Singulier
Boucheron Singulier Eau de Parfum is the dry, herbal, slightly austere one in a range otherwise full of fruit and resin, and it is the most quietly confident thing the house sells.
The opening is cool and bitter. Bergamot does the bright work, grapefruit adds a pink bitterness, and juniper gives that resinous gin note, crisp and a little piney, which sets the whole direction within seconds. The first ten minutes contain no sweetness at all, and none is coming later.
The middle is all aromatic herbs. Lavender is clean and faintly powdery, sage is dry, savoury and almost dusty, and geranium cuts across them with a crushed leaf sharpness and a cool green bitterness. It smells like a hillside in summer rather than like a perfume counter, and it is the most characterful stretch of the wear.
Vetiver, patchouli and cedarwood close it out. Vetiver is rooty and smoky, patchouli earthy, cedarwood dry and pencil sharp, and together they give the finish a clean mineral quality. Nothing here is warm and nothing is sweet, which is unusual at this price and will be the deciding factor for most buyers. Anyone who has worn dry herbal fragrance before will know exactly where this is going, and that familiarity is a large part of the pleasure. Expect six or seven hours with moderate projection and a close dry finish. It reads unisex, works in any weather and is especially good in heat, and it suits work, travel and daytime better than evenings. It also makes a sound first bottle for somebody moving away from sweeter things. Caroline Dumur composed it in 2022.
Boucheron is a French high jewellery and watch house and was the first jeweller to open on Place Vendome, where it has occupied number 26 since 1893. Frederic Boucheron started the business in 1858.
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