Veronique Gabai · 2024 · Amandine Clerc-Marie

Délices des Bois

Luxury$$$$, 4 of 5
Veronique Gabai asks $290 for 85 ml
85 ml$290

VersionEau de Parfum

A twist of lemon over milky, sweet fig and jasmine, settling into creamy sandalwood, cedarwood and earthy patchouli.

Veronique Gabai says

You’ll smell lemon, fig, jasmine, sandalwood and patchouli.

More from Veronique Gabai’s description

It also mentions Italian Lemon, Jasmine, Australian Sandalwood, Virginia Cedarwood, Clary Sage, Cinnamon, Labdanum, Cedarwood, Dreamwood and Jasmine.

The house’s page

Top noteswhen you spray it

Heartas it settles

Dry-downwhat stays

Délices des Bois’s scent picture, a draft: lemon, fig, jasmine, sandalwood, patchouli, cedar drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top noteswhen you spray it

Délices des Bois, top notes: Lemon, Bergamot, Bitter orange

Heartas it settles

Délices des Bois, heart: Fig, Jasmine, Clary sage, Cinnamon

Dry-downwhat stays

Délices des Bois, dry-down: Sandalwood, Patchouli, Cedar, Labdanum, Virginia cedar, Iso E Super (pencil shavings), Galaxolide (musk), Coumarin (tonka), Vanillin (vanilla)

What’s inside it

What Veronique Gabai names

LemonFigJasmineSandalwoodPatchouliJasmineAustralian SandalwoodVirginia CedarwoodClary SageCinnamonLabdanumDreamwood

What the label names

30 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.

6 citrus4 herbs & lavender7 florals3 woods2 sweet6 spices1 musks1 powder

Citrus6

Lemon oilLimoneneBergamot oilCitralTerpinolenealpha-Terpinene

Herbs & lavender4

PineneLinaloolLinalyl acetateTerpineol

Florals7

JasmineNeroli oilGeranyl acetateRose ketonesCitronellolFarnesolGeraniol

Woods3

Cedarwood oilSantalolIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet2

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)

Spices6

Cinnamon bark oilbeta-CaryophylleneEugenolIsoeugenyl acetateCinnamalIsoeugenol

Musks1

Galaxolide (musk)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)
8 more lines on the label: 1 not yet in Ingredients, 7 not there for the smell

Not in Ingredients yet1

Hexadecanol acetone, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell7

AlcoholWaterOctinoxate (a UV filter)Benzyl alcoholOctisalate (a UV filter)Avobenzone (a UV filter)Benzyl benzoate

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Our match of the notes

Shares its notes

Beloved WomanAmouage · shares jasmine, sandalwood, patchouli, cedar (Atlas cedar) and 2 more
9 AM DiveAfnan · shares lemon, jasmine, sandalwood, patchouli and 1 more$50 for 100 ml · about a tenth of Délices des Bois’s $290
Decision 42Amouage · shares sandalwood, patchouli, cedar (Atlas cedar), cinnamon and 1 more$550 for 100 ml

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