Les Belles de Ricci Belle de Minuit
Belle de Minuit, from the early-2000s Belles de Ricci sub-line, plays a darker fruity-floral than was typical of the franchise.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 12 accords.
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- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- Woody50
- Sweet
The note pyramid
- Black Currant
- Orange
- Grapefruit
- Bergamot
- Jasmine
- Heliotrope
- Lily of the Valley
By the editors · 2 min readBelle de Minuit, from the early-2000s Belles de Ricci sub-line, plays a darker fruity-floral than was typical of the franchise. Black currant, orange, grapefruit, and bergamot open with a tart-citrus bite; the black currant in particular gives the opening a deep, slightly winey edge.
The heart is white-floral but kept restrained — jasmine, lily of the valley, and heliotrope, the heliotrope adding a soft almond-powder cast. The drydown is short on woods: tonka bean and sandalwood do the warming, and the result is more powdery than woody.
It reads more nighttime than the name suggests — discreet, faintly old-fashioned, and well-suited to dinner-and-after-dinner wear.
Scent twins
Factual metadata (name, house, year, notes) is seeded from public datasets. The editorial reading and scent fingerprint are written by Claude against our house style — none of it is scraped prose. Read our methodology.
