401 Cèdre Prune Confite Vanille by Bon Parfumeur

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401 Cèdre Prune Confite Vanille Bon Parfumeur 2016

7.7 / 10 165 Ratings

A popular perfume by Bon Parfumeur for women and men, released in 2016. The scent is spicy-woody. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Spicy

Woody

Fruity

Sweet

Resinous

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Cypress

Elemi resin

Bergamot

Heart Notes

Candied plum

Cinnamon leaf

Frankincense

Base Notes

Cedar

Vanilla

Labdanum

Perfumer

Nathalie Koobus

Ratings

Scent

7.7165 Ratings

Longevity

7.3148 Ratings

Sillage

6.7149 Ratings

Bottle

7.2130 Ratings

Value for money

8.087 Ratings

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Reviews

12 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/07/2025

8.5Scent 9Longevity 5Sillage

shengnu
94 Reviews

shengnu

Helpful Review 1

Like a base notes version of Feminité du Bois

This scent is familiar to those who love Feminité du Bois. It’s like a base note version - cinnamon, slightly stronger woods, and plum jam, without the soaring floral or the “bad breath” element of FdB. There’s an addition of some dusty resin.
It’s a delicious pseudo gourmand. Deep, rich, woody and subtly sweet. Lovely on yourself and in a scent trail on other people.
Medium sillage and longevity.

04/28/2023

SophAhl
1 Review

SophAhl

3

Saturday morning breakfasts many years ago

Waking up at my grandparents’ house many years ago… following the sounds, I enter the cozy kitchen. The curtains have been flung open, the coffee is brewing, the weather channel is on the TV, and the newspaper is on the table. Opposite me sit my two grandparents and a jar of plum compote. That is the scene this perfume conjures up in my mind, waking the joyful memories of Saturdays long gone.

The scent smells like a lovely, sweet, yet slightly tart plum compote. I notice the plum notes strongly, together with spices, a slight woodiness and some vanilla. It is a unique, comforting, and cozy scent with good longevity and minimal sillage. Even though it sits rather close to the skin, for me it is a smooth, warming, and mood-boosting gourmand-leaning fragrance.

11/09/2024

9.5Scent 6Longevity

Redrot
30 Reviews

Redrot

2

androgynous tart plum, dry cedar

This was the scent that hooked me, and still the one I most see myself in. Upon spraying the tart, salty plum is most noticeable. After a few hours it becomes smoky, cedar dominant, but the fruitiness is still there beneath. Floats atop my skin in a very casual, warm way.

It smells like sitting around a fire in a cabin with your friends and lovers while the aroma of the plum clafoutis you ate for dessert lingers in the room.

08/13/2025

6Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Xavica
318 Reviews

Xavica

1

A Dark Plumchouli

A plum liqueur scent that feels quite vintage, probably due to the strong presence of earthy patchouli.

The best way to describe it would be a boozy "plumchouli" with a hint of resin and a touch of spice - dark, intriguing, and sensual, almost gothic.

I find the overall result attractive and well-crafted, but sadly a bit too vintage for what I'm looking for (I’ve never been much of a patchouli fan).

Personally, I don’t find it similar to Féminité du bois , which is much more modern and far richer in cinnamon. I clearly prefer the Lutens.

10/10/2025

ScoopyScoop
105 Reviews

ScoopyScoop

More wood less fruit

More earthy and less fruity than I was expecting based both this site and influencer reviews. I enjoy it as a woody fragrance lover.

The cedar unisex and is not sweetened much by that vanilla note. The vanilla is less gourmand for sure, and 401’s vanilla note reminds me of the vanilla note in Rifaqaat: not sweet but reads as sweet compared to earthy/woody or spicy notes. In looking at the fragrance breakdown here, I see there’s an elemi resin note in both scents which is why 401 and Rifaqaat are extended but not immediately connected to each other.

I do get the plum marmalade note only because I eat it fairly often on toast or waffles. This note (like it’s edible counterpart) are not what you’d expect from like a stone fruit or a tooth achingly sweet peach or nectarine marmalade. You’d think plum marmalade, as a stone fruit that harvests around the same time each year, would be juicy and ripe and sweet. Plums aren’t incredibly sweet when preserved. I think once you get over that disappointment, 401’s quite nice.

I do get an unwelcome powdery note that I’m assuming is from is from an unlisted violet note. On the whole, violet makes me nauseous, but thankfully I don’t get it too strongly on my test strip.

On paper it’s not a groundbreaking DNA, nor is it a groundbreaking interpretation of an established DNA I was expecting. This is essentially a “fruitchuli” or a fruit & patchouli which have been going on since at least the 90s. In this category I prefer Nest’s “Black Tulip,” which I ended up returning anyway.

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