Planning to buy it, but it'll be an online purchase as none of the shops nearby keep samples of it. Is it a good fall fragrance? Should I (25/M) be buying this blind? I have CDNIM.
Posted Aug 15, 2019, 3:52 PM UTC
Its an all year round frag mate, starts off harsh but once it settles down it projects and lasts great. It is a compliment getter.
There is some talk about recent batches 2018/19 not being as good as 2016/17 batches but I don’t wouldn’t know I’d say it’s safe blind buy purchase if you want a good all rounder.
Edit - Re-Read the title ^ that’s for Club De Nuit Intense Man. If you’re talking about CDN (clear bottle/gold juice) it smells like a refined version of 1 Million, much smoother and projects for 1/2 hours with I’d say 6/7 hours longevity. Hope that helps mate.
That helps! Thanks!
I had the 2015 "strong batch" CDNI intense decant from eBay. Personally it is not Aventus, in any way, but for some reason people say it smells Exactly like aventus lol. Maybe it's just my nose, but it did get me massive compliments. And it project for a long time as well. (As they say)
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Yeah. But Aventus has no lemon in it..it is two polar opposite lol. But I guess the dry down is where people make comparisons. I do agree it lasts longer and perform way better
Hey, I have a bottle if you’d like it. Shoot me a pm
Do you still have this?
Sorry, I sold it :/
Had a bottle since 2016... I think it’s a horribly harsh, maybe I’m just a snob(I am a snob) but to someone who wants something keep and aventus-ish.. it’s good.
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I hate it. It smells cheap and screechy. Reminds me of mosquito repellant.
Gives me a headache, and I'm not sensitive to fragrances (obviously, since I post here). Only frag I've smelled other than maybe random cheap crap from Old Navy or wherever that does that to me.
Lemon pledge and smoky birch. Not worth it in my opinion.
Zara night IV, cheap fruity and good
Mancera Cedrat Boise astonishingly good. Longevity is very good Can be found cheapish on sale. Got mine 120ml for 60 dollars. Pretty cheap for niche.
Floris 1976 same as above can sometimes be found cheaper. I got 100ml for 55 dollars.
All three has a similar vibe but are infinitely better.
Additionally:
Zara vibrant leather EDT or EDP. Cheap but not as good as night IV.
All that being said, none of these has the intense smokiness of CDNI so if that's your thing, go for that one. It should not be priced higher than about EUR 30 or 35 dollars or you are being ripped off.
For reference I own all of the above. (Yzerman76 on fragrantica)
Just realized you are referring to Club de Nuit. Dont bother, it's just as horrible as one million
Edit: just means you smell the same fruity sweet as everyone else.
I have a 2018 production bottle of it, I can't stand it.
I smelled Aventus on someone when I was in college and it blew me away. I bought a small decant of it and have been using it sparingly since.
Heard about CDNIM and figured I'd try it. It's not the same to my nose at all.
CDNIM opening comes off (to my nose) as harsher and with more lemon in the opening, which quickly fades. The rest of the scent reminds me of a very cheap, poor attempt at Aventus. It smells synthetic and harsh to my nose, and the scent doesn't last long on me at all.
If you've never smelled Aventus before you'd probably like it. But if you have smelled Aventus before, without getting into batch code nonsense, I'd say just take the CDNIM money and put it aside for a decant of Aventus.
Get the Zara Aventus clone, it's better imo
And cheaper
The dry down is amazing, wish I could say the same with the opening. The opening lasts less than 30 min though so it's good. IMO well worth the price.