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Bois Lumière Anatole Lebreton 2014

7.2 / 10 82 Ratings

A perfume by Anatole Lebreton for women and men, released in 2014. The scent is woody-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Sweet

Animal

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Clary sage

Corsican juniper

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Honey

Fir balsam

Carnation

Rose

Base Notes

Beeswax

Immortelle Cedar

Cedar

Benzoin

Perfumer

Anatole Lebreton

Ratings

Scent

7.282 Ratings

Longevity

8.165 Ratings

Sillage

7.366 Ratings

Bottle

7.054 Ratings

Value for money

6.914 Ratings

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Reviews

6 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/21/2022

7.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Kurai
388 Reviews

Kurai

Helpful Review 3

Sunset

Summer seems like ages ago. The days are getting colder and darker. The sun still shines, but she has lost her heating power. She looks more beautiful than ever, though, especially in the evenings. Sun rays fill the darkening skies, adding a golden shade to horizon. This setting is exactly how Bois Lumiere feels to me.

It all starts with a bit of a rough build-up, as the clary sage and immortelle are well upfront. But then the immortelle-honey accord opens up and smoothens things out into a low-pace, mellow ambery vibe. As if a golden mirage appears. A panoramic horizon with immortelle dust as stars in a sunset sky. The honey here is unsweet and ambery, not so waxy. Its color is golden but darkened to almost brown. I believe that is due to the fir balm, which gives off a warm-green impression.

This wears lovely in the colder days. It has an enveloping warmth, ambery glow and enough complexity to keep you fascinated all day. When temperatures go up, the character gets increasingly animalic-waxy. I like that in this case, but I can imagine not everyone enjoys that level of funk. If you enjoy honey in a spicy, non-sweet setting, give this a try.

11/12/2015

5Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

K1
121 Reviews

K1

2

Mountain honey syrup

Hmm… Well, it's more like a local fancy shop of handmade aromatic items in a corner of an easy street in Grasse. It's so like to be a home scent not body. Pure animalic beewax meets clary sage which is a breathtaking composition. Many may hate the volume of skankinss. And it intensifies by fir. Fir is the hardest conifer with oily damp green smell.
The composition sets down in few minutes and honey begin to appear with very consistent immortel. Seemingly our shop sells homemade food products as well. It emerges a nice safe and virgin feeling but I'm afraid to use in on myself in public.
5/10

08/08/2016

6.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Meggi
1018 Reviews

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Meggi

Top Review 22

I miss a way. A way like that to Mondrian.

When it comes to visual art, I am unfortunately quite undereducated. Therefore, occasional moments of realization are all the more delightful. The painting of Piet Mondrian, for example, posed riddles in the sense of "I could do that too..." until I was able to trace the painter's journey (and the why) from his figurative early works to his simple color fields through a wonderful exhibition at the Bucerius Kunstforum in Hamburg. It always reassures me when an artist can obviously "do" or "could do" in a way that I understand, allowing me to hold on to the feeling that artistic technique is mastered, much like a lifeline. How else am I, as a layperson, supposed to separate the artist from the charlatan?

Regarding color fields - with other artists, it's splashes - I come to this because Bois Lumière seems to me, in a way, like an olfactory splatter. For the most part, I would describe it as a series of individual, haphazard impressions; I don't really like to use the term scent progression.

Right at the front, there is a brief display of biting floral notes with a hint of soft cheese. Tuberose? It reminds me of my much-sniffed tuberose-soft cheese note. Then I think - both in style and specifically in scent - of the attractor-repellent "Nudo, 1912" by Morph with its gualtieri-like resin. Quickly, I perceive wax and honey, not gentle, but piercing. Only as it progresses does an additional sensual facet emerge.

None of the mentioned ingredients can satisfactorily explain the resulting aroma on their own. 'Beeswax polish' (an excellent suggestion from Seerose, thank you very much!) wonderfully captures what can be called the center of the scent, around which the other components are placed.

My tuberose theme returns, for example, during the morning - suspiciously, there is a soft cheese-fruity candy-like floral note directly on the skin. At noon, a honey variety derived from herbs would be an idea. Strawflower? Certainly fits well, but in the afternoon, the resinous-waxy aspect once again predominates, especially the latter. Wood is also understandable, with occasional floral reminiscences of my morning assumption in between.

Hmm. Since I don't speak French, I could only catch a vague impression of the intention with the help of an online translator. Something about basking in the sun in a love-crazed way or so. Again, "Hmm." Warm and sensual it is at least partially, well okay. What does that have to do with honey? The light is supposed to flow thick like honey somehow. Third "Hmm." Maybe it's about mischief that has to do with consuming herbal honey not from the surface of a roll, but from somewhere else.

No idea. I don't find the scent bad, but I lack the understanding access - or rather the way to it.

I thank Derailroaded for the sample.

10/25/2021

7Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Taurus
1178 Reviews

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Taurus

Top Review 16

Bright Wood or Bright Madness?

Anatole Lebreton is one of the few perfumers I have had email contact with. It was about research for a fragrance he created for the French perfume label Maison Berry, or Berry. I found it quite charming that he had co-written it, and naturally, such things leave a positive impression.

Nevertheless, I try to approach his creation "Bois Lumière" for his own label in a very factual and as objective as possible manner.

And as several reviewers before me have written, this fragrance is not so easy to grasp. I would also prefer to remain in lavish words about how wonderful this perfume is, but I am quite perplexed.

From the outset, "Bois Lumière" makes it clear that it is niche - and it is indeed gnarly spicy to herbal, somewhat woody, and above all waxy and floral. Here, it is primarily immortelle or the straw flower combined with honeycomb that seems to almost take your breath away, absolutely dominating. Even those who enjoy these scent notes might find their limits here.

The many small nuances that are likely present in the thicket of all the impressions get a bit lost.

Only in the later base area, which fortunately deviates completely from the usual schema of amber, musk, vanilla, tonka bean, oud, or patchouli, does the probable intention of "Bois Lumière" become detectable. Here, the shallow woody character reveals itself with stylishly spicy refinement.

But I fear that by then, most will not have held out. For me, it was also anything but easy. The fragrance hits hard with its straw flower-honey wax combo. Perhaps a bit too much of a good thing. Even for nature boys (or gender-conform nature girls), it is a small challenge.

08/18/2019

6.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Serenissima
1229 Reviews

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Serenissima

Top Review 8

Herb Pleasure with a Significant Disruption

Barely released, it jumps at me, clings to me and takes over my skin extensively, settling in for hours while constantly lurking: the Immortelle!
Wow! Its primal force in this fragrance composition causes a scratchy throat that urgently needs some balsamic scent notes and plenty of honey.

Fortunately, honey is generously used in "Bois Lumière"; it immediately flatters and smooths the agitated scent sensations: A hint of fir balsam has already been stirred in - what a blessing: my throat thanks me and I can explore this herb paradise a little less against the grain.
Because that’s exactly what it is: a paradise full of spices and herbs; if only the Immortelle could be tamed!
There is a lot of unadulterated nature in this scent being: "Dive in, take a deep breath, and enjoy" could be the motto here.

Slightly scratchy juniper, both in wood and in berries, is refreshingly complemented by a not too synthetic mandarin. (A little of this flaw always clings to it: I feel the same way not only as a scent note but also as a fruit.)
The robustly spicy sage rounds off the trio that opens the fragrance harmoniously.
This now meets the fir balsamic, viscous honey, which is a pure blessing after the initial shock and, fortunately, rushed ahead of the top note. - Blessed stubbornness!
Garden clove, completely unpretentious and therefore very pretty in its special folk-scented attire, and a rose aroma that seems to come from not overly cultivated flower queens, sit down chummily among the already existing scent notes on the meadow - always in the shadow of the Immortelle.
They all have a hard time asserting their places in this arrangement.
It succeeds better as beeswax (also with a gentle honey nuance and reminiscent of fragrant furniture polish) levels the scent landscape.
A robust flow of fragrance emerges, many eddies and shallows have slowly calmed down, and thus silvery cedars and resinous-smoky benzoin can still bring this herbal mixture to a pleasant conclusion.

There is nothing elegant or soft about "Bois Lumière", nothing flirts, nothing dallies; everything is strong, unpretentious: a rustic nature boy in a sturdy outfit - but unfortunately very strawflower-heavy!
For someone like me, who is actually quite fond of herbal mixtures as tea and also collects and dries herbs, their dominance and clinginess are rather strange - yes, even disturbing.

How balsamic I imagined this scent mixture after the pyramid; I was very pleased to receive a sample of "Bois Lumière", for which I sincerely thank you on this occasion. Because many of my spicy favorites are gathered here.
If only the unbridled passion of the Immortelle weren’t there!
So this scent must continue its journey, and I am really curious to see who will have the courage to embark on this adventure next!
It certainly won’t be boring!

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