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Le Boucanier N•O•A•M 2023

8.5 / 10 70 Ratings

A popular perfume by N•O•A•M for women and men, released in 2023. The scent is smoky-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Smoky

Spicy

Woody

Resinous

Earthy

Fragrance Notes

Caribbean rum

Gun powder

Cinnamon CO2

Cuban cigar

Brown ambergris

Cambodian oud

Caribbean pimento

Ceylonese black pepper

False sandalwood

Hyraceum absolute

Immortelle absolute

Kaffir lime

Timor sandalwood

White ambergris

Atlas cedar

Black tea CO2

Bourbon geranium

Burmese oud

Castoreum

Cedar

Champaca absolute

Coriander

Fenugreek absolute

Fucus absolute

Grapefruit

Indian frankincense

Indian patchouli

Indian vetiver

Jasmine sambac absolute

Longjing tea

Madagascan ylang-ylang

Malayan oud Moss

Moss

Muskrat

Nepalese sichuan pepper

Thai ginger

Turmeric

Vanilla

West indian orange Mezcal

Mezcal

Osmanthus absolute

Ratings

Scent

8.570 Ratings

Longevity

8.459 Ratings

Sillage

7.660 Ratings

Bottle

7.741 Ratings

Value for money

7.822 Ratings

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Reviews

5 in-depth fragrance descriptions

06/25/2023

9.5Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

Floyd
580 Reviews

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Floyd

Top Review 50

Île de la Tortue, Antilles, 1650

The three-masted ship lies off Turtle Island. In the dilapidated hull, mist gathers, and in the heat, the mezcal condenses its earthy cloak over my eyes. Soon they are clouded by its smoke. At the railing, lime pearls shimmer like dew drops in the sunlight over the waves. From the deck, salty, humid swirls blow the spray and seaweed over the cargo, the remnants of gunpowder in the cannons smoldering like matches in pepper. The rum barrels still sweat residual alcohol, warm, damp, brown whorls rising over the wooden boxes with cigars, their dark, spicy roasting aromas of coffee and bitter cocoa beans, nuts, and mulchy woods. They cling tightly to the leathery garments, aged from countless adventures, already hanging in tatters, infused with birch oil, the lure of musk, and the shimmering spots of ambergris. Its floral intoxicated tobacco balm blankets its bouquet over the tropical wood planks. Drunk on the mists of the spoils in the ship's belly, in clothes that stand on their own, I will likely go hunting again tomorrow.
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New Oceans And Meridians (N.O.A.M. Botanical Perfumes) is an olfactory time-travel agency, departing from familiar shores, creating visually striking art, surrounding you with distant places, enveloping you in adventure, and doing so in an absolutely wearable way. The Swiss label exclusively uses high-quality natural raw materials for its complex compositions. It maintains personal contact with small distilleries, traders, and producers.
This passion and emotion, combined with the necessary refinement and patience in the maturation and composition of the individual notes and accords, also opens up the special associative space of "Le Boucanier," the scent of the privateers' ships of the 17th century. From the complexity of the various components, one believes to perceive different nuances with each wear, an effect that can be attributed to the nature of natural, continuously maturing ingredients, not least also in the sheer quantity of ingredients, which here again creates an astonishingly harmonious, multifaceted overall picture.
Dominating from the start are the rum barrels, aromatic-complex Rhum Agricole Martinique in conjunction with the various dark-spicy, mulchy-earthy tropical woods, initially flanked by bright citrus notes (Kaffir lime), smoky-earthy mezcal, peppery-smoky gunpowder, and salty seaweed (from the Baltic Sea, aged 9 months). The heart is defined by a seven-month-aged Romeo y Julieta Mille Fleurs cigar absolute, nutty-woody, with roasting aromas of coffee and bitter cocoa. This is enriched by also self-aged Canadian castoreum, hyraceum, and musk, which contribute birch-tarry-leathery-animalic zibeton notes and woody-sweet-animalic musk notes. The whole is rounded off in the base by warm tropical and sandalwood, as well as ambrette notes, balsamic bouquet-like, softer tobacco aromas, which could stem from white amber. Tropical flowers, which already subtly resonate in the heart, seem to echo, aligning themselves with the mosses, resins, and sweet grasses under the rum barrel-like, slightly smoky, animalic-leathery, cigar tobacco-dominated overall impression. Moderate in projection but clearly above average in longevity. Another masterpiece!

09/21/2023

8.5Scent 9Longevity 7Sillage

Schoeibksr
19 Reviews

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Schoeibksr

Top Review 34

Pirates Land in the Jungle.

Men, the jungle is slowly coming into view. After weeks of sailing through the salty sea and numerous battles with other crews, our smoky cannons are damaged and our supplies have run low. We must land in the oudy jungle, procure new supplies, and recover. First, extract the balsamic and moist saps of the agarwood tree from the green, pine-covered forest. Use its cedar woods to ignite a smoky campfire. The animals with leather belts listen quietly in the dark. Gather in a circle for a hot recovery drink. Those in the north call it coffee or tea. However, their drinks are too bitter; sweeten it lovingly with cinnamon and vanilla sticks. All that's missing is the cigar and the rum, and we will have the most relaxed evening ever.

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My first NOAM and what a great one it is.
Tested on skin (1x spray) and paper strips (2x sprays).

Skin:

A very complex start that transports me not to the sea but to land in the jungle. Smoky, oudy, and only briefly citrusy. This Cambodian jungle is already delicious.
A minimal fine creaminess comes through - perhaps the sandalwood.
Suddenly, woody-green facets emerge, something between pine and moss.
Along with a salty-smoky amber.
Towards the end, sweet-spicy facets appear, reminiscent of ambered coffee with cinnamon and vanilla. With the pleasant smoke and oud together, it almost resembles oriental bukhoor, thus reminding me of Agar Aura's Al-Arabiya (whose incense aromas I also enjoy very much). A slightly muted woody cedar with sweet-spicy cinnamon and green-forest pine at the very end as the last remnant -> Agar Aura Yellow Kinam.
The ambers and ouds have something of Agar and Ensar. Smoky, cinnamon-spicy, and jungle-green with high quality -> Khmer Kinams Cambodi. The other notes (cinnamon, smoke, moss, etc.) only enhance their natural incense aromas -> just like in Al-Arabiya.

Paper:

At the beginning, citrusy-clove-smoky-oudy. A drinkable, moist jungle. Quickly takes on an animal-leathery facet, like tarry animals. This remains for a long time, likely due to the 2 sprays + paper. Very dense - like Dixit & Zak's Hindi Tabac.
Balsamic incense, sandalwood, cinnamon, and other spicy notes provide comforting incense aromas with the tobacco.
The green pines and moss take their time but become increasingly noticeable. They bring lightness, relaxation, and a connection to nature with the tea into the otherwise dense composition. Like a large tiger that can retract its claws and cuddle. This makes the composition with the sweet spice of cinnamon and vanilla, along with light coffee-bukhoor vibes towards the end, surprisingly wearable.
If I had to guess where the green-woody pine and jungle come from based on the notes and my experience, it is probably the oud, which I often perceived similarly in Cambodian scents, as well as the earthy drydown.
Now and then, smoky-salty aromas flash, which I would attribute to the amber and tobacco. Could the tarry smoke come from gunpowder? I think it’s more from the little creatures. The flowers take a back seat; they have no chance in this wild party, which I, as a flower-hater, find just great - this is not floral at all :D
You can tell someone tried to mix everything they love into a blend in its natural form. Fortunately, they succeeded absolutely, and it aligns very well with my taste.
Regarding the pirate theme: It’s well captured -> salt, smoke, and rum. Still, I picture myself more in the jungle because of the prominent ouds and green facets (which I love).

I preferred the test on skin more, as it was not so tarry-leathery-animalic and instead more oudy and green-cinnamony like Agar Aura. Perhaps it would have been the same on paper with just 1 spray, as everything took a bit longer. The dosage has a significant impact on what stands out and for how long. Especially with such dense and natural compositions. Moreover, scents develop very quickly on my skin (maybe because I constantly sniff? :D). Then there’s my skin chemistry to consider. Mine was lucky ;) I have to keep sniffing the drydown.

Qualitatively, you can't really get much more out of a fragrance: Many wonderful naturals. As for the blending: Excellent. Complex with development, always pleasant, and very much to my taste.
I would associate it with autumn/winter.
Longevity is very good, sillage is good. It doesn’t shout at the surroundings but rather enchants them invitingly.
The fragrance is unisex for me due to its connection to nature.
Love oud. Love smoke. Smooth with sweet-spicy and green facets made into a harmonious blend. Special and wearable at the same time. That’s how it should be.

A hot-arr Wint-arr candidate-arrr-t. :)

10/02/2024

9Scent

Mairuwa
68 Reviews

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Mairuwa

Very helpful Review 13

Grilled Antillean Beaver - Strictly Vegan

N.O.A.M. sends the discerning customer on "olfactory space-time journeys" (my travel voucher is from Floyd - thank you very much!). These journeys can follow sentimental motifs, as in "Bois Verna," where a Port-au-Prince from 1979 is conjured, when Haiti was still the "Pearl of the Antilles," while the capital today sinks into rampant gang violence. Or it can go the opposite way, as in "Le Boucanier." Here we are still in Haiti, but on the offshore island of Île de la Tortue. Today, this is an escapist Haitopia and the last attempt by the government to somehow exploit the country's tourist potential. Exiled Haitians are to be enticed back to their homeland in a kind of artificial paradise, an island off the island, where one should (still) feel nothing of chaos and violence. However, "Le Boucanier" does not seek to replicate this artificial idyll, but rather traces the notorious past that is equally connected to the island. The name already hints at this: The buccaneers on Hispaniola were originally European settlers who, in the 17th century, worked as privateers and made shipping in the Caribbean unsafe. Thus, the term eventually became synonymous with pirates. And the island, which is the connection, was an important transshipment point for the loot of the privateers at that time.

In this respect, some of the listed notes are quite obvious - rum, for example, even if it comes from Martinique (why not Barbancourt?). A black powder accord strikes the same chord, and one wonders beforehand if that might be a bit too much theatrical thunder. But this gunpowder poses no danger. The note remains rather underlying and subtle, giving the composition a slightly metallic overtone, without the scent ever threatening to drift into the caricatural. The dominant notes are then quite different: On one hand, the fragrance begins fresh and lightly fruity with orange and lime. A rather cozy black tea note combines with it, but soon a beautiful smokiness emerges, which also fits well with the name, as etymologically "Boucanier" comes from the Arawak word "bukan," which refers to a type of grill (even today, "grilled" in Haitian Creole is "boukané"). Along with the smoke comes tobacco, which, according to the manufacturer, comes from a self-created absolute of Cuban Romeo y Julieta Mille Fleurs cigars. As a non-smoker, I can say little about this, but at least in the present scent, it seems very balanced. Silvery, light gunpowder vapors actually drift through the picture at this stage. With the framing story in mind, one might indeed envision the storeroom of an old sailing ship, including noble woods and spices, but this association is by no means mandatory. The reference remains vague enough that one can simply enjoy "Le Boucanier" as a dark, spicy-smoky perfume that can certainly be worn without an eye patch.

The list of notes is, as befits the pirate theme, quite in the style of a treasure chest: overflowing. I do not claim that I could even remotely replicate what is all included here, but some things shine for a moment in fantastic, almost surreal clarity. As in other creations from the house, what is remarkable is that some of these scent impressions pass by like quotes and then disappear, seemingly erratically coming and going. Nevertheless, there remains an all-connecting basic mood (one might call it DNA), which in turn is not linear, but follows an almost classical progression, from fresh to fruity to spicy-smoky, leading to a base that contains not only dark-woody but also leathery-animalistic aspects.

And thus, at the end of what is already almost a hymn-like review, a big question mark appears. "N.O.A.M. Botanical Perfumes" is the full name of the house, and "Le Boucanier" is advertised as "100% Botanical Perfume." Exciting - which ingredient is responsible for the animalistic aspect? There are indeed quite astonishing similarities between some plant-based fragrance materials and animal notes. If we take a closer look at the long list, we find: amber, musk, castoreum, hyraceum. Oops, on which trees do they grow?

Forget it! With the harmonious overall picture, I do not want to be picky. The issue could probably not have been fully understood by anyone in the 17th century anyway. And who would believe that only vegan food was served at the buccaneers' grill?

05/31/2024

8.5Scent 9Longevity 8Sillage

Serenissima
1226 Reviews

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Serenissima

Helpful Review 11

Fragrance Pirate Treasures

A pyramid as rich as the scent "Le Boucanier" once again shows how complex such a composition is:
Here, there are many main paths and even more small and larger side paths to reach the rich finale:
Each fragrance note leads a little closer to the goal and completes the whole.
And yet, the laws of perfume creation have also been adhered to here:
We find a citrusy, spicy top note and a heart note based on tea varieties with strong rose geranium and sensual jasmine nuances, embraced by ylang-ylang flower vines, leading us to a classic base of sandalwood, patchouli, and vetiver alongside warm vanilla and silky woody cedars, all finally danced around by dense clouds of amber and incense.

How many stories, how much suffering and tragedy might these treasures carry within them, which we encounter, united in a kind of "fragrance vault".
A look at all the treasures also traces the routes of the many privateering adventures of the namesake pirates: they made the world's oceans unsafe in every direction.
Thus, one could almost call "Le Boucanier" a "global scent".
From the so fragrance-familiar Mediterranean to the spice-rich Antilles, eastward into the Indian Ocean and as far as the voyages led: nothing was too mundane to take along and ultimately add harmoniously to the whole.

Friends of strong aromas that create new fragrance impressions time and again will find their pleasure here.
The paths this composition conjured on my very cool skin yesterday, where I strolled through citrusy-aromatic, cedar-dusted Hesperides groves around the Mediterranean, are no longer present today.
Suddenly, I find myself in the richly spiced air of the Antilles, it tingles and sparkles in my nose - ginger and pepper announce their presence.
But the sensual vanilla also spreads out and warmly embraces with a full, creamy scent magic.
The primal moisture of the jungle around the Indian Ocean alternates with the grimy oud-soaked alleys of port cities, where dark taverns with naturally excellent alcohol and valuable cigar assortments - both of course smuggled goods - vie for customers.
A bit of "puma cage" is naturally also included; nothing goes without a touch of animalic.

An olfactory world journey of the most diverse aromas has been created here by fragrance pirates; rich, exciting, and always new.
Fresh and salty, fruity, floral, down to dark, grimy scent areas.
No day I wore "Le Boucanier" has been like the other: fragrance facets alternate and continually create new images from all these different components.

They have certainly taken their time with this extraordinary longevity; there seems to be no standstill in the scent here; at least not on my skin.
But that is known to be somewhat special.

It is definitely worth taking a sniff into the cave of these fragrance pirates.
It would be a shame to be deterred by the multitude of fragrance notes:
In the end, it is all about the harmonious whole.
Back in elementary school, when math was still just simple arithmetic, a teacher once said: What matters is what is under the line; the way there is secondary.
Well, nothing is secondary among the numerous fragrance ingredients here:
"Le Boucanier" is complete, a kind of "fragrance chameleon" and extremely pleasant to wear, even if not exactly everyday.

Curious ones: A fragrance adventure calls!

07/15/2023

9Scent 7Longevity 8Sillage

Paacho
1 Review

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Paacho

The Freebooter

Cannon shots echo through the night, accompanied by the intoxicating wafts of freshly burned gunpowder. The captain makes his way to the railing, a glowing cigar in his mouth. A breeze of salty sea air brushes his face. The crew cheers wildly as the British Army ship finally sinks. The cork of the rum bottle pops and is passed around with shouts from man to man. A whale accompanies the ship and disappears with a final spout into the dark blue.

This masterpiece transported me directly onto a pirate ship in the Caribbean, starting with gunpowder and cigar-like notes. Slowly, rum joins in. Over time, it becomes a bit seaweedy and saltier, partly also sweet/ambery? I also smell something animalic, but my nose is probably not trained enough to recognize more. Nevertheless, it was a pleasure to discover the scent and this house, and I am already looking forward to more. A must-have in every treasure chest ;)

Statements

34 short views on the fragrance

AlexD76

1 year ago

9.5Scent 9Longevity 9Sillage

A smoky, spicy scent that evokes the spirit of the Caribbean. It features notes of rum, gunpowder and Cuban cigar, as well as oud, ambergris

Seejungfrau

2 years ago

8.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Seaweed-spiced freedom under skies full of limes•Nolde•clouds.
Romeo y Julieta Mille Fleurs cigars drying to the rhythm of the waves.

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Axiomatic

2 years ago

7.5Scent 8Longevity 7Sillage

Amid sour citrus waves, the old wooden brig fights against...
... smoky mutineers!
Neo-Mezcal to extinguish? *

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Eggi37

2 years ago

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Ahoy sailor
Away with the fizzy drinks
Pepper cannonballs are raining down
The wooden mast is already smoldering
We'll end up as algae food for amber whales

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