First of all, this came as a surprise to me, not the notes or the smell of the fragrance particularly, more my final opinion on it, which I will get to in a minute. I feel I need to qualify my thoughts on the house, I liked Mont Blanc for many years when they were mainstream but somewhat in the wilderness so to speak, and actually reminded me a lot of Dunhill, mainly uninspiring yet solid fare with a couple of really good releases, that was up until legend and it’s flankers. I just found it to be a less potent A&F Fierce and the flankers that followed didn’t excite in any way. Night however is different and not because it’s good or original or not cheap smelling or because its that kinda dirty vanilla/Tonka, modern style nonsense, it’s all those things but I still sort of liked it. Yeah that’s right I think this is a worth while fragrance and you know the most prominent note right from the opening is Apple and Apple notes usually mean cheap and nasty with very few exceptions, as I said this is cheap but with less of the nasty because the rest of the notes are constructed around that ‘sexy’ gourmand vibe of a few years back the code Profumo, ferragamo uomo, some extreme flankers you know the ones? All that Tonka bean stuff. This is more of that but I don’t care, something about it just plugs in to good receptors in my brain and says you know this is generic but I like the Apple and dirty vanilla in here it’s a guilty pleasure I’m sorry. It reminded me of that cola/dr pepper thing of a lesser known Dunhill I own, you’d think boss bottles by the notes but it has more nods to D&G the one than anything. It’s not well finessed though it’s clearly modern and throwaway but if I see this heavily reduced in a bargain bucket somewhere I might just add it to my wardrobe for the sake of it. It lasted okay, stayed close and I was surprised just how long the drydown lasted and just how nice the resulting kinda spiced rum/vanilla that remained was.