Midnight Rendezvous

YVES SAINT LAURENT — La Nuit de L'Homme · DUA Fragrances

Midnight Rendezvous

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Midnight Rendezvous

YVES SAINT LAURENT — La Nuit de L'Homme

DUA Fragrances

Cardamom-forward spicy freshness softened by lavender and bergamot, then cedar/vetiver/cumin/caraway woods. Seductive, smooth, warm, intimate, and easy to wear.

NoticeableNocturnalMysteriousRefinedSensualModernOfficeFine DiningDate NightNightlifeCasual Weekend
OwnedWoody and Spicy

Quick glance

Woody and Spicy

Midnight date scent

Character

  • warm spicy
  • aromatic
  • lavender
  • woody
Scent profile
Leading accordswarm spicy / aromatic / lavenderPrimary styleMidnight date scent
Best season
Fall / Winter
Best setting
Date night / Evening casual

Olfactive map

What it smells like

Scent identity

Family and tags

Woody and Spicy
NoticeableNocturnalMysteriousRefinedSensualModernOfficeFine DiningDate NightNightlifeCasual Weekend

Supporting characteristics

Midnight date scentcardamom heatsoft lavender woodsseductive restraint.

Fragrance structure

How it develops

Cardamom opens it almost alone, dry and green-spiced, with bergamot supplying just enough lift to keep the first minutes from turning heavy. Lavender rises underneath within the quarter hour and rounds the spice into something softer and faintly powdery. Virginia cedar arrives to give the middle its structure, and the long finish belongs to vetiver and caraway — dry, warm, faintly salty, and pressed close against the skin rather than lifting away from it.

Provider notes · sources conflict

Provider mapping remains conflicting across sources.

Listed notes

Community

How others read it

PraiseClassic seductive cardamom-lavender profile Mass-appealing date-night DNA Smooth and easy to like Vintage batches remembered as stronger and richer
CriticismModern EDT performance often considered weak Common designer profile by today’s niche standards Can feel overhyped due to reformulation history Best suited to close-range wear
Comparison notesProvider target is not generic La Nuit de L’Homme; it specifically names Vintage 2010 Version Batch #0BAB. Official current page verifies identity and current notes only, not the vintage formula.

Discovery

Similar fragrances

Every reference shows listed note and accord overlap when catalog data allows. Notes count 80%, accords 20%, with rarer notes weighted higher; score does not confirm scent similarity.

Insufficient note data for calculated vault matches.

Other recorded references (7)

May include outside-vault names, historical bottles, and relationships without qualifying scent similarity. New internet discovery comes later.

La Nuit de L'Homme

Yves Saint Laurent

1 shared notes6 shared accords21% weighted overlap

Notes: source 1/6 · match 1/4accords: source 6/8 · match 6/6

Inspired expression · source-backed

Unreviewed names; comparison only shown for an unambiguous catalog record.