Fragrances
Woody
Sandalwood · Cedar · Vetiver
Smoke curling through a courtyard at dusk.
Built on Mysore sandalwood, softened with cardamom and left to settle into skin like woodsmoke in a shawl. It reads warmer on a wrist than it ever does on paper.
The composition
- Top
- Green Cardamom · Bergamot
- Heart
- Mysore Sandalwood · Cedar
- Base
- Vetiver · Guaiac Wood
The object
- Concentration
- Eau de Parfum
- Volume
- 100 ML / 3.4 FL OZ
- Origin
- Blended in India
- Wear
- For skin & clothing
How Woody wears.
The first minute is cardamom and bergamot, and it does not last. Cardamom is volatile. It burns off fast, and its job is to stop the opening from arriving heavy. If you spray this and decide inside thirty seconds that it is a citrus fragrance, you have not met it yet.
Sandalwood is a difficult thing to build on because it barely registers on paper. It wants body heat. On a blotter it reads thin, a little sour, faintly like old furniture polish, and people put it down. On a wrist, twenty minutes in, the same material turns creamy and slightly milky and rounds out everything above it. This is the most common way a sandalwood perfume gets misjudged in a shop.
Cedar sits alongside it and keeps it from going sweet. Below that, vetiver does the smoky, rooty, faintly bitter work that most people can recognise without knowing the word for it, and guaiac wood adds a tarry edge underneath. That base is why this reads as a wood rather than as a soft oriental, which is the direction sandalwood drifts if nothing holds it down.
In heat it opens out rather than falling apart, which is not true of every wood. Plenty of cedar-forward fragrances go sharp and pencil-shavingy above thirty degrees; this one does not. It stays close to the skin after the first hour. If you want to be noticed from across a room, this is the wrong one of the four.
It fights anything sharply sweet. A vanilla body lotion will sit on top of it and win, and most fruit-forward deodorants will too. Unscented soap, or nothing at all, is the better setup. On cloth it behaves differently again: on a collar or in the fold of a shawl it holds far longer than on skin, and it dries down smokier.
Woody is an eau de parfum at 100 ml, blended in India. Eau de parfum carries more oil than an eau de toilette, so two presses is usually the whole dose, and a third is the difference between wearing it and announcing it. It is easiest in the evening and in cold weather, though in an air-conditioned room it works all year.
[PRODUCT: measured longevity from your own wear tests — hours on skin, hours on cloth. Do not estimate.]
[FOUNDER: why Woody was the one you made first, or what you were trying to fix about the sandalwood fragrances already on the shelf. One or two sentences, specific.]
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The landscape on the carton
Every carton uses the same die-cut arch printed in a different palette. Pick one to see its notes, or open its page for the full composition and how it behaves in heat. Woody carries its own hour of that day, framed by the die-cut arch and sealed with the house monogram.
