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Perfume Vault

Bois 1920 1999

7.4 / 10 182 Ratings

A perfume by Bois 1920 for women, released in 1999. The scent is spicy-oriental. Projection and longevity are above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Oriental

Floral

Woody

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Lavender

Mandarin orange

Barometric Yarn

Heart Notes

Jasmine

Moroccan rose

Base Notes

Atlas cedar Balsam

Balsam

Industrial Marshmallow

Perfumer

Andy Tauer

Ratings

Scent

7.4182 Ratings

Longevity

8.8144 Ratings

Sillage

8.2138 Ratings

Bottle

7.3125 Ratings

Value for money

6.632 Ratings

Submitted by Kankuro · last update on 01/09/2026.

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Interesting Facts

This fragrance is said to have been first created in 2004 for a book shop.

The fragrance is part of the Perfume Vault collection.

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/03/2014

9Scent 10Longevity 7.5Sillage

MasterLi
376 Reviews

MasterLi

Helpful Review 3

Exotic and sensual!

Wow! Opens up very sweet and medicinal. Like an incredibly rich and sweet resin.

For me I get a huge "cough syrup" vibe. The juice is a dark, Ambery, Resin-like colour, almost like an extrait. It has immense strength on the opening, but later the notes dry down to give an incredibly rich, authentic spicy-sweet Jasmine, almost like an oil.

Overall, a wonderfully rich an opulent fragrance. Completely evocative of Morocco. But at the same time incredibly strong on the opening, which can really put people off.

Make no mistake, when you first test this you WILL smell like cough syrup! Very sweet, rich and medicinal. Upon dry down, the Patchouli resin base is what remains, with a notable, ever-present aroma of real Jasmine which lingers. Always try first, but I can't deny it's incredible beauty as a fragrance.

01/28/2012

Delphine67
81 Reviews

Delphine67

Helpful Review 2

Indian Store

This opens a bit like potpourri, that dry rose scent you get when you smell the potpourri petals in your closet. But when the perfume sets there is the smell of a indian store with rose and insence perfumes. A bit spicy to.
I can see woman in long tye dye skirts ans wearing patchouli oil. you know that kind of hippie stores with that special smell when you enter them.
This is how this scent smells to me.

03/03/2013

5Scent 7.5Longevity 7.5Sillage

Miaw2
339 Reviews

Miaw2

1

Didnt work for me...

Nice smell but did not work for me. In my skin it smells very feminine and like something sweet and old.

Maybe i should try it more times. Anyway it's worth trying. Projection, sillage and lasting power are huge.

Updated January 2014

05/31/2025

9Scent

DrB1414
273 Reviews

DrB1414

2

Le Maroc Pour Elle, ou Pour Lui

A beautiful and opulent Floral-Oriental perfume with a misleading name. Le Maroc Pour Elle does a "Portrait of a Lady" type of labeling when, in reality, it could easily pass as "Le Maroc Pour Lui."

Leaving the name aside, this is a beautiful Oriental treatment of Jasmine, the most prominent floral note, supported by Rose and Lavender. I love Jasmine in perfumes, but it has to be natural-smelling. I came to develop an aversion toward the Hedione built-up accords that saturate the market. Furthermore, it needs to be handled with care. Not too fruity, nor too rubbery or indolic. Yes, I am picky. Here, it is used exquisitely by a nose who has proved numerous times that he understands and appreciates floral materials and that he knows how to handle them. What he decides to do with the remainder of the composition might not always please my fancy, but I love the way he weaves it here (as well as in Une Rose Chypree).

The opening of Le Maroc is fizzy and bright due to the mandarin and the lavender. I find this sparkling opening prevalent in many of Andy Tauer's perfumes, and I am a fan. It is invigorating and different from the usual choice of introductory greetings most perfumers opt for. Jasmine enters the scene almost immediately, opulent and assertive with the right amount of indolic facets and sweetness, while nothing about it feels excessive. The lavender helps to balance the queen of the night until the rose and later, the woods and resins take the burden. You see, she is always restrained by the secondary players and never allowed to overshadow the composition. The rose is present but merely guards her, never crossing the line. The base of Le Maroc is creamy and woody. I get the cedar mostly, and thankfully, none of the Iso-E Super that prevents me from loving PHI Une Rose De Kandahar. Along the cedar, a melange of resins gives a hint of smokiness, sweetness, and a dusty texture. I would say the woods are more prevalent than the resins and almost give off an antique furniture vibe (or an apothecary).

Le Maroc Pour Elle makes me picture a well-kept flower garden in the Orient, maybe within the domain of a luxurious palace, a stroll through the garden at dusk when the flowers speak the loudest. I think men can easily enjoy this as the lavender gives off a nice fougerish touch in the opening that lasts through the heart, where the strong woody notes (mainly the cedar) take over. Don't judge by the name, but let your nose guide you.

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08/01/2025

ClaireV
969 Reviews

ClaireV

2

Messy but glorious floriental

The least ‘Andy Tauer’ Andy Tauer perfume ever. It has nothing of the crystalline, hot-arid feel that runs through his other work like a watermark. Andy Tauer perfumes are passionate, but also highly curated. You get the impression that every nuance is fine-tuned with the precision of a Swiss clock. Le Maroc Pour Elle is not Swiss clock-precise. It is messy as hell, like a five year old child who’s smeared her mother’s red lipstick all over her mouth. It smells unburned incense cones, amber cubes, floor disinfectant, indolic jasmine, antiseptic lavender, shoe polish, mandarin oranges, gasoline, gooey amber, rubber, candy, tuberose, leather, orange blossoms, and, sometimes the dry, sweet smell of a paper grocery bag. It’s a bit too much and sometimes it smells like antibiotic syrup for kids and I can’t wear it often. But when the craving hits, there nothing like it.

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Statements

30 short views on the fragrance

DrB1414

8 months ago

9Scent

2

A beautiful Floral-Oriental, complex, and high-quality. Clever use of lavender to balance the jasmine. One of the best from the house.

Jflo

1 day ago

1

Unexpectedly, I get a lot of cedar, followed by lavender. It opens into orange with some rose as it dries down. Interesting composition

Celsa

1 year ago

7.5Scent 8Longevity 6Sillage

1

Le Maroc pour Elle is a long walk starting in the attic and finishing on a blooming garden.
Worth the try.

Ragas

7 months ago

4.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Balsamic scent with strangely off-putting flowery notes

Gobetthomas

10 months ago

1Scent

Drug odor & mosquito spray QUELLE HORREUR

UntermWert

2 years ago

7.5Scent 8Longevity

27

33

1 incense stick that hasn't been lit yet in the quiet bell-like bliss of an esoteric shop, including an inviting, friendly mustiness.

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0815abc

6 years ago

9Scent 8Longevity 7.5Sillage

26

11

It has something infinitely intimate, breathless. Like an endless kiss, where all your inhibitions just fly away.

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Pollita

4 years ago

6.5Scent 9Sillage

23

20

This dry, resinous rose unfortunately comes off too musty for me. Bookstore fits. Like a shop with old knick-knacks in the middle of the desert. Not my thing.

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