Soufflot

Sometimes I need to fulfil something very specific to my own scent memories and personal nostalgia. I grew up in a ski village, pretty high up the mountain and my mum was an interior designer for a while, fitting out new build chalets. So I spent alot of time following her around furniture and deco shops. I was shorter at the time, being probably about 7 or 8 years old, and these shops seemed expansive and never ending to me. They would be full from top to bottom with the most beautiful alpine sofas, coffee tables, rugs, bedding, throws, coasters, wall art, faux furs, cowskins, candles, and anything else you could possibly imagine seeing in a chalet in the early 2000s. Despite it not being my style of perfume, sometimes I just really want to smell like a luxury chalet. This is that, in an uncanny way. It smells like browsing one of those shops at my current age, picking up a candle, sniffing it, thinking 'nah not my thing', then sniffing it again, putting it down, coming back over to it, sniffing it again and thinking 'nope, now I can't leave the shop without it' then checking the price and thinking 'yep, I'm leaving the shop without it'. Soufflot is not overly sweet which saves it from being off putting. It's hits the markers of what a chalet feels like too. It's like two things at once, in the foreground it's the candle (nutty, spiced, honeyed but sophisticated) . But it also smells like the rest of the chalet too: warm, cosy, woody (these seem obvious), somewhat leathery (cow and sheep skin rugs), and resinous (like the amber pine sap drops you can find on the walls). Imagery: Candle lit dinner party in chalet, outside it's snowing. Two dads are smoking a cig on the balcony leaving billowing clouds of breath and smoke in the air as they laugh about something or other. Everyone is wearing wool. There's music playing and the fire is lit and it's open plan so you can see the whole scene without moving your head. You walk down wooden stairs, onto a carpeted corridor then into a tiled bathroom (warm underfoot the whole way, thanks to pumping underfloor heating). You sit down to pee, hazy from the mulled wine and génépi you've just enjoyed, and think 'why the hell does it smell so cosy and comforting in here?'. You look around and spot a reed diffuser that from your earlier candle disappointment you just know costs more than what you could get for the beat up fiat panda 4X4 you drove here in.

This is a first impression review based on a 2 ml official sample of Sufflot. Will update later regarding the performance, as the fragrance wears on. But as first impression, scent wise, it’s instant love for me! Sufflot smells literally like gingerbread cookies in the opening. Mouthwatering! A very nuanced nutty, sweet, honeyed tobacco with loads of cinnamon on top. It’s freaking delicious! Perfect for fall season, Sufflot it’s the fragrance equivalent of the ever so popular drink pumpkin spice latte.. Might overthrow Scherzo and become my favourite Miller Harris perfume, if it has a good performance, since it’s such a gourmand scent. They’re my favourite type of scent and this perfume is fall season bottled in my opinion. As it dry down I start to detect some leathery nuances and Peru balsam, it’s drying down less gourmandy but still syrupy sweet than it is in the opening. Feminine for sure, though men who love nutty, warm, resinous, balsamic scents will probably find Sufflot very appealing as well! Trying Sufflot side by side on skin with D&G Devotion Intense and MMM’s By the Fireplace, other two very popular nutty, vanilla based perfumes, I notice the following differences: Compared to By the Fireplace which is way more smoky, woddy and spicy/peppery, Sufflot comes across somewhat softer, sweeter, more feminine and with a very pronounced cinnamon, doughy feel. Not quite similar I’d say... Compared with Devotion Intense, Sufflot is more nutty, amber, warm, heavy on cinnamon, honey and tobacco leaf. Devotion smells more floral, lemony and more saccharine sweet. Very perfumy/artificial, while Sufflot seems less loud and more natural, refined. I can say for sure that I prefer Sufflot over Devotion Intense for autumn season. Edit 8 hours later: Sadly, Sufflot’s performance is not as good as expected or wished for. At least spraying from my sample, it doesn’t impress me, sitting close to skin. And for the hefty price, it is quite underwhelming. On clothes, as with most of the fragrances, it lasts longer. Edit: Even though it is not the strongest performer fragrance, I decided that I do really love how it smells like and I purchased a bottle during Black Friday sale.

An interesting and complex scent! Here’s what I get from it: • Sweet baklava on the opening.. (you can almost taste the air 😋) • Rich & creamy, brandy soaked fruit cake on the mid.. • A resinous and smoky tobacco background that permeates throughout the wearing. It’s very unique - I can’t compare it with another fragrance fully but it reminds me of some aspects of these scents at least: • By the Fireplace - Maison Margiela • Milk+ - Commodity • Oud Éclat - Miller Harris • Baccarat Rouge - MFK • Sweetie Aoud - Roja • Tobacco Vanille - Tom Ford The way it performs reminds me of the Baccarat Rouge DNA, not that it smells super alike but it hits my nose in a similar way with that sweetness and resin. As this was drying down on my skin, I found the scent oddly familiar.. I’m certain it’s of when my mum used to make traditional wedding cakes 😁. I remember the smell of rich fruit cake filling the house as it was baking.. so comforting.. followed by the decadent scent of it being soaked with brandy. It’s a definite unisex scent - I understand some of the comments here about it being more masculine leaning, in the sense that it is in no way “girly”.. but for a girl that likes richer, leather type scents, I’d say this is perfect for anyone! This is going to absolutely sing in the colder months. 😍✨ A fantastic new release for Miller Harris 👏🏻

[JUNE 2024] I knew I wasn't crazy-- someone else compared this to Jeux de Peau by Serge Lutens. Smells like a good darn capuccino to start your day as the sun rises (also, hello, Ernest Hemingway reference?) Much more buttery in texture to the nose and its hint of salt to Jeux de Peau as well, along with Soufflot being smoother. It doesn't feel as "cute" (lacking JdP's apricot jam note, or its coconut note) but a surprisingly masculine breakfast perfume. But it has JdP's exact cinnamon/star anise note. A well balanced gourmand, this is. And the tobacco note is quite cherry. Makes it much more smokey than JdP, however. For you, that may be a good thing. I would definitely buy a bottle of Soufflot when a sale happens. I would not buy it for $369 but for $299AUD, perhaps. As someone who was brought into the world of perfumes thanks to Jeux de Peau, would Soufflot be considered signature scent worthy? Maybe? At the moment however, seems a bit one-note.

Ok! My ordered sample of Sofflot arrived over 10 hours ago and was applied immediately. My first impression of this welcome new fragrance by Miller Harris is as follows: Firstly, this is most definitely the heavier of the two new releases. Upon initial application to the back of my left hand and wrist, Soufflot opens with a predominantly strong nut note supported by green mandarin. Soon after, a distinct honey note joins the fragrance, adding a layer of sweetness as it dries down. As the dry-down deepens, the tobacco note joins it, remaining with the fragrance until well over the 10-hour mark. By this stage, the opening nut note loses its central predominance and is replaced by a more detectable leather note. In my personal opinion, Sufflot is a delightful masculine-leaning unisex scent suitable for autumn, winter, and early spring. Of course, everybody else's objective interpretation may well differ.