Sable Fauve

A Lion Has a Beautiful Fawny Coat Wait till you sniff the new Sable Fauve. It will knock your socks off. That's what happened to me while checking out the six new releases from Yves Rocher La Collection Parfums, Cuir de Nuit and Sable Fauve blew my mind! Allegedly designed to recall tawny sand, the warmth of the sun on the skin, Sable Fauve is just too smoky, sweet, gourmand, and vanillic. The tonka you get here is an almond and smoke subtlety of this kind of roasted beans, from the synthetic coumarin, became more renowned thanks to its use in Shalimar By Jacques Guerlain in 1921. A sweet and fresh note will rise from bottom to heart of the fragrance, lingering on the skin for hours whilst enriching the overall fragrance. As used in Sable Fauve it has a sweet odor readily recognized as the scent of newly mown hay. Alongside its herbaceousness, it displays a slight spicy inclination – as well as a vanillic aspect, which is why often people confound it with the vanilla. This warmth also extends to encompass notes of caramel. I admire its creaminess and powdery notes, bringing depth and character to the fragrance once combined with benzoin and labdanum, here used to give a gourmand and oriental touch. An alternative to vanilla, tonka features heavily in iconic fragrances with a fruity-candy aroma, such as Thierry Mugler’s Angel and Le Mâle by Jean-Paul Gaultier, just to mentions a few. But tonka is not the main note, it is a background supporter, rather the star is benzoin, with its velvety finish and pronounced fruity note, reminiscent of stewed Morello cherries, this is the sweetheart of many a perfume, including Sable Fauve. This is a real bomb of benzoin. What everyone calls vanilla in their reviews is the note of benzoin dominating this fragrance. Ditto, tonka bean is there, too, but most of all it's all about the leading benzoin. Hold on, is this perfume all too cloying, sugary, sickly? Of course not! Sable Fauve features labdanum, which is used to create a resinous, woody-amber accord, reminiscent of ambergris and incense, and tone down the sweetness. The brown-eyed rockrose, Cistus ladanifer, is a species of a flowering shrub, the broad evergreen leaves are covered by glandular hairs that exude the odoriferous oleo-resin we call labdanum, better known to some gardeners as Rock Rose, which is a pillar of chypre perfumes and many Orientals. This warm and complex resin is sometimes perceived as leathery, sometimes honey-like, with hints of plum. It's a pleasant fragrance, a very great one. Well made and long-lasting. I've had it on for about all day now, and it's still quite prominent. But at the end of the day, it's just benzoin. I have smelled this type of accord in other fragrances before, yet this one is excellent. This perfume is a nice surprise, now I've seen everything. The benzoin here is incredibly well done, so elegant, resinous, even smoky! Also, accompanied by the right amount of tonka and just a taste of labdanum, it stays cozy till the end. A perfect feast for the wintertime, and long-lasting too. In my conclusion, it is a naive bet, a perfume with character and timelessness, and I see it harmless for wearing at the office. On the outfit side, nothing to complain about. I fancy the fact that it is not heady from the start but that it remains stable throughout the day with a tendency towards the gourmand-sweet side at the end of the day. This perfume is a fine pick, in the same collection I also really fancied Cuir de Nuit, which I've reviewed already.

All these reviews are astounding. I had to double check that I had the same fragrance. My bottle was purchased in April of 2025. 1. There is no Benzoin in here. There is barely a sensation of amber. 2. The notes listed are completely off as are the main accords. This is extremely sweet. Almost cloyingly so. Childish and linear. This doesn't smell like Black Opium, nor does it smell like a typical vanilla scent. Its not resinous in the least. Its best described as SWEET & FRUITY. What does it smell like? If you smelled any fruity Sospiro, like Erba pura or Dolce Melodia. It smells similar in DNA to those, except much sweeter. A sweet fruit basket type smell. Only the fruit s are not on level 10. More like level 2-3. I was hoping for a deep resinous Amber. I really dont like hyper sweet or fruit basket scents-- Its ok 7.7/10. Edit: I found it to be a pleasant dumb reach. Ive gone through 2 bottles. So I will have to raise my score to 8.2/10

I purchased this more out of fear that it was being discontinued, otherwise I would have waited as it’s not on my priority list of fragrances to get my hands on. Overall it’s a great fragrance, it’s does remind me quite a bit of Black Opium, maybe a bit different at the beginning but becomes more similar in the dry down. I’d say it’s 85% close if you are a discerning reviewer, probably closer for a fragrance muggle. I do find it lasts a bit longer on me than Black Opium which is nice, and as I don’t love BO enough to pay full price (I prefer BO Extreme) this is a good economical option to have something similar in your collection. Thus I am grading it a love because if I run out and it’s still available I would re-purchase.

Love this and everything else from this line! I actually have grown to love this even more over time. It lasts a good while, sometimes i use it at work and spray in my hand and run through my hair. I find it very unisex, i find it very uplifting but yet not in the typical sparkling way a citrus is. It is more like a confidence boost. As a professional woman surrounded by men, i dont like to wear something too dainty or too flowery OR too sexy to a meeting. This is perfect in my opinion, bc it isnt flowers, it is candy, it isnt old lady. The labdanum gives it a kick ass leathery touch, but just a pinch! To me, It just smells good and very “unafraid”.

I can't understand why this beauty is getting discontinued. In all YR shops they still have testers but no more perfumes for sale... it's such an amazing scent! It does remind me a lot of So Elixir Bois Sensuelle but it's much softer and warmer. I believe that tonka does the job here, also the cedar notes that are missing here (unlike in Bois Sensuelle) make the difference (less bitter sharpness). It's a rather long-lasting scent that becomes warmer and warmer in time. I fell for in in the summer but looked forward to fall in order to start enjoying it to the fullest. It's really amazing and should be brought back ASAP!