Comments on: Serge Lutens Miel de Bois ~ fragrance review

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 15:43:00 +0000

Oh dear, hope your feet will recover! I think it's more likely that what bothered you was the honey, but who knows.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 01:21:00 +0000

I ended up scrubbing it- and several layers of skin- off of my foot. It was just too much for me, and I had to leave for work. I'll try it again some other day, but it was just a little…much. I also tried Douce Amere, and it was nice, but very powdery on my skin. I'll give that one a better try when I'm not reeling from MdB. I told my coworkers about it (they know about my obsession) and they all thought it was pretty funny. I just wish I was experienced enough to pinpoint that note that was driving my crazy. I think it might be the hawthorn, it smelled vaguely familiar, but also disturbing. Odd. I think I might have to track down some absolutes just to build a base on.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 20:12:00 +0000

LOL — don't know what you ended up doing, but as much as I love MdB, not sure I'd wear it to work either!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 17:01:00 +0000

I just spritzed this on a few minutes ago…on my foot, thank goodness! I can't decide if I love it, or if it makes me want to throw up. Maybe both? I know- wierd. It smells a little like a urinal cake, but there's also this crazy-addictive note in it for me…I have about 20 minutes before I go to work, and I'm thinking I might be scrubbing the first few layers of skin off my foot before I go, but if, like you said, it calms down after 20 minutes, I might get away with it. I can see that this last sample order is beginning a long and complicated relationship with Serge Lutens…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 May 2006 13:44:00 +0000

I should try Borneo again…have not been in any rush since it did nothing for me the first time. Will see if I can find my sample…

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 18 May 2006 04:21:00 +0000

Once again late to the party- funny both this, Chergui and Santal Blanc were ones that I had to have for the opening notes: just the things that most people have hated. I don't smell pee, but I do smell raw honey and wood. That first burst smells to me almost exactly like the honey we would buy at the apple orchards where I grew up in New England- an almost acrid sweetness cut by the sap smell of the wooden box it came in and the wax from the cone. Once again, the dry down in fabulous. I love that a lot SL's fragrances have that olfactory gob-smack of an opening.

Borneo is practically the only patchouli I could ever stand. Ever. Enough that I jumped through some serious hoops to get a bottle in the US. I hope it grows on you.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Nov 2005 00:05:00 +0000

I love the mix of honey & woods in Miel de Bois, and the urine thing doesn't bother me at all. But based on all the comments above, you are not alone in preferring something lighter!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 07 Nov 2005 23:26:00 +0000

Clover honey smells a good deal like pee. Open up a jar and take a whiff. See? Actually, so does clover.

I enjoyed Miel de Bois initially, less so as it dried down on me. It turned into pretty much just clover honey — and strong honey at that. It lasted longer than any of his other scents that I sampled, but I found it the least interesting.

I find for honey scents, I prefer something light, like L'Occitane's Eau de Miel (Honey Water). When it comes to honey, less is more, I find, in avoiding the pee purgatory.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:19:00 +0000

J, LOL at “not right away”!

I would prefer an honest SA myself, although you would think they would take the trouble to find out if you already like something before they start criticizing it!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 20 Oct 2005 16:16:00 +0000

K, So glad you like it too! Soiled cloth diapers is not a ringing endorsement, LOL — apparently this is very much a “love it or hate it” kind of scent.