Our Diptyque Feu de Bois Diptyque review: A+. Buy it here.
Feu de Bois is the best of all the Diptyque candles, and it is the best-ever fall luxury candle.
Forget the pumpkin spice latte candles, the pumpkin pie candles, the sweater-weather super-comfy candles: They always get it slightly wrong (or smell like a pumpkin muffin). Feu de Bois is the best-ever version of what fall actually smells like.
So what does Feu de Bois smell like?
Some Diptyque candles can be hard to describe — like Baies, which to me, smells like my allergies. (Or a field?) Other single-note fragrances smell pretty much exactly as advertised, and little else — like Muguet, or lily of the valley. Feu de Bois smells like its name translated into English, a wood fire. It smells like a Sunday afternoon in December, though closer to Thanksgiving than Christmas.
Officially, according to Diptyque, Feu de Bois is:
Wintertime… In the hearth, a fire roars, throwing out its light and casting shadows. The wood crackles as flames slowly consume the logs, releasing their dense, smoky scent.
It smells better than an actual wood fire, thanks to those juniper and birch notes. It doesn’t smell so much like the fire itself than it does the interior of a house, in Scandinavia, in the middle of the woods, in which a wood fire is burning. Let’s give it another A+ for ambience.
Is Feu de Bois worth the money?
Short answer: absolutely yes.
Does Feu de Bois linger in the air once it’s no longer burning, like Fleur de Cerisier? No. It does not. But while it’s burning — and it should burn for around 60 hours — it is absolute perfection. It’s the perfect candle from the beginning of Daylight Savings Time until the week before Christmas (when obviously you’ll want to switch over to your holiday candles). It’s football, wooly sweaters, crisp air, gray skies, movies under a blanket on a rainy weekend afternoon. It’s a weekend at a damp Scottish castle lit by candles. As far as late-in-the-year home fragrancing goes, it’s invaluable. The only downside? It sits, completely ignored, in the candle area of my cabinet from January until late September. It’s just too woodsy to light at non-autumnal times of the year. But once it’s on? It’s on.
In short: My Diptyque Feu de Bois review is: Get it.
