Top Notes 
Peach
Pear
Plum
Bergamot
Passion fruit
Pineapple
Heart Notes 
Freesia
Cashmere wood
Jasmine
Violet leaf
Base Notes 
Musk
Crystal amber
Vanilla
Cambodian oud
Cypriol
Sandalwood
03/21/2025
Zenman
4 Reviews
Zenman
1
Surprised but I LOVE this Club de Nuit OUD
I made a conscious effort to make sure all the comments, reviews and noise swirling around Armaf's Club de Nuit Oud would not cloud my response to this perfume... And opened my box, my bottle of it today for the first time and gave it a good go, a good run. LOVE love love...
Man, it is beautiful, uplifting, fun, classy and also incredibly balanced and poised.
The fragrance is made up of 3 parts that move almost seamlessly one into the other:
Firstly, there is a gorgeous strong scattering of light but tenacious, fruity essences of peach, pineapple, plum, pear and passionfruit before the bergamot comes knocking.. Looking at these names one would like to say Erba pura clone.. but, no, this frag is doing its own thing from the get go. The notes are light footed and don't weigh down or hit with a sledge hammer although they do float in the air for a long time and stay present for longer.
The next phase which overlaps these fruity top notes but does not eclipse them is woody, comforting, floral, and sneaks up on you quite clearly but so stylishly :
the jasmine, violet leaf and other white flowers add their heady notes to the mix.
Somehow, CDN Oud manages to maintain this fruit-Flower profile without being overly sweet... Individual flowers are allowed to bloom without ever becoming cloying.
Then the 3rd phase enters perhaps 30 to 45 minutes in and that is when a dusting of white musk, an amber accord atop a smooth vanilla presents itself.
And it is now that I get the sweet Cambodian Oud making its presence faintly felt.. It is not skanky, nor forward but a constant cloudy component that never disappears although it fades in and fades out continuously from this moment on.
And these 3 parts of CDN Oud rotate with one another, play a dynamic peek-a-boo with each other again and again in my nose for the considerable life of this tenacious fragrance.
Fruits, not overly sweet ~ Woods, Jasmine, White flowers,metallic Violet leaf (again not that sweet)~ White musk, Amber accord, Vanilla and Cambodian Oud and back again.
Delicious, composed, quite heavenly
I get a good 6 to 10 hours on skin depending on the temperature and humidity and on clothes, a shimmering day after life span. I am in awe, especially as nothing screams in this frag, nothing suggests beast mode... till you realise it has lasted the whole day and more with you.
It is definitely something an assured man, young or otherwise can wear.
It is definitely something a self-confident woman will wear.
And anyone in between.
It somehow manages to last forever and project yet smell natural, unforced and expensive...
Nez Christian Provenzano has crafted one hell of a frag for us to use and enjoy and I'm going to do just that.
It's now going to be my main driver... I'm besotted
*Update*.. Actually once I recognised the Oud in the basenotes I'm picking it up right from the start of the fragrance... Quite startling once I notice it...
The Cambodian Oud is there ... wow....
Masterpiece
Man, it is beautiful, uplifting, fun, classy and also incredibly balanced and poised.
The fragrance is made up of 3 parts that move almost seamlessly one into the other:
Firstly, there is a gorgeous strong scattering of light but tenacious, fruity essences of peach, pineapple, plum, pear and passionfruit before the bergamot comes knocking.. Looking at these names one would like to say Erba pura clone.. but, no, this frag is doing its own thing from the get go. The notes are light footed and don't weigh down or hit with a sledge hammer although they do float in the air for a long time and stay present for longer.
The next phase which overlaps these fruity top notes but does not eclipse them is woody, comforting, floral, and sneaks up on you quite clearly but so stylishly :
the jasmine, violet leaf and other white flowers add their heady notes to the mix.
Somehow, CDN Oud manages to maintain this fruit-Flower profile without being overly sweet... Individual flowers are allowed to bloom without ever becoming cloying.
Then the 3rd phase enters perhaps 30 to 45 minutes in and that is when a dusting of white musk, an amber accord atop a smooth vanilla presents itself.
And it is now that I get the sweet Cambodian Oud making its presence faintly felt.. It is not skanky, nor forward but a constant cloudy component that never disappears although it fades in and fades out continuously from this moment on.
And these 3 parts of CDN Oud rotate with one another, play a dynamic peek-a-boo with each other again and again in my nose for the considerable life of this tenacious fragrance.
Fruits, not overly sweet ~ Woods, Jasmine, White flowers,metallic Violet leaf (again not that sweet)~ White musk, Amber accord, Vanilla and Cambodian Oud and back again.
Delicious, composed, quite heavenly
I get a good 6 to 10 hours on skin depending on the temperature and humidity and on clothes, a shimmering day after life span. I am in awe, especially as nothing screams in this frag, nothing suggests beast mode... till you realise it has lasted the whole day and more with you.
It is definitely something an assured man, young or otherwise can wear.
It is definitely something a self-confident woman will wear.
And anyone in between.
It somehow manages to last forever and project yet smell natural, unforced and expensive...
Nez Christian Provenzano has crafted one hell of a frag for us to use and enjoy and I'm going to do just that.
It's now going to be my main driver... I'm besotted
*Update*.. Actually once I recognised the Oud in the basenotes I'm picking it up right from the start of the fragrance... Quite startling once I notice it...
The Cambodian Oud is there ... wow....
Masterpiece
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