Bois d'Ébène Matière Première 2019

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7.9 / 10 225 Ratings

Bois d'Ébène is a popular perfume by Matière Première for women and men and was released in 2019. The scent is woody-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Woody

Spicy

Resinous

Creamy

Smoky

Fragrance Notes

Paraguayan gaiac wood

Brazilian cabreuva

Nagarmotha

Indonesian patchouli

Perfumer

Aurélien Guichard

Videos

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Ratings

Scent

7.9225 Ratings

Longevity

8.0196 Ratings

Sillage

7.3198 Ratings

Bottle

7.9184 Ratings

Value for money

7.0139 Ratings

Submitted by OPomone, last update on 27.03.2024.

Reviews

4 in-depth fragrance descriptions

10/06/2023

ScentStudio
141 Reviews

ScentStudio

2

Beautiful woody fragrance

Bois d'Èbéne has a sweet, pleasant, woody and unisex opening. A note of smoke slowly creeps to the surface turning the scent to a more masculine fragrance, but it is still very wearable and elegant.

With Bois d'Èbéne we are, however, back to the profile of Matiere Premiere; easy, likable fragrances. Something about it, once again, reminds me of another fragrance, but I cannot remember which. It must be the patchouli, which I finally have learned to identify.
I loved Radical Rose for the surprise that it gave me, but Bois d'Èbéne is far more my style and the composition I usually lean towards. Deep, mysterious, sexy.

On paper, the fragrance is aromatic with a clear note of juniper that did not appear on my skin at all. This profile turns the fragrance completely masculine to me smelling like a fresh cologne.

Another characteristic I've notice about Matiere Premiere, is that the fragrances are veryª faint. Maybe my nose gets used to them very quickly, but I am lacking the sillage. I feel like I would have liked them more if I could actually smell them on me, but they remain an ambiance in the background during the day.

A little anecdote I would like to add is that I visited my parents and my mom immediately complimented my fragrance and exclaimed "what are you wearing!?". Upon second thought, Bois d'Èbéne is actually a fragrance I would consider adding to my collection.

02/20/2022

Razvanyke
197 Reviews

Razvanyke

2

A nice woody start

This is a nice woody start followed up by some undefined smell after, I can say that it is dark and mysterious but in the drydown it becomes something hard to follow, for me.

I had the chance to try it and I was excited to feel the first blast of this scent, but after a bit .. it became slighty generic for my taste. It is not a bad scent, by no means .. but I am not yet sure if it´s for me.

07/21/2021

7
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Jazzbob
76 Reviews

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Jazzbob

Top Review 54

The Scent Detective - Ebony

For Bois d'Ébène, its creator Aurélien Guichard gives only four notes, which are supposed to give a dark, amber woody scent and which immediately made me take a closer look at what was actually going on here...

THE CASE EBENHOLZ

It is always exciting to observe how much marketing is done to almost every single perfume and how many people question that too little. For example, one hears with all the YouTubern almost exclusively formulations such as "this fragrance has ... in it" / "this contains ...". Fragrance notes primarily describe what is to be perceived, not necessarily what is actually used. Real rose absolute, for example, is much too expensive to be contained in so many perfumes. Ultimately, also only the question is important:

What do I smell?

With Bois d'Ébène, I immediately thought that the fragrance as a whole seemed very familiar. It essentially acts like the base accord of some woody, sweetened perfumes. In short, I perceive the following facets:

- the volatile (!) Top note is slightly ethereal resinous and cardamom comes to mind
- dry cedar wood or lightly scorched gujac wood
- a sandalwood component like Javanol
- a strong ambery facet, but not as clean as pure ambroxan, but discreetly dirty near the skin, which leads me to conclude Cetalox
- something sweet and creamy that was probably added in the form of vanillin and tonka bean (coumarin)

The color association to the precious ebony is thus quite appropriate, since the woods already seem a bit darker overall, but get a cozy atmosphere through the sweetish-creamy counterpole. But what is it about the notes that the perfumer indicates?

In a short video, he presents the fragrance concept (https://vimeo.com/375868040). The main ingredient, he says, is the dark and smoky guaiac wood from Paraguay, while Indonesian patchouli and cypriol (Nagarmotha) are said to intensify the fragrance and make it more earthy. Brazilian Cabreuva, on the other hand, would reinforce the amber facets and have an almost malty quality. If you pause at 0:49, however, you can read the handwritten components:

Ambroxan
Cypriol Essence
Iso E Super
Vertofix Coeur
Cashmeran
Cedramber
Amber Core

(Base Potion)

So it's pretty clear that Bois d'Ébène seems so familiar to me because it contains so many aromachemicals that are quasi-omnipresent in the world of woody/amber fragrances. Whether Aurélien Guichard now uses no essences of guaiac wood, patchouli and cabreuva, of course, can not be deduced exactly from this, but it just clarifies for us what I explained at the beginning.

Geographical information on the fragrances let them possibly not only appear more authentic, but also the clientele sometimes think, it would have been processed raw materials from all over the world. I want to put here in no way in denial that this also happens very often, but at the same time contribute something to the demystification of some evening adventurous, inventive fragrance pyramids. (Currently, for example, only 21 other fragrances can be found on Parfumo, where Cabreuva is indicated as a note.)

In my opinion, Bois d'Ébène is nevertheless successful, because it delivers what it promises - to be a dark, amber woody fragrance. No more and no less. Because it is relatively linear, one should already engage in at least one complete test day before buying it, to determine whether it does not become too monotonous in the long run. Because he creates a fairly long-lasting, moderate sillage, which make him a versatile companion in the colder seasons.

EDIT 04/05/2022:

In the livestream of Persolaise on YouTube, Aurélien Guichard answered (diplomatically) my question about how many natural ingredients he uses for the fragrance: he elaborated that his intention was to make guaiac wood (the main ingredient), darker and he deliberately resorted to cypriol and patchouli for that, and cabreuva as another wood. Synthetic ingredients are necessary to create a modern perfume and he does not think much of purely natural perfumes (which hardly exist).

01/30/2021

Wayofscent
54 Reviews

Wayofscent

Helpful Review 4

Gentle amber!

First impression based on blotter provided.

Interesting, dark and ambery gentle wood! I feel this one really do great stuff on your skin. This is a rich amber fragrance. Patchouli here is not damp, dark and wet. It's more drier and mixed with main players like Guaiac wood and amber is giving this composition nice rounded feel! I'd love to try it on my skin to get the full experience!