This beautiful humid-smelling midnight garden may well be the perfect white floral. When you first put your nose over the bottle, the fresh yet somehow drunken flowers pull you inexorably into their dark pool of scent.
I'm not very familiar with the notes used in it (except for the phlox, which comes through here as one ever so slightly powdery and sweet facet of a very complex and rich whole), but they come out smelling creamy, wet (maybe the gladiolus?), warm, and intoxicating (I know there's no gardenia or honeysuckle in it, but it feels like these two flowers).
Midnight has the odd property of actually throwing more on me as the day goes on. The above reviews note an incensy quality, and speculate that this could be the nicotiana, and it is this part of the scent that follows me around.
Midnight is beautiful. It retains all the immediacy and magic of an oil blend and the sophistication, sillage and complexity of a fancy French perfume. The combination of creaminess and light floral sweetness makes it good for all seasons. This is not an old lady floral or a little girl floral; it's huge, sexy, sensuous, and confident.
This is a floral that knows what it wants, and I'm in love.
