Essential Parfums · 2021 · Quentin Bisch
Bois Impérial
Mid-range$$, 2 of 5
| 100 ml | about $106 |
VersionEau de Parfum
Crushed Thai basil, grapefruit and timut pepper over earthy vetiver and cedar, settling into spicy patchouli woods and ambergris-like warmth.
Essential Parfums says
You’ll smell Thai Basil, grapefruit, Nepalese Timut Pepper absolute, Haitian Vetiver oil, Georgywood, petalia, Akigalawood, Indonesian Patchouli oil and Ambrofix.
More from Essential Parfums’s description
It also mentions Haitian Vetiver, Georgywood (new Variation On Cedar Wood), Indonesian Patchouli, Basilic thaï, Grapefruit (pamplemousse), Black pepper (absolu de poivre de timut nepalais), Huile de vétiver haïtienne and Essence de patchouli indonésienne.
Top noteswhen you spray it
Heartas it settles
Dry-downwhat stays

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

What’s inside it
What Essential Parfums names
What the label names
4 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.
1 citrus1 herbs & lavender1 spices1 powder
Heart1
as it settles
Dry-down1
what stays
6 more lines on the label, not there for the smell
Our match of the notes
Shares its notes
Oud 27Le Labo · shares black pepper, agarwood, patchouli and cedar (Atlas cedar)Matched by the notes each house names. A shared note is not a promise they smell alike.








