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Bois Tabac Virginia is a woody Eau de Parfum, built around notes of smoky vetiver and a delicate, rounded tobacco base. This fragrance renews the idea of fougère by offering a fresh, unisex scent. Bois Tabac Virginia is an ode to the fragrances of the 1920s.
Rediscovered by Yuri, the fragrance recalls vintage scents that have since disappeared, while offering a refreshing modernity.
Bois Tabac Virginia was created by Yuri Gutsatz in 1967, but remained unreleased until 2018.
In 2017, Michel and his wife, artist and writer Clara Feder, revived Le Jardin Retrouvé, including a carefully curated selection of seven of Yuri's fragrances. The response was so enthusiastic that they came up with a novel idea. They asked their online community to choose the next Yuri fragrance to be revived. Michel and Clara had hundreds of formulas meticulously recorded by Yuri and chose four of them, which they sent out in a small discovery pack of samples, labeled only with a colored dot. As the votes came in, Bois Tabac Virginia, or red dot as it was labeled, did not win (that distinction went to Oriental Sans Souci). However, the affection for Bois Tabac Virginia was such that Michel and Clara decided to release this fragrance as well. Re-worked by in-house perfumer Maxence Moutte, it can now be enjoyed by a new generation of fragrance lovers.
“Such a delicious fragrance. As its name suggests, it is very woody, but in a fresh and green way. It has almost a certain sharpness and freshness, just like a forest on a cool autumn evening.”
Seducianne, Fragrantica
TEXT INSPIRED BY CLARA FEDER ON VIRGINIA TOBACCO WOOD: Virginia Arboretum, State of Virginia, USA
In this garden of the New World, you stroll along the path laid out by skilled herbalists. It is late. Emerging from a grove of trees, you would like to reach the gray wooden bench in front of you, but a movement on your right intrigues you. It is an elegant, joyful silhouette dancing in the evening breeze, blowing the scents of vetiver, lavender, petitgrain, cedar, and patchouli toward you. How you would love to waltz with her.
Bois Tabac Virginia
Smoky, woody and refined, it weaves fiery vetiver, aromatic herbs and mellow blond tobacco, like an evening walk between Virginian woods and New World porches. Bois Tabac Virginia was created in 1967 by Yuri Gutsatz and reissued by Maxence Moutte.
