Come with me to Kenzo's tea house; whitewashed clay walls radiate a powdery, muted coziness, vanilla-dusted tatami mats and sensually warm ambrette floor turn this gentle home into a resting place and invite you to linger meditatively.
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Karine Dubreuil Sereni drew inspiration for this fragrance from tatami, a Japanese material made from fresh green rice straw, which can be found in almost every household. She loved the idea that the material evolves over time with the active life in the house. With ambrette and vanilla, she wanted to create a cocoon of homeliness and comfort.
In "Memori - Nuit Tatami | Kenzo," all of this is wonderfully, almost spheroid-fluttering combined.
The fragrance starts with a fine powdery-clay rice straw nuance, slightly dusty and muted but somehow still moist, like a clay wall. This may initially sound like a damp basement, but this note is not unpleasant or musty, rather bright and friendly. Therefore, it was clear to me that the wall simply had to be white.
There are also brief bursts of citrus sprinkled in, and although they are not listed, I am sure they are present in the top note.
After a few minutes, the fragrance becomes wonderfully fluffy-soft and slightly creamy - while always remaining delicate-powdery-filigran but not cheerful, rather subdued.
The pink pepper adds a little twist that prevents the fragrance from drifting into the trivial. Nuit Tatami does not take a significant progression, but this does not detract from the enjoyment of the scent at all.
The base of ambrette and vanilla brings a gentle calmness and has almost a meditative quality.
Nuit Tatami is moderately sweet and close to the body. It will never annoy anyone, makes you appear very well-groomed, but is absolutely not a baby powder scent.
The fragrance is labeled as unisex, but I find it rather feminine.
Top Notes 
Rice straw
Heart Notes 
Pink pepper
Base Notes 
Ambrette
Vanilla
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