Guerlain Homme L'eau Boisee - advice please?

[Sloth]

I lay claim to the first-ever post on Basenotes about Guerlain Homme L'Eau Boisee!

Have a read of this:

https://basenotes.com/threads/a-tale-of-2-leaux-that-ends-on-a-high.296678/

It's got some typos in it but I'm not editing it now, it's over 11 years old!

Very interesting, thanks

 

[Sloth]

How do you feel about synthetic woods? I liked L'eau Biosee until the fresh part of the scent faded. I didn't enjoy the synth wood base at all.

My take,

Guerlain Homme L'eau Boisee is a gentlemanly 'everyday' lime fragrance that is light, masculine, unoffensive and good for warm months. I don't wear it much because I like fragrances that are often different or a little exaggerated in some respects. Guerlain Homme L'eau Boisee would be a really nice daily-driver fragrance for a middle-aged man. If you don't want to offend but still want to enjoy an occasional light whiff of a nice scent off of yourself then this works. It's a scent you could wear to court or a doctor visit or to the office.

This pretty much sums it up for me too. I enjoy wearing it in the summer heat when I need a change from eau de colognes, but Guerlain could have paid more attention to (spent more money on) the drydown.

By the way, if you think you might like it, try it out and stock up soon: it's been discontinued.

I don’t even always mind synth woods. I don’t like them overdosed, especially norlimbanol, but I don’t get that here. It’s just pretty flat to me in the drydown, sort of one dimensional.

This is the kind of thing that makes me hesitate from a blind buying frenzy on this one.
I started out liking DH2020 quiet a bit until I realised that the dry down got on my nerves after a while. It just kept on and didn't change. It is pleasant but sort of candy corn in nature and very linear once it hits that ISOE Super dry down.
Is GHLB the same, or are they quiet different, in smell if not in nature?

 

[AndyL]

It's been a while since I've worn it, but I want to remember it being bright top with lime then settling into a light woody base... almost like pencil wood. I'd be happy to send you a decant my friend. I'll send a DM shortly!

 

[saminlondon]

Saminlondon, are you sure L'Eau Boisee has been discontinued? If it have I better get yet another backup bottle!

Yes, it's been gone for a while, alas. An odd decision on Guerlain's part.

 

[L'Homme Blanc Individuel]

This is the kind of thing that makes me hesitate from a blind buying frenzy on this one.
I started out liking DH2020 quiet a bit until I realised that the dry down got on my nerves after a while. It just kept on and didn't change. It is pleasant but sort of candy corn in nature and very linear once it hits that ISOE Super dry down.
Is GHLB the same, or are they quiet different, in smell if not in nature?

That's exactly my issue.

By the way, I'm 99.99999999% sure it's not Iso E Super in DH2020 that's bugging you. They're using a very persistent synthetic fixative in that base. It isn't particularly harsh, but holy crap, it's persistent. It goes on and on and on, not in a good way. I liked DH2020 a lot until the citrus faded and that base became a monotone funk.

L'eau Boisee is sort of similar, but the synth wood base is more pale white fake wood that's somewhat scratchy though not terribly so, but to be it just smells cheap. In the air, the scent is great. But once the airy part of the scent fades, it's a monotone thin synth wood.

 

[andym72]

Yes, it's been gone for a while, alas. An odd decision on Guerlain's part.

Yeah I did some looking up yesterday, it wasn’t included when they switched to the L’Homme Ideal type bottles which was February last year.

Damn. Another of my favourites gone.

 

[Ken_Russell]

From a personal viewpoint alone, tending to second that this might be among the cleanest and/or least musty, skanky, earthy etc. fragrances by Guerlain, likely only surpassed or at least equaled by the Eau de Guerlain and/or Aqua Allegoria variations and flankers.

 

[andym72]

By some kind of fluke, I found a bottle (in the Listerine bottle) in a department store, marked down to £40. No question, got it.

 

[hednic]

By some kind of fluke, I found a bottle (in the Listerine bottle) in a department store, marked down to £40. No question, got it.

Well done!