Une Nuit Nomade Sun Bleached
Une Nuit Nomade has launched a collection of five extrait de parfum fragrances, led by Sun Bleached, an amber composition built around the Egyptian myth of the sun god Ra. The French niche house has taken five existing stories and destinations from its range and reworked them into the more concentrated extrait format, each fragrance tied to a myth from a different part of the world. The collection is available now, with a UK presence at Selfridges.
Sun Bleached was created by perfumer Jérôme Di Marino of Mane, and follows the arc of Ra's daily journey from dawn to the underworld. Ambrette butter and tuberose absolute open the fragrance with a warm, sun-drenched brightness, lifted by a clean linen accord suggesting fabric dried outdoors. Myrrh then pulls the composition into darker, resinous territory. The perfumer describes the extrait as a study in heightened contrast: amber smoothed out, cardamom bringing sharp freshness, vanilla intensified, and musk taking on a skin-like, almost animalic quality against a base of patchouli and myrrh. The full note list runs bergamot, ambrette butter, cardamom, tuberose absolute, linen accord, myrrh, vanilla infusion and sandalwood essence.
The four remaining extraits each rework a fragrance already in the house's catalogue. Chemin d'Amande is the softest of the set, drawn from an Algarve legend of a Moorish king who planted a valley of almond trees so his beloved could see white blossom in place of snow. It is built on almond, wheat bran absolute, Bourbon vanilla and Siam benzoin.
Jardins de Misfah reimagines an Omani village fed by stone irrigation channels, with davana, Turkish rose essence and absolute, dates, honey and almond making a lush garden accord. Di Marino describes reworking the original eau de parfum by deepening the dates with date honey and benzoin and smoothing the rose into a sweeter essence-and-absolute pairing lifted by saffron.
Estrella de la Mañana takes the Mexican legend of the Morning Star and the Deer Prince, whose sacrificed love is said to have given rise to the first vanilla orchid. Marigold essence, Bourbon vanilla, birch essence and cocoa resinoid produce a dark, smoky vanilla, with the birch adding a leathery, fireside quality. Silver Saffron is set on the Kashmir plains where, in legend, Alexander the Great's army woke to a ground carpeted in purple saffron flowers. Lychee, raspberry, iris, saffron and suede give a bright, fruity opening that moves into saffron's spicy, leathery, smoky depth. Estrella de la Mañana carries a 2025 Fragrance Foundation France award.
Une Nuit Nomade was founded in 2015 by Alexandra Cubizolles and Philippe Solas, who met at Universal Music, where she was an artistic director and he a marketing director. The pair left the music industry for creative independence. Solas came to fragrance after a favourite scent of his was discontinued, which set off a search for rare and unusual perfumery; Cubizolles brought a lifelong habit of travel to remote destinations. The house is built on the idea that changing your perfume should feel like changing your surroundings, and its fragrances are organised around named destinations, from Bali and Oman to Montauk and Cape Town.
On the collection, Solas said: "When I lost my favourite fragrance years ago, it set me on a path to find something that couldn't be replicated or replaced. This collection is the culmination of that search. Each Extrait is built around a story that has survived centuries, myths about light, love, abundance, courage. We wanted to create fragrances with that same permanence."
Cubizolles added: "I've always been drawn to places where beauty doesn't announce itself, where you have to seek it out. Sun Bleached captures that feeling. The warmth is immediate, but there's something underneath that only reveals itself slowly. That's what we wanted for the entire Extrait collection, fragrances that reward curiosity."
The five extraits are priced at £155 for 50ml and £240 for 100ml, and are available at unenuitnomade.com and, in the UK, at Selfridges while stocks last. Sun Bleached is also offered in 25ml and 2.5ml sizes. The eau de parfum range across the wider collection is priced at £115 for 50ml and £160 for 100ml.
