Not everybody is going to like Miel de Bois, that's for sure.
The composition isn't linear, it takes time to smell every step from top to basenote. When you sniff the bottle it smells of honey water. On the skin it's totally different. First come very dry woody notes, oak specially and agar wood. There is sort of a therpentine/white spirit quality in there. Then comes the honey which together with the woody notes transformes into bees wax. Almost like Johnson Wax'Pledge but in a good way.
On a friend it stayed very dry and woody. On me after several hours only a soft note of wood remained, it was the honey that became dominant. My skin smelled of linden with just a bit of powdery notes.
Serge Lutens went back for Miel de Bois to contrasting notes early compositions but with the subtlity of his latest creations.
A must smell.
The composition isn't linear, it takes time to smell every step from top to basenote. When you sniff the bottle it smells of honey water. On the skin it's totally different. First come very dry woody notes, oak specially and agar wood. There is sort of a therpentine/white spirit quality in there. Then comes the honey which together with the woody notes transformes into bees wax. Almost like Johnson Wax'Pledge but in a good way.
On a friend it stayed very dry and woody. On me after several hours only a soft note of wood remained, it was the honey that became dominant. My skin smelled of linden with just a bit of powdery notes.
Serge Lutens went back for Miel de Bois to contrasting notes early compositions but with the subtlity of his latest creations.
A must smell.
