ORMAIE
L’IVREE NUIT

2025

mango
nectarine
passionfruit
vanilla milk
incense

cashmeran
vanilla

amber woods
vanilla absolute
musk

‘L’Ivrée Nuit wakens the deep vanilla of L’Ivrée Bleue. A touche of mango adds an exotic facet. A milky, enveloping trail, like trail, like a night on equatorial shores. L’Ivrée Nuit is a warm and mysterious composition built around a milky vanilla, mango, and woods. The Extrait de Parfum evokes an imagined exoticism. A tropical night, suspended between dream and reality.’ – Ormaie Paris

When I tried the duo of L’Ivree Nuit and 32° in store, I figured that I would like LIvree Nuit more. After a proper wearing, the opposite is the case.

L’Ivree Nuit has an inviting start though. Mango is prominent, but it’s instantly sweet as well. The mango recalls the most popular/standard mango fragrances of recent years, such as SHL God Of Fire, Loumari Porthole, New Notes Cocktail Maracuja, but I’d say L’Ivree Nuit is more vanillic than any of those.

The mango sticks around, but its the vanilla and the milky quality that become most prominent and that is where it goes wrong for me.

Up until… 2 hours (?) into the wear, I was quite happy. It definitely felt like the most ‘trend-aware’, mass appeal seaking fragrance that I’ve tried from Ormaie, but it seemed like a nice, gourmand-leaning take on mango that is easy to like. However, around the time that the fruitiness starts to fade, the milkiness becomes overbearing.

A typical, slightly muddy, condensed milk overtakes the initial creamy vanilla vibe. It’s like sugared, slightly thicker and warmer milk; leftover milk from a bowl of honeyed/sugared breakfast cereal.

And the drydown doesn’t end there, it grows ever harsher, sweet grating amber woods that won’t leave the skin even after a shower. The first hours are fun and pleasant, but the latter hours become a cloying drag.