The Alchemist's Garden A Midnight Stroll Eau de Parfum GUCCI

I get the notes and whatnot but to describe this scent you have to paint a picture. This smells like an evening in the Verona gardens. You're surrounded by iconic statues and and well manicured fragrant green foliage in all sorts of shapes reminiscent of Edward Scissorhand shrubbery. As you sit down and watch the sunset beyond the greenery and divine garden symmetry ou sip a slightly sweet wine as a satyr darts by at the far end of bushery ahead. You know you're in a magical place.

A Midnight Stroll is my first try 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.

If By the Fireplace is kindergarden, this is the PhD. Outstanding in every way, shape and form. Baba Yaga at the Met Gala.

A Midnight Stroll is one of many excellent fragrances in Gucci's upmarket Alchemist's Garden collection. This fragrance is, as has been noted below, a fairly straightforward leather incense composition, but it is brilliant in its simplicity. Cade and birch tar combine with a spice and incense blend to produce a classic leather accord that smells very high quality (as well it should at this price point) and has good longevity and projection. As the scent reaches its deep drydown, it is grounded by a cedar-esq aromachemical that lingers for a very considerable time on my skin keeping the leathery aroma alive.
This fragrance is simply one of the very best incense-forward scents available today. Whether you, like me, decide that A Midnight Stroll is worth the high asking price is, or course, entirely up to you, but if you do decide to buy this fragrance, you will encounter one of the best presentations out there. The vintage apothecary style bottle with its painted logo is pure class and everything else about the way this product is delivered to the customer, from the box to the atomizer and even the bag (if you get it from Gucci) is clearly intended to make you feel good about parting with the asking price.
I love this fragrance and look forward to the cool weather for which it is best suited so that I can wear it again regularly. The scent is masculine leaning, but could easily be worn by anyone regardless of how they identify. This fragrance is OK for work, but really impressed me as a great choice for an autumn night out.
Try to sample A Midnight Stroll if you can. If you are a fan of leather/incense scents, I bet you'll love it as much as I do.

I bought the dupe of this - Maison Alhambra The Trail, but it's not in this database for some reason, even though it's available everywhere for a long time alteady...please fragrantica, update your database, this is getting really lame !!!