Van Cleef & Arpels will launch Midnight in Paris Pour Homme in August. The new fragrance for men is named for the brand’s Midnight in Paris watch.
Midnight in Paris is a floral leather developed by perfumers Olivier Polge and Domitille Bertier. The notes include black lily of the valley accord, citron, bergamot, matcha green tea, styrax, benzoin, tonka bean and incense.
Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight in Paris Pour Homme will be available in 45, 75 and 125 ml Eau de Toilette. (via cosmeticnews, us.fashionmag)
Update: A better (actually, it looks entirely different?) shot of the bottle, via Belle Mania ~
Another update: Midnight in Paris will also be available in 125 ml Eau de Parfum.
And still more: see a review of Van Cleef & Arpels Midnight in Paris.
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Mmmm. This sounds great, and the name makes me curious to check out the watch that inspired it. I really hope the prices aren’t as ambitious as the Collection extrordinare.
The 45-mL bottle is apparently 40 euros, about $50-55, so not that bad.
I like the sound of this, the idea of a men’s dark floral paired with leather and benzoin, but the name makes me think of the iconic Evening in Paris.
It does sound really nice…
Floral leather is good, but *what* were they thinking with that bottle? It looks like a black peach… or a butt. Hope it’s just a bad picture…
Probably just a bad picture.
There was a picture on basenotes that showed how beautiful is the bottle. It looks like a male bottle counterpart to eau des merveilles constellation. The link also says that it’ll be produced in eau de parfum strenght too. I
Great, thanks! I was going to post a link but can’t get Basenotes to load at the moment, sorry.
@ absolute scentualist
I found this informative link about the watch and think its gorgeous
http://watches.infoniac.com/index.php?page=post&id=24
Would love to know your opinion about it..
At the riskof sounding clueless.. whats to stop a lady from wearing a scent like this (considering its classified as “Masculine”)
Social norms. Good thing none of us care about those!
I plan to try it, myself.
Olivier Polge and floral leather? Dior Homme part 2? I’m in!
Sign Me Up! Must Have! MUST HAVE!!!!
Love that bottle! I’d like to have that!
Looks like a great collection of notes. Dark florals are right up my strasse. I love Ungaro III, Salvador Dali pour Homme, Rose 31 etc. Sounds really good, must sample ASAP.
matcha green tea, styrax, benzoin, tonka bean
those notes are all so up my alley
The bottle looks like
a) Basement Cat’s idea of a Christmas tree ornament.
b) a cartoon bomb – all it needs is a wick coming out of the top, with Wiley E. Coyote standing in the background with his fingers in his ears. Ka-BOOM.
That said, it sounds great!
This one might surprise us all. The notes sound promising.
Sounds very pretty. The name, the notes, and the beautiful poster-
Black LOTV *accord* means their *impression* of what such a thing might smell like if it existed – right? Love the (other) notes and can’t wait to try it! Might even commission my mother to investigate her local parfumerie…
Yes, exactly.
That was what drew my eye too! I have to laugh even though the perfume sounds pretty good!
A great perfume by van Cleeff ! The eau de parfum is so warm and sensual the sweetness of tonkabean is not dominant but gives a almost amber/perubalsam accord in the hart..Insence is making it woody and mysterious…the styrax is making it masculine and metropolitan.
the eau de toilette is more casual and fresh…good to use together !