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Bois Dormant(1925)
Houbigant · Houbigant in-house perfumers · Woody
At a glance
A woody composition from Houbigant, opening on bergamot before a heart built purely from woods, closing on musk, amber, and cedar. Bois Dormant, Sleeping Wood, plays on the French title for Sleeping Beauty, La Belle au Bois Dormant, giving the fragrance a fairy-tale resonance uncommon among the house's more straightforwardly floral or geographic names. Building a heart entirely from woods rather than flowers was a relatively unusual structural choice for the period.
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This scent's musk note is almost certainly synthetic — discovered by accident in 1888 while researching explosives.
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