P Frapin & Cie Bois Blanc Eau de Parfum 100ml

Cade oil is distilled from juniper wood and it smells of smoke. P. Frapin & Cie put it at the bottom of Bois Blanc, under a fragrance that otherwise reads green and bright, so the smoke comes late and stays.

The top is closer to a herb garden than a forest. Rosemary, eucalyptus and ginger, with bitter orange and mandarin to keep it bright. Sage, violet leaf and Virginia cedar carry it into the wood. Guaiac and ambroxan sit under the cade and give it length.

Sidonie Lancesseur composed it, as she did 1270 and L'Humaniste. Wood is the material a Cognac house knows best, because the spirit spends its life in oak casks. The house puts it plainly: this wood is our age-old wisdom.

Bois Blanc is that wood at its palest, with only the smoke to say what is underneath.

Spec

• Eau de parfum, 100ml
• Perfumer Sidonie Lancesseur
• Top: rosemary, ginger, bitter orange, eucalyptus, mandarin
• Heart: Virginia cedar, sage, violet leaf
• Base: guaiac wood, ambroxan, cade oil