Dark Mistress eau de parfum, the Night Queen Review

Night Queen eau de parfum

I begin to tingle happily whenever I see anything arrive in my mailbox from JoAnne Bassett who lives blissfully near the ocean in my beloved Southern California. Her fragrance for this Midsummers event "Night Queen" was no exception. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil immediately sprang to mind....I love the south and all of it's wonderful contradictions, but most especially I adore the fragrance that hangs in the air anywhere near Savannah. "Night Queen" is wonderful....a sort of sticky (in the nicest way) sweet yet very fresh fragrance that makes me want to wander languidly through a beautiful old southern cemetery with my husband contemplating the fleeting nature of the the flesh...."Reine de Nuit" is a perfume for that moment when dusk moves into night...a time when anything is possible. There are 17 wonderful oils used here, far to many to name but all simply wonderful. Beginning with the fragrant night queen, damask rose, tuberose and moving through vintage jasmine, clove and violet this is a spellbinding fragrance that is impossible to resist. This isn't a sweet little daytime perfume so let yourself be swept away and enchanted...but beware ...once you've been carried away by the charms of the Night Queen, absolutely no other will do.  Review by Beth at her blog:  the_windesphere_witch 

 To purchase Dark Mistress the Night Queen
http://joannebassett.etsy.com

Dark Mistress, the Night Queen Review

A Midsummer Night's Dream Perfume Event

Review by Scott Ellis of Le Parfumeur Rebelle

JoAnne Bassett Perfumes, JoAnne Bassett parfumeur ~ Reine de Nuit eau de parfum. 

This smells like an expensive perfume that you could find on the shelf at Lucky Scent in LA. If I didn't know it was all natural I wouldn't know it was all natural, understand? Night queen is listed as one of the ingredients of this perfume and isn't something I am very familiar with. In fact, I don't think I have ever heard of night queen before. This perfume, according to Ms. Bassett, is based on the night and not on a certain character from the play A Midsummer Night's Dream. This definitely isn't a fairy's perfume. Not even a little bit. This is a big, loud, sexy perfume. It might belong to Titania if she wasn't such a fairy herself. The best way to describe this perfume is to say that if Marilyn Monroe, Bette Midler, Madonna and Lady Gaga all got together to make a perfume, then this is what they would come up with. The other ingredients in this perfume include rhododendron, peru balsam, rosewood, damask rose oil, neroli, tuberose, vintage jasmine sambac, frankincense, yuzu, clove bud, tulsi, frankincense noir, champa, vetiver, violet leaf and ylang-ylang. Smells really great on me, my girl and our roommates. Scary sexy.

Here is the link for the review:

http://leparfumeurrebelle.blogspot.com/2011/06/midsummer-nights-dream-perfume-event.html

To purchase Dark Mistress eau de parfum

http://www.etsy.com/shop/joannebassett?ref=si_shop

NIght Queen Becomes Dark Mistress

Today on Facebook I conducted  a poll regarding my latest launch Night Queen eau de parfum.  I was asking if the name is better as Night Queen or Reine de Nuit, or Queen of the Night, or Reine de la Nuit.

I received a response from Michelyn Camen of  http://www.Cafleurbon.com.  She said it should be named Dark Mistress.  So the new name is Dark Mistress, the Night Queen. I give credit to Michelyn Camen and http://www.Cafleurebon.com for the new name of Dark Mistress.

For a behind the scenes interview with Cafleurebon and myself.
http://www.cafleurebon.com/behind-the-bottle-the-five-winners-of-samples-of-outlaw-perfumer-joanne-bassetts-amazing-are

To purchase Dark Mistress
http://www.etsy.com/listing/76614791/dark-mistress-eau-de-parfum-the-night

Night Queen eau de parfum or Nuit de Reine eau de parfum Review

Night Queen flowers

I have received another wonderful review of this sultry, creamy floral summer scent.

http://alliam-aredhead.blogspot.com/2011/06/midsummer-nights-dream-night-queen-by.html


It is for sale at    http://joannebassett.etsy.com