Nuit Etoilee by Annick Goutal for women and men

A minty fizzy head-spinningly green fragrance. Wow! It's bright, fresh and just so.. green! It reminds me of stepping outside after a good blizzard - sun shining and boucing off of the snow, making you squint, as you're met with the fresh scent of snow and ice melting from the pine trees. It's just so bright and airy and fresh - fresh in the crisp sense, the cold that slices through your lungs on a deceivingly sunny, yet cold winter day. This is yet another fragrance that my opinion is so sideways of. I see that spring and summer are most popularly associated with this fragrance - yet it's very, very wintery to me. The pine and cool mint transport me to winter immediately. I think that after it settles, the citruses are more apparent, and that's what makes it seem summery to everyone. Either way, I appreciate fragrances that transport me to a specific place, even if it's not the intended one!

I've always wanted the smell of fresh, citrusy pine captured in a fragrance. This has less lemony twang than I smell straight from pine needles, but it's still very pleasant. It starts off with mint and almost a tomato leaf kind of smell. The tomato goes away pretty fast (a pity, I like it!) and sweet orange kicks in. Then comes fir and pine <3 I was walking by both fir and pine trees today and I just loved smelling like I was one with them :) This fragrance doesn't really remind me of night time, however - not quite dense enough. More light and airy, like hiking on a tree covered mountain, and then you come to the edge and there's all this crisp air.