Where it differs: Lists black pepper, vanilla and tonka like the original but adds a mineral note, so the woody vanilla reads drier and less creamy than Van Cleef's cashmere-wood heart.
Smells like Van Cleef & Arpels Bois Dore.
3 bottles the community rates close to Bois Dore, 33 percent cheaper at the top, with the one thing each does differently. woody, vanilla, sweet, unisex.
Notes of Bois Dore
What Van Cleef & Arpels publishes. Black means PerfumeME 371 shares the note.
Top
- pepper
- cedarwood
Heart
- cashmere wood
- tonka bean
Base
- white musk
- amber
- vanilla
Notes of 371
What PerfumeME publishes. Black means Bois Dore shares the note.
Top
- black pepper
Base
- vanilla
- tonka bean
- mineral notes
The 3 worth trying, ranked
Similarity is the owners' vote plus the note overlap. Price is a typical US bottle price when the house publishes one. Bars are each match's own accords.
Where it differs: Shares the vanilla-and-wood base and similar staying power, but Bvlgari Black adds a smoky rubber darkness that Bois Dore's sweet golden woods never show.
Where it differs: Fans call it part of the same family, but Luna Rossa Black is built for men and reads darker and more ambery, with less of Bois Dore's sugary tonka.
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Two bottles, two prices, one honest sentence. Every match on the site has this card.
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