Many thanks to Mike, who posts on the basenotes men's forum, for permission to reprint his reviews of the upcoming releases from Serge Lutens:
The first, Cedre, is in the internationally-distributed collection. It is a lovely, sweet and heavily ambered version, about as far away from the fresh, “hamster cage” note often associated with this wood as it is possible to get. I detect cinnamon, apple, tabac, perhaps carnation too. Very resinous – those Serge diehards who whinged that their idol had strayed too far from the orientals when creating the magnificent trio of Chene, Daim Blond and Miel du Bois will see Cedre as a return to form.
If Cedre is a delight, albeit one with a familiar feel, Borneo 1834 is an altogether stranger beast…
