Description
Somewhere under a blazing sun, in a garrigue scene so dry it is ready to burst into flames, someone in love lazily sunbathes, warning their skin under the Mediterranean sun. Bois Lumière is a story of tanned bodies and landscapes ablaze, of dazzling light that makes you squint. It spreads on your skin like thick honey on a languorous wooden background. From the sea far away, a dry, hot breeze rises, a desert wind of Immortelle flower blowing on your dreamy skin for hours.
Bois Lumière by Anatole Lebreton is an Oriental Woody fragrance for women and men. Bois Lumière was launched in 2014. The nose behind this fragrance is Anatole Lebreton. The fragrance features Corsican juniper, clary sage, mandarin orange, balsam fir, honey, rose, carnation, immortelle, beeswax, atlas cedar and benzoin.
doker1111 – :
The opening of Bois Lumiere is a terrific-smelling spicy honey uplifted by a perky citrus. Then it briefly goes bonkers. Thankfully, this fragrance treads softly and swiftly through the urinous aspects of honey and the curry smell of immortelle as it gears up for drydown. There is a brief moment when I smell charred meat. But the bulk of this fragrance soon unfolds as a laid back, dry and dusty woody honey scent. It has the same herbal, natural aesthetic of Grimoire just with different materials. If I loved the smell of honey like some people do, this would be the one to beat.
jakupva.irina – :
If you love honey in all its aspects, then this is the scent for you. All the propolsis, beeswax and honey honey honey are here.
It’s very distinct and, honestly, not really wearable because of the animalic, urinious aspect.
On an already attractive guy in an intimate encounter in a hayloft on a hot summers day – this would be intoxicating. That’s a pretty specific setting though. Mostly it’s just going to have people question the wearer’s continence.
atlasow – :
The opening doesn’t give me any urine notes as others have noted, but another bodily fluid: saliva. Saliva, honey & immortelle. Then dry cedar/sage/carnation, saliva still lingering. I think the saliva is a side effect of honey, which in reality often smells a little funky directly out of the jar.
I get a strong cabin in the woods vibe from this. The experience of notes is… standing in the doorway of a cedar cabin, and someone has taken a baseball bat to a beehive in a tree directly in front of me. Carnation and sage blend in right behind this initial impression. This doesn’t match the perfumer’s vision and might sound generally odd, but it smells pretty good. It’s isn’t too expensive, nor is it an easy spend. I’m not sure how often i’d wear it, so my ultimate opinion is: if money were no object, I’d certainly buy a bottle.
I only bought a sample, so I can’t speak to it’s longevity or sillage. I can say it is quality, though.
Edit: this sample clung tenaciously on the sweater I applied it to. The days after initial application, it became far more carnation prominent. Sort of like walking through honey soaked woods into a carnation patch.
Edit 2: it’s now August and the sweater I applied this to has been washed several times. It still smells like Bois Lumière, strong enough enough for my husband to notice as I put it on.
rasper89 – :
Big blast of sophisticated honey…quality materials as this does not turn into the smell of cat pee on my skin…not too sweet…the florals in this are very gentle…nice perfume…
Ф.Андрей – :
Good work,but it dosn’t work with my skin.I live in Europe,I can swap my bottle.
Варелий – :
From the first moment there was something so familiar in Bois Lumiere and then it hit me – Habanita. Minus the mighty leather note and not as dark and opaque, but somehow clearer, sunny and luminous (“lumiere”).
It develops slowly, opens powerfully with lots of sweet honey and golden immortelle dust and spicy carnation. There’s a strange bitter-green note (clary sage?) that appears as well and fades away soon enough.
Funny, it surprised me for I thought “OK, Habanita” and stopped thinking much about it expecting a linear endless boooring drydown, but couple of hours later it shifted to something much better; honey sweetness toned down and the immortelle really shines out now drying out the syrupy, spicy notes to golden dust, accompanying benzoin, woody notes. Drydown is beautiful – immortelle, balmy and woody notes, sweetness is now coming from soft carnation and rose.
What initially started loud, animalic, sweet and familiar ended with much passion, smelling warm, carnal, soft animalic/spicy, but loving and just beautiful.
Once again, I’ll mention the old Habanita and in comparison say that BL performs fantastically, with great longevity and sillage.
Would recommend it to those who can’t handle the original Habanita for the monster performances, immortelle lovers and passionate-vintage-smelling perfume lovers.
anysoftik – :
This the only one I like in the range. It does open with lots of honey and immortelle that you could be forgiven if you fear it will be sickly sweet. This sweetness turns to much woodier notes and then the carnations appear. It unfolds before you in a very attractive way. There are also lovely aromatic notes from I guess are the fir and sage. A very interesting scent. Definitely unisex. Moderate sillage and longevity.
aandrei – :
I’ll have to agree with K1 (see the review below) – Mr. Anatole Lebreton should really tone down the animalic accords on this one!
The beggining was sharp yet pretty on “Bois Lumiere”. Honey was dominant on me, but it felt really masculine – almost bitter from immortele and added aromatics. At the heart I got the strongest vibe of carnation. Together with honey and beeswax carnation made the real “party begin”.
And oh boy is this a party – so strong, animalc, acidic, almost urine-like with accords of strange woods, dark immortele and bitter honey. In all honesty I do love me some “skank” in the bottle, but this is way too much. The urine vibe on the drydown gets so strong that I kinda felt weird wearing my sample around others as I felt some weird looks and sniffing gestures towards me.
Worth a try! This is really strong and really potent, but do try first at home and see how this works on you. Don’t end up like me – going shopping and smelling like 5 cats peed on me and then I tried covering it with gourmand perfume.
Megera33 – :
Honey, beeswax, mandarin, red carnations, Wood, cedar , and more cedar. Very honey based. it reminds me of Winnie the poo honey jar 🙂
After the calm (around 10 minutes) it turns into a candle wax smell of a lighted candle on a wooden table… fresh white wax. Interesting.
Edit (21 Feb 2016) after using a sample of this fragrance here…. this is AMAZING, captivating and SUPERBLY charming to my nose although when a friend of mine sniffed it he cursed me and swore plenty i really wonder why!? 😀