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Bread in Chestnut Scents of Wood 2022

7.8 / 10 59 Ratings

A popular perfume by Scents of Wood for women and men, released in 2022. The scent is woody-spicy. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Gourmand

Sweet

Resinous

Fragrance Notes

French bran absolute

New Caledonian sandalwood

Frankincense

Chestnut

Cardamom

Patchouli

Siam benzoin

Tonka bean absolute

Tunisian rosemary

Perfumer

Meabh McCurtin

Ratings

Scent

7.859 Ratings

Longevity

7.249 Ratings

Sillage

6.649 Ratings

Bottle

8.243 Ratings

Value for money

6.125 Ratings

Submitted by MiniGBIC · last update on 08/04/2025.

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Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/17/2025

Alexlinhcao
121 Reviews

Alexlinhcao

1

Bread in Chestnut — A Unique Delight

As a fan of all carbohydrates, finding a rice or bread-oriented scent has been on my fragrance to-do list. This one is delightful. Oddly enough, depending on the day or when I'm sniffing it, it swings between both sweet and savory baked goods. On first wear, it immediately smelled like a cinnamon raisin loaf, and on the next, like a rosemary herb focaccia. Either way, it's inviting, cozy, and simultaneously both familiar yet unique in its breadiness.

If there's anything I had to dock points for, it's intensity. I usually don't mind a weaker scent and I'm normally happy to take scents as they are. But for something so unusual and pleasant, I find myself desperately wanting MORE of it.

10/09/2024

8Scent 6Longevity 5Sillage

Xcx
4 Reviews

Xcx

1

im a bakery

how gorgeous! you start off with the rosemary/cardamom and a tiny bit of sweetness, giving it a very slight savoury initial waft, and it transforms into a gorgeous nutty, wheat-y, tonka bean-y bread aroma. obviously gourmand, but not deathly sweet, with enough savoury elements to balance everything. like a renowned brioche bakery that makes almond croissants too. truly beautiful. it ends with a sandalwood dry down. it's very good and worth hunting down, just wish it lasted longer/projected more!

09/14/2023

9.5Scent 7Longevity 6Sillage

KathrynA66
46 Reviews

KathrynA66

Very helpful Review 5

Beautiful Bran

This is a marvelous, semi-gourmand fragrance. I say "semi-gourmand" because, while there are definite gourmand elements from the chestnut, bran, rosemary and spices, the woody and resinous notes bring a beautiful but non-edible accord.

Regardless of how one wishes to classify this fragrance, it's a new love for me. I've been looking for a fragrance with a strong, realistic grain note, as they often get lost on me, and this fragrance fits the bill perfectly. The bran absolute lingers on me throughout most of the life of the fragrance.

I adore the combination of bran, chestnut and spices. Cardamom is everywhere these days, but it works perfectly here. It's SO autumn, but this fragrance is definitely wearable in other seasons. The rosemary is a nice touch, but I get very little patchouli, only a bit of an earthy quality. The sandalwood/benzoin/tonka drydown is very nice, even if it pulls this fragrance away from (but not completely out of) the gourmand category for me.

Bread in Chestnut is unisex. It is a cozy, natural, comfortable fragrance and performs reasonably well, although projection and sillage could be better. It smells fantastic but is quite expensive.

06/28/2023

8Scent 8Longevity 8Sillage

Landshark321
748 Reviews

Landshark321

4

Spicy, bready, elegant

Scents of Wood Bread in Chestnut is aptly named, a moderately-spiced bready, nutty blend, rounded out by tonka, olibanum, rosemary, sandalwood, and patchouli, a heterogenous woody, resinous, spicy mix that doesn’t lean too sweet, even slightly savory, with the rosemary oil and patchouli, albeit not fully a gourmand, particularly given the resinous aspects. It does not have a single aspect that’s as recognizable as say, the maple sugary in Praline in Maple, but it keeps in proportion an artful balance of distinct accords. Overall, I find it quite lovely and enjoy it as something gourmand-suggestive while not being too heavy, sweet, or spicy, but rather quite elegant.

Like most of the line, Bread in Chestnut is priced at $240/38 for 75/10ml, sold via the house website and great boutiques like Perfumology, where I bought my 10ml bottles, a great option to try (or have travel sizes for) a greater number of scents at once.

8 out of 10