L'Esprit Cologne - After Midnight

By the editors · 2 min readNeroli opens with a waxy orange-blossom brightness that bergamot sharpens into a cool, street-lamp glow. Cinnamon lands quickly, its dry bark heat curling around jasmine’s indolic petals while iris powders the composition with a chilled, violet-tinged suede. White musk and labdanum close the frame, the former adding clean skin luminescence, the latter a leathery, date-sweet resin that keeps the spices suspended well past midnight. Mid-stage the jasmine recedes, letting cinnamon’s red dust dominate against a pale iris-musk sky; the dry-down stays close, a soft ambered skin scent with flickers of bark and blossom. Projection sits at arm’s length for four hours, ideal for late summer evenings or intimate fall nights when you want warmth without shouting.