite is much more shocking than Aura though.

Someone mentioned Blade Runner below and that's spot on. I'm not sure if it smells like Rachel in Blade Runner or just like a clever green/tuberose/leather perfume from 1985 but it smells like something out of our ultra commercialized ages and this is remarkable. This is the kind of perfume that makes me realize how that industry is still well alive.

Edit : I finally bought a FB and this is nuclear (more than my decant). I guess that what we mean when we say perfumes from the 80's were strong. The only other perfume I own that stick to everything like that is Bee by Zoologist.

After a couple of hours the scent on my skin is nice and not so strong. I guess if you don't want to fill an entire room you need to spray a couple of hours in advance and let that thing calm down.

And there I was , thinking that Mugler's Aura is the epitome of "unusual green"...Well, that was a reality check. I can't express my reaction to Nuit de Bakélite without swearing, this perfume shook me to my core and shocked me, I can feel new neuronal connections coming into existence as I'm smelling this 🤯 I can't sum it up into a like/dislike vote, this frag is beyond such trivial gradation and doesn't even need -or more like isn't asking for -my vote.

Greenness + leather = an iodine overtone, possibly similar to mown wet grass or crushed greenery. An uncompromising frag which does mellow down as it gets more powdery on the skin a few hours post-application. The sillage gives me an ideal, cool, bitter-aquatic flora. But wait, there's more.

Apparently, if you warm up bakélite (a kind of plastic), it smells like a short-circuit. If you type "bakelite" into Google, the first picture that comes up is that of an old telephone with a circle dial. But I didn't know it yet. The first picture. that came to my mind when I smelled my wrist: Trinity in a phonebooth. That's the mental image I get: a body-hugging shiny black latex outfit, night-time, danger, a dream-or-reality sense of loss, the smell of city rain.
The green juicy notes last longer on clothes, but the burning smell is more apparent too (I get something close to a cold cigarette and it would be more comfy without it - but this frag is not about comfort anyway). On skin it gets powdery and turns into a clean-smelling chypre.
This fragrance is a whole story, a movie, meant special occasion like saving the world.

I think of Rachael from Blade Runner, a vintage style green floral made for a robot, something very serene but zingy and dynamic at the same time. I don't know if i can fully grasp it, maybe it will take several wears to do it with some precision but what i know from first sniff is that this is brilliant.

Nostalgic. Mysterious. Melancholy. It's new wave retro. It's a medieval bog. It's a post apocalyptic intergalactic nuclear wasteland. It's a mundane 1980's shopping mall. It's the warm plastic of a broken android leaking petroleum lying out in a neon green field. Its the vegetable crisper of my fridge. It's strange yet familiar..like a memory from a past life. Someone mentioned shaky camcorder footage of a happier time? yeah it's that. Addicted to this strange little scent, 10/10.

melancholy in a bottle, loving it, craving it, but not every day...

Took me about a year to really grasp this and can only conclude it is one of the most moving pieces of perfume art I've ever come across.

@lovesick has hit the nail right on the head and has expressed its shades in better and more exacting words than I could; I too share all of their hyper-specific connotations with this perfume.

Nuit de Bakelite is a Douglas Sirk melodrama with all of its longings and suppressions frozen in ice impatiently waiting to be chemically melted.

white flowers growing in terracotta pots to alleviate suburban ennui. motor oil spilling onto linoleum flooring checkered in black and white, seeping into rubbery caulk cracks. mint lacquered kitchen countertops hosting radioactive fiestaware.

the vial of nuit de bakelite smells exactly like freshly chopped green bell peppers, but that was nothing indicative of what was to come. on skin, it quickly glows and becomes so sweet with sharp green edged laminate corners. much like orchid soleil, flos mortis, and tuberuse criminelle, the classic berry-like (and simultaneously similar to powdered tortillas) heart of tuberose dominates, but with an idiosyncratic industrial edge. with tuberose as the centerpiece, leather and angelica's bite give the flashy flower some fangs, with styrax at the base softening the blow. petrol-stained lace gloves covered in one hundred sweet petals!

more comfortingly retro than eerily dystopian, i feel no impending doom from the scent as many others do, perhaps due to my overt familiarity with tuberose in all its forms; but the plasticine facets do make me think of bakelite, fiestaware, and catalin, all of which contain a variety of toxic compounds from formaldehyde to asbestos—fiestaware even contains uranium that becomes radioactive when chipped! still, when i wear nuit de bakelite, my mind's eye is less eager to imagine apocalyptic imagery than it is to transport me into the turquoise kitchen of a catatonic housewife secretly in love with the florist across the street, adoringly lining her window box with tuberose in hopes he will notice, clumsily spilling solvents as she nervously cleans.

songs for nuit de bakelite: diet by au pairs, summer love by the brunettes, bored housewives by androids of mu.

Wow. I immediately get hot absinthe, very botanical. There's this electric, coppery smell that it so dominant. I get lots of dirty carrot-seed and amber. It really softens after a while, into this really dry green powder.

Did I receive a mislabeled sample? Did I not apply enough? This is a very strong, green fragrance, yes, and with some leather in the background, yes, but I get none of the stomach-churning industrial facets others describe. To me, this is a gigantic green violet, feminine and smooth. But perhaps my brain is playing tricks on me: the tuberose masquerading as the violet, or vice versa.

If there is abrasiveness here, it is only in the size of this fragrance, which is prodigious. And it is stunningly beautiful, like the ringing of a bell on a clear morning. Deafening up close, maybe, but giving the sensation of vast open air. Tuberose does not agree with me, but Nuit de Bakélite does.

“can perfume smell like this?” have you ever thought this to yourself?

🗝 nuit de bakelite is one of those for me. i remember when a friend showed it to me after it had just been released. at first i was in shock. “what IS this?” i said out loud. and it kept provoking me, nudging me, telling me that it wouldn’t be tamed or understood so easily. it won heaps of awards and became something of a “love it or hate it” scent for many.

years passed and i could not shake that intense feeling. i needed it. i had to conquer it, somehow, some day. how convenient then, that my new favorite perfume shop stocks the intriguing brand. i went and bought a bottle as a moving in gift to myself, and i’ve been smelling of nuit de bakelite for a whole week. yep, it's that strong.

and you see i’m trying to win in this cat and mouse game, but i keep losing. at every turn and corner the catty bakelite is waiting to devour me, swallow me whole. i can’t escape it. and at this point i’ll just have to give in.

this is one of my best buys ever, i can’t recommend the fragrance enough. it’s a true masterpiece and so deserving of all those awards! but be aware of its somewhat hostile nature, this is not for the faint of heart.

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I have never smelled this.
Nuit de Bakelite is an interesting one in terms of fragrance and all aspects.
I never thought perfume could play like this.

In fact, the composition is quite difficult to analyze.
To me, it's probably a green, deformed tuberose, mutated by nuclear radiation.
I'm not used to it.

Green and "chemical".
Nuit de Bakelite made a fantastic first impression on me with its psychedelic fishy smell.
I don't know how Nuit de Bakelite sells.
But few designers would allow a brand to present such a difficult-to-wear fragrance. It also reflects Goodsir's boldness and fearlessness in the art of fragrance.

In addition to the metallic salty and powdery feeling of violet leaves, Nuit de Bakelite also has obvious particles. Kind of weird...I'm not sure what. The viscous bitter green sap also has orris root in it, greyish-grey. The sandpaper-like cardamom rubs against the tuberose, tearing the petals of tuberose until the petals sink into the clammy green quagmire, and the angelica exudes a faint medicinal smell.

Walking on the road, people will not think that you are wearing perfume.

Wonderful masterpiece.
Let tuberose go a different way.
The style is no longer limited to the rich and holy, tuberose can also be bitter and savage.

Nuit de Bakelite is difficult to categorize and unique.
It's Niche, and the name speaks volumes about its weirdness and beauty.
Not everyday, use with caution.

First impressions - Oh wow...
Hypnotic, captivating, intoxicating.. Opens up with fresh milky Tuberose and Karo-Karounde, white floral petals with green flashy stems. Evokes feelings of a heavy summer rain. It's very unusual, with a vegetable note reminiscent of a green bell pepper and broad bean skins. Multi dimensional, plays hot & cold - starts cold and turns into balmy warmth (leather, styrax, ylang-ylang). A play between innocence and arrogance! A masterpiece & I can see generations after generations talking about this!
EDIT: Ha, I told you! It's now sold out on the official website. The hype is real & well deserved.

the word that comes to mind is "aloof."
A green, barely budded tuberose and angelica bouquet wrapped in plastic, carried by an angular someone with a chic minimalist haircut.
You catch a waft and turn to look, but they're already rounding the corner.
I thought this fragrance was too unknowable for me, but now I can't stop sniffing my wrist.
It's the opposite of ripe/voluptuous/available.
More like unexpected/sophisticated/chilly and a bit unearthly/powdery
YET
it manages to be inviting.
Look, come closer. Stop there. That's close enough.
To be honest I'm a little obsessed.

Hypnotic, toxic, medicinal tuberose made from neon green plastic, wrapped in synthetic leather.
It lasts forever on the skin but the scent is far too challenging for me to want to leave it on for so long.

This is a fascinating scent and makes me want to look more into the other scents by the perfumer. As others have said, I am not sure this is something that will become a regular scent for me, but I am really happy to have a sample to try. Like all of Naomi Goodsir's fragrances, the scent starts out overwhelming and strange, but with time it mellows as it warms on the skin.

This is an incredibly green, earthy, slightly muddy tuberose. It's very very green, not like cut grass, more succulent. It also has a noticeable note of plant roots. With time, on me, I get a good amount of leather and smoky warmth, with some amber thrown in. This is one of those scents to me that is always changing, when I try to focus on the tuberose, suddenly it smells like leather, and then if I try to focus on the leather, I suddenly get tuberose. The plasticky scent that I realize is purposeful and some people find unattractive, I barely smell on myself. I get a whiff of it occasionally (especially when I first spray), but it doesn't dominate.

The best way I can describe this is, on me, it smells like it's recently rained, and I've gone out into my garden and cut a huge bunch of tuberose and thrown them onto my work bench which is still muddy from the rain. The scent is truly unique and, in my mind, wildly evocative and beautiful.

I believe all scents are unisex and this falls close to the middle for me. It leans slightly feminine because of the floral notes in my mind, but honestly it's so unique that it's really difficult to assign it to a traditional gender role. The performance is great, both in terms of longevity and sillage. I just don't know how often I will wear this scent. Maybe I will find myself reaching for it more than I think. I haven't owned a green scent before, so this is new territory for me.

Update: Second time wearing it. Got a little more of the rubbery scent this time. I actually enjoy it a bit. Mostly on first spray. As it melts into skin, I get more of the scent listed above.

Geses. This fragrance transports you for real! Accessing memories you've never had? It's an A+ for me all the way around. Rarely do fragrances capture an artistic essence like this one. <3

This is one of the first niche fragrances I ever tried, and it definitely is different. On first wearing, I noticed the plastic, rubber, synthetic smell right away. It soon settles down with more amber and powder. I found it strange. The second time I tried it, I found it had grown on me! Still a bit weird, but hypnotic. Unique. Something to wear with an offbeat outfit and mood. Very original and contemporary.

The slow trickle of a black stream through a remote English garden at midnight. Haunting, timeless and classic. Green but dark and bitter. It hits you from two rooms away. Insanely beautiful.

This is what I imagine a broken-down replicant from Blade Runner might smell like. At the first spray there's an overwhelming scent of burnt rubber, then the spices hit, headed by cardamom, then after a while it settles down to a 'leather glove with a bit of gasoline spilled on it' smell (and just the barest hint of petrichor, somehow). It's not for me, but it's exciting and oddly beautiful, and I could see someone with a much weirder personality carrying it off.

one of the most beautiful and weird creations ever created.
rather than dwell on the notes I would like to describe what emanates as sensations ...
surely it is a smell of bakelite. 70's plastic.
but maybe it's the smell they smelled in chernobyl during the reactor explosion, but also the smell of an 80's woman, but also the smell of a cemetery with fresh flowers recently placed there.
standing water, loneliness at night.
fascination and repulsion.
hate and love.
I don't care if it's green or tastes like tuberose ... it attracts me. it repels me. oh my ... I listen to a moby song while I sprayed it I get the chills. will be mine. at all costs.
up close it looks like plastic.
from a distance it is everything and the opposite of everything.
is part of the family of fathom v.
no doubt.
10/10
masterpiece.
green almond, jasmine, bitter notes, ylan ylan, karo karounde, cardamom.
non-sweet green tuberose. I love him with all of myself..

Wow, I truly expected this one to be difficult, unique, polarizing. I decided to get a sample of this despite the fact that green fragrances are the exact opposite of what I enjoy - warm and dense is what I love - just because I'm always keen to try the new, unexplored and unobvious.

Sadly, this is not a challenge at all.

The opening I actually really like. It's green, yes, heavy with angelica, freshly cut plant stems, crushed leaves, vegetal tuberose and a touch of leather. Fresh-green and warm in an odd way. After 15 mins it turns into a puddle of (pale) green mediocrity. The kind of green note you get from all the commercial fragrances.

This is the kid at your school who stayed an outsider and rarely spoke, so they seemed mysterious at first, but soon enough it turned out they stayed so quiet because they had nothing to say.

Oh, how I wished for this to be the dark, darkest of greens that everyone seems to be talking about. Instead, this is a decent green fragrance, though nothing that sparks joy or interest to me.

Moderate sillage and great longevity, though it turns into a skin scent after 4 hours on me.

Holy hell just gotta love something this nuclear when one has survived the wondrous 80's...it's almost a petroleum smell, utterly chemical, totally fascinating and I bought a full bottle after experiencing a decant. There is a radiant fluorescent thing in the top notes which does not smell of anything much that we associate with perfume. I spray it on my ankles. And no doubt due to advancing age I'm allegedly getting anosmic. There's a kind of montale petrol oud tuberose crushed poisonous deadly weed top-middle-bottom note. Can't see this a a perfume counter hit but I love it. Definitely not a blind buy....

This is my most challenging fragrance. It is a powerhouse. I applied it in my car the other day and it was still there the next day when I left for work. My husband doesn't like it which explains why I applied it in my car on the way to work. I normally don't wear it to work, but I am locked in a small office and don't mingle so I figured I could get away with it at work. I love it, bought it before it won a big award. So different, unusual and awesome.

Monstrously strong and intensely green-herbal-medicinal. This is the incredible hulk of green fragrances. Seriously, start with as small a spray as possible.

"A green factory-smell."

Would that be the right way to describe this?
Herbal and medicinal, like the place i used to go when i wanted to buy ayurveda-stuff...
Seriously, i have never ever before had the opportunity to smell a fragance like this.

Tuberose and Angelica in a BIG way! No leather to me, but i mean, the tuberose hits you hard in the face and how is it possible to register leather after that? I am all fuzzy in my head, three hours into wearing this frag.

This is not a shy scent. It doesn´t take any prisoners. I can totally understand somebody loving this and wearing it proudly. I am to much of an amateur to really get away with it.

So don´t get me wrong. This is pretty cool, but just too challenging for me.

The strangest smell. It’s a long time since I’ve smelt real bakelite but I don’t think it smelt like this. I recall I was both intrigued and repelled by it though which is what I feel about this frag too.
Sweet white flowers and violets make it slightly feminine but there’s the startling leather greasiness underneath it. The ylang ylang always makes me think of bohemian students. Then there’s the bitter greenness....

The reviews for Nuit de Bakélite got me curious. I was quite sure that this wouldn't be a wearable perfume for me, but I still wanted to try it for the experience. I was right that I don't really want to smell like this in my daily life, but I feel like my skin tames the scent and makes it smoother and prettier than expected. From my sample (which has a cap) it's so pungent and intense that I had to wrap it in paper so it doesn't transfer its scent to my whole sample box.

But as soon as it hits the skin, the scent becomes more approachable and is only half as loud. Make no mistake, it's still very green, dry and bitter. To me it's mainly a leather fragrance, but also somewhat vegetal, and yes, plasticy too. It makes me think of fresh lacquer, new cars and wet stones. Unfortunately I have no idea what bakelite smells like and how it differs from other synthetic resins. I'm too young to remember anyone having a bakelite telephone or radio. So I'll just say that Nuit de Bakélite is a strange blend of natural and artificial aspects that seems futuristic, but like a vision of the future of perfumes that will never come true. The olfactory equivalent of flying cars, if you will. Unlike some other reviewers I don't feel nostalgic when I smell it, neither for a real nor for an imagined past. But I think I understand why some people would.
Nuit de Bakélite also smells toxic, like the opposite of a mouthwatering gourmand, but not in a bad way.

I would not call this a tuberose fragrance. I can single it out because I know it's in there, but this doesn't come across as a floral. The flower might soften the scent though. And there is another softening element that I perceive, which reminds me of violets and apricot kernels. I can't explain why it's there, but it is, and that makes the scent a little more conventionally pleasant than I thought it would be.

Even though Nuit de Bakélite is not my style, it's very interesting to try when you look at perfumery as an art form. And contrary to some other scents from this category, it does not smell repulsive or shocking, just very unusual.

Imagine being in a shopping mall in the '70s or '80s, sitting near some big dark-green flowering plants surrounded by variegated lacquered bricks, a water fountain splashing, some muzak echoing in the distance, near the store that sold exclusively leather clothing under garish fluorescent light. Maybe there's a TV nearby with a late-morning game show on with no volume. That's what this fragrance is, that experience, that feeling, that time. It's extremely evocative, extremely expressive, extremely powerful.

Do people in general want to smell like this? Probably not. But for those of us who like to be completely transported with our perfumes, to a place that is forever gone, like shaky vidcam footage of happier and more carefree times, this is just raw, unadulterated genius and joy.

In more practical terms, this is basically dry tuberose and leather. Quite austere, aggressive, a little chalky and soapy. Performance is high, so beware. It's not sexy at all. It's very non-gendered. It's very indoor, all-weather. The perfume equivalent of a polyester pantsuit at a Space Invaders machine.

I find it hard to believe that this fragrance is even possible. Pure art and pure nostalgia. A great and rare masterpiece.

It makes me feel like I live in 90's, and I love this vibe a lot! Clean, green, with a slight hint of sweetness - why not to try?

Sorry, no. Nuit de Bakélite smells like the inside of a TJ Max, it’s not good.

It’s like that feeling after you’ve been discount shopping for half a day, you leave the store and you realize that the inside of the store had this “new but cheap product” smell, and the molecules are stuck in your nose for the rest of the day. That’s this scent. It’s undefinable, but you know it well.

I’m bummed because Angelica is a favorite note, and I can’t detect it. Nuit de Bakélite has made me physically ill (insert sad face).

Scent: 10/10

Quality: 10/10

Originality: 9/10

Sillage: 9/10

Projection: 8/10

Longevity: 9/10

Price VS Size: 10/10

The first time you smell this fragrance it is very interesting.
Green and sweet at the same time.Fresh and dense. Familiar and completely different. Like you combined tons of petit grain and other twigs with vetiver and cinnamon. You are surprised and pleased with the experience. Soon you realize that you deal not with a perfume but with an aromatic bomb. Persistent and suffocating.
This in fact is a green aroma mixed with tons of the chemical Iso e super. A cheap and boring component which gives the persistence of many perfumes of the last 30 years. It gives a familiar pine like shampoo smell.
But here it seems it is more than half of the fragrance. The effect to the perfume is strength and persistence to a suffocating effect.
An allergy inducing fragrance. Nice to smell for 10 min. but horrable to wear for a long time.
I remembered Estee Lauder Private collection and Insence Givenchy but they are much more wearable and elegant.

A very special perfume, a little nocturnal and a little mysterious.... strong green notes immediately flood you, but you perceive something "earthy" in the distance, but I can't understand what it was, there is also a hidden sweetness (like a slight sweetness emanating from the ancient world). A perfume not for everyone, and suitable for cold and rainy autumn days... it has something of antiquity, and has something "wet" that I really like. I love this mysterious scent! Beautiful!

Sillage: 9./10
Longevity: 10./10
Scent: 8.5/10

Overall: 8.5/10

just want to say: only one spray can fill out the whole room. scent-wise it's gorgeous and goddess-like.

the king of perfumes. It's just majestic, you love it or hate it but you can't argue it's intriguing. It reminds me the humidity in the air in night times of freshly cut grass and crops you can percieve only in september, october and maybe may, But specificly in the night. Then after ten minutes you get a wonderful sweetish smell. I can't quite describe it but the effect is stunning! Performance is colossal, straight 12 hours non stop. You want to get noticed wherever? that's for you. Not a daytime fragrance to me, and definitely not casual. A masterpiece, I would rate it 12 on 10

Nuit de Bakélite makes me smile. Not because it's a particularly cheerful fragrance, but because it's so darn brilliant. Bakelite was an early form of plastic (the first, I think) that peaked in popularity in the first half of the twentieth century. If you've ever encountered it—and you probably have, knowingly or not—you know it has a characteristic look and feel (smooth and brittle), as well as a unique smell: something synthetic and warm, almost sweet; certainly a far cry from the more sophisticated, impersonal plastics we know today. It is this note that makes NdB such a clever fragrance, both vintage and postmodern. Honestly, I'm a bit stumped by the composition: I definitely detect angelica and wisps of tuberose, green notes and leather too, and the carrot seeds mentioned in the note pyramid. What I don't understand is how they come together to produce what others have insightfully identified as an "artificial flower" accord.

The name is perfect: I spray this on and am transported to postwar America. I'm Julianne Moore's character in The Hours, or perhaps Betty Draper from Mad Men. With the children in bed and the husband passed out in a drunk stupor on the couch, I'm savoring the one quiet moment of the day. I relax, letting the stiff kitchen chair support me. All the lights, save the one above the nook where I'm sitting, are out, and I only have the humming refrigerator to keep me company. There's an ashtray full of cigarette butts an arm's length away, and a bouquet of dying white flowers that seem to be looking at me in an accusatory manner. I sigh, and it all comes to me at once: the flowers, the earthy ash, the spice cabinet a few feet away, but most of all, the bakelite. It's everywhere. In many ways it's me: glossy yet translucent, new but timeless, scratch-resistant but imminently breakable.

I don't know what occasion Nuit de Bakélite is best suited for, but I do know that it's one of the most artful fragrances I've had the privilege of owning. All-season, all-gender, and good for day or night. Take with a grain of salt and the drink of your choice.

EDIT 27 DEC 2020: It just occurred to me that this is also an homage to, or riff on, Serge Lutens's Nuit de Cellophane, a fragrance I only recently discovered and sampled. Like Nuit de Bakélite, it uses clever floral and herbal accords to integrate a sweet plastic note into the composition. I found NdC more subtle, but also much less interesting and evocative, than NdB.

Mall flowers ★★★★☆

One of the vilest, most violent openings I've ever smelled. I gagged with the fury of a thousand suns and prayed my sins to be forgiven. The drydown is really something however. To me this is the perfume equivalent to vaporwave music and aesthetics. NdB recalls fake plants and palm trees in an 80's American mall. Fountains with neon lightning, soft jazz in the background, hair salons with ridiculous hair cut posters in the windows. There's a hint of an artifical candy flavour sweetening the green tuberose foliage, think of those candy necklaces made of tiny pastel coloured sugar rings. This makes me feel nostalgic for an era (and for a memory) that I never lived through, much like vaporwave music does. The tuberose seems to have an intentional cheap jasmine oil facet that reminds the audience that the cliches aren't to be hidden with embarrassment but to be boldly declared as part of the appeal - like a classic floral bouquet overdone with irony. Forget the joyless and indifferent Santal 33, this is the new cool!

Very interesting and evocative indeed, I never thought I'd experience a perfume that would make me feel in this particular way. The opening was truly sickening, but the drydown is definitely worthwhile. A very special fragrance, highly recommended! If you're interested in the vaporwave reference check out NEON PALM MALL (Vaporwave Mix + Video) by SPLIFF RADIOショー in YouTube for a concrete idea what I mean.

Hoo boy. Well past 'challenging' and into the kind of territory I'd call 'hostile' - BUT, if you are searching for a wild, almost brutal tuberose which goes all-out for impact, then this is she.

I am a huge fan of Naomi Goodsir (Bois d'Ascese, mon Dieu, it's sooo good) but less of a fan of tuberose; to work for me it needs to be green and gentle, rather than huge and sweet and tinged with overripe fleshy papaya. Unfortunately, Bakelite doesn't soft-pedal the sweetness of tuberose at all (in fact, it doesn't soft-pedal anything), but rather, chooses the biggest, ripest, fleshiest tuberose note it can, and then offsets it with a punishingly dark, earthy styrax accord. Well, that might work - MIGHT work - for some skins, but on mine, very unfortunately, the earth darkens even further, going past peat and mud and deep dark loam, into feral, bitter, acrid, gasoline-land. Which would be bad enough on its own, but when overlaid with the jangling, shouting, almost-putrid, relentless floral sweetness up top, makes things even less to my taste.

Of course, like all the (very few) scent horrors I really can't tolerate, this sticks to me like glue and lasts ages. It's terribly expensive, but if the smellscape actually pleases you, its robustness and long life would add up to real value for money. One for the hardcore tuberose tastemakers only, I'm afraid - but if they have the money and the courage to tough it out with this tuberose monster, then it's likely to be a fantastic thrill ride. For them, but not for me.

For me, this is a very unpleasant, ozonic-plastic scent and it's way too strong. Even my wife suffocates, when I use it.

چرا بانوان عطاری مثل ایزابل دوین و آملی بورژوا و دافنه اینقدر هنرمندانه عمل می کنن. چرا اینقدر اثرهاشون عمیق و دلنشین هست؟ این عطر کاملا سبز و تلخ هست.سبزی آمیخته با دوده حاصل از سوختن درختان کاج. کمی چرم هم در پس زمینه احساس میشه ولی اصلا شیرین نیست.کاملا خاص با پرفورمنس عالی. دمت گرم نائومی و دمت گرم بانو ایزابل. البته اگر ریویو ایکاروس رو کسی در مورد این اثر خونده باشه دقیقه تماش براش مجسم میشه.

سبز و سرشار از حس طراوت و تازگی فلفل دلمه سبز و شاداب و شارپ که میکسی هنرمندانه دارد
به شدت خاص و یونیک و متفاوت
اصلا وایت فلاوری، پودری و ماسکی نیست
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Scent & Quality: 10/10
Longevity: 9/10
Sillage: 10/10
Creativity & Uniqueness: 10/10
Affordability: 3/10
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Overall: 8.4 +0.5 = 8.9/10

I can only detect green! This smells like fresh cut grass but with chemicals in it. Its too green at least for my nose. The smell enters in my mouth and its like I can taste it, this is how powerful it is. A great one for green, leather, perfumes. Not for me though.
Great longevity and killer sillage.

A nyitó robbanás frissen éteresen csillogó ásványi aromákat lövell szanaszét bőrünkről, nem is fogjuk fel rögtön, mi is történik velünk, bizarr módon bár, de ez az illat sikoltozik!
Téli, zselésen megdermedt menta-jégkristályok hullanak szerteszét szegfűszeges, vodkás hópelyhek formájában, gyönyörűséges citrusok, különösen a zöld lime leve freccsen szét, rozmaringgal, bazsalikommal és rengeteg szegfűszeggel fűszerezve. A rengeteg csapadék eredményeképpen egy kifejezetten zöld, vizes élőhelyen vagyunk, érezzük a zöld nád illatát, fásan lédús naturalista a helyszín, mellyel a rengeteg szegfűszeg szinte összeegyeztethetetlennek tűnik, de csak egy pillanatra, mert az összkép egységes egésszé áll össze, bizarr, kóros, de lenyűgözően stimuláló az eredmény.
Ahogy elcsitul a támadás, olyan érzésem támad, mintha egy hűsítő mentolos almakompóttal teli kádban feredőznék. A mentolos zöld leveles közegben a szegfűszeg jelenléte kiemelkedő ebben a kezdeti intenzív szakaszban.
Miután a fejillatok, a lime, a menta, az ánizs és a szegfűszeg, illetve a zöld jegyzetek csitulva leülepednek, nos, ekkor kezdődik az igazi élmény, de micsudi élmény! Ebben a nyugvó fázisban az illat finoman átalakul egy fa-velúr-fűszernövény kombinációvá, egy káprázatos kopaiba balzsamos tiszta vászonágyon elterülve, tűlevelekkel megbolondítva, melyek segítik az orris (írisz gyöktörzse -enyhén púderes ibolya illat) beszivárgását a kompozícióba. A finom füves árnyalatok ismét érezhetők egy enyhe fűszeres ködben, amit a cédrus, a nyír fenomenálisan éteres jegye és a szantálfa foglal gyönyörűséges fás keretbe. Pazar, ragyogó csodában lehet részünk, ha túléltük a kezdeti jégkorszaki robbanást…

This is genius. Luscious, gleaming synthetic greens like fake indoor plants in an Art Deco vase. Drunken 1920s glamour with all the queasy excesses and artificiality that brings to mind. The leather note that eventually crawls out from behind the plastic foliage is gorgeously sinister.

I love this one. This is not a review, but just a venting of my displeasure about the price increase. The Naomi Goodsir perfumes had been 125 euros until two or three months ago. Now it’s 140 euros. 15 euros increase within a few months. I don’t believe at all that it suddenly costs 15 euros more to produce the fragrance. I can only attribute this to greed. Maybe after winning an award for Nuit de Bakélite they think it’s a good chance to capitalise on this success.

I’m just glad I got my bottle before the price increase, but this has certainly taken away any desire to buy another one of their products (I loved Iris Cendré and was indeed considering a bottle). Now I’ve lost all respect for Naomi Goodsir.

A gorgeous creation, excellent development and beautiful at all stages. Deserves to be paired with a confident, well groomed wearer that has an appreciation for fine fragrance. I get a bracing, pleasing opening of cut grass, leading into a follow-up green accord led by galbanum and supported by soft indolic tuberose and some other light unisex florals. The leather is actually a light dusting of labdanum that gives a light, fluffy, powdery smoothness. As a guy I am hesitant to wear it regularly, but I would love to smell this on a partner.

Naomi Goodsir & Isabelle Doyen together have created the best green leather floral to be released in decades. NUIT DE BAKELITE could be a Germaine Cellier Balmain creation or a Henri Robert Chanel. For those who love this category of green florals you won't be let down.

Who says that niche perfumery has arrived to some static dull station and has nothing interesting to offer any more is absolutely wrong. Tuberose is one of the most playd notes, fascinating as few, but, honestly, it's not easy to innovate something using it as a main player.
Naomi Goodsir, an eclectic Australian stilist, in collaboration with parfumier Isabelle Doyen managed with it.
Nuit de Bakèlite gave me a total knock off. First of all it's so potent. You can detect it even if you don't want to. My decant, gifted me by a dear friend of mine, screamed to be smelled even with a cap. It smells as some oily tincture obtained by squeezing stems, leaves, roots of this enchanting flower but also bark, moss, fallen leaves, moist soil and I wouldn't surprise if some poisonous moushrooms as well. It's medicinal, it's cold, extremly green. It's a breath of life Maleficent would inspire. Nuit de Bakèlite is eclectic as its maitress and it's one of the most fabulous creations of last year.

7/10

Wow! What an intense scent. My first thought was iris or orris root but it didn't have that cool heavy quality. Uncanny. It starts to unfold before you and never once do I get anything green. It's more starch rooty. I would never be able to guess at the notes in this. I know styrax does strange things on my skin so that might be responsible. It's frankly quite linear. A strange musky creation. Not for me. Sabotaged by the styrax no doubt.

I was expecting this to be a lot harder to wear, this neon green, acid tuberose that I've heard about on perfume blogs. But it's a beautiful watery angelica scent with a white floral backbone. Nuit de Bakelite begins as carroty, somewhat nutty and green-watery scent. Over time the delicate floral notes rise to the surface. As for the florals, I can tell that tuberose is present, but this is not a forward, carnal tuberose. This is a very carroty fragrance on my skin -
I would not have been suprised to see orris on the list of notes, but I see that carrot seed is used here instead, maybe because orris has a bit of a white chalkiness and the perfumer was going for more clarity of scent. All of this is grounded by styrax, which has a somewhat fruity aspect to its earthy leathery resiny scent - it's driving me crazy trying to figure out what it is. I've smelled it in a few styrax scents - dried lemons? Not quite right...hmm.

The scent overall reminds me of a garden pond with a small, burbling fountain. A cool and meditative scent. Unique yet very pleasant.

One of those weird niche fragrances that are interesting in composition, can be unusual and even unique but appear to be almost unbearable. I hope it has some admirers though.

This smells very familiar to some of Bertrand Duchaufour works, and especially to Eau d’Italie Bois d’Ombrie. A boozy hay with a smoky/leathery woodiness. The green floral accord is also here, but not that strong on my skin, I can’t name Nuit de Bakelite a floral fragrance. The strength and longevity are high as usual for the brand.

Girl with a white dog by Lucian Freud

"Nuit de Bakélite" the smell of greens & chalk.

White freshly picked flowers, as you can sense the texture of the flowers, it's green fresh raw leaves, and it's fertile soil or styrax but transformed to white soft sand. It feels like in a plant nursery where you can witness the cooling breeze, the freshly flowers, & the fertile soil around 6am as you feel that sunrise casting it's rays on those relieving white flowers.

The tuberose in here is quite raw, and not the milky one that you can find almost everywhere, & it kept at it's minimal. It's quite raw and very fresh & dewy. It's not leathery, and the conquered notes are the artemisia, ylang, styrax, green dewy grass, and cardamom.

To be honest, a while ago before writing this review i was about to bash Naomi for choosing "Isabelle Doyen", as "Nuit de Bakélite" feels like belongs to Annick Goutal now more than Naomi, but thank GOD i waited 10 minutes and i witnessed what i have witnessed above. I can't deny that i smell the stamp of Isabelle in here, and "Grand Amour" specifically, but It is very interesting and quite charming.

Big green notes, but the heart is a nicely balanced spicy, peppery leather.

The leather is high-quality and modern. While the leather note takes the main role, composition-wise, it's a mild/modern leather. (I.e. not a sinus-destroying vintage/vintage-inspired monster... Sorry to hate on vintagey leather frags but fwiw).

Original and well-done. I definitely get the faint herbal tinge of the whole composition as well.

Not to my tastes (I've been off all leathers lately, even lovely ones like this). Again, a very unique and well-done frag nonetheless.