Collection Extraordinaire

Bois Doré Van Cleef & Arpels 2017

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8.3 / 10 741 Ratings

A popular perfume by Van Cleef & Arpels for women and men, released in 2017. The scent is sweet-woody. It is being marketed by Inter Parfums.
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Main accords

Sweet

Woody

Spicy

Creamy

Powdery

Fragrance Pyramid

Top Notes

Mineral notes

Pepper

Heart Notes

Vanilla

Cedarwood

Base Notes

Tonka bean absolute

White musk

Perfumer

Fabrice Pellegrin

Ratings

Scent

8.3741 Ratings

Longevity

7.9661 Ratings

Sillage

7.3656 Ratings

Bottle

8.4619 Ratings

Value for money

7.7382 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 03.04.2024.

Interesting Facts

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

Reviews

15 in-depth fragrance descriptions

07/06/2019

8
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Sweetsmell75
21 Reviews

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Sweetsmell75

Top Review 50

Tonka on warm skin

Bois Dore catches me every summer :)
I think it's because of these mineral notes that give me this summer feeling.
(between salty and sandy)
*Turquoise water - ice cream - sandy beach - the salty taste of sunny skin*

To the fragrance:
Bois Dore starts dry powdery with mineral notes. A peppery spice is also at the start and soon fine vanilla appears.
Holzig wird´s in the further course of fragrance. Fortunately, the cashmeran doesn't get on my nerves here.
A good shot of musk accompanies the dry powdery tonka bean, carried by wood, into the base. Musk and Tonka are always a great couple!
Bois Dore is creamy-dry powdery woody and despite vanilla and tonka rather unsweet.
The mineral notes remain in the fragrance, which I think is so beautiful and maybe that's why this Tonkaduft fits so well on warm skin.
A fragrance for the whole year (except when the temperature climbs to 30 degrees) but I think it can't unfold in cool temperatures. (For me personally the somewhat different summer scent - it doesn't always have to be fresh lemon!)
Shelf life is around 9 hours - the Sillage is outstanding. Too much sprayed kann´s sometimes happen that the Tonka starts to nerve ... less is more here ;)
In any case unisex!
The bottle in black piano lacquer is beautiful and simple.

Conclusion:
Summer feeling with mineral notes ... Tonka on warm skin!
Spicy- woody - dry powdery- unsweet
Tonka and musk are always an ingenious couple!

Shush dare you :)
(Tauer´s L'Eau is also such a summer candidate that falls out of line) !

11/23/2020

10
Bottle 10
Sillage 10
Longevity 10
Scent

TinkiB
10 Reviews

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TinkiB

Top Review 36

On your knees...

I only recently discovered the house of Van Cleef & Arpels and now I already have 5 fragrances of the brand. Thanks to 4 days of home office a week, this is only semi worth it ;) Well I don't know about you guys, but my hobby really helped me in this Corona time. Actually, my hobby became really "extreme" only through Corona. When the slight depression comes, because you haven't experienced anything this year and you can't plan anything, I just sniff the new and old scents and every time someone gets me down again. The Bois Doré in particular. It is so incredibly warm, soothing and pleasant. I really lose myself in this fragrance. That warm vanilla and those wonderful woody notes. I always love musk anyway. The scent is also unisex. Which I also like, because I can't stand scents that are too sweet. I immediately fell in love with this fragrance and of course I had to test it in public. 1* office a week - it really has to be planned which scent is allowed ;) Bois Doré of course made it outside and that day I got 4 compliments. So Sillage seems to be good. Also the durability is mega. After 12 hours I could still smell it on my skin. I can only recommend this fragrance. Close your eyes and switch off.

09/27/2021

10
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 10
Scent

Schnupperl
30 Reviews

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Schnupperl

Top Review 27

LOVE

This fragrance I now own for about 1 year.
I had written a statement at the time, this now deleted but since this fragrance is worthy of a review :).
I was very interested in this fragrance for many months.
Only unfortunately there was never a bottling here in the souk.
However, since I LOVED tonka bean (one of my favorite fragrances), I had to have it and bought a bottle blind here at the Souk.
I was so excited when the package was then on my kitchen table.
I opened it greedily.
This fragrance had already been used and so I knew that you can already guess something of the fragrance at the atomizer.
The cap was hastily removed, off to the trunk and sniffed.
OH MY GOD...
I could perceive him at the atomizer super.
And what I smelled, hit me right in the heart.
It was LOVE AT THE FIRST SQUEAK!
I wore this fragrance last fall/winter and I will again this time :).
For me, this tonka bean is the most beautiful I have smelled so far (even ahead of Feve Delicieuse by Dior ---> and I already think this tonka bean is great).
Bois Dore is for me tonka bean in perfection!
It is accompanied by a beautiful vanilla, a soft almond, great woody hints and a touch of tobacco (at least I feel so, at fragrantica is also tobacco as a note with specified).
A beautiful and great succeeded sweet-woody and creamy fragrance.
I love this beauty!
Oh no, "love" is greatly understated...
I adore this beauty!

Who loves tonka bean as much as I do, should test it.
Have no fear of the woody notes, this is so wonderfully soft in this fragrance and harmonizes perfectly with the mix of tonka vanilla almond.

02/13/2021

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Pricing 10
Bottle 8
Sillage 9
Longevity 9
Scent

Favea
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Favea

Top Review 23

A sticking plaster for the soul

Finally I had time and opportunity to test Bois Doré in detail. Even the frosty cold weather of these days fits wonderfully to this fragrance. Not because Bois Doré would be a cool fragrance - no, quite the opposite, it is a warm, enveloping soul fragrance.
In the first moment after spraying on, comes to me a smell of original Hansaplast sticking plaster (the brown, on the large rolls), which is probably due to the "mineral notes".
But very quickly, a warm, moderately sweet vanilla comes in, which along with an aromatic, woody aroma, soothes the "sticking plaster". Kind of like when parents sing a "Heal, Heal, Bless" to their kids after they've been patched up - I'm immediately soothed and captured by this soft scent. The discreet, comforting vanilla is supported but soon by a real powerful tonka bean, which motivates so rousing, with its balsamic scent, that you completely forget his "sticking plaster injury", and only warm, happy and radiant tonka vanilla feels.

Bois Doré is a wonderful fragrance. Strong, soft and blissful. Nicely balanced - of nothing too much (unless you have an aversion to tonka or vanilla), but also well perceived, both for himself and for his environment. Lasts at least 7 hours, more likely longer, but then subtle. I feel him by the mineral subnote also not as extremely sweet - warm meets it in my eyes rather.
A comforting fragrance in fine black bottle for cold days when you want a hug.

09/18/2020

Shiobahn
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Shiobahn

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very rare hours

i had when i was 11 years old, when i was with my dad. he remarried and i waited for moments alone with him. between us there was this silence in which so much emotion was screaming. so child i did not dare to say what i felt - later not to spare him. at 19 he took his own life.

christmas... everything is so festive and people are so careful in their dealings with each other. coffee and cake, christmas music, quiet conversations of trivialities - the typical hwg sentences. and if you are very quiet you can hear the pain behind it. old man... vca gave me a nice slap in the face with this credenz.

now i am sitting here with bois dorè on my arm and sniffing through the memories. with my neck tied and my cheeks wet. a good little therapy water to get rid of the "old burden"....

... such scents are 2 more that flash me. haeven from chopard - my first man who died too early and sun man from e.arden - my second one who fell in love with me.

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