Elixir Charnel Le Boise Torride

OH. MY. FREAKING. WORD. This is one of the most phenomenal perfumes I have ever beheld in my entire freaking life. This is the perfume I always smell on other women and wonder what on earth they are wearing that smells so amazing. I don't mean that literally of course, that they are all wearing the same perfume, since I don't know what they are wearing, but the scent just somehow smells like THAT perfume. The one that got away. The one I've always been looking for. My Holy Grail. The crazy thing is that I can't put my finger on the particular note that "makes" this perfume. It smells like a brand-new plastic or pleather cosmetics bag that contains makeup as well as a sample of a fruity-floral perfume. It smells like a scented plastic doll's hair, like some Strawberry Shortcake dolls from the 80's. Then there is crystallized honey and some kind of fake blueberry. Some amber too? It seems like a woody chypre at first, but then it sweetens as it dries, becoming fairly gourmand. I opened my daughter's strawberry cereal bar as I wore the perfume, and the scent of her bar wasn't too far off from the scent of this perfume. But a chypre mixed with a strawberry cereal bar? HOW is this working? The heart contains this incredible sweet, white, creamy flower. I was thinking jasmine, but it is not easy to decipher. Words almost can't describe how much I love it mixed with all the plastic going on in here. Like Hawaiian Barbie. I don't know what it is. Love? Lust? But it is instantly my signature. It is ultra-feminine, so chic, so sexy, so girly, so elusive, so unforgettable, so ME!! Realize: This is *my* Holy Grail, probably not anyone else's, so take my review and successful blind purchase with a lump of salt. I'm clearly enamored to death by this stuff, and I enjoy sharing my personal thoughts, but please do not go out and buy this based on my 1000% hyped-up, super positive experience that completely slants my review in favor of this perfume, giving it absolutely no objectivity whatsoever. Edited to add: I knew this perfume reminded me of Une Nuit Magnetique, as they are both fruity-earthy-amber, and now I see they indeed have the same nose. They are obviously not the same perfume, but I would suggest that anyone who likes this try Une Nuit Magnetique and vice versa. Edited after several more days of wearing: My love is a fleeting love. She starts out with a bang, then she is gone two hours later. Why does my Holy Grail have to do this, booooo! There you have it--objectivity has returned. But I still like the actual fragrance so much that I will keep this one. (Side note: This is not discontinued as of today)

I really like this fragrance!! A another amazing creation from the master of Fruitchouli/Chypre - Christine Nagel(Chypre fatal, Miss Dior Cherie 2005) Christine is really really good at Fruitchouli fragrances! All the above 3 Fruitchouli are my fav I always wear it on daily based so so good! This really stands out from other Fruitchouli on the market as some comments below have already mentioned, sweet fun young but sophisticated at the same time, it doesn’t smells cheap or boring. With the marshmallow it twisted the perfume into a gourmand touch which makes it even more interesting!! The patchouli here is the same as Chypre fatal which brings the smokiness the earthiness also the dustiness out I like it very much Guerlain I’m hoping you will bring this back someday please ... Christine is now the in-house perfumer of Hermes, but I dont like the recent releases from Hermes... I know she's trying something new/innovative but I dont find it interesting enough, I hope she can make a frutchouli/chypre type of perfume for the house of Hermes like she did to Dior & Guerlain!!!! Looking forward !!

This is one of those scents where it just makes you feel surreal.. like, this smells so good, how could someone have actually created this? Almost like you’re in a dream world. This stuff is intense. You have to go very easy on it, because it is SUPER sweet. But if you just subtly apply.. it is so amazing. I find a lot of Guerlain scents make me feel like this.. and this is the same feeling that made me start obsessing over perfume. It’s not exactly a unique combination of notes. What’s unique is the quality. Guerlain continues to amaze me. This is something that I will treasure. Definitely not a daily scent, but a masterpiece only for when I crave the experience.

Judging by notes alone, you'd be forgiven for thinking "Le Bois Torride" ought to smell like a 6 year old's birthday. But it doesn't. It manages to be surprisingly sophisticated, veiling its more sugary elements with a fresh zingy orange, airy jasmine, strident cedar and earthy patchouli. The result is a zesty, sweet and slightly boozy gourmand, which feels to me like a more nuanced and less shrieking version of "Aqua di Zucchero" by Profvmvm Roma. It's sparkly and fun, yet reserved enough that a man could wear it to a party and not feel like a total fruitcake. Reminds me a bit of red lemonade. I wouldn't advise more than two sprays though. It's quite potent!

Fruitcholis how I love thee. It kind of reminds me of I Love New York for Holidays. The patchouli kind of buttons up and cuts the sweetness of the berries and marshmallows (honestly a frag with marshmallow and patchouli notes? Did we know such was possible?!) IDK, but it's working for me. It's masculine, yet sweet; the cedar adds some woodiness to the mossy patchouli vibe. It's kind of like you were hiking with a bag of Gushers. You dropped the Gushers and then accidentally stepped on them. The juice squirted out. But now they're also dirtied by wet earth. If that sounds appealing to you (bc it actually does to me), give this a try!

Addictive! I was using up all of my decant so I got a full bottle. My favorite of all the Elixir Charnels, I even reach for it more than Gourmand Coquin (wonderful as well). I love the marshmallow, fruits, and patchouli together in this. To me it's a more grown-up version of a lot of those celebrity scents with similar notes. It's very sweet and tangy without being obnoxious. Entirely wearable. It is realistic to me, like there's actually a glass bowl of berries and cream in front of me. Like a fruit salad given as dessert at a 5 star restaurant.

My wife picked this out for herself when she purchased a bottle of Songe d'un Bois d'Ete for me as a gift (AWESOME). I absolutely love Elixir Charnel Le Boise Torride. It is so elegant and so soft and feminine. It's not an over-the-top sweetness. I guess I would agree that it is gourmand but just on the fringes. I think this one is probably very skin chemistry dependent. On my wife, it is a 10/10.

Had no idea this was supposed to be for women, I generally don’t like Guerlain and don’t like women’s fragrances, but here I am having just bought a bottle of this..,

Boise Torride is still not discontinued. There must have been false info going 'round.

My fragrance friend sent me a sample before i purchased a bottle blindly because many in our frag group didn’t like Boise Torride- nor did many others, especially when Guerlain announced the Charnel Elixirs 14 years ago. Die hard Guerlain fans were likening the exclusive line to nothing more than “celebrity” fragrance releases because “Guimauve di Harmonie” or marshmallow harmony -was a note along with red berries! Gasp!! Many clutched their pearls!! So I was nervous about trying Boise Torride but this is also the line that gave us Gourmand Coquin and French Kiss... how bad could it be? I was expecting an overly sweet opening a la Black Opium levels of diabetic sweetness ( which I like so no shade) but No.... Instead Boise Torride opens with softened and sweetened orange blossom and jasmine with the patchouli and cedar also at the foreground. It’s masterfully blended so I’m trying very hard to pick out the notes. The red berries create an astringency that cuts through some of the sweetness. I also perceive Guerlian’s signature white Musk but here it isn’t so in my face like “My Insolence” which I felt was too “dryer sheets” clean for my tastes. As Boise settles on my skin the patchouli is really pushing through- it’s not an earthy patchouli but somewhat chocolatey and powdery. All these Gourmand touches are made clean and fluffy from the white musk and wood notes. It also has really good projection. On me this is not a skin scent, it’s creating a nice little scent bubble. My first impression is a good one.

The opening is a blast of sugary red berries with a huge cloud of cosmetic/rose powder Guerlainade. Once settled I get a subdued sweetness, like honey - lots of red berries that I want to call raspberries, a hint of bright orange zest and a whole lot of warm cream grounded by a faint woodiness. The berries and sweet powder (marshmallow?) stand at the forefront to me. Dried down it sort of reminds me of bubble gum. It's very spring time pleasant. A little bit light wearing but not transparent, though overspraying can be cloying due to the powderiness. Lasts most of the day, but I tend to touch up around 4/5 hours as it seems to fade to a skin scent eventually. I see it as a totally 'pink' scent, yet still holds that touch of Guerlain sophistication.

This is a good Guerlain submission. How it goes on is how it stays (as compared to Mitsouko, which dances about). What I really love is hte Cedar note, which is just stunning. OK, I live in the bay area, a cool, foggy climate that makes the perfect frame, but I think others will love this too. (edit) I put this away and came back to it after a month, and indeed there is a marshmallow note that makes this more of a gourmand. I read that this entire series is geared towards the gourmand genre. When I first tried htis I got Cedar, but today it was marshmallow, and sadly my feelings have changed.

Surprisingly nice for a feminine leaning scent, which I'm usually not into. Floral orange cherry berry with musky drydown. Natural, well blended, soft, gentle, hints of sweetness. I'd enjoy this on a woman. Got it as a sample from Pleasure Scenter. After a few hours, I realize there's a certain red Bordeaux silkiness that reminds me of the drydown for Prada L'Homme Intense drydown. Very nice. Scent: 7 / Sillage: 7 / Longevity: 7

This is now the sweetest perfume i own. SWEET! Here is the marshmallow I thought I would find in Killian's Love (don't be shy). Honestly its a little much - very girly twirly + tooty fruity. Will try in the summer and see what it becomes in the heat, but until I have a 5 year old's birthday to attend - it's shelved till then.

Oh, this one.....I wish I could like more than I actually do. I can't even remember why I hunted down this rare fragrance and paid a high price for it, but I did, so here we are. My unrefined sense of smell gets nothing much more than a very sweet patchouli based scent. I think it smells similar to so many perfumes in that category, it's just of better quality. It feels like the gold standard of gourmands with prominent patchouli. In the family with scents like Angel and Jimmy Choo, but it does make those seem a little clunky in comparison. I don't get anything fluffy or marshmallow like from this, just sweet. Maybe some tartness from the berries, but for me the patchouli overshadows everything else. This isn't light in any way. It's thick and smooth and almost a little witchy to me.

A very astringent patchouli with tannic, seedy berries that dry out your tongue. I like the end of this one’s life more than the beginning of it, when it retires to a red cedar cabin to spend its days relaxing and snacking on marshmallows straight from the bag.

I get no sweetness to this. It does not mix well with my chemistry. I will stick to Angelique Noir and Coquin. The wood notes in this are grody to the max for me. I'm sure on the right person it smells good who goes for these types of smells. I 3/4 a bottle that I don't know what I'm going to do with it. I will give it a try another 2 more times before I totally give up on it. Edit: It's not bad, but it's not me. Will stick to the other three that I have tried so far that work with my chemistry. Shame you can't get samples of these before you invest in them.

Is there an orange-related fruit in every scent with an otherwise great-looking note list nowadays? And the said notes are always so powerful and dominant.

Very like-able from the start. At first application Boise Torride is almost tingly, there's a mix of sweet and sour or something that strikes that way, maybe the berries and tangerine. Now a few hours later I can smell subdued marshmallow with cedar and a touch of patchouli, different and pleasant, not sickening sweet, either-I was worried about that marshmallow note but it's fine, gives it the gourmand quality without the being cloying. Sillage: does not seem to project much sillage, I am working with a 1ml vial as opposed to a spray and I've dabbed it on both wrists, neck, decollage, and a few drops on my shirt. Cannot get a really good whiff of this unless I stick my nose to my wrist. Would I buy a bottle? Not at retail price, although it's a lovely scent, there are other fragrances that grab me more than this.

I found a decant of this lovely juice that I had not given a serious try before. I'm wearing it to work today and it is beautiful in the topnotes, warm and lovely. I love that the greens and woods are present from beginning to end. I do not find it too sweet and I am not a lover of sweet perfumes. It has more of a vanillic fruity tang to me than a syrupy smell like others have described. The only downside I can see is that in the middle notes that decaying, animalic side of jasmine comes through too heavily for my taste for about an hour, 3 hours into my wearing of the scent, but it went away and now the scent is a lovely soft floral, vanillic wood with that lovely Guerlain "je ne sais quoi" vanilla note. Can't afford the full bottle but I will likely buy another small decant.

Got a decant of this and a disappointed. There is no sillage. Three sprays and I can hardly smell it. No marshmallow either. What I do like is the fruit and wood scents but there is an underlying metallic smell on my skin... Hate to be so negative... I will continue to wear the decant, but at this rate, it is not worth the price. Very sophisticated and pleasant, but not wowing.

At first, it smells like some sort of scratch-n-sniff grape sticker on me. About 5 minutes in, some honey shows up. It's sort of a cross between doll head, fake grape flavoring and Boytrytis by Ginestet. I like to imagine there are two types of people, ones who think this description sounds delicious and those fighting the urge to dry heave at the thought, lol!

A very sweet and juicy fragrance. This is definitely a gourmand. When I first smelled it, I got a grape smell out of this. Nice for a women. Very sweet, floral, powdery, and creamy. I was told it has chocolate and rum, go figure. Try it.

An overly sweet fruity florential with a massive marshmellow accord and some woods (?). Cough cough cough...A fragrance that would do great on a "Sweet Sixteen" protagonist. Probably the least successful line by Guerlain. Rating: 3/10

Please if any one know where to find this heaven in a bottle let me know,,I checked in Paris boutique and they said it was discontinued science last year

I am looking to purchase this! Please contact me! Thank you!