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Come Hell or High Water

Lignum Vitae Beaufort 2016

7.6 / 10 229 Ratings

A popular perfume by Beaufort for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is gourmand-citrusy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Gourmand

Citrus

Woody

Sweet

Spicy

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Pastry

Black pepper

Mandarin orange

Heart Notes

Salt

Gaiac wood Ginger

Ginger

Juniper

Metal

Base Notes

Amber

Moss

Frankincense resin

Perfumers

Julie Dunkley, Julie Marlowe

Ratings

Scent

7.6229 Ratings

Longevity

7.6190 Ratings

Sillage

7.1187 Ratings

Bottle

7.9177 Ratings

Value for money

6.882 Ratings

Submitted by M3000 · last update on 02/21/2026.

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Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the Come Hell or High Water collection.

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Reviews

14 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/05/2021

10Scent 10Longevity 8Sillage

Olfactology
6 Reviews

Olfactology

Very helpful Review 9

Aura filter

Opening: Lemon Sponge cake, lemon curd, lemon zest, vanilla, egg yolks, nutmeg and almonds. Fragrances changes after 10-15 minutes, from Montale style gourmand cake bomb to a classy fougere, to an animalic based fragrance.
Definitely worth trying, absolutely beautiful, long lasting compliments getter. This perfume should be worn once one wants to make a good impression, this is a highly comforting fragrance. Like an Instagram filter, but not for your face, but your entire aura will become warmer, sunlit, welcoming and nice.

10/22/2023

9.5Scent 10Longevity 7Sillage

Hogue
14 Reviews

Hogue

3

Lemon bars and the wharf

I was hesitant to try this because I loathe most lemon. Nearly all lemon scents smell like cheap toilet bowl cleaners to me. Lignum Vitae is now a favorite. People have said it doesn't last long, but for me I get a good 8 hours or more. It's a perfect transition from warm to cool Fall weather. The lemon note smells gooey like a lemon bar with a biscuit crust. I also get this brief and sweet buttery biscuit note. Then I start to get sea wharf notes here and there. I do pick up on the sand note, but the lemon bar note lasts 8 hours or more. I imagine they named it Lignum Vitae because it was a wood used for ship parts and it has a perfume smell to it. It feels like a pirate scent.

10/06/2023

ScentStudio
156 Reviews

ScentStudio

1

Beautiful citrus

To my surprise, Lignum Vitae has a fresh citrus opening that does not evoke images of the sea. But being an avid lover of sweet gourmand citruses, Lignum Vitae is just right up my alley.

Unlike Davana & Vanille Bourbon by 100Bon, Unknown Pleasures by Kerosene and Falling Into the Sea by Imaginary Authors, Lignum Vitae has a charismatic masculine middle note that makes it stand out.

In contrast to the inviting fresh opening note, a slight leather undertone keeps the fragrance from leaning too feminine, balancing perfectly on the edge of unisex.
Wearing this fragrance, I experienced that female noses found this scent more masculine on me, whereas male noses said it smelled very feminine.

The dry down revealed a sweet lemon gummy bear with herbal notes of aromatic greens and slight notes of salt and marine, absolutely delicious.

On paper, Lignum Vitae remains lighter, whereas it deepens and reveals a wonderful concoction of notes on my skin. It is a perfect fragrance for spring, but it is surprisingly fitting autumn and winter too.

My only qualm with this fragrance is that it lacks the BeauFort London edge, a spearing note that evokes an image of the rough sea. The slight marine undertone is too vague and fades among the powerful citruses and sweet vanilla. I would love to add Lignum Vitae to my collection, but I find myself at a loss of reason when I already have Unknown Pleasures, Davana & Vanille Bourbon and Remarkable People, all wonderful and different fresh cistruses.

10/27/2019

8Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

Emorandeira
401 Reviews

Emorandeira

1

Roller coaster perfume

I found different phases un this perfume:

- the opening is amazing. Is un this phase where i can find the lemon cookies wverybody speaks about, during this time the fragance behave as a proper gourmand... It is sweet, Deep, intense, tasty but citrusy.

- after a while the perfume begins yo change and become a more classic fragance, It remembrr me a bit to some shaving foams. This monent i thought, ok, now is when the British gentleman that the brand name an the bottlw evoke appears. Is nice but during this time this is not really my vio of tea...

- suddenly, some hours later, i realized the perfume had changed a lot again. It had turned very animalic and un this face the dry down remebered me a bit to some perfumes like kouros, but a bit more citric.

- after 10 hours i can stil feel some smell on my skin but very subtle. Now It snells just like lemon candies and It remembrr me to the dry down of perfumes like habit Rouge or even q bit to terre d'hermes.

Therefore i am not sure what to think... I really LOVE the opening but the first dry down gets me a bit bored... The middle dry down is interesting but on their last monents It is only a common lemon scent so... I would buy It? Probably un a Next futuro but not for now...

Scent: 8
Longevity: 8
Sillage: 6
Originality: 7
Versatility: 8
Quality/price:5
Global: 7.5

12/02/2025

10Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

VanityPlate
69 Reviews

VanityPlate

1

Lemon Biscuits in the Captain’s Cabin

I ordered seven samples of different Beaufort London scents after being recommended this brand by friends who know me as both a sailor and a fragrance aficionado.

This one particularly fascinated me, as the brand’s blurb about wood, metal, and chronometers didn’t seem to have much in common with a perfume that featured the sweet notes of pastry and mandarin. Nor did the notes initially seem to have much to do with the real Lignum Vitae, or “living wood”, which prevents water from coming in around a ship’s propellor-shaft, though I have since learned that the perfumer’s “guaiac wood” is the same thing as the shipbuilder’s Lignum Vitae.

Reader, I’m not much of a gourmand lover, and lemon is a note that doesn’t always play well with me, but this was love at first spray. There was nothing artificial or sugar-bombed about this lemon-pastry smell—in fact, I could almost taste the airy, flaky dessert before me, a powerful sensory memory of delicacies past.

Soon, however, the sweetness wanes, and the delicate lemon that remains takes a backseat first to a refreshing sea breeze and fresh-cut wood scent, which is joined two or three hours later by a rich, but still light and sweet incense and amber, all with that little hint of sweet lemon still playing in the background.

I’ve seen other reviewers say this has less of an Age of Sail vibe than others in the Hell or High Water collection, and certainly there’s no note (other than, perhaps, the salt) that immediately reads as particularly nautical or oceanic, but it does remind me of the long, dreamy segments of time in between action scenes in the nautical novels of Patrick O’Brian, with the sun shining through the windows of the captain’s cabin, a cello and violin duet playing, and something delicious, sweet, and citrusy being served at the captain’s table.

Updated on 12/02/2025

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