Today I’m trying two more fragrances in the Armani Privé quartet by Giorgio Armani (see yesterday’s review of Pierre de Lune and Ambre Soie).
Bois d’Encens, also known as Onyx, is the fragrance that Armani reportedly had developed for his own personal use:
“This is my favourite of the four scents and smells strongly of incense,” says Armani as he covers himself in a fine mist of Bois d’Encens from a little bottle he keeps in his pocket. “I used to go to church with my grandmother and the services were pretty long. The thing that kept me going was the smell of the incense. This fragrance reminds me of that time. It reminds me of my childhood.” (quoted in The Independent, 1/22/05)
Bois d’Encens is said to contain only 5 ingredients…
