Bois D`argent Dior for women and men

Oh God Oh God ......... I guess i have to start to make perfume that smell like javel and ask a $1000 for 10 ml this is how i feel after my 1 ml sample

If you like it this review is not for you and i respect your taste
;-)

I'm finding that many of the fragrances from this line are all striking the same chords in that they're big on balmy / rich / opulent, but are ultimately very MOR.

This one is "nice" on several levels, but the honey and the iris keep it from having any real complexity outside of powdery softness. There's dry vanilla and a little amber at work, and a smidgeon of woods / spice creeps in, but it's pretty much powder-bomb all the way. The incense and musk are virtually nonexistent. With that said, like many of its peers in the line, it takes what is most often done to death (or at least done very poorly) in modern fragrance and at least does it with some dignity and clarity.

There's nothing special or original at all here, but if you like powdery scents, and want something that's good value for money, this one's worth a peek. If, however, you've sniffed your way around the block a few times by now, then chances are, you'll have smelled this kind of thing before in various forms. As with much of the privee line, this is a step up from standard designer fare, but really only in the quality of the blend. It's doing largely what many inexpensive scents are doing with similar ingredients (you can tell it's highly synthetic), only doing it a tad better.

Subtle, yet quick to make an impression. The House of Dior are pros when it comes to incorporating iris. It's used in such a way, that it appeals without the thought of it being feminine nor masculine. A neutral note, but far from bland. Bois D'argent is like a journey. Its begins with you moving through a pale cloud of iris, then wriggling about in leaves of cypress. Suddenly the temperature rises and you find yourself among trees of resin. Amber and myrrh dominate the air, as patchouli leaves crown the land beneath you. Surrounding vanilla bean trees crowd you in and dripping profusely is honey from the combs above. The skies darken and where you go from this point on is pure mystery.

*Dior Privée - Bois d'Argent

Lightly spiced opening with Iris... So confortable and good!

We can feel the Myrhh since the opening but this gets so strong in a few minutes, being side to side the Iris. This resinous part is slightly sweet because of the honey here.

I feel amber from the middle till the dry.

I like it!

After several weeks of trial I finally gave up on this scent. Not a bad fragrance per se, but there are phases during its development that I sincerely cannot get through. After the four hour mark this scent is amazing: I get the etheral, dusty, and smooth aura of iris backed by the sweetness of honey. However, prior to this stage you must fight your way through a horrible piney, and to some extent "plastic smelling" dose of leather, which overpowers the nose. As a whole composition, I find this scent somewhat discordant and harsh. By Kilian's Cruel Intentions is very similar and does the job much better I think, without the harsh opening.

i might be crazy or just really wrong for saying this but this is just what i think and what my nose picks up.. ok so what i get out of this is a toned down (D&G BY)and JPG mixed together to me the floral smell is similar to BY and the powderiness smells like jpg kinda deal with added sweetness ,, what do you guys think ?

I was handed a little 5ml bottle of this by the SA at the Dior counter in Harrods after enquiring about a different scent. I sniffed it a short time later and immediately assumed it was marketed as a unisex, if not a feminine fragrance, so I was fairly surprised to later learn that it is a men's cologne.

It smells of sweet, blonde woods and powdery flowers (that'll be the iris). The honey is always there but becomes more apparent as it dries which is when I began to detect something a little sour and sick-y, like off-milk, but just the merest hint and then it's gone. I have conceived that it could just be my nose playing tricks and so I'm going to give it the benefit of the doubt today and go with a tentative thumbs up.

Then again, everything smells better when it's free!

When the original 3 colognes launched back in 2004, Dior Homme was at its peak in popularity and creativity. Having launched the first collection just 3 years earlier, Hedi Slimane took masculinity in a different direction and changed the menswear aesthetic drastically. Clothes were slimmer, more tailored, a bit androgynous, and made eveningwear wearable for the day. It was like haute couture for men, and you can see its influence to menswear even today. Cologne Blanche, Bois D'Argent, and Eau Noir were all marketed as masculine scents and it fit perfectly the vision for Dior Homme at the time. This is what it must have felt like to the couture customers when No.5 and Miss Dior were launched; the olfactory representation of their respective houses. The reason why I bring all of this up is because I have a very special connection with these three scents, and I will always associate them with Dior Homme under Slimane.

These scents were exclusive to the boutiques, and were quite a step above from the other designer scents being peddled at the time. I was so smitten that I picked up all three in their 250ml bottles. The bottles are elegant and hints at the signature "black tie" design of the accessories (apparent in wallets, bags, even the skincare line DermoSystem). My favourite of the three was this one, Bois D'Argent. Iris, powder, and honey...amazing! It's been my signature scent for many years, and I have never been bored with it. I find it casual enough to wear during the day or night, all year round.

Unfortunately, the old adage 'all things must come to an end' turned its ugly head. I recently picked up a new bottle of this at the boutique and I was surprised at how different it smelled. It's lighter, much sweeter, less balanced, less compelling. Not necessarily good or bad, just different. I'm not quite sure what happened. I'm going to give this a few wearing before I decide if I will continue with this love affair. If not, I suppose it's time for me to find a new signature scent.

On the last days of March Matthieu Maggi would still, at 95 emerge from his home at number 22 Avenue Foch just behind the Alphand monument and walk the long tree lined avenue to the Bois de Boulogne. For his age he was very athletic and looking a mere 75 he made the trip in no time. The people who passed Monsieur Maggi always noticed that he seemed a bit out of time sporting “The New Edwardian Look” of the 1950’s. He always wore a hat. It was his signature.

As he passed beneath early blooming plum trees near the park entrance he would think inevitably of her and the place in the Bois she called the silver woods. He walked there every day and always it seemed like moving through enfiladed rooms of the past when he crossed the circle at Porte Dauphine. Each room had a silver polished silver name plate beside the door, the 90’s, the 80’s, 1958, 1947 1939, 1929. When he stepped into the park he was a boy again. 1925.

His parents of an old moneyed Parisian family had moved to what was then called Avenue du Bois de Boulogne that year when he was ten years old. To be so near the wilds of the park excited him. Matthieu always found a way to slip away form his nanny, or the tutors and sneak off to the park to explore. He imagined it to be many things but is favorite was a wild jungle in the Belgian Congo.

Spring was about to explode over Paris the day he discovered he was lost in a part of the park he had never been to before. It was so unusual and almost magical with the trees pushing out a silvery green new leaves and the bark a most shimmery nearly hoary grey. He sat down on the moist grass and breathed in deep the wonderful smell of the silver woods. He closed his eyes and dug his fingers into the earth and thought of the book he was reading, Tarzan of the Apes.

The sound of a guttural low purr vibrated next to his left ear sending an electric shiver to his toes and back up to the top of his head. Hot moist nostrils nudged his ear and the purr turned to something of a growl. He opened his eyes and turned his head just enough to be face to face with a cheetah wearing a huge diamond dog collar. His eyes went wide and wild and he was about to jump and run.

“Don’t be afraid” The woman spoke French with an American accent. She was dressed in silver with a huge corsage of Iris on her shoulder. “Chiquita likes little boys. Not to eat of course, she just fancy’s boys.”

Chiquita’s long rough tongue slathered up the side of his cheek and made him giggle and squirm and suddenly feel safe. The extraordinary café au lait woman laughed like a song bird, crouched down next to him took a purple and yellow silk handkerchief from her bag and tidied up his wet face.

“You are Josephine Baker!” He said in amazement. “I have seen you in the papers! What are you doing here?”

She stood up and winked “Let’s walk a bit.” Chiquita pulled Mademoiselle Baker forward by the leather leash and Matthieu fell in step beside her. She explained how since her arrival in Paris it was her greatest joy to walk Chiquita in the Bois in the early afternoon. This was her time to contemplate and be alone away from all the madness of Théâtre de Champs Élysées and the stage door Johnnies who hounded her after they had seen her “Banana Dance”. Enraptured and perhaps a little in love with the exotic lady and her cat Matthieu listened to every word in utter adoration. Before he knew it they had come to Allée de Longchamp where her extremely long green and gold limousine and driver were waiting.

Chiquita jumped into the car when the chauffer opened the back door. Mademoiselle Baker turned and kissed Matthieu on the cheek.

“Shall I see you tomorrow?” she smiled down at him.

A cold March wind came up from the Seine and pushed into the park shaking the silver leaves threatening to tear them from the branches. Monsieur Maggi snapped back to the present and looked around as if he had never been to this spot before. He shook his head, smiled and turned toward home. Maybe tomorrow he would see her, The Creole Goddess, his first love.

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The extraordinarily lovely and subtle Bois D’Argent part of La Collection Privée by Christian Dior is from the moment it drifts onto your skin until I fades into memory like a spring walk in the park. Typically a Woody Chypre is bold and dramatic but not this time. The nose for this perfume Annick Menardo had something else in mind when creating Bois D’Argent than your typical Woody Chypre, something unique and very sophisticated.

. It really is a fragrance made of memories and each time I wear it seems slightly different and hard to pin down. It changes exactly the way memories change a little with each visitation. On me Bois D’Argent is soft and cool and rather reminiscent of Cristalle by Chanel minus the purple hyacinth.It has a remoteness that seems to intone a mystery that one hopes to unravel as it unfolds on the skin. But don’t try to solve its mysteries just enjoy them

Bois D’Argent opens with a swaying cypress note blended in with dark slightly dirty iris that is moist as if just pulled fresh from the earth after a rainstorm. A jingle jangle of sharp gin like juniper berries tickles the nose for a bit. You are at once deep in the woods from the opening on. Those woods are the main thrust of this perfume. As the mid notes come up it sweetens a bit with a halo of incense and myrrh that is very soft and fades in and out on the breeze and underneath on the floor of this cold brusque park is a bed of dried patchouli leaves. But always the woody notes dominate.

The dry down is really exceptionally lovely. Here it seems to warm a bit like an early spring afternoon with the woods carrying on as a trail of honey and resins drip down over silver tree bark. A very slight flavor of vanilla soaked amber and musk caress the woody notes and the elegant smooth brush of suede leather like the inside of well worn ridding gloves keeps it interesting.

This perfume last on my skin around ten hours and seems to move from good silage at 4 hours to very close to the skin. Bois D’Argent suggests an air of great affluence; style and elegant confidence. It denotes a certain casual beauty that goes deeper than skin and lasts long past the frivolities of youth. It remembers everything and whispers the memories over and over softly in your ear. It is made for grown ups and wouldn't want to be anything other than just what it is.

BOIS D’ARGENT FIVE PLATINUM STARS *****

buona fragranza,ci sento la buccia di mandorla e l'anice che non sono menzionate.
dolce al limite ma non stucchevole mi ricorda acqua di Parma mandorlo di Sicilia ma soprattutto sia all'inizio che alla fine odin 3 century...
sono tutti due del 2004 tutti e due costano abbastanza ed hanno lo stesso meccanismo magnetico di chiusura del tappo...che strana coincidenza!!!
odin piu' lineare,ma meno longevo.
direi: odin donna e bois uomo.
se amate Angel, Odin3 e Acqua di Parma mandorlo di Sicilia,questo fa al caso vostro!

Immediately I get an aroma of sweet wood resins, fruits (berries), anisette or licorice, honey, vanilla, and a little amber. Like a merry-go-around, the scents above take turns in the lime light, and this goes on until a woodsy aroma starts to come from the background to take over. Bois D'Argent morphs into a woodsy aroma but one that I cannot identify as have not typically smelt it in other fragrances like cedar, sandalwood, oud, etc. It is a different unidentifiable wood. Lovely.

There are perfumes that you dislike at first but later grows on you as your nose develops or as you learn to appreciate it. Sadly, for me, this is not one of those.

I get a light root beer and something old and dusty. It just didn't sit well on my skin; my girlfriend disliked it too. This is the only Annicke Menardo's creations that I have to give a thumbs down.

Over hyped, did not like this one at all , maybe if you like powder bombs then it might be for you

This is a rollercoaster in development - so many notes sweep by in a quick drydown. The initial notes are brandy liqueur, then honeyed cigarette tobacco, followed closely by wet leather, incense, a bitter green note, and then a smoky myrrh rises up, followed by woods -- old resiny pine (I live in a Victorian house, and I've experienced this dense rich conifer scent when I've repaired the floor -- the Victorians used slow-grown, air-dried pine, which has a much more mellow but concentrated, 'oily' smell than modern kiln-dried wood). This is great stuff -- rich, dynamic, elegant -- you get something teasingly different with every sniff! (Did I mention there's black tea in there too? -- Like the scent you get from the dregs of jasmine tea when the pot's drained -- this really is endlessly evocative ... )

This would have been perfect if it weren't for the persistent animalic honey note which makes me feel ill.

Yes, this smells like an old book in a library built by fresh woods and the inside air is full of vanilla & sweets(almost like chocolate milk at the dry-down).

Yes, this is very complexed, well-crafted, inoffensive scent.

No, this is not my type of scent because I hate woody notes. Woody notes make me feel awkward. In the middle of the big city and a huge crowd, I smell like a tree alone. This bothers me for wearing woody frags, not the smell itself.

Plus, although I got a feminine personality and taste, I can picture this as a queen's perfume, not a king's one. So elegant for me that I can not imagine wearing this at any occasion or time. Perhaps, only in my wedding day? and even that day, it's not for me, for my fiance.

If I were a collector, I would definitely buy this and place it at my highest place, but, unfortunately, I'm a practical guy. Longevity & Sillage was perfect for a perfume as well, so saying goodbye to this frag was extremely harsh for me.

This is a definite try. Not just for you, for your lover also. I'm in a plan to buy this for my future wife.

Good job, very good job Dior.

My fiance interned with Dior when this was first released, and was ecstatic when it was released. (in the interim I gifted him a decanted bottle for his birthday) I adore this on him. He gets compliments very often when he wears it- someone (male or female) will go in for a hug, and linger, and then tell him he smells so nice. I sometimes sneak a little off for myself and so am pleasantly surprised that it is tagged for both men and women. And it lasts for ages. I am new to fragrance appreciating but all I can say is that it makes him feel polished when he wears it, it's part of his persona now, and we both love it. I really do recommend this for your man.

There is some variation up close, but as I wear this I am constantly reminded of Bonne Bell's Skin (musk). Very similar especially on the dry down.

Not quite sure, my chemistry probably didn't give this one too much of a chance but it seemed to remind me vaguely of Amouages' Reflection Man. Just much better. But (for me) there are still problems.

It opens with a 'clean woody' theme that I find so-so, but it's definitely refined and assured in it's quality. This is still better than Reflection's florals however, and much nicer. I wish I could describe further, but these Niche Dior's seem so thin on me- almost like they weren't there! A smooth vanilla kicks in very soon after and starts growing in dominance.

The whole mix is very clean and transparent, creating the 'airy' effect and cloud like 'ozone', but in a much more natural way than the 'ozone' designers.

Problem is for me, it all seems a little 'diluted', I have a preference for the sweetness to be bold- thick but not cloying type. But here, the projection creates an effect that's even a little nauseating for me. I get billows of vanilla, which is nice- but not my type!

I prefer the 'bourbon' variety that is generally sweet and thick but acts as a background scent. The drydown is very sensual however, almost mesmeric with honeyed sweetness, amber, vanilla, and some nice earthy patchouli/leather. Becomes less sweet with the myrhh. 4/5 for the drydown.

Sadly, the clouds of powder-vanilla during the mid is just not my thing, and the opening (airy-clean woods/juniper) wasn't the most moving for me. Although the stuff smells incredible from the vial! So far, impressed by the Dior Niche Line, but not quite overwhelmed. I almost would give a 3/5, but the opening and nauseating aspects just almost compel to give a 2!

They did this well, so I'll let them off this time =)

3/5, but I'd rate the quality an easy 4.

simply one beautiful fragrance, a stunning iris based type fragrance, a masterpiece of presentation..light, feels like you are up in the clouds..and what pure clean air must smell like very calming . heavenly applications here..i like dior homme , and this reminds me a bit of that but on a whole other level.. i purchased a 10 mil sample , upon first spray i knew this was something very special. my wife was amazed, and i told her it is for a man or a woman, well, next thing i know it is in her purse.would smell beautiful on either sex..very very nice.get a sniff if you can and just let the scent take you..amazing stuff, pricy devil but boy oh boy what an olfactory experience. considering a purchase..wow..

It feels very private to me. As part of your cloth and jewelry that you wear. Beautiful soft sweet parfume. Powdery and oily at the same time. Exclusive and sophisticated. Flowers that stay close to the skin. A touch of honey and a light leather scent. You wear this perfume for yourself. From La Collection Privée. Only for sale in the Dior Boutique.

If you're in for a sensual and sexual skin scent without much projection but something that lures someone in like a Venus Flytrap, then THIS might be the answer.

Very alcoholic and musky at first spritz, but quickly releasing the floral bouquet of iris, paired with cypress (that piney note)and juniper berries.

Soon turning milder and releasing a warm, cosy, honey flavoured patchouli green chypre.

On further dry-down it is the glowing warm amber, that seems to get stonger towards the end, heating up the leathery, birch woodsy, honey drenched, vanilla sprinkled concotion of this fine scent.

The notes are very well balanced against each other and do not compete but rather complient each other -quietly so.

For me the most dominant notes are honey and wood.

Sophisticated, sexy and warm without being flambouyant, in short this would not offend your librarian or the nose of your future employer.

I also see it as an olfactory collection of your favourite harback books, inherited from your grandfather.....and I love to sniff books!

If you like Frederic Malle "L'Eau D'Hiver" you will most likely like this. I also see some similarities with BVLGARI "Man" (probably the honey note)

Gentlemen, please be advised that if you wear this fragrance, your otherwise platonic [lady] friends might start to view you in a different light. A few years ago, an old college friend sent me a birthday gift with a card that had this scent on it. A whiff of Bois D'argent sent my hormones into a tizzy and, for a serious moment there, I caught myself in mid-fantasy, thinking of him in a way I don't normally do. This is pure aphrodisiac in a bottle. For the love of all good friendships, use PRUDENTLY.

hello, can you tell me where I can buy the perfume of Dior Bois d'Argent online thanks

This smells amazing on a woman. Words that describe Bois d'Argent would be sensual, luxury and personal.

UN PROFUMO DOLCE UN AROMA INDIMENTICABILE E NON AGGRESSIVO NON LO CAMBIEREI PER NESSUN PROFUMO STUPENDO

smells like FREAKIN HEAVEN when spraid on a leather jacket .. DAMNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN

I have bought it in london in 2010. But my wife doesnt like it. :) i have approx. 70 ml if some one wants, i can sell it.

Voglio comprare on-line questo profumo, come fare?

Dior BOIS D'ARGENT is a gorgeous woody iris composition, slightly sweet and more oriental than chypre, thanks to the vanilla. I do not detect the leather at all, but it may contributing synthetically to give this cologne its overall warm, inviting aura, complete with resins and honey.

I associate silver with cold and metal, nothing like the coziness of this creation at all, so perhaps it would have been better named BOIS D'OR. I'll hold out the hope that at some point someone at Dior will realize that they need to re-release something this nice at higher concentration. As it stands, BOIS D'ARGENT is far too fleeting, but it certainly is nice while it lasts!

This is a beautiful unisex fragrance which from the start smells like the sweet basenotes of Hypnotic Poison. The rubbery top notes of the latter have always turned me off, so this fragrance is just my cup of tea -- the very best of HP. Also, I don't smell any patchouli in this, so it must be very light.

It must have served as a blueprint for Dior Homme, because you have to be completely senseless not to notice the resemblance between the two of them! I get a clean and peaceful vibe from wearing Bois d'Argent.

Where did I smell this before? Bois d’iris by Van Cleef! This one was created in 2004 thou. One step in advance. Maybe it is just a coincidence. ;)

You can judge for yourself if I am right.
Bois d’iris: sweet notes, frankincense, iris, driftwood, vetiver, ambergris, labdanum, myrrh, and vanilla.
Bois d’argent please note above.
It is quite easy to draw a parallel.


Anyway. This Bois is one touch more woody (probably the combination of juniper, chypre and woody notes) and leathery.

Olfactive group: woody chypre ? It must be a very modern and urban one… As there are few notes missing from being a real chypre composition. Also the end result is far from it: subtle, smooth, velvety, ambery unisex cologne.

However, very well balanced composition that is hard to dislike.
As I mentioned, it starts very similar to Bois d’iris of VCA : amber, myrrh and musk with a resinous feeling.
The leather and the musk are creating a common tone, sensual and personal, close to the skin and refined.
The honey note brings a second dimension to the amber, creating a “golden” and warm aura. Nothing really sweet, at least for a feminine nose. Very warm with good silage.
The woody tones will become less remarkable after 30 min. They will be complimented by the resinous notes, creating a hint of pepperiness (similar with Bois d’iris) without having any real peppery notes.

Powdery? Just an idea. Iris? Not much. The above description: dry, fresh and cold must be from a different fragrance. This is warm, sensual, inviting.
Dry down ambery-myrhh-vanillic velvety with a whisper of patchouli. Good staying power.

It seems there is another fragrance “coping this one”: Iris by Odori 2008. I guess being original it is not an easy task.

8.2/10

Gorgeously soft, powdery, and honey-like. ("Powdery" and honey are not my favorite notes by any means, but they work beautifully here.) It has a tenuous connection to Hypnotic Poison, which shouldn't surprise me or anybody else, as they are both Annick Menardo creations. Thoughfully composed and a treat to wear!