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Chêne Serge Lutens 2004

7.6 / 10 175 Ratings

A popular perfume by Serge Lutens for women and men, released in 2004. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Smoky

Sweet

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Plant juice

Black thyme Cedar

Cedar

Heart Notes

Oak

Silver birch Rum

Rum

Beeswax

Base Notes

Coppice

Tonka bean

Perfumers

Christopher Sheldrake, Serge Lutens

Ratings

Scent

7.6175 Ratings

Longevity

8.0132 Ratings

Sillage

6.9125 Ratings

Bottle

8.0117 Ratings

Value for money

6.735 Ratings

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Reviews

19 in-depth fragrance descriptions

09/13/2015

10Scent

ScentFan
336 Reviews

ScentFan

Very helpful Review 6

Birthday Present

You're in the best-smelling forest on the face of the earth, herbs are smoking, someone's opened a bottle of Ponche de Creme. Chêne means oak in French and the woods here are beautiful on first mellow sniff of oak and cedar and birch. Delightful. On skin, the other notes just dance—some sort of greenish plant juice, thyme, rum, OMG! Just delicious. What is coppice? Trees and shrubs cut back to stimulate growth, so it’s a younger, greener wood. Tonka and beeswax, too, mellowing. No raw lumber here. I’m really gaining a new respect for beeswax. This is a gorgeous perfume. It has the authenticity I love in Slumberhouse and D.S. & Durga, rendered with more beauty. After my SL sniff fest, it went to the top of my Wish List and I'm getting it for my birthday. In fact, it's already arrived. Hubby doesn't really want me to open it until then so it sits alluringly on a glass table, winking as I walk by, rustling its branches, throwing woody, herbal kisses, torturing me. Only because I have a decant do I survive. This is possibly the best woody perfume I've smelled so far.

08/25/2015

MasterLi
376 Reviews

MasterLi

Helpful Review 4

Dark, complex & sophisticated...

I'm constantly impressed by the house of Serge Lutens. With each fragrance I am challenged and surprised. Chene is no exception. Like other fragrances from this house, there is no top or middle, just base notes.

Chene is an extremely woody fragrance. But unlike some other "wood-like" fragrances like Tam Dao by Diptyque, which smell of sawdust and furniture polish (an all too literal interpretation of wood in a fragrance), Chene has dark smoky wood. The word itself means "Oak", and it is full of the aroma of Oak which has been smoked and left to soak in rum and cognac for months. It's a beautiful smell. It actually reminds me of Oud (Agarwood), that same old, slightly musty aromatic wood smell. The birchwood and cedar also make an appearance, along with the immortelle and honey. A magnificent combination which coats the wood and gives it a great flavour and aroma. This is why I love fragrances from this house.

I would recommend this as a boozy take on wood. A very refined fragrance which would suit cooler weather best. It suits my tastes perfectly. For me it's worth it. But I would suggest that people try it out under the right conditions first, and try other fragrances from this line too.

05/03/2014

10Scent 5Longevity 5Sillage

WRoth
154 Reviews

WRoth

4

Chêne

This fragrance opens with a woody note which at first is clear and sparkly, like fresh-cut wood and then becomes warm and resinous, like wood that has been left out in the sun to dry. Either way the cedar note is wonderfully done and is enriched by other vegetal notes to give it depth and pungency. This is a very tranquil and evocative fragrance, perfect for slowing down from our hectic modern world. To me smelling this fragrance is comparable to taking a walk through the woods to collect my thoughts. As it dries down, the fragrance does not change much; it gets drier and more intense. Unfortunately, this fragrance does not last very long on my skin. After three hours it has burnt off most of its notes and all there remains is a pale woody shadow. It is nonetheless a gorgeous wood fragrance.

08/21/2022

DGouveia
32 Reviews

DGouveia

2

Time travel

To me, this is a smell and not a perfume but i love it. The contrast between the sharp dry woods, the dirtiness of the smoke and the sweetness of the honey, wax and rum; make this so unique and decadent, i feel transported everytime i wear it. I would say it's very linear, not changing lot, and not the most versatile but it's one of my favourites. Sometimes i just wear it around the house or apply it before i go to sleep.

08/19/2022

9Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

BobbyGee
230 Reviews

BobbyGee

2

Serge Lutens / Chêne

The smell of forest, trees, oaks. You are standing in that old forest by one of them - split in half (probably by lightning) and you breathe in that fresh smell of wood pulp, and in addition, it is raining. The wood is wet, fresh inside and you can also smell the surrounding trees, including birch (bark) and conifers. One of my favorite Lutens

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