Bois Talisman Dior 2025

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6.9 / 10 195 Ratings

A new perfume by Dior for women and men, released in 2025. The scent is sweet-woody. It is being marketed by LVMH.

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Main accords

Sweet

Woody

Smoky

Spicy

Gourmand

Fragrance Notes

Sugar

Vanilla

Cedarwood

Perfumer

Francis Kurkdjian

Ratings

Scent

6.9195 Ratings

Longevity

7.5154 Ratings

Sillage

7.1155 Ratings

Bottle

7.9149 Ratings

Value for money

5.3134 Ratings

Submitted by Spl3xx, last update on 08/11/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the La Collection Privée collection.

Smells similar

What the fragrance is similar to

By the Fireplace

Babycat

Babylon

Black Phantom - Memento Mori

Althaïr

Acqua e Zucchero

Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

01/13/2025

1
Pricing 2
Bottle 4
Sillage 2
Longevity 5
Scent

Cosmotron
2 Reviews

Cosmotron

9

Bois Marketing

First day of the year and I’ve already faced the biggest disappointment of 2025 (while fearing an even bigger one with the upcoming Dior Homme Parfum 2025…).

A Dior saleswoman gave me a sample (the perfume is set to launch in a week), and after four sprays on my hand, I detected a scent profile typically found in Lattafa fragrances, indeed (nothing against Lattafa I even like some of their offering).
It opened with a slightly smoky note (incense?) that accompanied a generic vanilla with an almost caramelized touch.
The perfume is extremely linear, from the opening to the dry-down, which perhaps only differs by the timid appearance of woody notes.

• Projection: Despite the four sprays, the projection is rather weak: 4/10.

• Longevity: 2/10. The perfume calms down very quickly and becomes a skin scent after about 2 hours, barely perceptible afterward.

• Scent profile: 5/10. Very uninspired & unisex, as noted in the “This perfume reminds me of” section—this is very close to three Lattafa perfumes without being an outright clone. There’s nothing innovative here. It’s a pleasant profile but less pronounced than the Lattafa fragrances (special mention to Wood Intense, which, with its woody and licorice notes, offers a very niche profile), 24 Gold or even By the Fireplace.
In the ultra far dry down (4h mark and my hands washed twice) I feel a hint of white patchouly.
It's not a bad scent per se, but in the Dior's context (history and scent profiles proposed in the past) it's a terrible let down...
• Value for money: 1/10. Completely uninteresting, especially as the bottle sizes have been reduced from 125ml to 100ml and from 250ml to 200ml (so bottle: 3/10). Even if Dior may use potentially high-quality materials, compared to the aforementioned perfumes, there’s no reason to linger on Bois Talisman (profile/price/longevity/creativity).

Overall rating: 2/10

Francis Kurkdjian’s tenure at Dior doesn’t seem poised to leave any lasting legacy. I don’t hold him solely responsible for these critical failures since he clearly appears to fulfill the requests from the commercial teams. However, it’s very disheartening to see him release no inspired creations, especially within a collection with such a history.
Is he being forced to create perfumes, or is he content with being Dior’s “master perfumer,” taking on purely commercial projects?
Compared to Demachy’s era, Kurkdjian’s tenure feels like a shipwreck that risks clinging to his reputation. Where Demachy had the authority to reject certain orders (like the baby perfume) and protect more “niche” perfumes (the “parfum” versions of mainstream fragrances as well as the "discontinued" privé which where still available in Paris' stores until Kurkdjian's arrival...), it seems that Dior is no longer interested in having critically acclaimed successes or perfumes that showcase its legacy as a once-great perfume house.

08/09/2025

1
Pricing 8
Bottle 7
Sillage 8
Longevity 5.5
Scent

Omnipotato
303 Reviews

Omnipotato

Helpful Review 5

Kurkdjian's hypocrisy manifest

I want to like Francis Kurkdjian's new releases. I really do. I defended him when Dior released Sauvage Eau Forte. It's really not a bad scent; the decision to make it white and milky was just a bad marketing move because men are children and compare anything white and milky to the icky stuff that comes out of our peepees (J'adore Parfum d'Eau was exactly the same color/texture juice and women didn't bat an eye). Dior Homme Parfum (2024) likewise: great scent, it was just unfortunate that it replaced a beloved scent in Dior Homme Parfum (2014) and was inexplicably named the same despite sharing no similarities.

But two of his releases this year are just simply terrible. Bois Talisman being one and Kurky the other. Kurky just doesn't smell good with zero performance, but Bois Talisman's problem isn't the smell or performance, it is the lack of originality.

Bois Talisman is just By the Fireplace in a Dior Prive bottle. Of course, it isn't exactly 1-to-1 but it is very very close, and clearly heavily inspired/based on that scent. The scent in the air is marginally sweeter and up close, the charred woods smell a bit more natural, but that's not the point. This is a private line $3 per mL fragrance essentially duping a $0.80 per mL (on discounters) department store fragrance that can be found at Sephora, and not really improving on it in any meaningful way. Actually, I think I slightly prefer By the Fireplace.

And what's worse, Kurkdjian has recently given an interview in which he's basically calling dupes thievery. And I don't disagree with him. Maybe he should be taking the log out of his own eye before calling out the specks of sawdust in others'.

03/11/2025

4
Pricing 7
Bottle 9
Scent

Nanaafromgha
150 Reviews

Nanaafromgha

3

Haters will hate, lovers will love

I *finally* got to sample this one in store the other day, and I’ll be honest, the ratings for this aren’t shocking. I know many are disappointed with it, but I can see that many people also enjoy it for what it is. I veer more towards the people that enjoy it, as I for one, enjoy a good smoky / spicy vanilla.

With its very simple composition, BT covers a lot of ground. It has a sweet / spicy duality, but holds a smoky heart, reminiscent of burning wood. The sugar actually packs a big punch, giving the scent its saccharine center. Based on the reviews, I was really nervous to test it (because I feel like everyone HATES it!), but as usual, I actually quite like it. This is exactly why I go and test scents for myself. And reading through some of these reviews, I think some people just like to hate on change.

Is the scent profile new? Probably not for many who have been in the game for a while, but for someone new to scents, this could be very new to them (especially with the large smoky accord). Is this scent way overpriced? I would agree and say yes, it is overpriced. But it’s Christian Dior at the end of the day. You are paying for the name and the quality. Now I can’t speak to the longevity and projection, but the scent is really nice for the simple composition in which FK made it. I don’t understand why people are upset at that.

I’m gonna finish off by saying that I truly believe that the hate for many of these new Dior releases are fueled by people’s disdain for the perfumer, Francis Kurkdjian. I can’t fathom as to why people believe that he’s trying to “ruin Dior”, as if he isn’t one of the most well known and accomplished perfumers of our decade. Companies wouldn’t be trying to dupe his famous (or infamous depending on who you ask) BR540 to this day if he didn’t know what he was doing. Can perfumers get it wrong sometimes? Of course! But I don’t think the hate is really justified with this one. The same way people loved to hate on Dioriviera (also shared my thoughts on this) is the same way people are trying undermine Bois Talisman.

Hate all you want, FK is going to continue in his craft and if you can’t find beauty in his work, well then it simply wasn’t made for you.

05/20/2025

ClaireV
958 Reviews

ClaireV

1

Scratchy burnt sugar

A disappointing effort from a perfumer who created the stunning Eau Noire for the same house – a thin burnt sugar-over-firewood effort that is briefly attractive before quickly unravelling into a mess of scratchy woody-ambery aromachemicals. The scent of Bois Talisman is what hangs over the Dior Privée concession nowadays, by the way, tainting the air with its bro juice grossness. Though I’m sure it’s not aiming for it, Bois Talisman lands in the same general area as By The Fireplace and if that’s your thing, fine, but not sure you want to be paying Dior Privée prices for it.

07/16/2025

8
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Landshark321
715 Reviews

Landshark321

1

Very nice woody, balsamic, sweet, smoky blend, worth of the line.

Finally doing a proper sampling of Bois Talisman, one of the most recent releases (from earlier this year) in the Dior Privee line, a spicy, woody, resinous blend that for me, instantly clicks and feels like a good blend of classy, sweet, woody, powdery, and ambery. The principal listed notes are vanilla, sugar, smoke, and cedarwood, probably a bit of an oversimplification of the scent. I think “smoke and sugar over a woody, resinous base” feels appropriate. The wood does not feel terribly specific, and the smoky aspect makes me think of incense, even it’s not a listed note/ingredient. Fittingly it’s a more cold-weather-leaning option, but I don’t regard it as too heavy or overpowering to wear, say, on a summer night, and its coherence and elegance help with that (I feel largely the same way about the super strong Feve Delicieuse and Mitzah, which, if worn lightly, too can work in the heat, I’d argue). In total, it’s a well-rounded, classy, modern, sweet/woody/smoky blend that is worthy of the line.

It also reminds me a bit of Vanilla Diorama, something that occurred to me when I first smelled it some weeks ago, but side by side, the two fragrances are different enough to the point that they’re both worth having (if you love both) and they’re both of course worth smelling independently to figure out if you want one more than the other. Vanilla Diorama has been rumored to be on the chopping block, a move that I estimated put Bois Talisman in a position to be a more neutral, agreeable, less gourmand replacement, but for now, Vanilla Diorama still seems to be around, so I quite like the idea of both being in the line up for a bit. Vanilla Diorama is more niche, Bois Talisman more the woody, more masculine-leaning mainstay statement, though I prefer VD overall.

As with the rest of the Privee line, Bois Talisman is EDP concentration and is priced at $465/330/220 for 200/100/50ml, of course a huge jump in pricing from several years ago, when the sizes offered were 250/125ml. It performs very well, however, and overall, the line’s current pricing is still reasonable when contrasted with where some other brands have landed up. It’s just that the pricing so was so reasonable before (perhaps $210 for 125ml, if memory serves correct) that makes the increase so striking. I believe it’s sold only via the house website / boutiques, either standalone stores or within department stores that carry the Privee line, at least in the US.

8 out of 10

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