Velours Boisé

Opening is a rugged ashy vellum, gaiac wood with a nice whiskey that has a hint of fermented sour mash nuance. This could be a little difficult for some (whiskey, wormwood)but I really like it's semi raw character. Beyond that it's starts getting a bit sweeter and it transitions to a nice sassafras vibe, while retaining the charred gaiac and sandalwood. The sassafras reminds me of one of my favorite Kilian fragrances, Amber Oud. However, Kilian AA is smokier agarwood and the sassafras is much stronger. Someone below mentioned Franck Boclet Vinyl but to me, that one has a prominent chocolate patchouli along with a jack and coke vibe. They both contain whiskey, but their execution is very different. Marketed as unisex but this is squarely masculine imo. ------------------------------------ If you like whiskey, sour mash (slight), gaiac, sassafras, or if you have been thinking about dropping a big money on a discontinued bottle of Kilian AA (be careful of counterfeits) then this is definitely you could check out. If you want to go up market fromthis, look at YSL 6 Place Saint.

So unique! I smell a lot of whisky and dark heavy wood. Sometimes I catch the very literal smell of a rum and coke. It definitely gives dive bar vibes. But I can also smell a distinctly culinary herbal edge as well as spice rack spices and a touch of floral honey. And there is a dry bitter-sweetness to it as well, like iced tea or licorice has (without smelling like either one). Like the dive bar secretly has an apothecary hidden out back. Every sniff shows me new facets! Love love love! Very niche and very interesting. Bravo.

It smells like a spicy rum and coke,I love it. Very slept on I haven’t smelt anything much like it

12. September 2021 Testing the sample spary vial, new and fresh from official web-site order. This is a very masculine leather fragrance (at least on my skin, even though the leather is not listed here). It starts again quite weird, why there is always a bergamot and leather/wood in many fragrances combined together? Who said their combination smells good anyway? But once that stage passed, then it is all about a vintage leather biker jacket or thick leather coat. It smells like it has been worn to many those dark pubs back in the day, where they still could smoke cigars inside, it has some cologne traces on it, sweat and tears :) It is bitter, dark, somehow greenish, yet spicy, but somehow also very sexy, despite of the mix of all those associations (in my head at least). I really enjoy it myself on my skin and i hope my man would also enjoy it. It is quite simple, yet somehow very appealing. I would really enjoy it on a man, but also secretly would wear a spritz on myself once in a while. Sillage and especially lasting power are actually very good, so one spray is more than enough for me, to enjoy it during cold time of the year. The longer it stays on my skin, the more i like it, just like your favorite leather jacket: the more you have been through together, the more it is dear to you.

Hmm... big Green Water Vintage and new EDP fan. Bling bought a few of the new releases. Big Whiskey Scent fan too... This was the more appealing blind buy. Rich amber medicinal slightly sweet blended whiskey with a creamy dark spice woody spice underneath. I’m a big Le Dandy fan - technically it’s a killer performance Whiskey scent albeit made up of florals et al that give an astonishing approximation. This on the other hand is honest. A Whiskey that could be a scent if that makes sense. Only Slumberhouse Baque and Kiste compete. I’ve tried so many - only the above mentioned do it justice. The only complaint is performance is not on par in terms of longevity and the dry down evolves somewhat rapidly into more of an amber spice scent ala Lubin Korrigan. Still... serendipitous

Classy whiskey barell smell. Starts off very boozy, settles into woody spicy, I also get leathery smell. What I imagine real gentleman would wear, woman can pull it off too.

This punches way above its price tag. Mellow, boozy woods and spices that lasts a super long time.

A dry, slightly bitter, herbal, woody scent profile. The mate and wormwood notes have a lot to do with it. Very little sweetness, with maybe the weakest hint of a quasi-honey facet from the immortelle note. Whiskey note only apparent in the very opening, and only briefly. It could really use a more persistent booze note, and sweetness coming from somewhere, anywhere. It also sits close, pretty subdued. Sits flat. And Velours Boisé is absolutely NOTHING, and I mean NOTHING, like Le Dandy by D'Orsey or Bentley Intense for Men. And very little if any similarity to Dark Rebel Rider by John Varvatos. I have bottles of all of those. I'm disappointed with Velours Boisé to be honest. I'll sell it.

Dry, powdery spiced woods with a splash of whisky, sweet yet astringent at the same time. "Spices" could be anything but they smell like mild cooking spices to me, black pepper and coriander and whatnot with a rough texture. Moderate projection for 5-6hr, longevity 12hr+.

It’s a Black Rebel Rider with slightly better performance. That’s it.

I really like this scent profile.....Bentley Intense vibes! For me it last 6-8 hours with 7 being average, im happy with that...... didn't let sit yet.....maybe I will get more longevity. Still first 3-4 hours it projects nicely! I will continue to test it and can't wait for the cooler months to start to put it in my rotation 🙌!

Very alcoholic, smooth and soft. Whiskey with spices. Composition overall is masterfully mixed, not sweet, comforting, natural, gives similar vibes to Chergui SL. I can not say its crazy original, just very pleasant cold weather perfume, absolutely unisex.

Came to agree this has a Bentley for Men vibes but more whiskey and spices. Pretty nice quality and longevity, I get about 8 hours before skin scent territory. Definitely not a dumb reach fragrance pretty much a winter only cozy type of scent.

Surprised this didn't catch any Youtube hype for "boozy" top list. Very well done. It's very tamed in terms of sweetness, as some boozy fragrance can push the gourmand territory. But this is reserved and mature boozy.

Great mature scent profile. Smells like a less dense Vinyl by Franck Boclet. Which is good. For the money this is an absolute steal. Boozy, woodsy, and spicy without becoming cloying like Vinyl.

This one smells like Arquiste Nanban on the dry down...