Miel De Bois Serge Lutens for women and men

Eek, no.
I get the honey but I also feel like someone has spat all over me, this is a kind of an unpleasant and dirty smell to me and I had to scrub it off after a couple of hours.
Update: It's evening now and the Agent Provocateur I applied after scrubbing the Lutens has worn away. The disgusting smell of the Lutens is still there! Urgh!

I do not smell any woods. Simply honey and iris. Perhaps the woods are there to change lightly the tone of honey and iris, but really the words tones aren't distinguishable to me. Very linear from top to bottom. Good soft fragrance nonetheless.

MdB and I were fated to meet. I had this on my want list for almost a year with plans to get it on my next trip to Paris. However, on my last visit to a perfume shop with lovely SAs, one of them whipped out a full tester bottle of this and gave it to me for free as they no longer stock this, it being a Palais Royale exclusive. Words cannot express how stunned and lucky I felt in that moment cradling this precious juice in my hands. Until now, I can scarcely believe my luck.
Back to the juice. Where others get loads of honey, I get loads of woods and animals. On me, it gives off the same vibe as Jean Desprez's Bal de Versailles. Not that they smell alike, but both have that animalistic character that is unmistakable. I think an unflattering description would be "urine/faecal" but for me I enjoy the smell and actually find it seductive and warm. I do get the honey but I would not say this is a "honeyed" perfume like Tokyo Milk's Honey & The Moon. It sweetens the musky-woody mixture in MdB. I have much, much love for MdB and the serependitous circumstances as to how I came upon my bottle finally, will make me a lifetime customer of that particular shop.

I had try this and yes..
I like it .....
Slightly Woody..yes those Guaiac and EBONY Woods are quietly there
However its the GOBS of Thick White HONEY
that's surrounds you ....
it might be a bit too linear ...
however it settles into a nice powdery almost incense like ..scent ...
I'm sure that's the Iris making itself known ....
having said that ..
I think ..Botrytis by Ginestet is a much more interesting..HONEY scent ....
give it a try and compare....

Sweet honey and nectar of flowers ... fantastic fragrance! The best flavor with honey note that I have ever owned.It smells like natural royal jelly!
I am very happy that I finally found it.

Although I love many of SL's perfumes, Miel de Bois doesn't work on me at all - smells like sore-throat sweets. I have a trial phial (sorry), nearly full - I think it's a 5ml. If anyone in the UK is desperate to buy or try, I'd gladly let it go.

one of the most long lasting scents i've ever tried.. and it pairs wonderfully with Perlier's Miel body wash.. a great smell for cold, dark, dull winter days!!

Very Addictive.
So special. It is a masterpiece that lasts forever.
I have the full bottle (bought on February 2012 at Les Salons in Paris in person) and always use it to overlay with other scents.
This is not the honey used to put over waffles. It doesn´t smell neither vanilla nor caramel. It is a smell closer to the nectar of the flowers that the bees use.
It has HIGH CONCENTRATION, what means that if you spray more than once, you you get a distortion that can remember ammoniacal liquor , cat´s pee or even a very PLASTIC honey.
Longevity: 10
Projection: 7
Scent: 10
Sometimes when I go to work I apply only in one of my wrists and nowhere else. Whenever I want to travel to the scenario drawed by Miel de Bois, I smell my wrist and there it is, loyal to its owner.

Just a short note: this is a lovely honey woody scent that dries down to powder. I don't get any cat pee note in it, but I can see how the fact that it's quite bizarre can put some people off. It's dirty and has some sort of animalic sexiness. I wore it in church the other day, ( maybe not such a bright choice on my side ). Well, I felt people turning their heads when I was walking by... mind you, being my newest treasure, I also sprayed a lot!!! It surely has that little cloying feature that is caracteristic to Serge Lutens. I personally love it! Also I find the honey in it to be a little similar to Miel et Citron pailletes from L'occitane, minus the lemon of course. Lasting power is very nice, the silage is strange: one second is amazing, the other second it turns into a skin scent. It radiates warmth, definitely a winter scent.
I must admit that I don't find it beautiful, but raw, original and quite addictive, like a forbidden pleasure. Delighted to own it, and recommended to all poeple that like sweet woodies!

The house of Serge Lutens is beginning to grow on me with their quirky and strange fragrances. Miel de Bois is the one I like the most so far.

When I first applied Miel de Bois to my skin I got a strong, zesty burst of mandarin orange and honey. It almost smells like 'Butter Menthols', which are a popular brand of throat lozenges here in Australia.

Once settled on the skin, Miel de Bois takes on a soft woodsy accord, that when blended with the honey creates an interesting creaminess. The scent is soothing and warm, and dare I say, rather delicious. I am glad this fragrance agrees with my chemistry, as I'm not experiencing that so-called cat pee note that unlucky reviewers keep mentioning.

Although the honey note is indeed very dominant, musky iris and hawthorn feature quite well too. It's quite a heavenly scent, surprisingly light at times and bright enough for Spring and Summer wear, although I'd also douse myself in Miel de Bois during Winter as well.

The drydown is slightly incensey with smooth and dry woods further complimenting the honey, beeswax accord. I find this fragrance absolutely captivating from beginning to end.

The floral sweetness may be too much for some, and from what I've gathered from reading other reviews, it's a finicky scent when it comes to skin chemistry. I strongly advise against a blind purchase in this case. However, if Miel de Bois works for you, consider yourself lucky and snap up this fragrance while it is still available.

Just found out its been discontinued ... I am devastated!! its perfect honey, dark, beeswax unusual scent - perfect warm and cozy on my skin. Anyone selling theirs? or know where i can buy some more? please get it contact if so. ~ thank you!

This scent is all about having the right skin chemistry, and Miel de Bois liking you enough to expose its rich, glorious dripping honey note. It's pretty potent and powerful stuff, just a drop is needed. Blooms well in hot and humid weather. The woods aspect is acrid and dry - a lovely counterbalance to the rounded honey. Like sticking your head into a beehive, angry stinging bees and all. Love, love, love it.

Miel de Bois is a weird and quirky creature that I like a lot. It is surely not easy to wear in the beginning but I do love this bold and unique interpretation of the honey and beeswax notes. The picture that this scent is painting for me is of an old and dusty log cabin in the deep woods surrounded by beehives. The beehives are maintained by a hermit who prefers to be alone with the nature. The smell of fresh honey, beeswax and woods are mingled together with a scent of the earth, falling leaves and the nature. I can even picture hungry bears lurking in the shadows. This is not a cute and playful honey scent but it is a scent of a wild nature, unbridled and uncivilized.

The scent opens with a strong and pungent scent of woods. The ebony, guaiac and oak are indeed the wild nature in the bottle, quite powerful. The woods smell smoky, strong and a bit animalistic. This mixture is odd but it is definitely interesting. The scent becomes warmer and smoother as the honey notes appear. In the heart notes, the raw honey is mixed with a bit of a smoke, incense and woods. The scent continues to develop on my skin for hours. Finally, the beeswax notes become more prominent. The beeswax is raw and naturally smelling. The scent is warm and comforting at this stage. It is like coming to the wood cabin after a long day in the woods, starting the fireplace and then lighting the beeswax candles.

The scent has great sillage and longevity. Overall score is 8.5/10. I love the smell of honey and beeswax, so I am always trying new fragrances with those notes. Miel de Bois is definitely something that captured my imagination. This is not a fragrance that I would wear every day but it is something that I would like to keep when I am in the mood for it. For me it is not a full bottle worthy but I have ordered an 8ml decant for those occasions when I would like to experience the wilderness in the bottle.

I seem to sing a polar opposite tune to most. I tend to dislike most Lutens frangrances. I find them harsh. This is a major exception. It's one of my top signature scents. I think it's warm and embracing. I feel sexy when I wear this and comforting. Like a fuzzy sweater snug on all the right places. A bowl of icecream. A warm hand holding yours. A hug from your favorite cat. The honey is powdery and musky and smells like the way a fluff of unrefined cotton looks. A lukewarm bath in a placid lake an hour before dusk during Autumn with colored leaves from deciduous trees still crisp from having just dropped from the limb floating past on top of the water and brushing your shoulder. Love.

The only Lutens I don't like. The opening is so sharp and alcoholic that makes me sneeze. I can only smell honey and iris.Iris is very strong here,dry,harsh.The drydown is wood,honey and lots of iris.Don't expect this to be sweet,it isn't,it is warm,'black honey'' kind of scent. Lasting power is very good,sillage too.

MdB is a tricky fragrance. If it likes you then it is delicious honey with a twist. If it doesn´t (as happened to me) it smells rather urinous - an ultimate catpee experience. Maybe I sprayed on too much but I cannot wear a scent which only allows micro doses.
I will now sell my full bottle. It was an expensive mistake :-(

I like honey scents and was disappointed with this one. It's harsh and masculine and doesn't have much enjoyable honey.

This fragrance is like a nice warming relaxing bath, so good for long winter evenings together. But don't expect more...

Usually honey is a smell I detect right away, probably because when I smell honey from the jar I don't think it smells so good and my reaction is the same when it's in a perfume. Interestingly, I don't get any honey from Miel de Bois and only a faint hint of any woods. I am reminded though of the little pong I smelled when in grade school of some of my fellow classmates sucking on Cherry flavoured Now-and-Later candies that emitted a distinctive vomit oder. I'm also smelling old dusty caraway seeds on some bland cheese. In the end I just smell dry cherry dust.

Sweet delicious honey and lots of soothing milk - what a cocktail of happiness this is !
I trusted SL and Ch. Sheldrake to create something special out of these rather unusual ingredients. They did.
At first this honey-dipped delicacy smells a bit like beeswax and floor polish but that soon changes into a sweet and tempting cup of milk with honey, made with love and care.
MdB is the kind of scent that brings you back to more innocent childhood days, as was so beautifully narrated below in another review.
The scent also contains a slight woody note but barely noticeable, yet interesting as soon as it shows. On my skin the scent becomes gradually sweeter and milder in its drydown.
I was told it is not sold in my country anymore (but will still be available in the SL boutique in Paris or online) - which I very much regret. Luckily I could get my hands on the last bottle in a perfume store nearby :-) So hurry guys if you like unusual honey scents.

Milky honey and peppery wood. doesn't change at all on my skin, remaining simple and almost but not quite too sweet. It's an interesting blend and not offensive but it's just not good enough on me. Lutens has other much more complex scents that work better with my chemistry

This is a very unique scent that I can best describe shortly and sweetly as honeyed incense-

It will always remind me of my trip to the lovely country of Ireland-

A nice visual image for this scent is a milkmaid (a la Tess of the D'Urbervilles) from one of Thomas Hardy's novels- hair tousled, coming loose from her bonnet- smelling of sun, field, flowers, and a roll in the hay-

innocent and seductive at the same time-

Miel de Bois' sillage is good, and its longevity is average- not quite as good as SL's Fleurs d'Oranger, but definitely better than a lot of other niche scents-

In my opinion,it is a bit too warm and sweet to use as a signature scent or for regular use (especially in sultry weather!) but it could be a very nice change for special occasions, (it certainly was for mine!)- and it makes a strong statement whose voice will be heard amongst the many fruity florals and chocolate/vanilla gourmands of today-

If you love honeyed scents, definitely give it a try- I've heard it's going to be discontinued-

Unusual composition of honey and guaiac wood. On first smell too sweet, with light woody accords. Later, honey and guaiac wood start to "fight".
During "the fight", honey becomes like sweet sorbet, oak and guaiac wood give the bitternes.
After ours on the skin becomes powdery and very pleasant.

Miel de Bois smells like love. Let me tell you abou it.
This is the smell of my childhood. The authenticity of the honey note is stunning.It triggers a memory in a flash.
Honey from the comb and bee's wax, watching Grandfather harvest the the rich, fragrant liquid.
The scent shifts slightly and I feel rosin, the one I use for my bow, and then it transforms into the most aromatic wood ever. This is exactly what the wood of my violin smells like. My violin was a precious gift my grandfather gave to me when I was ten years old, and always listened to me with great delight.
Miel de Bois smells like love.
The love of a grandfather for his only grandchild.

Many years ago I lived in an old wood-frame house in a mid-Atlantic state. At some point we noticed that there was a dark, sticky substance dripping out of the inside of one of the window frames. On investigation, it turned out that a colony of honeybees had set up shop in the space between the walls, producing huge honeycombs filled and overflowing with honey. It was a kitchen window, so I suppose we could have set up a direct pipeline from the honeycombs and harvested the honey. However, everyone was too grossed out by the swarming insects to think about such practical matters.

This is the image that Miel de Bois inescapably conjures up for me - honey dripping out of old, dry, decaying wood, turning resinous and black in the process. MdB (the perfume) is strong! Much stronger than the honey/wood smell from the bee colony. Almost disconcertingly strong. It starts out with concentrated honey and concentrated wood, not really mingled, but operating on separate planes. The super-concentrated honey smell persists for the entire time, producing a somewhat linear progression. Somewhere in the middle there's a hint of the flowers that the honey was made from, so that you could imagine yourself as a bee circling over a dry meadow filled with clover and other bee-goodies, but it's subtle. In the end the whole thing dries down to a note that I detect in a lot of commercial perfumes that I can only describe as "turquoise". I don't particularly care for it.

I put the perfume on yesterday evening, and it was still going strong this morning. It's after noon now and it's still doing its thing, with clover honey over turquoise. I would say that it's good for at least 24 hours, so if you're looking for a long-lasting perfume, this is it.

A thick honey and beeswax top note, over an almost spicy mix of woods. Iris is detectable all the way through. This one packs a punch, from both the honeyed and the wooded side, and the full blend lasts through the drydown. Too much of a good thing for me, but a beautiful, high quality composition all the same. Like all of the SL fragrances, it is a must-try, whether or not it turns out to be a must-wear.

Oh goodness do I enjoy this scent. It is warm, rich, animalic, with wonderful touches of sweetness and woods. A very unique scent, which does not work on evryone.

I so desperately wanted to like this s cent but the cat pee is just oo much for me, every nose is different.

This is a love or hate fragrance, I think. It smells so different from any other fragrance out there, but I love it! Some say they get the "cat pee" accord from it, which is what prompted me to try it. After all, who would wear that???
But I didn't get that at all. Just resinous honey and woods. Mmmmmm!

I have been paranoid for days wearing my new purchase... worrying one might smell of cat-pee is no fun! I can't smell that, and thankfully neither can anyone else (and I've asked them not to be polite if they can!)

I get a wonderful green-floral out of this frag... friend says she can smell the honey on me as well. I've not been attacked by bees, so it must be nice and subtle :)

Well, I got this one as a gift from my dear friend as he knows I love Serge Lutens..but it doesn´t work for me, I sniff and I love it, honey and iris,but my skin doesn´t agree.

Oh, other that from all perfum. It name says directly, true - in the bottle we have smell of wood honey. There is wild honey, bit bitter with aromatic note woood. This smell is as hot summer day, somewhere under forest, on great grassland full of flower, smelling honey. Over flowers flying clouds butterfly and bees. Calm and rattling of bee. Forest aroma too . There is a bit mint, too. Miel de Bois is thick, very sound, relaxing. It is not common-place beautiful. It is very natural, rich. Fascinating. Absolutely original and excentric. Topping.Nice. I like it very, very much.

Beautiful! I get the honey, the woods, and the bees. I don't get any of the "skank" (in the words of the Perfume Posse) or urinal notes (as per Luca Turin). This one begs to be tested on the skin. I have gone through two samples of this one already and I'm working on a third. I think its time for a full bottle.

I think Miel de Bois is a wonderful fragrance. There is a special feature of a pure honey essence. This olfactive sensation is like to be involved by an oriental and mysterious aura on all the body on egypthian and noble fabrics. The scent reminds me of balsamic honey produced by powerful bees that attract the nose for a fragrant tramp, bewitched and very sweet as to drink this honey.

I had to put this one aside immediately, civet or some animal odour's too pronounced for my liking.

oh my goodness, i don't think iris agrees with me! i have noticed that quite a few fragrances that have iris or orris root in them make me feel queasy, and this one certainly fits that bill. the iris became overwhelming after a few minutes and i was forced to try and scrub it off. i was shopping in Kensington market one day with my husband, and we went into a store to check out some vintage clothing...that exact same smell was filling the shop and although i am used to a lot of vendors using incense in their stores in kensington, i had to make a quick exit. i continued to feel nauseous and developed an 'aura' (for those who do not know, the beginning of a migraine)so we quickly left and headed home. i was out of commission the rest of the night. long story short, this perfume is a thumbs down for me, but i would think that if you liked iris you would appreciate the longevity and tenacity of this scent, i am having a hard time getting it off my arm.

I think this is the next SL I shall be buying. I received a sample and have been in love with it ever since. SL made a masterful combination of honey and wood.

Yes, it is very comforting, like a walk in the woods - white honey with white woods. I like to wear it in pair with floral by SL, I like to scent my hands with Miel de Bois.

This is such a nice and beautiful fragrance. So comforting, warm and simply irresistable. I like it so much. But also, the bottle is so elegant and the outer box. Really special.