Boy Smells · 2025
Hinoki Fantôme (2025)
Longevity
Long-lasting5-8 hours
Projection
ModerateFills your personal space
Polarising
Divisive
woody
smoky
grounded
Snapshot
The full profile.
About This Perfume
Think smoky cedar closet, sweet pear, cardamom spice: that is Boy Smells Hinoki Fantôme (2025). It opens with pear and cardamom, moves into hinoki wood and cedar and settles on smoke, oakmoss and amber. It reads unisex.
This fragrance is best in spring, fall and winter and is easy to wear day or night. It suits casual days. Released in 2025.
In the community's experience it lasts roughly a working morning or afternoon, and projects to about arm's length.
Is it right for you?
- Best for: anyone after something woody and smoky for casual days.
- Sample first if: you are unsure about strong woody notes; this one divides opinion.
- Skip if: you dislike sweet fragrances.
Around $78.
Explore more: More from Boy Smells · Woody perfumes · Pear perfumes · Cardamom perfumes
Occasion
Casual
Projection
Moderate
Gender lean
Leans unisex
The verdict
Best for
Best for
- Casual
The Brand
Boy Smells
Boy Smells is a Los Angeles house that started in candles and expanded into fine fragrance. The 21 Boy Smells perfumes here start at about $28 and go up to about $78. If you are new to Boy Smells, Boy Smells Woodphoria, Boy Smells Coco Cream and Boy Smells Vanilla Era are the names fragrance communities mention most. Other pieces on the page include Citrush (bright lemon mist with honeyed black pepper), Chestnut Cheeks (sweet roasted chestnuts with soft rose peony), Doll Skin (powdery strawberry lotion with a synthetic musk), Soft Wood (fresh melon and fig nectar on clean skin) and Cuc (chilled cucumber and apple with minty jasmine air).
How the picks read
Boy Smells Woodphoria (2022): creamy cedar-smoke, fig leaves, soft musk, built around sandalwood, cedar and coconut. Boy Smells Coco Cream (Eau de Parfum, 2025) reads as creamy coconut milk over vanilla ice cream, opening on coconut milk and vanilla and drying down to musk and tonka bean. Boy Smells Vanilla Era (Eau de Parfum, 2023) smells of creamy vanilla coffee with peppery incense smoke, with Black pepper and saffron up top and vanilla absolute, Black amber and papyrus underneath.
For more, see Woody perfumes and Gourmand perfumes, or the Scendira brands list for every other house.
More from Boy Smells
FAQ
Common questions.
It smells like smoky cedar closet, sweet pear, cardamom spice. It opens with pear and cardamom, moves into hinoki wood and cedar and settles on smoke, oakmoss and amber.
In the community's experience it lasts roughly a working morning or afternoon, and projects to about arm's length.
It is best in spring, fall and winter. It is easy to wear day or night. It suits casual days.
It reads unisex.
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