Top Notes 
Elemi resin
Black pepper
Mandarin orange
Heart Notes 
Nutmeg
Tonka bean
Frankincense
Base Notes 
Amber
Musk
Oud
Cistus
05/23/2025
ClaireV
958 Reviews
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The best Fragrance du Bois perfume
Oud Violet Intense is the rare example of a Fragrance du Bois scent that smells like it actually contains some oud. The oil puts the surprisingly animalic oud up front and center, before dunking it in a bath of creamy tonka and freshening its breath with black pepper and mandarin. In a Le Labo-style twist, there is no violet in the composition, the name presumably referring to the dulcet, velvety texture of the tonka drydown. The perfume performs a balletic leap from peppery, spicy freshness to creamy leather without missing a step. It feels rich but light, a dusty chocolate warmth filling the air pockets between nuggets of smoking resin and tonka bean crème. Oud Violet is my personal favorite of the Fragrance du Bois line-up because it is elegant and rich, but also places real oud oil at the center of the composition. In tone, Oud Violet reminds me a lot of Mona di Orio’s Oud Osmanthus, particularly in its rich, ‘soaked’ leather-and-civet treatment of the oud theme. Both compositions feel grandly upholstered, as if they belonged not to the modern era but to the drawing rooms of a Henry James novel. An aria of antiseptic, woody sourness flits through the scent to keep all the sweet, almost candied elements firmly in check. Every single note here fits together as tightly as a lock and key.
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