There’s something quietly powerful about the moment right before sunset on a shoreline. The sea sleeps, the wind slows down just enough to let the last light warm your skin, and everything feels suspended. Pierre Guillaume’s Bois Naufragé captures that feeling. A perfume as soothing as the smell of driftwood.
Right from the beginning, there’s a soft breeze of fig leaf with green, slightly milky, and fresh like the brittle sap. It feels like lying under a fig tree at the edge of a rocky beach, not too far from the water but far enough to let the salt come to you on the wind.
Then comes the driftwood note, smooth, sun-bleached, and weightless like they have been rolling in the sea for weeks. The wood note is pale, clean, and paired with a hint of sugarless coconut. It blends into a creamy, woody skin scent that stays close and never turns sticky or loud.
What makes Bois Naufragé interesting is how it balances opposites. It’s earthy but airy, fresh but grounded. It feels quiet and calm, but not empty. The salt gives it texture. The fig adds warmth. The wood holds it all steady.
This perfume effortlessly accomplishes many compliments. It’s a kind of scent that might remind one of those moments after a swim when the skin is still warm from the sun, hair damp with salt, the world slowed down to a soft hum.
The kind of scent that’s easy to live with. A steady presence that drifts along with you, wherever you end up going. Like all Pierre Guillaume perfumes, it demonstrates strong longevity and sillage.
16.1 Bois Naufrage
$125.00 USD
16.1 Bois Naufrage by Pierre Guillaume Paris is a Woody Aromatic fragrance for Women & Men. A woody fougere in which the Egyptian Figtree is dressed with the minerality of Salt Cristals and Ambergris, on a fractioned Vetiver base.Release Year: 2010Concentration: Eau de ParfumNose:… read more
