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Spidey – :
Wow. Almost all scents with a prominent salt note immediately turn sour on me and I can’t wear them. This, however, does not! Maybe I wouldn’t be so in love with this if I had the full range of beachy, salty scents available to me, but I am def going to get a fb for summer. Anyone else who skin chemistry had a weird problem with salty/aquatic notes, this one is a winner.
844209 – :
On the opening the vetiver is very evident but it doesnt really hang around. A unisex fig and leafy fragrance. Very green. I do get the salt and ambergris which hang on to the end. It’s not very sweet either.
It does transport you to the sunny Med sitting in the cool beneath a shady fig tree.
Very pleasant and lovely to wear on a warm day.
Good sillage and moderate longevity.
RecoRdeR – :
An unconventional take on fig (a theme by now very well explored in perfumery), 16.1 is more of an attempt to create a salty breeze effect with ambergris, exotic Carob (people say it smells salty, like semen), salt, vetiver. The fig note is adding an indistinct fruity green shade which could be sea weed drying on the beach or aromas of a distant orchard or both.
Unbreakable777 – :
This was recommended to me as a possible replacement for my new (and very much discontinued) love, Miller Harris’ Fleurs de Sel. I had a read through the notes, and I have to say, it did sound promising. Then I obtained a sample, courtesy of Bloom Perfumery in London and… hmmm…
I can definitely smell a beach – there is fig, which in combination with the other notes reminds me a lot of suntan lotion and warm skin and the rustling of shrubs not too far away. The opening is green and figgy and then mellows out until all I can sense is the impression of warm sun on my skin. Very abstract and sexy… also a little bit too buttery for my taste and certainly not what I was hoping for. If “Fleurs de Sel” evokes the Brittany (or possibly Roscoff) coast with its bracing winds andthe cool freshness of the sea, Bois Naufragé reminds me of the Black Sea at the height of summer – bodies on the beach, the air as still outside as it is indoors, sun high in the air and just the barest rustle of the sea, somewhere in the distance. (This is one of the more tame beaches. There are also ones with high winds and rugged rocks although these days a lot of the coastline on the Bulgarian side is built up.) I think it does reflect the mood of the picture that reportedly inspired it – laid back and sensual. Not sure it warrants the price tag, but I wouldn’t dismiss it either.
Demiroww – :
This is FIG. Fig leaf, not fruit. A hint of salty but I wouldn’t call this a marine scent. It has that sharp biting fig note but is airy. In the drydown the ambergris presents and there is a definite vanilla note.
PMVirus – :
Wonderful woody salty interpretation of fig.
PS! Fragrantica! There should be carob tree among the notes, not fig tree. Carob tree is called Egyptian Fig, but it’s not a fig, it’s totally another plant and you even have it already in your notes’ register ;-).
v.albina.i – :
In 2017 Bois Naufrage is back as PG16.1 in exactly the same formulation.
Inspired by a Lucien Clergue photograph entitled Naked in Driftwood, Bois Naufrage is a tender salty amber.
Pierre yet again experiments with an exotic material: Egyptian fig (carob), mixing it with sea salt, vetiver and synthetic ambergris creating a warm musky woody perfume.
Bois Naufrage is French for driftwood so the all the woody notes in the formula are intentionally given washed, salty and very smooth feel.
edelshtain – :
This is the truest ‘sand/sun/beach’ in a bottle. And when I say the truest, I don’t mean ‘coppertone’, I don’t mean coconuts and tiare, I don’t mean orange blossoms and sea water. Not a dollop of fantasy-sweetness here.
Afternoon sun, there are fig trees in the wind, hot sand rubbing against your skin.
Meditarranean air in a bottle, with soft sillage.
Delicious.
tot006 – :
The scent opens with a fig leaf-like scent. It weakens after a while and makes place to a woody, almost vetivery notes. Remains all the time close to your skin.
Jeppiett69 – :
It opens like smell of crashed fig leaves or thick, green foliage on branches.
This is woody-fig fragrance. It reminds me a lot of Premier Figuier L`Artisan, but I like Bois Naufrage better So, if you are into fig fragrances, please give this a try!
ForJulie – :
I just ordered a full bottle of this after falling in love with my sample; it’ll be my second PG, and while as with Indochine I wish this had more sillage, it’s too gorgeous for me to pass up. It’s plenty feminine on me but I can feel woody notes lurking that would probably make it gorgeous on a man. On me the rich cocoa-fig notes come to the front, with wood and salt lurking in the backround; it’s both rich and light, and will be lovely for warmer weather.
ворчун78 – :
The only thing I’m positive about with this scent is that I love it. I cannot stop sniffing my wrist. It’s warm and comforting and sunny, like laying on a hidden, driftwood covered beach while wearing a scent with ambergris. Intoxicating and comforting at the same time.
However, I cannot decide if this smells more masculine or feminine. I go back and forth a bit, but the more I wear it the more I feel it just begins to suit the wearer, no matter the gender. I add a feminine touch to this scent, but I would eat it up on a man.
Longevity and sillage are moderate.
jindos – :
160) shipwreck
ouverture salé-doux, rapide évolution sur un ambre-boisé, fin. Evolution sur papier en 20 min top chrono.
Simple et faible sur la tenue et la projection.
Opening salty-sweet, rapidly developing on an woody-amber, the end. Evolution on paper in 20 minutes top chrono.
Simple and weak on longevity and projection.
wivulytila – :
I wish the marine & salty notes listed in this was evident on me. As it is all that I smell is cocoa , nuts & even though it’s not listed something creamy & sweet. It reminds me vaguely of vanilla ice cream.
pupkin – :
Pretty much the same as teddito, it is more masculine, a woody amber, nice balance of sharpness and plump abmer orientalness, I got the salty note too for only a short minute at the start. It was interesting until the salty note disappeared. Giving my sample to my hubby.
n_komarovskiy – :
To me it is more on the masculine side.Starts a little bit sharp, but quickly settles down to a pleasnt woody-amber scent.I do not feel the salty note, and as a whole I do not find this fragrance much interesting and different, despite the unusual notes listed.