Les Baux is a village from Province out of which these historical French Knights came, so says the packaging of Eau Des Baux, the latest men's scent from L'Occitane. It also mentions Cypress and Incense being the main component notes of the scent. I'm not sure of the cypress but I do get the incense and a very nice one at that. Not the wild prominent sort of incense like that in Gucci PH or the like but a smokiness at the background like Tea for Two is said to be smokey. In fact EDB reminded me a lot of T42 at first, even though there are no tea-like notes in it. Very similar balmy medicinal opening and sweetish smokey dry down but EDB has much more prounounced medicinal, sharp, dry qualities which makes it very musculine, not unisex. In the mid notes I get something rubbery like the note so common in scents like Bulgari black, Jaipur and other orientals of that kind. But is EDB an oriental? I guess it is quite close except the super subtlety and the unusual notes, which I can hardly identify. In the far end of the dry down it turns into something sweet creamy and edible, the kind of smell usually associated with the gourmands but not sure if it's coffee or tea, not likely. Some vanilla? May be but it gets quite sweet as I'm wearing it right now. Strange how this scent can be described as both 'creamy' and 'dry'. Makes me think of a very sugary kind of peanut butter gone dried.
This is quite a subtle scent in fact, nothing that will be too loud or too heavy, sweet but not in the way like BK or Allure. Imagine a very quiet and restrained version of mentioned scents, all the while maintaining something dry and medicinal. It is the strongest of all three L'Occitane scents I tested, the other two being L'Occitan and Eau de Baudian but nonetheless still very subtle. I won't say EDB is as complex as the L'artisans or Creeds but it does expand and develop quite a lot. If not for that slight bit of synthetic-ness common to those bath and body product houses like Crabtree, Body shop etc, this scent has the composition that can easily compete with many other higher end niche houses like L'artisan, Diptyque etc. Still this by far surpasses the designer level fragrances.
Needless to say I pruchased a bottle of this and quite happy about it. I would like to hear what others have to say about this nice new launch from L'Occitane which IMO really deserves some highlight.
This is quite a subtle scent in fact, nothing that will be too loud or too heavy, sweet but not in the way like BK or Allure. Imagine a very quiet and restrained version of mentioned scents, all the while maintaining something dry and medicinal. It is the strongest of all three L'Occitane scents I tested, the other two being L'Occitan and Eau de Baudian but nonetheless still very subtle. I won't say EDB is as complex as the L'artisans or Creeds but it does expand and develop quite a lot. If not for that slight bit of synthetic-ness common to those bath and body product houses like Crabtree, Body shop etc, this scent has the composition that can easily compete with many other higher end niche houses like L'artisan, Diptyque etc. Still this by far surpasses the designer level fragrances.
Needless to say I pruchased a bottle of this and quite happy about it. I would like to hear what others have to say about this nice new launch from L'Occitane which IMO really deserves some highlight.
