Bois D'Argent

Bois D'Argent

Dior
Year: 2004
Perfumer: Annick Ménardo
77.5 /100
(2 reviews)

Vibe Composition

Musky
Woody
Powdery
Herbal
Metallic
Vanilla
Balsamic
Resinous

Notes

Top Notes

Yemenite frankincense

Middle Notes

Somalian myrrhFlorentine iris absoluteIndonesian patchouli

Base Notes

Woody notesHoneyAmberWhite muskLeather

Community Votes

Gender:
Unisex
Value:
Fair Value
Seasons:
🍂 Fall (100%)
Occasions:
🕯️ Date (20%)👕 Daily (20%)💼 Office (20%)

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Reviews & Hot Takes (2)

R
RINAVisionary
85 /100
6 SPRAYS (8h)
Vibes:Powdery (80%) Musky (80%) Vanilla (66%) Milky (41%) Woody (34%) Balsamic (10%)
Occasions:🕯️ Date👕 Daily
Seasons:🍂 fall
Gender: unisex
Value:Fair Value

An elegant fragrance with a clean, white-like feel, based on myrrh, vanilla, and musk. Iris gently rises, enveloping the delicate and soft scent. The smooth, sweet scent of musk is supported by base notes of vanilla and amberwood, simultaneously creating a sensual and mysterious atmosphere. It's a truly elegant and delicate fragrance, like a gentle caress on the skin. The powerful woody base notes clearly indicate that this is a unisex fragrance. Vanilla doesn't add depth, but rather acts like a white veil enveloping the skin, giving it a soft touch, like a white shirt. When applied to the skin, it doesn't overpower, but rather feels warm, as if becoming one with body temperature. This delicate and soft fragrance embodies the Japanese sensibility of seeking understated and subtle scents. It's a fragrance worn for comfort, not for showing off. It subtly enhances the beauty of thoughtfulness, being understated and unobtrusive. It accompanies a quiet, loving nature that heals oneself and shares peace with those around them. Personally, I recommend it for the autumn season when one longs for human connection.

YL
70 /100
7 SPRAYS (8h)
Vibes:Woody (75%) Herbal (70%) Metallic (70%) Resinous (60%) Balsamic (55%) Aromatic (55%) Leathery (55%) Musky (40%)
Occasions:💼 Office🎩 Black Tie🍸 Bar & Dinner
Seasons:🌸 spring☀️ summer🍂 fall❄️ winter
Gender: unisex
Value:Overpriced

Dry wood and myrrh meet the senses — stern, like the fields after harvest, their frost still whispering in the stubble. The scent is sharp, proud, yet withdrawn, like the distance between man and his remembered youth. Amber gleams there, but it is no fire — it is the cool coin of moonlight, tempered by cypress shade and the bitter green of juniper berries. Silver runs through the forest heart of this perfume. It glimmers as the moon glimmers on a blade of a sickle — clear, hard, yet tender upon the velvet dark of sleeping woods. There comes the breath of juniper, and with it, the hush of evening in a stone lodge somewhere in the Scottish Lowlands: the slow crack of logs, the smoke threading up, the air steeped in birch tar and pine sap, faithful as old workmen’s hands. Then iris drifts down, blue as smoke over snow, softening the resins with its dreamlike powder. Nothing in it is heavy; everything hovers, airy, thoughtful — a prayer uttered half in sleep. Honey and vanilla move like pale moths in the dusk, tasting sweetness only in passing, never lingering long. This forest stands between autumn and winter — its birches white and lean, stripped of adornment, yet proud in spirit. You can feel in their stillness a quiet endurance, a tender defiance. Strength, as always, comes from places that never boast — from gentle things that simply remain.