Baume du Doge

You awake to the sound of the phone ringing....it's just another damn solicitor. In a daze, you begin to smell jolting traces of orange and cinnamon wafting through the air....is that her? You follow the scent into kitchen where your next fling is brewing some fancy tea for you. You utter a hollow "thanks" before heading up for a cold shower....anything to get her off your mind. The freezing water bites in minty and metallic waves - how much must you endure before you can forget the wild wonders of that day spent by the sea? You can still taste her on your lips and feel her legs wrapped around you...after all these years, she has never left your thoughts. You dry yourself in your room as the amber sun slowly rises through the cedars and your half-opened shades...the soft glow is reminiscent of her ambered skin with the scent of a sweet myrrh and alluring powder. Your every thought is consumed by her visage, your mind oscillates between her honeyed words and immaculate vanilla skin...you can't resist. A few moments later, you hear her voice on the other line..."I've been waiting..." You can hear the ocean's siren song in the background as you declare, "I'm coming...." Day 99 - A distant sunrise Listening to: The Gathering - Gemini III Notes: Well, it has been quite some time since I sampled this fume (several years I believe) and it is funny how my tastes have shifted ever so slightly in that time! I still love this fume, but it didn't wow me like it did the first time around. That being said, this fume opens with a colorful orange and cinnamon liqueur with a dash of cardamom and pepper contrasted with a minty note (watercress?) and the airy and metallic sting of saffron! This flourish of notes calms into a very enticing spiced orange and sweet myrrh that lasts for many hours before picking up a base of fluffy & floral vanilla with a touch of woodiness (cedar is clear but I can't sense the vetiver). Somewhat simpler than I remember, but quite alluring in the right circumstances and should definitely be enjoyed by anyone who likes oranges and cinnamon (and sweets)!

Fierce, dry & woodsy with a twist. My new perfume crush! On first spritz you are clobbered by an arrid, nutty, cedar blast which is almost camphorous & stripping. The sweetness is turned down to background noise - the real volume is reserved for the woods at this stage. It is intense: climbing into a freshly-hewn cedar chest would be tame by comparison. Minutes in & the dry sticks & fragrant woods are starting to mingle with sun-baked earth & clay, a light metallic tinge from the saffron, a peppery edge, some welcome warmth from the cinnamon & playfullness. Now, about that playfullness: I would never have thought that I would find two kinds of toothpaste peeking between the trees in Baume's forest let alone welcome their presence! Diluted Euthymol & a light mint add a freshness & quirky edge to this scent. Surely it must be a camphorous-mint-mirage: cardamon/bergamot/myrrh/+random aniseed-green-sweetness of fennel = transparent minty whisper! I think this is a stroke of genius by Duchaufour. The delicate, warm mint breathes a delicacy into this scent & lifts the whole composition. Baume could so easily have become too hard & bleak if incense had been added, too sickly if dried fruits were present, or too mainstream & cosy-cashmere if he had dolloped on the sugar. This is a perfect balance & blend, very harmonious & natural in feel. Baume plays about on my skin for hours, gradually becoming smoother, sweeter & more resinous but maintaining the vetyver & cedar woodsiness that appealed so much to me at the start. The lasting power is good & the sillage is moderate - tick, tick. Baume is a rare thing: timeless, noble, interesting, wearable & deeply enjoyable. WANT. *it is interesting to note that I find a familiar feel & appeal in Agonist Liquid Crystal. Although they are different in scent-appearance they must be brother (Baume) & sister (LC). Can I bag the whole family, please?

I fluctuate between loving everything about Baume du Dodge to craving something just a little more in it. I think it's a fairly weather dependent fragrance as the resinous notes are very delicately balanced and are either brought out with hints of sweetness in warm weather, or they're completely consumed into oblivion when my skin is dry and the air is cold. Cedar, cardamom, olibanum, saffron in a rather arid and ever so slightly salty composition--feels a lot like hot, sweet desert air when the vanilla and orange decide to stop for a brief visit. Myrrh adds a little mystery, and cedar, a little camphor in the slightly medicinal drydown that other reviewers are experiencing. It's hard not to fall in love with Baume du Dodge, especially if you love woods, spice and resin. I can't help but want just a tiny bit more floral or something with a hint of beauty (but I guess that's in the eye--or nose--of the beholder). I think eventually I may still get myself a full bottle of this great fragrance as it has haunted me for some months and I feel very grounded when I wear it. It's also a little reminiscent of Tauer's L'Air du Desert Marocain. But where Marocain is desert by night, Baume du Doge is the same landscape by day.

Baume is sweet and slightly powdery-musky to begin with, but quickly opens up to reveal a mix of spices, woods, and sweets. There’s cinnamon and cardamom and vanilla and cedar and candied orange peel, but most of all there’s that wonderful sickly-sweetish, sticky, almost petroleum-like smell of myrrh. I could swear there’s some ambrette in the base, too, but maybe it’s just the effect of the myrrh combining with other materials. Once it dries down to the myrrh and vanilla stage, it pretty much stays there, and stays there, and stays there. Bits of sweet sillage come floating around all day long, and it’s still on clothing the next morning. For an EdT, this is powerful stuff. I would classify this perfume as a “myrrh” scent, with a lovely supporting cast. I would recommend it to anyone who loves myrrh, opoponax, and sweet gourmand fragrances.

I am in Love with this scent! The first couple minutes after I dabbed it on I thought, "Oh no, It's too masculine!" Five minutes more and it's settled into a gorgeous spicy, sweet, woody myrhh with barely a touch of a floral aspect I can't put my finger on, but I swear is there. I detect the orange and cinnamon from beginning to end, but they're blended so well with the other ingredients that neither overbears or dominates. Whether a pick me up, a comfort, or a night out this scent is sure to please. Definetly not too masculine. I DO NOT get the Christmas association. I almost didn't try this because of comments about that. Give this fragrance two days of your time and you'll find a Wonderful all-around fragrance. Good Sillage and Longevity

this scent is very very sharp with spices, then it warms down to a very sweet spicey sweet and very warm scent ,this last like all of the reviews you read .i dont know about the christmas part but this is very different, if you are looking for something very different then here you go, if you are a collector of many scents like me, i have wanted a scent to fit the mood this one has it look at the notes try it this one will sure to make you happy i am i also think the ones around you will like it to so what are you waiting for,one thing,its not cheap, and its worth it give this one five stars......

I hadn't encountered a spicy, resinous fragrance that stimulates the trigeminal nerve until I smelled Baum du Doge. What propels its tasty myrrh, warm spices, big orange and vanilla is this camphor/menthol, perhaps Duchaufour's interpretation of fresh cardamom. It pops and tingles like mint—without actually smelling like mint, rendering this opulent affair more sheer than usual, cooling in effect, sunny in disposition. It's dry down is a sticky, bittersweet myrrh, pencil-shavings cedar and frankincense resin, a total comfort scent for late summer nights.

forse non è del tutto adatto alla giornata afosa di oggi ma questo profumo è un vero piacere da annusare. a chi ama, come me, le fragranze orientali costruite su resine e spezie, che richiamano il deserto, piacerà questo accordo basato sulla mirra, l'arancia e lo zafferano. l'effetto è balsamico, canforaceo, caloroso e un tantino medicinale, salvo poi assestarsi su un che di pepato e legnoso. molto buono!

IM just writeing this to thank you for such great reviews, i have bin looking for a fragrance that had two scents frankincens and myrhh,and this one has more to ad, so when i found this ,and also read the reviews it made the choice to buy this so easy,so thanks to you for being great cridicts, i purchased this one from lucky scents, and now i will have then to get back to you and write my review,ALOHA

Wow!!!! This is fantastic. Spicy, exotic, ambery, warm, oriental perfume that is sexy, yet happy and upbeat at the same time. For those who mourn the loss of organza indecence, I would give this one a try. Its got the same spicy vanilla sexyness of OI but I like this one better. Its alive with character and personality. Long lasting, good sillage, and totally full bottle worthy.

i understant why pepole said that its start like medicine ..and that it is why i love it!..its more a smell that there is in the nurse room in the air very close to skin as the previous review said- so if you love loud perfume its not for you at all - i found it like a Ambre nargille by heremes vor Aqua Allegoria Winter Delice or jungle elephant t kenzo

I am a bit confused. I took up my sample of Eau d'Italie BAUME DU DOGE after reading some reviews of Heeley ESPRIT DU TIGRE which compare the two fragrances. Sniffers seem unanimous that BAUME DU DOGE is better--and I agree with them. My question is: why would anyone compare these two fragrances in the first place? BAUME DU DOGE is a rich, complex, multilayered oriental perfume with a thick and palpable benzoin-myrrh base, and the hard-hitting spices of this composition (in stark contrast to ESPRIT DU TIGRE) are quite detectable. Saffron, cardamom, pepper and more, are combined here in a very appealing blend. There is no camphor or mint, which dominate the Heeley composition, to my nose. So why in the world are people comparing these two fragrances at all? It must be the name! Which just goes to show once again that people are influenced by even poorly chosen names. Heeley ESPRIT DU TIGRE really has no bite to it at all, being completely and utterly polite. Eau d'Italie BAUME DU DOGE, in contrast, is a fierce animal, an oriental perfume worthy indeed of a jungle cat. In fact, I am reminded even a bit of Kenzo JUNGLE L'ELEPHANT! This is a gorgeous perfume which every oriental lover should make an effort to sniff at some point.

Baume du doge is one of the perfumes I've most expected to smell in my life. The name, the idea, the ingredients... the perfumer!!! I was crazy waiting for it till I had the chance to have a proper decant some weeks ago. And indeed the first 3 minutes are simply put: gorgeous! Sexy! Opulent! Give me 3 bottles now!!! But what for to go on and explain what one smells in that compelling period if then the next 4 hs it's only spicy myrhh that lasts and lasts without much projection. I'm very disappointed... linear... and soft and ... it is not a matter of quantity of application, the magic accords of the beginning simply don't last more than that and the myrrh might get annoying in that case. I'm sorry but the only advice I can say is: don't buy until you see how the longevity of the top accord lasts. Do if you love myrrh... in which case I'd go for a better rendition: La Myrrhe by Lutens. They smell similar in the drydown but La Myrrhe is captivating from top to bottom without any flaw. There are smooth changes there, a masterful development, not the violent tone down of BdD. Oh Bertrand, I'll always be your fan anyway. I'm sorry but this is a complete no buy for me. (oh how sad I am).

Opens with a very strong mix of orange and spices, immediately followed by a strong cedar note. The cedar eventually takes over on me and becomes the dominant note throughout the fragrance. I don’t get much of the basenotes – I don’t get vanilla or benzoin or anything. Sillage is great and longevity is also very good. I can see the Christmas connection, although I probably wouldn’t have made that connection without someone already pointing that out to me. It does smell a bit like pencil shavings and is quite dry. The cedar note is very strong, but is quite pleasant.

Baume du Doge is almost a non-scent on me, even from the start. I mostly get cinnamon with just the smallest doses of smokey myrrh, orange peel, sweet and boozy benzoin, a bit of cedar. It is nice, but nothing to write home about, since I can barely smell it after 3 hours, it is a skin scent. For the price, this is really not something worth getting, especially since it has some dense notes, but has almost no presence. There are better spicy orientals out there. Do try it for yourselves though, you might have a different experience.

If you told me this was an Amouage scent, I'd believe you. It's got the saffron, incense and even the rich fruit in the opening of Amouage Interlude for sure. The only thing is, it's not nearly as potent. It's pretty mild. At least to my nose. But two hours after I put it on, my boyfriend came home and the first thing he said upon entering was, "It smells like incense in here." I quite like it!

I have the "Au Lac" in a bottle; "Baume du Doge" only as a sample - and that is good so. I can't say that I dislike it but it is something I don't like - the beginning reminded me on hospital and on my skin it is like Comme des Garcons (the first one). Maybe it has also to do that I am eagerly waiting for spring that I don't want smell winter again ;)

just one thing to add to all the below reviews. don't go for it if you are not a fan of cedar. as you'll get loads of it :)

this starts with orange and vetiver. i thought it was patchouli but i think it's cedar and vetiver actually. the scent seems really linear-it continues to be citrus and vetiver for the most parts with hints of cedar and cinnamon. maybe some pepper? i dunno, i don't seem to get the resins that others are getting. it's fairly earthy and citrussy.

Baume du Doge starts out so opulent and delicious. A kick of orange, then enveloping dark cloves and myrrh. However this is not a very linear fragrance. The inital spice-wood breaks up and the spices dissipate very quickly, leaving something a little sour. It may be the orange leaving? The awkward transition only lasts ten minutes or so, but has the effect of flattening a fragrance that at the start had been trumpeting spicy woodsy awesomeness. As it flattens, for lack of a better word, it also hugs closer to my skin--still there, but I have to put my nose to my wrist to smell it. Once the vanilla kicks in after maybe a half hour, the sour note is gone. A hint of woodsy and clove remains, but the vanilla is the stronger note on me. It's not a cupcake frosting vanilla! though it does have a slightly mouth-watering effect. A few days after I wore this sample, I tried Le Message Oublie by Antichambre which ended up smelling very similar on me (just with better projection and more depth). I tried this another day and definitely get cinnamon, clove, and myrrh at the start. It has almost a vintage feel, but more like a bottle of something nice that's gone off a little. Again it smells a lot like an orange stuck full of cloves, which is why I think so many people find it seasonal. However, on me the orange is not very fresh, meaning despite the cloves it has started to rot on the mantle. Baume de Doges settles into a more pleasant clove-y myrrh and in doing so becomes more masculine, though it has a "sticky" quality.

Fantastic perfume! Aggressive, joyous, and not for the shy. If you are looking for a 'skin scent,' keep moving. If you are looking for a yummy, warm, well-blended juice to wear across many types of occasions, that will make you and the folks around you smile, you have to try this one. The perfume opens up with orange. A *lot* of orange, together with wood and spice. The orange blends in quickly with the rest of the notes, say within ten minutes (the drydown lasts and lasts, in all stages) so you aren't walking around smelling overly fruity. The woods become prominent, and the spices secondary, although for the next few hours the woods and spices sort of wrestle for dominance. The effect is quite lovely and unexpected -- just as your nose gets 'used to' and stops smelling one aspect as much, another peeks out and stands in front, and surprises you again. To my nose, The effect, overall, reminds me of Christmas, with spiced orange pomanders and old polished wood and some wood burning in a fireplace. The fireplace aspect isn't from a smoke or incense note (alas, I would have loved this more if it were, I hoped for a bit more incensy feel with the resins), but because of the extreme warmth feel that the fragrance has. There is a stickiness to the myrrh that makes the last hours very dark and rich and lovely. Figure that from start to finish you get at least six to eight hours with this, maybe more, and that at each stage the chameleon shifts Baume du Doges tries on make those hours intense and quite enjoyable.

The main attraction in this perfume is the orange note in the beginning. It's fabulous. Just the right combo of cinnamon and spice to prop up an addictive, delicious ripe orange fruit smack dead center in the intro. It makes me wish I could sustain this phase, while the fragrance is still wet, forever. The next phase is a soft and sweetish sandalwood-type scent that reminds me of Serge Lutens Santal Majascule and/or Jeux de Peau. As it dries, an Iso E Super cedar-like edge starts to grow underneath the fuzziness. The later phases, after the orange is gone, are just fine but nothing original or noteworthy. So if you are jaded and smell too many perfumes, you won't be inspired to buy the full bottle. But sampling is a treat for that orange.

Promising opening, disppointing drydown. Baume Du Doge opens with an orange/cinnamon accord that's immediately joined by a strong woody note (cedar). Minty hints add a bizarre, sort of strident, feel to it while cardamon remarks its presence during the middle phase. The overall effect is Interesting and somehow pleasantly weird but unfortunately the fragrance dries down to the same woody/ambery/incensey base that's way too common in many Duchafour's creations... Don't get me wrong, BDD smells good but if compared to other Duchafour's woody-incensey compositions in the same vein such as Jubilation XXV or Dzongkha, it fails to coalesce into an outstanding fragrance. Rating: 6.5-7/10

I've always seen these bottles in the wild but shied away from sampling due to the cartoonish font. After seeing so much positive fanfare, I decided to take the Pepsi challenge and buy a sample. In the spirit of this Italian brand, it's only fitting that i say "Veni Vidi Vici". This balmy concoction lies along the "good side" of been there done that. This is one of those multi-seasonal non-transcendent fragrances with enough longevity to satisfy your aromatic agenda. All of the notes here works harmoniously, albiet nothing truly stands out(maybe benzoin and vanilla). For the flexibility alone, i think this is worth a try. BLIND BUY WORTHY!

This one made me laugh. The first notes reminded me of that soft drink I use to have in summer time as a kid, some Orange Crush kind of thing. My nose was filled with "bubbles" of tangy orangy notes. Then it settled down into a more quiet scent. The incense in this one is more "formal" than the one present in Seville a l'aube (I am testing and reviewing both at the same time). I guess the myrrh and frankincense give me the "formal" impression, but they are high quality in this perfume. The spices are present, but not enough to call this fragrance "spicy". It is a very nice fragrance and I will wear it again for sure.

I was really eager to try this one and finally received my sample today. On initial spray this is pure orange - literally as if I rubbed the orange directly on my wrist. Within 5 minutes though the orange does die down a little (but is still very noticeable) and the spices kick in. Unfortunately for me the whole composition turns somewhat medicinal after this point. Such a shame, I was sure this would be something I would enjoy. Will have to see whether my mum or sister can wear this!

Very pleasant warm soft mixture of resins and spices. Smell is very natural and nice but indeed would fit more to candle, then perfume. Very very quiet, you'll need to get close to smell it, so I'm afraid people around would not be able to detect it on you. Also it has zero development and sounds linear from beginning to the end in around 3-4 hours in best case.

This could be an excellent spicy, incense, but for me what immediately cancels it out is that "one note" that always always comes across as chlorine. Sharp, nose burning lurking behind and ruining a perfectly good scent. I'm glad it's just a sample and not a full bottle. Wayy to masculine for this oriental loving woman.

Citrus aromatic oranges garnished with freshly whipped cream. Add the flavors of fall as the sweet cinnamon stick helps to stir the the gifts of the wise men. Grounded by a woody yet dusty vetiver, the entire fragrance feels like its wrapped in a cashmere blanket. smooth, comforting, and simply gorgeous...

2-3 sprays opening is petroleum gas, woody, trace of rose, After 5-10 mins Incense, spices, loaded with myrrh, very inky, sweet, & balsamic...the orange is mixed in but it’s not a fresh orange, more of a spicy savory orange Projects well for first 30 mins & then medium projection to skin scent

oriental woody frag ,very anonimous even if you smell a lot of spice and incense here ,not absolutely bad but very close to the skin with very poor sillage and longevity in skin ,just to buy as a perfume to use before going to bed 6/10

The mix of sweet orange and fennel brings to mind 18th century Venice, where gondolas were for mysterious gentlemen in masks, not fanny-pack wearing tourists.

For Castor: Ja,ja, as someone who has Agua Brava (among other craps) you can say that Eau d'Italie fragrances are synthetic ?? Incredible!!!

The smoky scent in a perfume always captured my fantasy. I love this mixture with balsamic scent.