Nuit Etoilee

A fellow member's striking description - 'spearmint underfoot, trees above, stars beyond' convinced me to add this to my collection. It was a like but not until a short walk near Olympic National Park that the fragrance fully unlocked itself for me and turned into a love. A strong citrus opening followed by the woody, fir-aromatic scent with subtle incense and earthy undertones is an atmospheric portal, evoking the quiet magic of dusk settling over the Pacific Northwest landscape.

Nuit Étoilée is one of the notable creations from the period after Annick Goutal’s passing, and it’s impossible not to mention the perfumer Isabelle Doyen here. She was Annick Goutal’s close collaborator and had been working with her since the very early days of the brand. In fact, most of the house’s well-known fragrances were created by her. After Goutal passed away in 1999, Doyen continued working with her daughter Camille. Nuit Étoilée is a fragrance they created together. The opening begins with mint and citrus. As expected, both are highly volatile materials, so the cooling effect arrives quickly and fades just as fast. The heart soon reveals the resinous character of conifer trees. Pine needles and fir bring a cool, slightly dry resinous woodiness, and there’s a faint herbal spiciness drifting through the air. In the base, angelica and immortelle introduce a gentle transition of herbal tones with a hint of soft sweetness. Overall the fragrance maintains a cool, green profile throughout. Projection and longevity are relatively light, like a night breeze passing through the forest, carrying a touch of cool woodland air.

This is just-sublime and criminally underrated, masterfully blended, atmospheric but wearable. I grew up spending lots of time hiking on the East Coast in the US and this transports me to that time and place. For reference-I tend to love citrus and aromatic notes, spices (but not too pomander-centric), green notes, fig, naturalistic forest scents, pretty much any floral as long as they're not too bubblegummy sweet and cloying, tend to not love sticky plum notes or fougeres (but there are a few exceptions), ambers as long as there's not too much amberwood sticking out, agrestic and haylike notes, and patchouli as a tool but not as the main star (except Diptyque Tempo for some reason), and have a soft spot for some gourmands. All of that is to say-If you share those preferences, give this fragrance a shot. I daresay you'd even be happy blind buying an entire bottle.

Nuit Étoilée by Goutal is a timeless, very special fragrance that I treasure. The scent feels unique...fresh, slightly cool, and full of quiet elegance. The bottle itself is beautiful, almost as memorable as the perfume inside. I don’t wear it often, because it feels too precious, but when I do, it’s always a pleasure. The only thing is that it doesn’t last very long..maybe I’ve just gotten used to it over time.

Really lovely. Subtle fresh gentle and deep. Only thing is citrus is a bit too much. I think this can be countered with like a body oil to accentuate any other note you personally want to highlight more. It’s the kind of scent that cooperates well like that. But yeah it imparts a beautiful sense of serenity upon me it’s almost poetic just to have this cloaking my body. And the bottle is stunning. The blue one pictured above. I will keep it to use when I run out and fill it up with something else Edit: the dry down is seriously gorgeous….once that citrus smooths down its impeccable . An angelic immortel hugs me glittering with a slight tang from the citrus leftover

For me a gorgeous lemon pie covered with fig leafs in an almost dense forest of pines! In this forest, there is also some mint leaves around, that creates a fresh aura! Moderate sillage and moderate longevity! Beautifully made!

Just bought a bottle of this one, in the old classic bottle, like on the picture here, but not blue but transparant. I love the smell but what a horrible sprayer, it's wide and lot's coma out but it's very wide so the perfume is dispersed too widely and lot's of the smell evaporates too much; Will elaborate later on on the smell of it; just needed to get this out :-)

I have the old version and as someone else said, it's Christmas in a bottle. It takes me to a forest with tall fir trees and snow and ice crunching underfoot, Orion's wheeling his way through the inky sky and Venus is just setting. The smell of pine and earth pervades my chilly nose and a hint of mint wafts up from my glove that has been inside my coat pocket with Christmas mint sweets. Very evocative and long lasting, quite linear from start to finish, more of an experience than a fragrance.

It is not discontinued, unless this new one is entirely fresh on notes. Seems like it is to my nose , reading notes. This comes off of the skin for a good 2-3 hours, and around you floats a soft, yet grown tomatoe leaf. Green, earthy, FRESH vines. The mint drifts in as a companion to this leaf, and tonka aswell, 20-30 minutes in. Awesome day time scent. Absolutely magical. That said, idk when to wear this. Pure vacation scent. For how well blended and beautiful this is, 9/10. The performance does leave a bit lacking, 6.5/10 but that is kind of standard now. This is a perfect fresh weather day. It carries a vibe about it that screams "I cook, I dress well, and I'm here to feel good!"

Warm weather scent - it reminds me of a forest in summer heat and of meadows full of herbs and flowers. Not what I expected given the name, but it somehow fits. Wearing it during a day makes me think of a hot summery night, fireflies and loving embracess under the sky.

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.

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, stealing 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 was 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.

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.