Bois d'Ombrie Eau d'Italie 2006

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Bois d'Ombrie is a perfume by Eau d'Italie for women and men and was released in 2006. The scent is woody-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still available to purchase. Pronunciation

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Perfumer

Bertrand Duchaufour

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Cognac, Carrot, Calamus
Heart Notes	Iris, Leather, Copaiba balsam
Base Notes	Opoponax, Patchouli, Tobacco, Vetiver

Ratings

Scent

7.178 Ratings

Longevity

8.058 Ratings

Sillage

6.651 Ratings

Bottle

6.256 Ratings

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 23.04.2021.

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04/23/2021

9
Scent 9
Longevity 10
Bottle

Intersport

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Helpful Review 4

Memphis Integrale

Memphis Milano, Post Design and the like. That's what I think of when I pick up the bottle of Bois d'Ombrie. A heavy, angular bottle, the two stickers, in Bordeaux and green, dark but still tending towards pastel, a vertically warped typography that all Swiss design bureaus would classify as pure heresy and on top a lid with stamped manufacturer's name carried by two late baroque sirens. If the original bottle of YSL's Jazz - black and white, plastic, zigzag shape - is the quintessential Memphis bottle although it was released in 1988, the bottles of Eau d'Italie clearly refer to the post-Memphis phase of the 80's in Italy. The brand, a by-product of an artisto-design-boutique hotel on the Amalfi Coast, and has one of Bertrand Duchaufour's most accomplished and elaborate perfumes in Bois d'Ombrie. In Duchaufour's manner, the perfume is meticulously tightly woven, playful, surreal-hyperrealistic, explicitly synthetic as well as artificial. I smell not so much concrete forest as a construction that could easily stand alongside Kyoto, Sequoia, Rosewood, Calamus or even Dzonga. Earth, thunder, smoke, cognac, iris, vetiver, none of it explicit and with many shades in between that make it hard to grasp as a whole after all. Superb!

10/01/2018

1
Scent

Greenfaerie
79 Reviews

Greenfaerie

I smell like nachos! Ick!

What on earth is this horrid note or ingredient that is featured in this perfume and in Coven that smells like I rubbed green bell pepper all over myself?! I don't get any of the other notes. I smell like a box of nachos with slices of jalapeno on top. I wanted so badly to get the dampness and earthiness that I have read others get, but as I already said, this is green, spicy bell pepper with a dash of jalapeno on me. One of the worst scents imaginable. Repulsive.

07/10/2018

6.5
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage

Maryam1410

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6

Tobacco pouches in the 80s

Back in the 80s, we couldn't afford filter cigarettes. The tobacco for turning was stored in a leather case. the leaves in the tobacco pouch. So that the tobacco did not dry out, a piece of apple was gladly put into it. That's how Bois d'Ombrie smells to me. A memory of old times, but nothing I like to wear as a fragrance. Very masculine, in any case. For men with beards and lumberjack shirts. Not for the gentleman in the suit. I'd even like the scent on such a nature-loving guy in his log cabin in the vastness of Canada. I'd find him uncomfortable with a businessman.

01/28/2015

LicoriceRain
57 Reviews

LicoriceRain

1

A weaker, although more pleasant, imitation of Arabie?

Bois d’Ombrie reminds me of Arabie, and other Serge Lutens fragrances, because of that powdery/watery base. I am actually wearing Bois d’Ombrie on one hand, and Arabie on the other. The Bd’O drydown is more pleasant than Arabie, but that isn’t saying much because it is still drowning in watery powder, and quite anemic. I prefer Sienne L'Hiver over Bois d’Ombrie because of its unique olive note, although it’s drowning, too. After about an hour, Arabie is still going strong, but Bd’O has faded into nothing more than a skin scent. Maybe it isn’t fair to compare these 2, but to MY nose, Bois d’Ombrie is a weaker, although more pleasant, imitation of Arabie.

01/26/2014

7
Scent

Oberon21
47 Reviews

Oberon21

Bois d'Ombrie

really don't like it so much too much smoky and woody for my nose otherwise it seems to me quite linear and boring on my skin

01/29/2012

6
Scent 7.5
Longevity 5
Sillage

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

2

A Fragrant Road Worth Travelling

Eau d'Italie BOIS D'OMBRIE opens powerfully with an intense and complex leather, wood, and myrrh amalgam which I'd almost describe as Sergesque. The myrrh, in particular, has a rubbery scent on my skin and makes this seem dubiously unisex, at least initially. It would probably appeal to butch biker chick, but not really to me.

Later, however, BOIS D'OMBRIE becomes much smoother and more inviting to my nose. At this point, I begin to catch tiny wafts of Cognac, benzoin, and tobacco and, at last, a touch of florality, though I wouldn't necessarily have identified it as iris without prompting.

The lovely drydown is definitely more unisex than the opening, and I can understand how and why so many people have fallen in love with this Bertrand Duchaufour creation. A fragrant road well worth travelling!