Vol de Nuit Guerlain 1933 Extrait

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8.9 / 10 207 Ratings

A popular perfume by Guerlain for women, released in 1933. The scent is spicy-green. The longevity is above-average. It is being marketed by LVMH.
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Main accords

Spicy

Green

Chypre

Floral

Woody

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Galbanum

Orange blossom

Bergamot

Lemon

Mandarin orange Orange

Orange

Heart Notes

Aldehydes

Iris

Vanilla

Narcissus

Base Notes

Oakmoss

Musk

Orris root Spices

Spices

Sandalwood

Perfumer

Jacques Guerlain

Ratings

Scent

8.9207 Ratings

Longevity

8.2172 Ratings

Sillage

7.4171 Ratings

Bottle

9.3177 Ratings

Value for money

7.252 Ratings

Submitted by Nibelung, last update on 01/14/2025.

Variant of the fragrance concentration

This is a variant of the perfume Vol de Nuit (Eau de Toilette) by Guerlain, which differs in concentration.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

Vol de Nuit Eau de Toilette

Vol de Nuit Eau de Cologne

Dryad

Nuit de Longchamp (2008) Eau de Parfum

Eau Sauvage Parfum (2012)

Dioressence Esprit de Parfum

Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/16/2023

Stacia
134 Reviews

Stacia

3

1930s encapsulated

This was the scent that not only turned me on to galbanum as a note (making me chase things like vintage Miss Dior and Ralph Lauren Safari) but Vol de Nuit also turned me on to the world of 1930s woody fragrances. The smell of real silk stockings in a drawer with a stash of perfumed cigarettes. Perfumes like Angelique Encens, Sous le Vent and Tweed suddenly entered my world, all thanks to a little sample of Guerlain Vol de Nuit holding the door open. This just smells so classy and old school, like the beautiful star of a black and white romantic comedy.

09/06/2019

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Can777
129 Reviews

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Can777

Top Review 80

Paper Aeroplane

I wanted to write you a letter, but it didn't happen because I spilled the ink when I wanted to write your name. Now I have folded a paper airplane from the side and stand lonely and alone at the open window of my room and look into the cool night. I'll let him fly in a minute. And maybe he'll find his way to you. He's loaded with thoughts and old memories. To you, to me and to our lost time!

Perhaps it flies in the dark through the garden where the oranges bloom and exude their citric-bitter and soothing scent. The one who seems enchanted by the moonlight. Maybe it flies so high that it doesn't get stuck in the resinous twigs and branches of the mind, Galbanum will lose its milky-sticky juices immediately
Maybe he flies higher and higher, as if there were airy light winds of aldehydes under his paper wings that carry him so high that the lights of the city under him look like white and sparkling daffodils in the glow of the stars. Carried by spicy-warm winds. And the vanilla-soft and powdery clouds as close to the full moon as two hearts in the tack of the same sound.

Up there he glides quietly in the night sky in endless silence. In endless harmony and love. You'll see his silhouette up there. He'll wait up there. He will wait for his time to come and for him to fly to his destination. And the destination and the landing place will be you. Only you! From far above he will recognize you and find you. And he will begin his slow descent. Over darkly mossy forests and powdery grey valleys. It'll be a slide into the softest darkness. A constant gliding in the interplay of feelings. A landing approach like on a creamy soft and mossy runway made of musk and sandal into your inner self. Or to ourselves?

I wanted to write you a letter, but it didn't happen because I spilled the ink when I wanted to write your name. Now I have folded a paper airplane from the side and stand at the open window in my room. Still lonely and alone! But before I let him fly into the night, I have him still "painted" with something that was also made of love. With a perfume. This paper airplane and the smell will perhaps be able to tell you what I could not always and what I was not able to do in words and deeds. So open the window and your heart for him and put a candle on your windowsill so he can find you from up there in the dark night. Wherever you may be now? It's a journey from me to you. It's a flight of emotional turbulence. A flight of upwinds and downs. And a constant glide through silence, love, sadness and longing!

Si près du ciel!...So close to heaven!
Vol de Nuit is not just a perfume. It's a lot more than that. It's the aerodynamics of dreams. It contains the strongest turbulences of emotions and deepest longings. And it will probably last forever and make the soul fly, like love, passion and hope!
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12/21/2019

10
Bottle 9
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Chanelle
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Chanelle

Top Review 39

The companion on the flight into the winter night

For those who believe that a perfume (extract) "only" represents a higher concentration of fragrances mixed in the same proportion than, for example, an eau de toilette of the same name, it should be emphasized: By no means!
Vol de Nuit is a classic example.
How often did I read / hear: Vol de Nuit:...classics...beauty...perfection...Guerlain masterpiece...pipapo - but only as an extra! VdN EdT: nice, but no comparison.
Well, finally I get a say.
I don't want to try to compare the EdT with the non-vintage (current batch) Extrait I have in front of me, but I want to describe what I feel when I am in the iconic propeller flacon of this top class I feel - solemnity, peace, devotion Can you feel this even if you are not sitting in the upcoming Christmas mass?
I know I can. This fragrance, which will soon be 90 years old, not only looks absolutely ageless, I also notice a trend-setting relationship to world-class fragrances that were created much later and are also known as trendsetters. Dioressence, femme, some '80s scents. The guerlinadige, fresh metallic top note is here less citric, not biting at all, already green-spicy than expected. In the course of the next 15-20 minutes the magic starts to work:
A soft, cool oakmoss blanket opens up in front of me, embraces me, and takes me into a forest of spices and velvety musk. The aldehydes act as a clean powdery background, not soapy, not prickly, just clean.
Vol de Nuit is already a great name for it (especially as the flacon fits perfectly), but also Baiser de Russie would have been great, because despite all the spices, the fragrance has something cool, smooth and supple. For the current time (5 minutes before Christmas madness) it fits like no other. Not only the green-Russian impulses that I interpret into it, but also the well-behaved, chypre noblesse, the noble unobtrusiveness despite remarkable presence and durability. It has nothing to do with sweet or flowery, but is simply a quiet, noble, wonderfully reliable companion into the winter night.

04/12/2021

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Marieposa
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Marieposa

Top Review 46

The Bodleian Library

It had always been easy for him to concentrate. He usually devoured books in no time. What others understood by "learning", he had never really understood. You read a book, and then you knew what was in it. It was as simple as that. Until that fateful day. And it was all HER fault.
He couldn't take his eyes off her. Completely absorbed, she sat at her reading desk. Absorbed in herself, absorbed in the text she had opened in the leather-bound tome. The pale spring light that fell through the tall traceried windows with their ornate roses and pointed arches made fine particles of dust dance, backlighting a delicate glow around her lowered head. She had rested her head on her left hand above the book that had so managed to capture all her attention, and her honey-colored hair fell in a cascade over her shoulder.
Occasionally her delicate lips formed a word as in a dream. Sometimes the hint of a smile flashed over her.
There stirred in him the scarcely restrained desire to awaken the beautiful one, to bring her back from her self-forgetful abandon. To hear her voice as it must have sounded in her mind at that precious moment. He wished for nothing more than for her to sink into who he was in exactly the same way. To listen to what he had to say. He, with all his questions, doubts, uncertainties. With that exclusiveness with which she now devoted herself to her book.
Then, only then, would he dare to breathe her scent.

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I must admit that it took me quite a while to understand Vol de Nuit, and deciphered the fragrance to me also only by accident. The name has lured me on a completely wrong track: warm asphalt, droning rotors, a little machine oil and the leather of Antoine de de Saint-Exupéry pilot jacket, who frankly looked more like Marlon Brando in my little daydream. I couldn't find much of any of that in this Guerlain classic. I was a little disappointed and convinced that others could do it better - Caron, for example.
Still, Vol de Nuit didn't leave my mind. Something about the scent was so familiar to me, triggering a sense of security, transporting me to a soul place. I just couldn't place which one it was.
It wasn't until I stumbled across Victoria Frolova's review on Bois de Jasmin, in which she compares Vol de Nuit very visually and impressively to the scent of a library, that the scales fell from my eyes. That's exactly what it was! Vol de Nuit smells like what it feels like to enter the Bodleian Library for the first time: Hesperides and aldehydes shimmer like the light streaming through the tall rose windows in the reading room. Iris, vanilla and the leather aspect of daffodils weave together to create the irresistible scent of quality old paper bound in creaky leather. And add to that the dry wood of towering bookshelves that hold intangible treasures, and the beeswax planked floors.
Unfortunately for me, I have trouble with some amber-musk compounds, to which I am hypersensitive. Such is the case with Vol de Nuit. In the base, the amber note becomes so excruciatingly sweet to my sensibilities that I can't wear the fragrance. Too bad. I guess I won't be able to avoid a visit to Oxford anytime soon.

04/27/2018

10
Bottle 1
Sillage 1
Longevity 4.5
Scent

Ninahagen
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Ninahagen

Less helpful Review 6

Bipolar fragrance

It is helpful in case VDNuit to report here what for alter/batch the commentaries are concerned.
VDN has been very good (had an extrait of '80_90j) but also terrible, very, very bad (the last 10 years)From such a batchcode I smelled and included that there is NOTHING to smell, really zero.
Also Guerlain has led his reforms and economic changes in recent years, and some fragrances have been duplicated (and even improved). It depends on the year and one should be careful and test several times.