Mercedes-Benz Select : Night
Mercedes-Benz (2019)

I purchased this for two reasons: I love Mercedes benz club black and it kept getting mentioned as a “brother” to Noir Extreme. Well, it smells nothing like Noir Extreme. No part of it. Ever! While this is a great fragrance it’s sexy in a different way. The lavender in this fragrance is powdery and slightly aromatic but not medicinal. The woods in this come across slightly sweet and leather like. Not very spicey to my nose and not creamy. I don’t pick up any bergamot or cardamom or vanilla. It also has a “shaving cream” like note that make this very masculine to me. So I’ll enjoy this on my husband but not myself. Longevity is decent and projects for about 2 hours. Then it’s a skin scent.

This feels like perfumer Olivier Cresp remaking Tom Ford Noir Extreme, to which it bears a strong resemblance: a dark, sleek, creamy, "perfume-y" spicy-floral vanilla. Rather than the kulfi accord from, this gets its creaminess from an orange blossom heart.