Legend Night
Cool rather than warm, Montblanc Legend Night Eau de Parfum 100ml is the evening entry in the range and the one that behaves least like the rest of it. It opens sharp. Mint and cardamom arrive together, the mint genuinely cold and the cardamom aromatic and dry, with bergamot adding citrus brightness and clary sage a herbal, slightly sweet undertone. That combination is bracing for the first fifteen minutes and quite unlike the fruit led opening of the original.
The middle is the interesting part. Apple gives a crisp sweetness, lavender keeps the clean herbal thread running, violet adds a powdery coolness, and cedarwood starts the drying out early, so that the transition into the base is gradual rather than abrupt. It is well constructed and it is where the fragrance spends most of its time. Vetiver, patchouli and musk close it. The vetiver is rooty and dry, the patchouli earthy and dark, and the musk soft enough to round the whole thing off against the skin. The last hours are dry, clean and a little severe, which is precisely what the name promises.
As an eau de parfum it has serious staying power, running well past a working day, with projection that is strong for an hour then settles to arm's length. Cold weather suits it, evenings suit it better, and it is aimed at men who find the original too sweet for after dark.
The composition is credited to Antoine Maisondieu and Olivier Pescheux, and it was released in 2017. The Legend family is the backbone of Montblanc's perfume business, which is run under licence by an outside company, the German firm's own trade being writing instruments and watches.
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