Bois Farine L Artisan Parfumeur for women and men

Perfect at home, on lazy, cozy weekend mornings...
It's very intimate scent, more in mathernal than erotical sense, great for cuddles with kids (my little son adores Bois Farine and every time I use it he wants me to spray his little hand too). This scent makes me feel like "Big Mamma" without baking a cake, but I dont recommend it for going out. Alas, it fades in the air like a cloud of meal!

It's interesting perfume, it starts from the wet flour, in which already the cup of sugar was added, and some vanilla, it really so...
Then it changes - the base for me is quite almondy, sweet, very sweet.
It's a good experience or experiment but I will not wear it for sure.

I love it, is like if I had take a deep dive in cake dough... without being a sugar bomb as most gourmands are... ideal for Christmas season when a cozy perfume comes to hand!

I love Benzoin, and this is one of my favourite Benzoin perfumes :) In this scent it reminds me of nuts... I can say that I go nutty when i smell it, I love it. So worm, so nice, very strong and long lasting.


I use it all year long, but I use all my perfumes all year long :]

Just thinking about this scent makes me very very sick.

Okay, when I dabbed on Bois Farine and let it dry, I couldn't stop laughing. It seriously smells just like peanuts. Or, almond cookies of some sort. Not sweet like Marzipan, just straight up Planter's peanuts with some woods thrown in the mix. As it dries down I get more iris and woods towards the end but that peanut smell never leaves. It's not the kind of fragrance I'd wear, but Bois Farine is a reminder of how amazing fragrances are when it comes to conjuring up different smells or images. Good longevity and sillage; very unique and enjoyable.

I asked the salesperson at Bergdorff's for a dry, cool fragrance and he steered me to this. It is not dry, and it is not cool. Its one of those opaque woodsy, warm fragrances. Definitely bready, starchy almost, in its doughiness. I didn't read young and easy-going in this fragrance. I think people who like Fracas would like this fragrance due to the heavy, creaminess of it.

Oh dear. Farine is right. All I got was wet flour, wet flour and more wet flour. It reminded me of whenever my mother would make bread.

But not the nice bit, when it was baking. Oh no, just the bit when she was mixing the dough.

To me it's a gourmand perfume. Also, a comforting smell. Warm, and not too sweet. The perfume keeps its balance and does not become cheesy and cheap. It begins with a peanut buttery tone along with pencil shavings- and it is this woody aroma that stops the sweetness from becoming overpowering. Towards the end I get more of the Iris and a bit of a powdery feeling. I think it's a magical perfume (like the tree it's made from), and everytime I feel a bit weird, I get comfort inside it. I would suggest it to those who dare... and maybe to an "experienced" nose.

There’s lots of anise or fennel at first, along with a strange foody smell sort of like sweet potatoes fried in peanut oil, then quickly something more like bitter stone or mud than flour. I suppose that if I stretched my imagination the least little bit I could imagine a doughy smell, like flour and water paste. I also smell quite a bit of sandalwood at the base.

After a half hour the scent settles down into an odd, almost transparent, sandalwood decked out with fennel, a metallic iris, toasted almonds, honey, and meringue. It’s something like white nougat would smell if it had fennel seeds added to the almonds and was eaten after I had rubbed my hands with sandalwood scented oil. At this point I can’t stop sniffing my wrists to try and figure out exactly what’s going on.

Reading other reviews and lists of notes doesn’t give me any more insight than I got just by sniffing. It’s one of the most unusual perfumes that I’ve smelled for a long time. I was a little put off by the fried-food opening, which some reviewers have described as “peanuts”, but that lasted less than 10 minutes, probably more like 5. Once the fennel-nougat-sandalwood phase starts, it’s an enjoyable ride for a couple of hours, after which it pretty much dries down to a heliotropin scent, sometimes described as “Play-Doh”.

If you like offbeat perfumes, Bois Farine is a must-try but, as with all offbeat perfumes, sample before buying.

Who wants to smell like a bowl of wet dough? Not this little black duck. It's a very healthy smelling nutty yeasty dough for sure, but NOT a perfume, just a household smell. Don't waste your (big) money.

Bois Farine opens with a ground hazelnut aroma and you can instantly recognise the scent of wet flour, such as when you add water to finely ground white flour at at beginning of a recipe.

There is some blonde wood in here too, a table upon which to rest your eventual baked materpiece.

Soft and feminine, Bois Farine is also soothing and fluffy. This would be a great comfort fragrance for summer!

In the same street as Profumum-Acqua e Zucchero without the sugared berries and with amped up sugarcoated almonds. As opposed to Zucchero, Farine reminds me of perfume, not cottoncandy. I can detect the iris but just barely.
It is just a fith as sweet as Zucchero but still almost to sweet for me (though I have come to love them both)
More masculin than Zucchero towards the drydown due to a mix of almond/cedar/sugar which an hour into the drydown almost gives of a soft musky impression. Yep that's it, almond musk, if ever there was such a thing.
Some days it reads as pure almond essence on me, and I love it on those days too ;)

I'm getting sandalwood and lipstick. I'm surprised there is no violet note listed, because that usually creates the "lipstick effect" for me.

I don't understand why this scent isn't working for me. I love benzoin, iris, and woody notes, but I am getting only sandalwood and lipstick from this fragrance.

At the beginning I got "nutellla" all over the place like elgab89 already mentioned, I found it really lovely, but then after a minute or even less it turns and smells like flour and on my skin there is nothing else and I just can't find it lovely, because on me...it is just flour. On my bf on the other hand is flour + nuts + powdery flowers, but even on him flour make too much appearance. Definitely can't imagine myself or my bf wearing this.

I have forgotten about this fragrance for a while. Today looking through my box with samples I though... well, why not. The day is nice and sunny, a touch of Bois Farine might brighten it up even more!

I am happy I reached for it, it was so worth reminding how magnificent of a perfume creation this is. Jean-Claude Ellena, you are a real master!

Bois farine at first brings this association to flour, if a fragrance had a texture, it would certainly be that of ground cereal. What follows is the most exquisite powdery and musky iris. Although there is a lot of various woody notes here, the whole fragrance does not strike me as articularly woody, the woods are so subtle and delicate, and blend in so nicely with the flowers that it is difficult to consider them apart. It does feel magical and warm, but at the same time familiar.

Definitely not my favorite L'Artisan (that would be Jour de Fete or Ambre Extreme) A floral musk, very powdery, sometimes verging on baby powder, which is something I really don't care for. There are woody resin notes that I really do like, but it's just a little too powdery for me. Sillage is never good, a problem with some of the L'Artisan scents. I'll pass.

If you like this, but dislike the pricetag, you must try "Max Mara" by Max Mara, which is a über-sweetened version of "Bois Farine". Both perfumes are "Floral Woody Musk's". But the sugared "Max Mara" has a nicer price-tag to it. You simply must try this! You will get a lot of perfume for the money if you buy "Max Mara" (which is also one my signature-fragrances - love love love !!!).

A lot of nuts,very gourmand perfume

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.

Wow! What an original and comforting scent here!

Smell like flour with a touch clean bed with some dry old wood in it. Amazing! Again, L'Artisan downside is their longevity and sillage. One of the most original scent of all time!

edit: AMAZING!

9,5/10

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!

This is one of the most comforting fragrances I've ever smelled. Flour mixed with nut, starts sweet but that sweetness gradually disappears. In the end, it becomes dry and perhaps more masculine than feminine. I love the initial sweet, gourmand phase, but I adore the calm and clean scent in the drydown. I like wearing it before bed or in the morning, when I expect a stressful day in work. My kids always know when I'm wearing it and claim it reminds them of biscuits, a scent they obviously love. In fact, this, along with Hypnotic Poison, are the two perfumes they never fail to compliment on me. Lasting power is mediocre however, 4 to 6 hours max and it stays close to skin after the first hour. Despite that fact, I love this scent so much, I plan to always have a bottle in my wardrobe.

This is a strange perfume, as it reminds me of coulour and dye. I really enjoy the smell, but I wouldn't know where to wear it. It smells pleasently yet bizarrely as if I was painting a picture of oil on canvas.

Really impressive Bois Farine is. Somewhat tree-like, but some flour included. I didn't get Nutella, but I'll say it was pretty nutty. With flour. Something sweet here too- true, that it's very memorable and unique, also pleasant and somewhat easy. Magical forest? Yeah, but there isn't present any earthy note. I think now, what if they would include a soil note like in LL Amarena Whim? I guess Bois Farine would be a dark, enchanting magical forest.
Later scent develops in a little bit burnt nut smell and it's very gorgeous too.
Lasting power is good.

Nothing offensive about this, however I became bored of it very quickly preferring other more distinctive fragrances. It reminds me of fresh baked biscuits blended with pencil cases. Quite nice, cosy scent, but it doesnt smell 'perfumey' enough for me to wear it. I gave it away. Also the lasting power is weak, as with many of the L'Artisan.

I can easily imagine Bois Farine to be my everyday scent. It gives me a cozy, comforting feeling.

Opens up on a nutty note of freshly grounded hazelnut which I wish could last longer. The well blended duo of sandalwood and cedar takes center stage after the brightness of the top note vanishes: the smoky saldalwood tempers the sweetness of the cedar. Iris blossoms out in the finale.

I didn't find it gourmand at all. It suits both man and women. Sadly, the staying power is very weak.

My first L' Artisan Parfumeur scent.
It starts sweet on me- i agree with the peanut butter note,but sweeter,but then it turns into a woody heaven, like baking in wooden stoves outside, like my grandmother used to do when I was little, burning wood, cold air and the smell of baking bread.
I would not consider this fragrance gourmand exactly, more like woody with powder notes.
The staying power is also good,although I heard other about L'Artisan scents.

Wow, this is so comfortable, cozy and warm. I agree with the flour comparison. Not sweet at all. This would be a classic for me. If only I could afford it. I too rec'd this in a swap and have a sample, can see how both sexes can wear this.. This is so nice, it keeps getting better the longer its on my skin. Love this

Bois Farine is as many have already written an unique fragrance. On me it start with a mouthwatering peanutbutter note, I like peanuts and have nothing against smelling like them. But ooooh, they don´t last. Not at all, they are only there for such a short time it is actually amazing I noticed them! After the lovely peanutbutter there come something very soft, pretty and gourmand kind of fragrance. But as I have noticed with some other L'Artisan the fragrance is much to weak on me! I can tell it smells really good, but I get mostly frustrated because I want it to smell more, stronger and longer!

It is so weak I can´t really judge what I smell, only knowing that whatever it is, it smells so good, smoth and lovely.

Why oh why are Bois Farine so shy on me? I only have a 1 ml sample, but even if I have a whole bottle I guess it would be empty very fast.

I should have loved it, if only I could have smelled it a tiny bit better.

Adorable! I just have a sample of it, but i hope i will have a big one too.
Best powdery fragrance i have ever smelled! Warm, creamy, it's like you wear a soft scarf on your neck. :)

An amazing and unique comfort scent - flour, sweet white flowers, sandalwood, and...flour??!?

Not necessarily gourmand - for who would eat raw flour? This isn't even the floury smell of fresh baked bread - no, no yeast here at all. Nothing toasted - this is fresh milled raw flour. Sugar? look somewhere else. This is a bakery, not a candy shop.

Ah, but certainly a comfort scent - the fresh start of a recipe, the beginning of a quiet afternoon busily baking. The fragrance of being productive and creative. When other scents give you the final product of cookies or cakes, this gives you the prelude, the launch, the mis en plas.

So rare for L'artisan to put out a fragrance that is so casual and comforting - this is a delightful piece. So sad that the cost takes it out out of reach, else it would be a staple of my scent wardrobe.

I got a 5 ml vial from a swap partner and with the first spritz I fell in love with Bois Farine. It’s unique and comfortable, warm and soft. This fragrance charmed me totally. My family find also very fine. (Usually they say nothing when I try a new fragrance or sometimes when I ask „how do you like my scent?” they say: „it’s Ok”.)
I don't get the peanut butter, Nutella or hazelnut top note as others; it smells on my skin like the scent of the fresh grain and fresh milled meal. It’s not powdery on me, not sweet, not fresh – it’s a perfect fragrance for me. It’s too expensive for me, but would be the owner of a whole bottle.

Very nice and comforting perfume. I don't know why, but it smells like Nutella on my skin.

One of the most wonderful fragrances I have ever encountered. Nutty and warm with an intriguingly sweet and creamy drydown. Utterly unique.

Woody, powdery and gourmand, unusual, like woody flour. It is definitely for colder weather.

I test it this week and still remember it, very memorable scent indeed.

Oh, sweet frozen bag of flour... You're not gourmand; you're cold air...and flour. Please don't ever be discontinued.