The Alchemist's Garden

A Midnight Stroll 2020

A Midnight Stroll by Gucci
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7.5 / 10 31 Ratings
A perfume by Gucci for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is woody-smoky. It is being marketed by Coty.
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Main accords

Woody
Smoky
Resinous
Spicy
Oriental

Fragrance Notes

Cade juniper woodCade juniper wood CypressCypress FrankincenseFrankincense

Perfumer

Ratings
Scent
7.531 Ratings
Longevity
7.429 Ratings
Sillage
7.127 Ratings
Bottle
8.841 Ratings
Value for money
5.715 Ratings
Submitted by OPomone, last update on 24.02.2024.
Interesting Facts
The fragrance is part of the "The Alchemist's Garden" collection.

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4 in-depth fragrance descriptions
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Linusjsl

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A real treasure!
Context: You are Erik alfredson, leader of a Viking village that will fight an enemy village today.
You wake up to the sound of thunder. It is dark, but the sun is already dawning through the window. You pull off the furs that have kept you warm on this chilly autumn night and get up. You give your wife, who is lying next to you and sleeping, a kiss on the forehead, knowing that you may not return from the journey you are going on today. Once in the kitchen, you grab the bag of food your wife has prepared for you. A loaf of bread and 2 legs of wild boar. You put on your helmet, leave your wooden hut and make your way through the forest to the village square. It's raining, you walk at a brisk pace through puddles, the mud splashing up at you. When you arrive at the village square, you can hear your men from afar, who are about to set off on the journey with you. They also know that not everything will come back. One of them smokes a pipe and the smell of tobacco fills the village square. Now it all comes together. The scent of oud that rises from the wooden huts all around. The leather of the skins with which you have covered yourself at night. The earthy smell emanating from the ground softened by the rain. The tobacco from the pipes of your men. The fear of what lies ahead. You make your way to your boat to start this journey together.

That describes this fragrance for me.
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10
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9
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9
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0.5
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Mercer

78 Reviews
Mercer
Mercer
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If you've smelled black shoe polish you've smelled this
Take a pair of black leather shoes with some cypres shoe trees in them, open up a tin of polish and take a lighter and light the polish so that it softens up.

That's 100% identical to this smell. It's shoe polish, with some burning (incense) and then Cyprus.

I just can't imagine any scenario where you would want to smell like this, to the point that it's projecting more than an arms length off of you, and the silage trail is massive. In no way is this a safe blind buy.

It's uncanny how identical this smells to black shoe polish.

I will say, this is one of the best perfume bottle designs I've ever seen, I just wish it smelled as good as it looked.
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Landshark321

523 Reviews
Landshark321
Landshark321
Helpful Review 2  
Smooth incense with woody tones, very nicely done
A Midnight Stroll is my of Gucci’s collection The Alchemist’s Garden and is a lovely dark blend of incense, cypress, and cedar, so it fittingly is incense-dominant but leans wood as well. It’s dark and smooth, reminiscent in execution of By Kilian Incense Oud but fittingly with more incense and less oud. It’s not quite as ashy as Profumum Roma Olibanum—which I usually regard as one of the best incense-dominant fragrances in the market—so it’s an even smoother, slightly more mainstream/designer-esque incense-heavy mix that is nonetheless very wearable and fairly enjoyable, without much bite in the opening.

It performs pretty well overall, and in the US, is sold via the Gucci website and the department stores Saks Fifth Avenue and Nordstrom, and its retailing pricing is $330 for 100ml. Also, I usually don’t gawk over bottle design the look of The Alchemist’ Garden’s bottles, most even more colorful than the black of A Midnight Stroll, are lovely.

Overall, A Midnight Stroll is great, and would certainly be made better by a lower price point, so I’d be curious to see if it’s available anywhere on the secondary market, and I’ll have to seek out some others in The Alchemist’s Garden.

8 out of 10
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8
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Scent
TruuMax

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... I breathe out the last big puff of my Parliament cigarette
The cold and humid air mixes with the smell of fresh smoke
Still some few meters I carry the nearly burned cigarette with me and think about it.

About my life, my experiences, the things you survived and what life has in store for you. It's so peaceful... Just the stars, light wind blowing through the old town and me.

This wonderful smell of a cold night slowly but surely drives away that of burnt tobacco and I stroll on out of town, further towards the church. The damp earth and the typical church smell always fill this place with a very calm, even if mysterious aura.

But now it is time to go home. Carelessly I throw the butt on the wet floor and kick it out in passing... The first sunrays of the day still accompany me gently on my way home.

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The fragrance really smells like a night walk in the rain. The first few minutes are almost aggressive and pungent smoky, but this quickly subsides and becomes a pleasant incense note. The cypress and cade wood together have an extreme effect on me like this typical smell of a rainy evening in early summer.

It's great for layering. But absolutely as a basis, so that the aggressive cigarette note can be removed
Very mysterious, very masculine at first...

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