Scents of Wood
Perfumes finished in used whiskey barrels.
Scents of Wood, also marketed under its French name L'Âme du Bois, was founded by Fabrice Croisé, a Provence-born industry veteran who spent years inside L'Oréal's luxury division and at Eric Buterbaugh Florals before launching his own line. The brand's premise is an unusual production step: each composition is finished in alcohol aged inside a different used wooden barrel — bourbon, rye, cognac, maple syrup — so that the wood itself contributes to the dry-down. The scents are written in collaboration with IFF perfumers and lean into resinous, ambery, woody territory: cedar, sandalwood, cypress, vetiver, with named barrels in the titles (Plum in Cognac, Cedar in Rye). Plum in Cognac took the Fragrance Foundation's Perfume Extraordinaire prize in 2021. The house suits wearers drawn to forest and woodshop registers, especially those who already collect whiskey-cask gourmands and barrel-aged spirits.
DNA over time
Each column is an era. Each colored band shows that family’s share of accord weight across every perfume the house released in that window. Bigger band = the house leaned harder on that family.
