Bois Mystérieux Songe d'un Bois d'Été
Bois Mysterieux opens with neroli—bright and citrus-floral, more orange blossom than orange peel—a sunny declaration that quickly complicates itself.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Jasmine50
- Cedar50
- Leather50
- Incense40
- Patchouli40
By the editors · 2 min readBois Mysterieux opens with neroli—bright and citrus-floral, more orange blossom than orange peel—a sunny declaration that quickly complicates itself. Saffron appears within minutes, its metallic, slightly honeyed quality threading through jasmine with an almost skin-like warmth. Cedar provides structure in the mid-stage, joined by patchouli which adds an earthy, shadowed quality that earns the name.
The base is where this becomes genuinely interesting: leather and myrrh together produce something resinous, darkly animalic without being heavy, the myrrh lending an almost ecclesiastical depth. For a supposed summer forest dream, it's surprisingly contemplative and dark—an evening fragrance wearing daylight clothes.
