BDK Parfums · Mathilde Bijaoui

Gris Charnel

Premium$$$, 3 of 5
BDK Parfums asks about $254 for 100 ml
50 mlabout $158
100 mlabout $254

VersionEau de Parfum

Fig, black tea and cardamom over powdery iris and earthy vetiver, settling on creamy sandalwood and tonka.

BDK Parfums says

You’ll smell fig, black tea, cardamom essence, iris absolute, bourbon vetiver, Indian sandalwood and tonka bean absolute.

More from BDK Parfums’s description

It also mentions Fig (figue), Tea (the noir), Essence de cardamome, Absolu d'iris, Vétiver bourbon, Sandalwood (santal d inde), Absolu de fève tonka, Labdanum (cistus essential oil), Sandalwood essential oil, Cardamom, Iris, Vetiver, Sandalwood and Tonka bean.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Gris Charnel’s scent picture, a draft: fig, tea, cardamom, iris, vetiver, sandalwood drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Gris Charnel, top notes: Fig, Tea, Cardamom

Heartas it settles

Gris Charnel, heart: Iris, Vetiver, Labdanum

Dry-downwhat stays

Gris Charnel, dry-down: Sandalwood, Tonka (coumarin)

What’s inside it

What BDK Parfums names

FigBlack teaCardamom essenceIris absoluteBourbon vetiverIndian sandalwoodTonka bean absoluteFig (figue)Tea (the noir)Absolu d'irisSandalwood (santal d inde)Labdanum (cistus essential oil)Vetiver

What the label names

7 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

A label must name certain ingredients, most of them ones that can cause allergies; some houses print more. It is never the whole recipe.

2 citrus1 herbs & lavender1 florals1 sweet1 spices1 powder

Citrus2

LimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender1

Linalool

Florals1

Geraniol

Sweet1

Coumarin (tonka)

Spices1

Isoeugenol

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
10 more lines on the label, not there for the smell

Not for the smell10

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)A light stabiliserGreen 5Red 4Ext violet 2BHT (keeps it fresh)Yellow 5

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

LustreAmouage · shares cardamom, orris, sandalwood, tonka and 1 more$475 for 100 ml · about twice Gris Charnel’s about $254
Lyric WomanAmouage · shares cardamom, orris, vetiver, sandalwood and 1 more$395 for 100 ml
ElsewhereAmouage · shares tea, cardamom, vetiver, tonka and 1 more$475 for 100 ml · about twice Gris Charnel’s about $254

Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.