Bois 1920
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The apricot-nutmeg pairing announces itself with unexpected vigour, simultaneously fruity and spiced, as if you've opened a jar of preserved fruit from an herbalist's shelf. Bergamot and basil arrive as sharp counterpoints, creating a top accord that feels green-tinged and almost savoury—nothing here coddles you into comfort.
Lavender softens the composition's harder edges as osmanthus blooms with its distinctive plum-apricot sweetness, creating an intimate dialogue with the opening's fruit. The juniper berry contributes a gin-like dryness that prevents the rose from settling into conventional floral territory, keeping the accord poised between botanical and spiced.
The sandalwood emerges skeletal and refined rather than creamy, anchoring vetiver and amber that build slowly into a woody, slightly austere foundation. By the fourth hour, the fragrance becomes nearly whisper-quiet, a faint woody-herbaceous trace that clings closer to skin than air.
Bois 1920 Classic arrives as a peculiar marriage of orchard and spice rack—apricot and nutmeg collide in the opening moments with a brightness that feels almost jarring. There's a clarity here that eschews the typical woody fragrance formula; rather than burying you in dark resins, Enzo Galardi constructs something altogether more architectural. The bergamot catches the nutmeg's warmth and lifts it skyward, whilst basil introduces a savoury herbaceousness that prevents the composition from tilting toward gourmand sweetness.
What emerges is a fragrance for the intellectual rather than the hedonist—someone who appreciates the geometric precision of a botanical garden more than the cushioned comfort of a vanillic embrace. The heart reveals itself as lavender and osmanthus take the stage, with the latter's apricot-honey facets playing directly into the opening's stone fruit DNA. Rose appears almost as punctuation, a classical element that anchors the composition's spicy-woody ambitions rather than dominating them.
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