Gris Charnel Extrait

Gris Charnel Extrait is the version concentrated at 30% that Mathilde Bijaoui composed in 2022 for BDK Parfums, a second chapter of her 2019 eau de parfum. This ambery woody keeps the fig, black tea and cardamom, the iris and vetiver, and adds cistus, patchouli, vanilla and cedar to the sandalwood and tonka bean.

Brand: BDK Parfums
Launch year: 2022
Perfumer: Mathilde Bijaoui
Gender: Unisex
Olfactory family: Woody
Secondary family: Oriental
Concentration: Extrait de Parfum

Published November 11, 2026

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Gris Charnel Extrait appeared in 2022, three years after the original eau de parfum by BDK Parfums, with the same perfumer, Mathilde Bijaoui. According to the house, the aim was not to concentrate the original further, but to accentuate its spicy and woody facets.

A second chapter

Mathilde Bijaoui says she has a singular bond with Gris Charnel, the quintessence of the creamy, enveloping notes she loves to work with, to the point of seeing it as the perfume she would compose for herself. Revisiting a creation that has found its public seems harder to her than starting from a blank page.

The Collection Parisienne

The extrait joins the Collection Parisienne, in which each creation takes its wearer through a district of Paris. The house calls it magnetic, captivating and elegant, and lends it the sensuality of Parisian women and men as well as the energy of the capital.

Olfactory pyramid

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Composition

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What critics say

For Carl Thompson, the extrait opens spicier than the original, on a cardamom that never fades; he finds it richer and stronger, addictive, and suited to dinners and to autumn and winter evenings.

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