Bois Farine L'Artisan Parfumeur (2003)

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Bois Farine is a perfume by L'Artisan Parfumeur for women and men and was released in 2003. The scent is woody-powdery. It is being marketed by Puig.

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Perfumer

Jean-Claude Ellena

Fragrance Notes

Top Notes	Grapefruit, Fennel seed
Heart Notes	Iris, Ambrette seed, Wheat, Grain
Base Notes	Benzoin, Gaiac wood, Sandalwood, Cedarwood

Ratings

Scent

7.3 (236 Ratings)

Longevity

7.0 (176 Ratings)

Sillage

5.6 (162 Ratings)

Bottle

7.7 (153 Ratings)

Submitted by DonVanVliet, last update on 28.04.2020.

Interesting Facts

Perfumer Jean-Claude Ellena drew his inspiration from the Ruizia Cordata tree, which is only found in Réunion Island. The tree's tiny red flowers surprisingly have a starchy scent, redolent of flour.

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01/08/2019

8
Scent 6
Longevity 4
Sillage 6
Bottle

StellaDiverF
213 Reviews

StellaDiverF

Eccentric Woody Gourmand

The opening of Bois Fariné definitely reminds me of some bread or cakes that I smelt before. I don't think it smells like peanut butter or nutella on me. I just can't put my finger on it! (What on earth is it? It's driving me crazy! Grrrrrr....... =A=)

After about 3 or 4 hours, the benzoin loses its power on the fragrance. The sandalwoods and other woodsy notes become more prominent. The scent also turns slightly sour on me. The powdery aspect is noticeable but not aggressive.

The sillage is soft but the scent stays solid along the wearing. The longevity is around 6 hours on me. Actually, Bois Fariné doesn't evoke much emotion to me. I'm attracted by the scent itself as it smells just so interesting and addictive. It definitely worths at least a try!

11/13/2018

6
Scent 8
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle

Nofretete

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Nofretete

Top Review 17

Journey to the land of the baker's flower

Bois farine begins surprisingly, even overwhelmingly. It smells penetratingly of damp flour, a little later of popcorn, fat-free and slightly salted, with a mineral, earthy note of wet clay fragments. Original is that undoubtedly, but portable or pleasant?

With time, the flour note becomes austere and stale, pressing it lies on the central floral chord. Dark iris root is accompanied by marzipan heliotrope, at the same time flowery light and powdery heavy. Gradually the cereal muffle gives way, finally letting the beautiful floweriness come to the fore. As a contrast to the violent opening, the fragrance ends gently and flatteringly. The velvety, sweet benzoe-guaiac wood mixture is covered with a hint of light flowers until the end.

Who doesn't like to indulge in travel memories! Mr. Ellena created a perfume from his impressions of the island state La Réunion with its exotic vegetation and the French-influenced Creole culture. With Bois Farine he has set a monument to the endemic flour blossom tree, which almost died out at the turn of the millennium, and created an unusual fragrance work of art.

Nevertheless I would rather look at photos of La Réunion and eat a pastry instead of perfuming myself with flour pollen. Or rather: travel there yourself and smell these extraordinary tree blossoms in the Botanical Garden.

15 Replies

04/30/2018

9
Scent 7
Longevity 7
Sillage 7
Bottle

Augusto

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Augusto

Top Review 13

Painted blossom powder plant

AugustA had expected something completely unusual, something bulky, very strange (always positive for me) on the border to the unwearable What I get when spraying on is: roasted flour, iris powder with a slight sweetness of bread transformed into energy - quite prosaically also called starch, yes, indeed. And it smells good, not sour or after dinner with tired faces. The fact that it is outside the scope of cosmetics is the strength of the fragrance. Trust and fragrance is spreading. But also slight astonishment. With today's flood of gourmand, no one finds food in a fragrance strange anymore, but this fragrance has a special and different scent than the well-known iris elegance.

Slightly fresh and spicy with the fennel seed at the beginning, then roasted cereals in the transition to the heart note, but all with the woody florality of the iris - in the end it is once again an iris scent that convinces me.

The woods mentioned for the base are interwoven with these facets, do not become too harsh, yet have some edge, but also sweetness. Guaiac and sandalwood are often sweetish to me, benzoin anyway, dryness from the cedar, which goes well with the flour dust, but adds some light freshness.

So the perfumer found a plant on one of his travels whose flowers smell of flour. Ruizia Cordata, the plant with the red flowers, comes from the island of Réunion. It is reflected in the fragrance as an image - a powdered flour plant. Lightly flavoured and better tolerated with a little fresh fennel. Smells very good and is extremely portable! Not obtrusive - an Ellena would never be like that - consistently beautiful, pictorially it always brings itself to mind. You smell with every breath. Every breath a colour, a brushstroke. Just as this perfumer always paints with the scents for my senses. Not cosmetics. It's the big picture. You're the perfume when you wear it. Art, yes, a work of art
Shelf life approx. 6 hours, Sillage low, but noticeable. A very nice scent!

3 Replies

05/01/2014

1
Scent 5
Longevity 2.5
Sillage 5
Bottle

WRoth
153 Reviews

WRoth

Bois Farine

This fragrance starts with an accord that smells like flour, salt and nuts. It is rather dry and indeed reminiscent of peanut butter. As the fragrance progresses the woodsy notes appear, mainly sandalwood with a dash of iris to make it more creamy-powdery and peppery cedar wood. Once its has reached this stage, the fragrance stays the same until fades. I have to say this is a really odd wood fragrance unlike most others I have encountered.

02/09/2013

10
Scent

TeaWithMilk
27 Reviews

TeaWithMilk

Helpful Review 4

Palo Santo Sticks

I love palo santo, or "holy wood," and I have a lot of the raw wood as well as the pure essential oil. It is difficult to describe the scent of it, but I will try. It's definitely woody; but not dark like oud. It's naturally sweet only to the extent that it's not bitter or dry like cedar or birch. It smells a bit creamy and smoky too, although these attributes are subtle.

Bois Farine, my friends, is not farine at all. It's pure palo santo in a bottle. Ok there might be a few extra notes, like some powdery florals, but all in all, this is nearly identical to my palo santo wood and oil. I never thought I would be able to find this wood so prominently in any perfume, so I am thrilled to have found Bois Farine.

SUMMARY: Holy moly, this wood is good

2 Replies

01/26/2013

jtd
484 Reviews

jtd

Helpful Review 5

not the skin scent i was looking for

I've been thinking about how I'd write about Bois Farine. It's novel, it's interesting in light of Ellena's other work. It's got a hefty dose of that jolie-laide thing that made whole eras (80s) and genres (fruity chypres) of perfumery interesting. Hell, I like it. It drives a herky-jerky line between starched and savory.

I wore it today to a basic life support re-certification class today. As it turns out, we had to demonstrate more than explain today. About 4 minutes into my first round of chest compressions, at the sweat point, I started to smell as if I'd been hiding peanut butter sandwiches under my arms. It was a 3 hour class. I don't think my classmates enjoyed the nouvelle-gourmande experience so much.

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02/12/2012

8
Scent 5
Longevity 5
Sillage 10
Bottle

Sherapop
1239 Reviews

Sherapop

Helpful Review 2

Flour Implies Baking Implies Mother Implies Safety

Imagine a pile of white flour in the middle of a sawmill that processes dark wood trees into planks to be used to build stable and secure houses in the country that are havens from metropolitan madness. L'Artisan Parfumeur BOIS FARINE smells literally just like that.

I am not one to be seduced by names--I often take issue with them--so I do not believe that my experience of BOIS FARINE is being caused by my belief that this edt should smell, as advertised, like "woods of flour" or "flour forest" or "woody flour". And yet it does!

This is a comfort scent, to be sure. A warm woody unisex linear that imparts a sense of protection. The flour note (not listed, but somehow emergently created from other components...) manages to subliminally evoke the image of a big baking kitchen in which white flour abounds. Flour implies baking implies mother implies safety.

Yes, BOIS FARINE really is a warm, woody, flour-y comfort scent that would appeal to men and women alike. No need to chain your doors!

02/04/2012

5
Scent 5
Longevity 7.5
Sillage 5
Bottle

Lola82
362 Reviews

Lola82

Bois Farine

The Opening reminds of a white chocolate with almonds. very refined
and stately like a elegant white gown
going to a cotillion during the 1900's in the deep south this perfume is ideal for southren belles it's subtile ladylike and sweet like the legendary georgia trees this might be the perfume that blanche du bois wore.
it's a little to tame for Scarlet o' Hara And way to tame for blanche devereaux. this has a southren elegance to it.