Midnight in Paris

Van Cleef & Arpels · Eau de Toilette (EDT) · 2010

Midnight in Paris (2010) evokes a nocturnal walk through the city with a leather-and-tea opening that warms into incense, benzoin and amber. The joint composition by Domitille Michalon Bertier and Olivier Polge gives it a polished, wintry oriental character.

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The core · the next few hours

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The dry-down · what lingers

Best for

FallWinterEveningSpecial Occasion

Perfumer

Olivier Polge

French · 32 in collection

In-house perfumer for Chanel since 2015, succeeding his father Jacques Polge. Oversees new creations and modern flankers of the house's classics.

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Domitille Michalon Bertier

French · 21 in collection

A Paris-born, ISIPCA-trained perfumer who has spent her entire career at IFF, rising to senior fine-fragrance perfumer and later head of perfumery. She is best known for lush, gourmand-floral blockbusters created with or alongside the IFF studio.

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