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Bois Farine L'Artisan Parfumeur 2003

Bottle Design:
Federico Restrepo

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7.3 / 10 317 Ratings

A perfume by L'Artisan Parfumeur for women and men, released in 2003. The scent is woody-powdery. It is being marketed by Puig.
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Main accords

Woody

Powdery

Spicy

Sweet

Gourmand

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Fennel seed

Grapefruit

Heart Notes

Ambrette seed Grain

Grain

Wheat

Iris pallida

Base Notes

Sandalwood

Gaiac wood Benzoin

Benzoin

Cedarwood

Perfumer

Jean-Claude Ellena

Ratings

Scent

7.3317 Ratings

Longevity

7.0243 Ratings

Sillage

5.7227 Ratings

Bottle

7.7209 Ratings

Value for money

6.647 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 04/12/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance is part of the "La Collection" collection.

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Reviews

15 in-depth fragrance descriptions

02/09/2013

10
Scent

TeaWithMilk
27 Reviews

TeaWithMilk

Helpful Review 4

Palo Santo Sticks

I love palo santo, or "holy wood," and I have a lot of the raw wood as well as the pure essential oil. It is difficult to describe the scent of it, but I will try. It's definitely woody; but not dark like oud. It's naturally sweet only to the extent that it's not bitter or dry like cedar or birch. It smells a bit creamy and smoky too, although these attributes are subtle.

Bois Farine, my friends, is not farine at all. It's pure palo santo in a bottle. Ok there might be a few extra notes, like some powdery florals, but all in all, this is nearly identical to my palo santo wood and oil. I never thought I would be able to find this wood so prominently in any perfume, so I am thrilled to have found Bois Farine.

SUMMARY: Holy moly, this wood is good

01/26/2013

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 5

not the skin scent i was looking for

I've been thinking about how I'd write about Bois Farine. It's novel, it's interesting in light of Ellena's other work. It's got a hefty dose of that jolie-laide thing that made whole eras (80s) and genres (fruity chypres) of perfumery interesting. Hell, I like it. It drives a herky-jerky line between starched and savory.

I wore it today to a basic life support re-certification class today. As it turns out, we had to demonstrate more than explain today. About 4 minutes into my first round of chest compressions, at the sweat point, I started to smell as if I'd been hiding peanut butter sandwiches under my arms. It was a 3 hour class. I don't think my classmates enjoyed the nouvelle-gourmande experience so much.

02/12/2012

10
Bottle 5
Sillage 5
Longevity 8
Scent

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 3

Flour Implies Baking Implies Mother Implies Safety

Imagine a pile of white flour in the middle of a sawmill that processes dark wood trees into planks to be used to build stable and secure houses in the country that are havens from metropolitan madness. L'Artisan Parfumeur BOIS FARINE smells literally just like that.

I am not one to be seduced by names--I often take issue with them--so I do not believe that my experience of BOIS FARINE is being caused by my belief that this edt should smell, as advertised, like "woods of flour" or "flour forest" or "woody flour". And yet it does!

This is a comfort scent, to be sure. A warm woody unisex linear that imparts a sense of protection. The flour note (not listed, but somehow emergently created from other components...) manages to subliminally evoke the image of a big baking kitchen in which white flour abounds. Flour implies baking implies mother implies safety.

Yes, BOIS FARINE really is a warm, woody, flour-y comfort scent that would appeal to men and women alike. No need to chain your doors!

05/01/2014

5
Bottle 2.5
Sillage 5
Longevity 1
Scent

WRoth
154 Reviews

WRoth

2

Bois Farine

This fragrance starts with an accord that smells like flour, salt and nuts. It is rather dry and indeed reminiscent of peanut butter. As the fragrance progresses the woodsy notes appear, mainly sandalwood with a dash of iris to make it more creamy-powdery and peppery cedar wood. Once its has reached this stage, the fragrance stays the same until fades. I have to say this is a really odd wood fragrance unlike most others I have encountered.

06/16/2023

Stacia
134 Reviews

Stacia

2

A gourmand that didn't mean to be a gourmand

The moment I sniffed a sample of this I aaahed loudly and knew that I had stumbled onto something quite special. Not a single food note to be found in here: Iris, musk, several different kinds of wood. However the combination creates a unique smell that I can only describe as raw flour or possibly ground hazelnuts. It's time to get in the kitchen and bake some fresh bread from scratch! It's a very dry aroma, light and elegant.

Everything about it says class, composure and warmth. I imagine this being worn by a wealthy woman who chooses to clean her own house, and do all of her own cooking and gardening because it pleases her. I wish I had a sweater made out of this fragrance that I could wrap around me when the world became stressful. I would be back in my cozy childhood kitchen watching my dad bake homemade bread. What a nice find this was!

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