Woody fragrances

Wood notes such as cedar, sandalwood and oud, as well as woody facets of vetiver.

Scentorian assigns these categories for browsing. Fragrances can belong to several families; the house may describe them differently.

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1 Million Lucky Eau de Toilette

Rabanne — Toasted hazelnut and honey meet a tangy plum and a grapefruit-bright opening, and two reviewers reach for the same image: sweet popcorn.

A City on Fire Eau de Parfum

Imaginary Authors — A struck match, sulphur and all, and then the bonfire: wearers describe smoke that gets into hair and clothes, with a hint of dark berries if you go looking.

A Drop d'Issey Eau de Parfum

Issey Miyake Parfums — Soft in projection, wearers often find, and anywhere from short to long in duration: creamy almond milk, lilac and rose on a powdery vanilla..

Acqua di Gio Eau de Toilette

Giorgio Armani — Fresh and woody overall, in wearers' words: a bright, slightly sharp marine opening with bergamot, then a dry cedar background..

African Rooibos Eau de Parfum

Chris Collins — Not the cool green tea most tea fragrances chase: owners describe warm red-bush rooibos with black pepper and cardamom, drying down to cedar and a faint maple-like sweetness.

Alien Eau de Parfum

Mugler — Current bottles project strongly and persist, by many wearers' accounts, with jasmine sambac in the lead and warm cashmeran and amber behind it..

Angels' Share Eau de Parfum

Kilian Paris — Cognac and oak with cinnamon, praline, tonka and vanilla: sweet and woody, and for many wearers it projects strongly for several hours..

Arabie Eau de Parfum

Serge Lutens — Dense dried fruit and cumin, with a dark, sticky sweetness and savoury spice.

Aromatics Elixir Eau de Parfum Spray

Clinique — Earthy patchouli and oakmoss carry dry, bitter-green flowers, and that mossiness reads as deep and woody to some reviewers, austere and medicinal to others..

Aventus

Creed — It starts as pineapple, apple, bergamot and blackcurrant and turns smoky and mossy as birch, patchouli and musk come through, a clean, fresh thread running from start to finish.

Baccarat Rouge 540 Eau de Parfum

Maison Francis Kurkdjian — Opinion splits hard between captivating and cloying on this spun-sugar-and-saffron scent, laid over a vast ambergris-and-dry-wood accord that some noses read as medicinal or metallic.

Beautiful Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — One owner, given it as a high-school Christmas present in the mid-1980s, now wears nothing else, and for many it has been a signature since the 1980s: a lush bouquet of rose, lily, tuberose and lily of the valley on creamy sandalwood.

Black Afgano Extrait de Parfum

Nasomatto — Dense resins and dark woods, with impressions of incense, tobacco and burnt coffee.

Blackbird Parfum

Olympic Orchids — Ripe blackberry with dry grass, fir balsam and resinous cedar.

Bleu de Chanel Eau de Parfum

Chanel — Citrus and pepper up front, then ginger and smooth sandalwood, finishing musky and woody with a thread of incense.

BOSS Bottled Eau de Toilette

Hugo Boss — Simply the office fragrance, to one 2012 reviewer, and one wearer's colleague asked who smelled so pleasantly of fabric softener: baked apple and cinnamon on woods and vanilla, threaded with geranium.

BOSS Bottled Elixir

Hugo Boss — Incense and cardamom rise first, smoky and dark, before cedar, patchouli and a resinous sweetness close in; one owner ends on something like dark chocolate.

BOSS Bottled Infinite Eau de Parfum

Hugo Boss — Green apple opens it, cut with cinnamon and mandarin, before lavender, rosemary and an olive-wood dryness carry it to a scrubbed finish that owner after owner names shower gel, some in praise and some with a shrug.

BOSS Bottled Night Eau de Toilette

Hugo Boss — The evening twin of BOSS Bottled, which the house ties to a wood called Louro Amarelo; wearers pick out lavender, violet and a smoky birch, and one first met it in an uncle's office years before buying a bottle.

BOSS Bottled Parfum

Hugo Boss — Warm Pepsi and potpourri for the first four minutes, one tester writes, then a sexy drydown; many meet mandarin peel and incense giving way to a milky, jammy fig, powdery iris and cedar.

Breath of God Perfume

Lush — Two perfumes in one bottle, and wearers can feel the seam: cold air, melon and citrus drifting over temple smoke and sandalwood.

Cape Heartache Eau de Parfum

Imaginary Authors — Conifer woods and pine resin with a softer vanilla accent.

Chrome Eau de Toilette

Azzaro — Bright citrus, cool metal and mineral water, then clean musk and a dry tea-and-wood character that some wearers compare to freshly washed linen..

Civet Extrait de Parfum

Zoologist — The name promises a zoo.

Club de Nuit Intense Man Eau de Toilette

Armaf — A sharp lemon opening gives way to blackcurrant and pineapple on smoky birch, and the drydown turns sweeter.

Coco Mademoiselle Eau de Parfum

Chanel — It opens loud and settles closer, as many reviewers tell it, with orange, rose and jasmine resting on a prominent patchouli base..

Concrete

Comme des Garçons — Its mineral side divides reviewers, chalk or cement dust for some and a sherbet or bubblegum sweetness for others, set among cumin, clove and a metallic rose on creamy, powdery wood..

Cool Water Intense Eau de Parfum

Davidoff — Green mandarin starts it, orange Fanta to one nose, and a creamy coconut nectar follows before an amber base that refuses to leave.

Cool Water Parfum

Davidoff — Pink pepper opens it, Haitian vetiver runs the middle and sandalwood closes: a Cool Water in name that owner after owner says has little to do with the original, spicier and sweeter, nearer Sauvage or Invictus than the 1988 aquatic.

Coven Eau de Parfum

Andrea Maack — Wet soil, moss and a green burst of galbanum: the forest floor after rain, and the word many wearers reach for is witchy.

Cristalle Eau de Toilette

Chanel — Sharp citrus and cool, green hyacinth with jasmine beneath, turning close and transparent as it goes on, in many wearers' experience..

Daisy Eau de Toilette

Marc Jacobs — Staying close and lasting a few hours, by reviewers' general account, this is light wild berries and white violet on soft sandalwood..

Dark Eau de Parfum

Akro — Dry, bitter cocoa with cinnamon and hazelnut.

Déclaration Eau de Toilette

Cartier — Cumin gives it a warm edge that divides people, sensual skin to some and stale clothing to others; around it, as wearers tell it, sit cool green cardamom and bone-dry bitter orange on cedar.

Donna Born in Roma Eau de Parfum

Valentino — Strong and long-wearing, by most reviewers' account, this is jasmine sambac laid on warm cashmeran and vanilla..

Drakkar Noir Eau de Toilette

Guy Laroche — The fougère a generation of men wore for going out: lavender and aromatic herbs on a dark barbershop base.

Dune

Dior — Dry mineral air, sea breeze and a faint hay-like sweetness, likened by reviewers to pebbles, driftwood and dust.

Eau des Merveilles Eau de Toilette

Hermès — Woody, a little leathery, neither floral nor sweet: as wearers tell it, salt and orange peel lie on warm resin and cedar, and for some it is all they wear.

Eau Rihla Eau de Parfum

Diptyque — Raspberry against leather, and wearers argue about which wins: jammy fruit and pink pepper over a soft, woody leather that reminds some of a new car seat or a good handbag.

En Passant

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Wet lilac and cucumber with a warm, dough-like accent.

Encelade

Marc-Antoine Barrois — Sour rhubarb, damp earth and leather with a strong green character, which some wearers liken to tomato leaf, compost or burnt matches.

Encre Noire Eau de Toilette

Lalique — Here cypress and vetiver come across as damp earth, roots, bark and smoke, above softer wood and musk, though some catch a cleaner, almost minty green.

Eros Eau de Toilette

Versace — Subtle it is not, for many wearers, who describe strong projection and long wear from its mint and sweet apple on cedar, vetiver and vanilla..

Eternity for Men Eau de Toilette

Calvin Klein — Candied lemon peel and something like washed lettuce greet one owner; others meet mandarin and lavender, then sage, basil and geranium settling over soft woods.

Euphoria Eau de Parfum

Calvin Klein — Dark fruit and pomegranate sinking into black orchid, creamy amber and wood: a purple, faintly witchy scent its fans save for evenings and winter.

Explorer Eau de Parfum

Montblanc — Fresh bergamot, pepper and a smoky, woody ambroxan base, with no pineapple in it.

Explorer Extreme Parfum

Montblanc — Bergamot opens it bright, then a dark licorice that no note list mentions takes over, with patchouli, vetiver and a damp leather underneath.

Explorer Platinum Eau de Parfum

Montblanc — Violet leaf leads, green and faintly metallic, over clary sage and a cedar that several owners call creamy rather than dry; a coconut-water sweetness turns up again and again, though no coconut is listed.

Fahrenheit Eau de Toilette

Dior — Mandarin, green violet and smoky leather, with an opening wearers keep likening to petrol or hot rubber.

Fantosmia Eau de Parfum

Jorum Studio — Dense and slightly medicinal to many wearers, drawing closer as it settles: pepper, pimento and fennel, green shiso and mate, over tobacco and leather..

Fat Electrician Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — A vetiver gone soft in the middle: wearers get smoky roots and cedar over chestnut cream, marron glacé and a dusting of vanilla, comfortable rather than austere.

Fathom V

BeauFort London — Cold green stems, pond water and lilies: a florist's refrigerator, in the comparison reviewers reach for most often.

Fig-Tea Eau de Toilette

Nicolaï — Osmanthus, orange and green tea with an apricot-like davana accent, on a soft guaiac-and-amber background.

Fille en Aiguilles Eau de Parfum

Serge Lutens — Pine sap and dried fruit in a dense, syrupy weave: wearers describe needles, frankincense and a jammy, Christmas-preserve sweetness, bone-dry and peppery on some skins, like a bitter herbal liqueur to one.

Flower by Kenzo

Kenzo — Lipstick and face powder are the comparisons that come up for this powdery violet and rose on vanilla.

Flowerbomb Eau de Parfum

Viktor&Rolf — Dense and sweet, this floral sits on an earthy, patchouli-like background, and most reports describe substantial projection and long wear..

Ganymede Eau de Parfum

Marc-Antoine Barrois — The whole appeal for some and a dentist's surgery for others, its cool, clinical character comes from mandarin, then something metallic, mineral and paper-like, above soft leather and immortelle.

Gucci Rush Eau de Toilette

Gucci — Creamy peach, gardenia and vanilla over mossy patchouli, with the strong projection and long wear that wearers commonly report..

Her Eau de Parfum

Burberry — The limited reports describe jammy berries, violet, clean musk and dry amber.

HUGO Man Eau de Toilette

Hugo Boss — For several wearers this was the first real aftershave, the canteen-shaped flask of 1990s school discos, and an owner in their late fifties still wears it.

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Hwyl

Aesop — Dry thyme and elemi, wood dust and incense.

Infusion d'Iris Eau de Parfum

Prada — Cool, clean iris, closer to good soap and powdered skin than to lipstick or cut flowers.

Invictus Eau de Toilette

Rabanne — Grapefruit and a salty marine accord sweetened almost to bubblegum: a teenage signature of the early 2010s, worn to the club, the office and the gym alike.

Invictus Victory Elixir Parfum Intense

Rabanne — Vanilla and amber from the first spray, one owner writes, and it barely moves in eight hours; others find smoky incense and patchouli, a coconut from nowhere, or a vanilla ice cream that brought them more compliments than anything else.

Jasmin et Cigarette Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — In the accounts of those who wear it: rich jasmine and cold tobacco ash, a dry turmeric accent, and a little tonka sweetness under the smoky floral..

Jeux de Peau Eau de Parfum

Serge Lutens — Bread comes up in nearly every report: warm crust, toast and butter, then apricot jam, licorice and sandalwood as it dries down.

Jimmy Choo Eau de Parfum

Jimmy Choo — What this record argues about is age.

Jungle L'Éléphant Eau de Parfum

Kenzo — Clove and cardamom announce it before anything else, and wearers keep reaching for Christmas: mulled spice, potpourri, a scented candle, with mango and liquorice folded into a vanilla and patchouli base.

K by Dolce&Gabbana Eau de Toilette

Dolce&Gabbana — Blood orange, lemon and juniper open it, then a chili-pepper sharpness, lavender and a woody close; one owner wears it on every trip to Italy for its coastal feel, another hears the shower gel of a childhood swimming club.

Karma Perfume

Lush — Straight back in an old head shop is where several wearers land: sweet, syrupy orange oil on pine and a raw, green patchouli, with a thread of incense.

L'Air du Temps Eau de Toilette

Nina Ricci — Carnation with its clove bite, softened by gardenia, rose and jasmine and settled on powdery sandalwood and iris.

L'Eau Papier Eau de Toilette

Diptyque — Starchy rice with a toasted, nutty edge, powdery mimosa and pale dry woods.

L'Interdit Eau de Parfum

Givenchy — Tuberose is the whole argument here.

Lampblack Eau de Parfum

FZOTIC — Bitter grapefruit and orange against black pepper and an inky nagarmotha accord.

Le Beau Eau de Toilette

Jean Paul Gaultier — Coconut flakes first, one wearer writes, then a sweet, creamy coconut and tonka that puts two others in mind of a Raffaello praline and a third of a piña colada, sunscreen and all, which does not bother them.

Le Beau Le Parfum Eau de Parfum Intense

Jean Paul Gaultier — A piña colada that turns into a coconut gummy and settles on amber woods, one wearer traces, denser than the Eau de Toilette; others get pineapple and coconut sunscreen, or a creamy tonka-vanilla within the hour.

Le Beau Paradise Garden Eau de Parfum

Jean Paul Gaultier — Mint and ginger open with a cold snap while green, watery notes sit underneath; then come coconut and a humid fig that one wearer likens to the Amazon rainforest and another to a very good coconut hair conditioner.

Legend Eau de Parfum

Montblanc — Two comparisons come up again and again in the reports: a hot shower, and Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce.

Legend Eau de Toilette

Montblanc — Abercrombie & Fitch's Fierce is the comparison several wearers reach for: citrus and lavender, a slim thread of pineapple, a soft tonka dry-down and, to one reviewer, a trace of Montblanc's own fountain-pen ink.

Light Blue Eau de Toilette

Dolce&Gabbana — Crisp and fresh is how wearers put it: sharp lemon and green apple against a light cedar background..

Like This Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Pumpkin and ginger as warm, savoury vegetables and spice, with bright tangerine at the start.

Lovely Eau de Parfum

Sarah Jessica Parker — Musk dominates for many wearers, under a lavender-and-bergamot opening and a soft floral heart, and the argument is whether it is the bargain twin of Narciso Rodriguez For Her or a pale copy.

Lust Perfume

Lush — Jasmine the way the flower really smells, which is the whole argument about it.

Milk Expressive Eau de Parfum

Commodity — Cold milk and toasted marshmallow, with sesame at the start and a woody warmth under it: comfort food, as most owners put it.

Mitsouko

Guerlain — Soft peach against earthy patchouli and moss, with citrus and spice sharpening the opening.

Modern Muse Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Strangers stop wearers to ask what it is, and one owner's car still smells of it at the end of the workday: a white-floral bouquet led by jasmine, with honeysuckle, tuberose and lily on patchouli, vanilla and a woody musk.

Molecule 01 Eau de Toilette

Escentric Molecules — Dry cedar, pencil shavings and a soft, warm skin scent.

N°5 Eau de Parfum

Chanel — This is the fuller 1986 Eau de Parfum, and wearers speak of it on its own terms: the aldehydic sparkle first, then rose, jasmine and ylang-ylang settling over a soft vanilla warmth.

Narcisse Noir (2021) Parfum

Caron — Less animalic than older Narcisse Noir, wearers who compare the two often find: dry orange blossom and jonquil, a green, waxy narcissus, and sandalwood and vetiver beneath..

Night Flyer Parfum

Olympic Orchids — Damp earth, mineral air and resins, with ripe figs, banana and other tropical fruit.

No. 02 L'Air du Désert Marocain

Tauer Perfumes — Heat held in stone is how many owners put it: coriander and cumin over rock rose, cedar and vetiver, drying to incense-like smoke and mineral dust.

Not a Perfume Eau de Parfum

Juliette Has a Gun — A single molecule, and it behaves like one: clean, faintly woody, musky skin that some wear straight out of the shower and others layer under everything.

Obsession for Men Eau de Toilette

Calvin Klein — In one reviewer's telling, this is what a stepdad sprays on a dozen times after pickup basketball instead of showering; in another's, the 1980s powerhouse that filled nightclub dance floors.

Obsession for Women Eau de Parfum

Calvin Klein — Warm spice, amber and musk, sometimes with a powdery or incense-like haze: the spicy amber its long-time owners still reach for.

Odeur 71 Eau de Toilette

Comme des Garçons — Hot metal, toner, dust, ink and pencil shavings, with a raw green edge.

Oud for Greatness Eau de Parfum

Initio Parfums Privés — Very strong early projection and long persistence are what many reviewers report from this saffron-and-lavender oud, smooth and sweet, though some accounts describe weaker wear..

Oud Maracujá Extrait de Parfum

Maison Crivelli — Passion fruit you can almost taste, sweet, tart and a little bitter, then a leathery rose and oud with vanilla underneath: that is the arc most wearers describe, and it lasts.

Papyrus Moléculaire Eau de Parfum

Maison Crivelli — Paper more than wood: wearers describe starchy, sun-bleached reeds, pencil shavings and clean skin, with a curl of cigarillo and a milky softness underneath.

Passage d'Enfer

L'Artisan Parfumeur — Cool incense and white lily with an impression of stone.

Philosykos Eau de Parfum

Diptyque — Green fig leaf, bark and dry woods, with pepper for an edge, as reviewers describe it.

Pistachio Eau de Parfum

D.S. & Durga — Green pistachio, sugar and cardamom against earthy patchouli.

Pleasures Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Cut grass and dewy white flowers, lily, peony and lilac, as clean as an expensive soap: the 1990s spring floral that many have worn for decades and still get asked about.

Poets of Berlin Eau de Parfum

Vilhelm Parfumerie — Blueberry muffin, wearers often say: tart blueberry and lemon on sweet vanilla, with orris and vetiver drying the finish, and it often wears closer after the opening..

Portrait of a Lady Eau de Parfum

Editions de Parfums Frédéric Malle — Rose and patchouli with clove, tart fruit and frankincense, in a texture many reviewers call rich; they also describe it projecting strongly and lasting long..

Replica By the Fireplace Eau de Toilette

Maison Margiela — Chestnut and clove with dry, slightly tarry guaiac and cade smoke, sweetened by vanilla and balsam as it settles.

Replica Jazz Club Eau de Toilette

Maison Margiela — Rum, tobacco and vanilla, blended smooth: boozy and warm, with a coconut edge that one reviewer reads as tropical rather than dark.

Roasted Green Tea Eau de Parfum

J-Scent — Roasted green tea with nutty, savoury peanut and seaweed impressions, cooled by mint and wintergreen before a softer iris-and-vanilla drydown, as reviewers describe it..

Rouge Eau de Parfum

Comme des Garçons — Ginger and pink pepper with earthy, faintly sweet beetroot; later on, wearers say, incense and cistus turn it dry and resinous..

Santal 33 Eau de Parfum

Le Labo — To the people who wear it, this is smoky sandalwood and cedar, spiced with cardamom and softened by something creamy, violet and iris.

Scandal pour Homme Eau de Toilette

Jean Paul Gaultier — One wearer tracked it down after smelling it on a stranger at a holiday restaurant; another bought it as their very first fragrance and fell into the hobby.

Sécrétions Magnifiques Eau de Parfum

Etat Libre d'Orange — Reactions divide sharply to its salty, metallic and milky accords, sometimes likened to blood, set on iris and sandalwood; what many reviewers agree on is that it projects hard and does not let go..

Sel Marin Eau de Parfum

Heeley — Salt, lemon and wet algae with a dry mineral character; the vivid opening often narrows to a close vetiver, wearers say..

Selperniku Eau de Parfum

January Scent Project — A gourmand that is not a dessert: salted butter, apricot and milk, lifted by green cypress.

Sensuous Eau de Parfum

Estée Lauder — Sun-warmed skin after a day outdoors, to one wearer; the softest angora and cashmere, to another: honeyed woods and amber with a haze of white flowers and pepper.

Series 3 Incense Avignon Eau de Toilette

Comme des Garçons — Cool church incense with dry camomile and elemi, softened a little by vanilla; as the hours pass, many reviewers notice it drawing in, quiet and close..

Shalimar Eau de Parfum

Guerlain — To some reviewers the sharp bergamot opening reads rubbery or animalic before the softer vanilla arrives; beneath it lie powdery vanilla and tonka, smoky leather and resin..

Spicebomb Eau de Toilette

Viktor&Rolf — Pepper first, then cinnamon and tobacco: to one wearer a spice cabinet opened in a winter cottage, to another a cinnamon pop tart over clean leather.

Steamed Rainbow

D.S. & Durga — Humid pavement, water and a faint plastic edge that wearers liken to pool floats or bubble solution.

Sweet Leaf Eau de Parfum

Room 1015 — Grapefruit, eucalyptus and a green, resinous cannabis accord, with a sharp turpentine accent; wearers find wood and patchouli softening it later..

Terre d'Hermès Eau de Toilette

Hermès — Dry grapefruit, cedar and a flinty, mineral edge that wearers keep comparing to wet stone.

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