Elixir Charnel Le Boise Torride Guerlain for women

I get no sweetness to this. It does not mix well with my chemistry. I will stick to Angelique Noir and Coquin. The wood notes in this are grody to the max for me. I'm sure on the right person it smells good who goes for these types of smells. I 3/4 a bottle that I don't know what I'm going to do with it. I will give it a try another 2 more times before I totally give up on it.


Edit: It's not bad, but it's not me. Will stick to the other three that I have tried so far that work with my chemistry. Shame you can't get samples of these before you invest in them.

An overly sweet fruity florential with a massive marshmellow accord and some woods (?). Cough cough cough...A fragrance that would do great on a "Sweet Sixteen" protagonist. Probably the least successful line by Guerlain.

Rating: 3/10

I found a decant of this lovely juice that I had not given a serious try before. I'm wearing it to work today and it is beautiful in the topnotes, warm and lovely. I love that the greens and woods are present from beginning to end. I do not find it too sweet and I am not a lover of sweet perfumes. It has more of a vanillic fruity tang to me than a syrupy smell like others have described. The only downside I can see is that in the middle notes that decaying, animalic side of jasmine comes through too heavily for my taste for about an hour, 3 hours into my wearing of the scent, but it went away and now the scent is a lovely soft floral, vanillic wood with that lovely Guerlain "je ne sais quoi" vanilla note. Can't afford the full bottle but I will likely buy another small decant.

Very like-able from the start. At first application Boise Torride is almost tingly, there's a mix of sweet and sour or something that strikes that way, maybe the berries and tangerine. Now a few hours later I can smell subdued marshmallow with cedar and a touch of patchouli, different and pleasant, not sickening sweet, either-I was worried about that marshmallow note but it's fine, gives it the gourmand quality without the being cloying.

Sillage: does not seem to project much sillage, I am working with a 1ml vial as opposed to a spray and I've dabbed it on both wrists, neck, decollage, and a few drops on my shirt. Cannot get a really good whiff of this unless I stick my nose to my wrist.

Would I buy a bottle? Not at retail price, although it's a lovely scent, there are other fragrances that grab me more than this.

f there is a perfume adjective that puts me off more than "tendre," it is "torride." Both apply better to romance novels than to luxury fragrances. Add to Boisé torride's iffy name the foreboding "harmonie guimauve" (marshmallow harmony), and I'm convinced I don't even have to try this one.

Yet I did. I sampled 4 of the Elixirs at once; lived with them for an afternoon. As predicted, I was put off by Boisé torride's sticky sweet top note and immediately filed this Elixir under "Not For Me."

As the day wore on, I fell in love with one of the four scents, but forgot which I had spritzed where. After many re-samplings and much denial, I realized that Boisé torride was my new surprise favorite. Its gorgeous "boisé" drydown stole my heart. There's plenty of patchouli, some nice cedar, and, yes, a fruited (not fruity) floral sweetness that turns gentle and fresh. The perfume's development on my skin was opposite to what I'd anticipated. Boisé torride started out sticky sweet, but settled into a gentle, fresh woodsy blend, sans guimauve.

The name poses a syntactical problem for translation into English (as does FM's Noir épices), but has an edgy ring (syntax again) in French. No matter how you phrase it, though, there is nothing torrid about this blend. If Guerlain had to choose a mawkish name, it should have been "Boisé tendre."

I think Boise Torride is underestimated among the other Elixirs.
For me,this is an exceptional perfume.Very sparkling , elegant with great sillage.The red berries are ripe, that's why it is really sweet but they give a sour feeling at the same time.It demands however special weather conditions to reveal its real beauty-wet and cold.

Boise scents are always a favorite of mine and this one smarts out lovely but develops into a bit of a sickly sweet scent. There is too much sugar and not enough wood. Pass at this price.

This is a good Guerlain submission. How it goes on is how it stays (as compared to Mitsouko, which dances about).

What I really love is hte Cedar note, which is just stunning. OK, I live in the bay area, a cool, foggy climate that makes the perfect frame, but I think others will love this too.

(edit) I put this away and came back to it after a month, and indeed there is a marshmallow note that makes this more of a gourmand. I read that this entire series is geared towards the gourmand genre. When I first tried htis I got Cedar, but today it was marshmallow, and sadly my feelings have changed.