Myrrhe & Bois Brûlés Carlotha Ray

Unisex
Eau de Parfum
Year: 2023

At a glance

Is Myrrhe & Bois Brûlés Carlotha Ray worth trying?

Myrrhe & Bois Brûlés by Carlotha Ray is a fragrance for women and men.

Best match
Evening, Special Occasion wear in Fall, Winter
Performance feel
Very Good longevity with Strong sillage
Signature profile
soft spicy, anis, leather with Leather, Licorice, Oakmoss

The first impression

Myrrhe & Bois Brûlés by Carlotha Ray is a fragrance for women and men. This is a new fragrance. Myrrhe & Bois Brûlés was launched in 2023. The nose behind this fragrance is Jean-Michel Duriez.

What shapes the scent

soft spicy 100%
anis 85%
leather 70%
mossy 60%
earthy 50%
animalic 40%
aromatic 35%
sweet 30%
floral 25%
fruity 20%

The perfumer behind it

Jean-Michel Duriez

Jean-Michel Duriez

Jean-Michel Duriez is a perfumer known for his work with both niche and designer brands. He created several fragrances for Carlotha Ray, including Mandarine & Maté Vert and Myrrhe & Bois Brûlés. His portfolio also includes D&G Anthology La Lune 18 and Escada's Especially Escada Delicate Notes. Duriez's style often features natural, woody, and gourmand elements.

Notes pyramid

All Notes

Complete scent profile

Leather Leather
Licorice Licorice
Oakmoss Oakmoss
Star Anise Star Anise
Mate Mate
Green Apple Green Apple
Osmanthus Osmanthus
Apricot Apricot
Tea Tea
Juniper Juniper

The mood it creates

The Alchemist Archetype: Portrait of Myrrhe & Bois Brûlés Carlotha Ray

Essence

Myrrhe & Bois Brûlés embodies the Alchemist archetype, a transformer who finds magic in unlikely combinations. The fragrance's paradoxical blend of burnt wood and sweet osmanthus mirrors their ability to hold opposites-destruction and creation, fire and fruit-in dynamic tension. They are the crucible where raw elements become gold.

Style & Aesthetic

They favor textures that tell stories-charred velvet, hammered silver, linen stained with indigo. The leather and anise notes reflect their love for artifacts that bear the marks of process. Their look suggests a medieval apothecary crossed with a contemporary avant-gardist, always slightly anachronistic.

Philosophy & Values

They believe true understanding comes through transformation, not analysis. The mate tea and green apple top notes speak to their experimental approach-testing, tasting, distilling experience. For them, life's value is measured not in possessions but in transmutations witnessed and catalyzed.

Relationships

They attract fellow seekers who aren't afraid of a little smoke. Romantic partners must appreciate how the animalic musk beneath this fragrance's surface keeps it from being merely pretty. Their friendships are laboratories where ideas ferment like the juniper note hiding in this composition.

Lifestyle

Their home resembles a wizard's workshop-drying herbs hung near modern art, a kiln in the corner. The scent's burnt wood accord lingers on their hands from tending the fireplace where they brew strange teas. Even their grocery list reads like a spell: star anise, apricots, oakmoss.

Shadow

Their love of transformation can become restless dissatisfaction, just as the fragrance's complexity risks overwhelming simpler pleasures. The sweet apricot note reminds them that not everything needs reinventing-some fruits are perfect as nature made them.

Conclusion

Myrrhe & Bois Brûlés is less a perfume than a potion, bubbling with latent possibilities. Like the Alchemist who wears it, this fragrance doesn't settle into easy categories but continually evolves, promising that the most ordinary materials might yet yield extraordinary revelations.