Carmin des Bois

It’s amazing, not sticky sweet, berries add tartness here. This fragrance smells to me like a homemade pie with raspberries and cherries, very delicious!

I am still testing this but I can say this and the orange one I tried from this house are very unique creations. I like how they are both very uplifting and while they last a long time and have good projection feel transparent and elegant. This is a raspberry gourmand through and through. I love the knafeh and pistachio it is really toasted and nutty you can really imagine the dessert itself here. The raspberry is quite sweet and you get it the whole time while the pistachio, knafeh, tonka bean and hints of tea shows up. It’s quite a journey and ever changing just like the colourful little prisms on the packaging. I was initially scared how food like it’s going to be, I am not a fan of those but it’s really sophisticated and well put together. I think despite how sweet it is you can wear it all year round because of how light and airy it feels on the skin.

I was so excited to get my hands on this and had waited a year for it to come back in stock! My experience of the brand has left a very bad taste! I bought this with the stated delivery of 2 days. I contacted the company to cancel after a week as it hadn’t moved. They refused and stated it had been shipped, they lied. Two weeks later, I emailed again and received a rude reply, stating it was a preorder... Nowhere was this communicated prior to this! 4 weeks later it arrived. They did send me a 10ml sample of their other scent, however there was no indication this was anything over and above what anyone else would have received when placing an order..... So today, rather than taking on board criticisms, owning mistakes and improving on failings.... I have received yet another condescending and rude email from the brand due to leaving a review here. I’m sharing this as it’s important for people to know who they are spending their hard earned cash on! ... The scent itself is ok. It reminds me of Noelle’s Navitus Blueberry scent with the same dulled sweetness. It’s the exact same vibe but with red berries rather than blueberry. This is a raspberry/strawberry/redcurrant compote in pastry. No candied fruit, absolutely no cherry. It’s nice but nothing amazing. Had I been able to sample it, it’s unlikely I’d have bought it. Its rating has been way over inflated here. It’s a 6.5-7/10 for me. However due to my experience with the brand, especially today this has gone from a like to a hate and I will be getting rid of it regardless .....

@mallowmist I'm wondering the same thing!! I've looked everywhere, no sample site in the EU seems to sell samples of this scent. 😞😶😅 Edit: I blind bought this even though I try to avoid doing this nowadays. Will update once I've tried it. Edit update 13/4-26: I've had this for a while and was a bit sceptic the first few days since I found it a bit artificial and play- dough like in the beginning, specially the fruit part of it. I loved the initial opening though and would have loved it if the base was just a bit stronger too, with the vanilla and marsmallow bit, which were muted or as in the case with the marsmallow note, unnoticeable on me. It smells like sweet, cooked and jam like berries at first with a wonderful tart fruity burst, specifically syrupy raspberry, red berries and cherry (as a person below also said) even though no cherry is listed. My SO stated "what's that cherry pie scent you just sprayed?" the first time I sprayed it. It could be a chemistry thing also, I don't know.. 😁 It also has a slight bitterness/green note lurking in the back, but not in a bad way. I don't get a specific loukoum note since they are more powdery and powdered sugar like to me if I remember correctly from my childhood, but I assume the sweet berry jam smell is supposed to be berry loukoum. 😁🙌 I don't really pick up any overwhelming pistacho and specific knafeh as I remember it, but it must be the creamy, nutty thick feeling and slightly "oriental smell" i get in this, after the initial tartness and mixed sweet berry- jam smell calms down. Or maybe the slightly green note in the top is pistacho, but I like it nonetheless. I don't mind the non prominent pistacho and it being in the background on my skin, since it's not a favorite note for me when its overpowering, so that is definitely a plus and nicely balanced. The dry down is a slightly sweet vanillic and smooth tonka base with some nuttiness and tannins, with a "pie-crust" feel, which could be the sesame and tea. I can say that I at first loved smelling it from the bottle more, since that smells amazing and was a bit dissapointed when it wasn't quite the same on my skin. But that could be a skin chemistry thing for me personally, I don't know. 😁 But I can also say that even though I was slightly underwhelmed at first, and it still isn't completely what i expected, it has still grown on me and is a very unique fragnace. I don't own anything like it and it's a nice change from the many fruity scents that are nore of the same. Most fruity scents don't work for me either so that this one does is a nice surprise! Iv'e felt drawn to it more and more after it sat a while, since it just seems to get better and better. Even if I don't get the same smell on my skin as from the nozzle, it's still a pretty good scent that I'm now happy with owning. I sometimes pick it up just to smell the cap on days when I'm wearing something else. I have personally also received compliments from wearing it, even though the oriental feel and heavier base notes makes me a bit careful in using it now that spring is around the corner. All in all, I recommend trying it first of you can, since it was not what I expected and I wish it had a bit more marsmallow and vanilla and kept a bit of the initial tart fruitneess the whole way. I also would like it a tiny bit less synthetic feeling, but it's a strong like nonetheless, for me at least. The synthetic feel has diminished a bit with manceration I might add.🥰🙏 I also agree with a review below that it in the air smells like some sort of fruit pie, at least on me. 😁 I also wish that you could buy samples or even 10 mls, since I hate the fact that there is a lack of smaller bottles other than 30, 50 or even 100 ml bottles. Many niche scents only come in 100 ml or 50 ml, which can be too much, since not everyone wants to own the bigger bottles or even a 30 ml. Especially with a bigger collection and limited space..🙏😅

Paid way too much for a small sample but after seeing a comment mentioning similarities to Elegant Schwan I had to try it and in my opinion I don’t see the similarities. There are no florals in this that I can smell or any that are listed either, no rose and no Iris like Elegant Schawn has and it is aggressively a candied raspberry scent that is very artificial smelling to my nose whereas ES is a smooth blend. I get an almost desert pie like nuance too, towards the dry down. It’s not a bad fragrance but it’s not my style. I was kinda hoping it would be similar enough to ES that maybe I’d sell my ES bottle and get this instead or at least have another fragrance in the similar realm but it’s not even close to my nose or in the same type of fragrance family even but it is a fun fragrance if you’re in the mood for something pretty sweet and fruity, mainly raspberry forward with gourmand elements. Not fbw worthy for me but a fruity gourmand lover would enjoy this I’m sure.