Luckyscent Videos: Nuit de Bakelite - Naomi Goodsir

Today I wanted to take a look at Nuit de Bakelite. I think that's how you pronounce it. By Naomi Goodsir. It's very austere, kind of like a lot of her other stuff. But I like it because it has absolute irreverence for tuberose. A lot of perfumers love to showcase the beauty of tuberose—the creaminess or the green realistic. This absolutely chops it up and uses it only as a bit player coming in and out of focus.

But it also has this vegetal, almost green bell pepper quality to it. And then it changes into a really interesting tobacco and slight rubberiness, but only for a little bit. Also beautiful, like spiced smoky cedarwood I get from it. And spices coming in and out of focus. Overall, it reads very austere and green with that floral element of that really mentholated tuberose.

The image that comes to mind whenever I smell this fragrance is if you've ever seen a Brutalist building that's starting to be overgrown by nature again. That's sort of the juxtaposition between the concrete and the man-made with nature and very green vegetal. That's kind of how I would describe this fragrance. And if you're into anything super unique, green, or even industrial, check this out. It gets overlooked among all the other strange fragrances that are coming out. But this is a classic fragrance. A classic.