Woodsy Notes

Givenchy

Dance with Givenchy is a bright, accessible fruity-floral from Givenchy's fragrance accessories era.

Guerlain

Aqua Allegoria Pivoine Magnifica is built around a single flower.

Calvin Klein

Eternity Purple Orchid opens with a green, slightly watery freshness — water lily cutting through a faint fruitiness that suggests ripe plum without naming it directly.

Azzaro

Azzaro Now Men opens with cardamom and rose — metallic, slightly floral, calibrated toward masculine freshness rather than sweetness.

Zara

Amber Fusion For Her opens with a lightly aquatic combination — bergamot and mandarin orange carried on a faint marine undercurrent — before the composition settles into its floral-fruity heart.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Le Male Aviator is a 2020 flanker that sends the iconic Le Male DNA through a flight of brisk, utilitarian cool.

Jean Paul Gaultier

Kokorico by Night is the 2012 nocturnal flanker of Kokorico, again worked by Cresp and Menardo, turning the earthy original into something more decadent.

Avon

Star fruit and mandarin open with sunlit tropical brightness; a touch of paprika adds a warm, barely-spiced edge before the heart lifts into neroli and strelitzia — bird of paradise flower carries a faintly green, exotic quality alongside the orange blossom.

Dolce & Gabbana

Le Fou 21 is the eccentric of D&G's Anthology collection — its name signals an intention to be unpredictable.

Bath & Body Works

Waikiki Beach Coconut opens creamy and tropical without hesitation — coconut and sea notes together land somewhere between fresh sunscreen and warm beach air, with bamboo adding a green-watery lift.

Avon

Mango, peach, and pineapple arrive together in a bright, almost juicy opening that reads as intentionally playful — the Scentini bottles were designed as cocktail shakers, and the top accord matches.

Bath & Body Works

The name delivers exactly: Rainkissed Leaves opens with grapefruit and damp grass, the kind of sharp-clean green that reads like the moment just after a summer storm.

L'Occitane en Provence

L'Occitan leads with lavender and black pepper — the pepper is assertive from the first spray, giving the lavender an edge that separates this from the more pastoral Provençal interpretations.

L'Occitane en Provence

Lavande Eau de Cologne is exactly what the name promises and nothing more — lavender with a citrus opening that evaporates fast, and a soft woodsy-musky base that prevents the dry-down from going to nothing.

Victoria'S Secret

Very Sexy 2012 is the most compositionally adventurous of the Very Sexy flankers: cappuccino sits beside cactus and black pepper in the opening, an unusual trio that leads with a smoky, bitter-sweet quality before clementine and blackberry bring tartness alongside.

Avon

Pink pepper opens sharply, cutting through the citrus-and-red-fruit diffusion before the heart softens it.

L'Occitane en Provence

Jasmin Immortelle Neroli opens on a bright lemon-pepper accord that shifts quickly into a honeyed floral core — neroli adds a bitter orange-blossom facet while jasmine gives it body, and immortelle from Corsica threads through with its characteristic dry, hay-like sweetness.

Zara

Sea notes and mandarin orange open with the aquatic brightness common to men's colognes of the early 2000s lineage — clean, approachable, slightly synthetic.

Avon

Avon Luck for Him opens with a clean, well-balanced burst — mandarin's easy sweetness lifted by pink pepper and anchored by lavender, a combination that stays fresh without veering into aquatic or cologne territory.

Zara

Angelic Vanilla opens with almond blossom paired with a sliver of bergamot — a soft, bakery-warm brightness before the rice and myrrh settle the composition into something more contemplative.

Avon

Perceive Soleil opens with yuzu's clean citrus brightness, accompanied by ozonic notes and a hint of mandarin that keeps the opening expansive without turning sharp.

Zara

The opening is all citrus tension—bergamot and orange deliver freshness while pink pepper sharpens the edges with dry spice.

Giorgio Armani

The 2011 Code Summer feminine release opens with bitter orange and neroli — the citrus-flower register immediately signaling a warm-weather, time-limited release.

Bath & Body Works

Noir for Men opens on a herbal-citrus accord with some real snap to it: bergamot and rosemary provide brightness while coriander and clary sage add green, slightly spiced depth.

Avon

Herve Leger Homme opens with yuzu's clean, tart citrus brightness lifted by fresh ginger — a combination that reads crisp and invigorating without any sharp edges.

Avon

Today Tomorrow Always In Love opens with a lively accord of pomegranate, carambola (star fruit), lotus, and neroli — a combination that reads as bright, tropical-adjacent, and slightly aquatic.

Avon

Toque de Amor, introduced in 1960, opens with the waxy effervescence of aldehydes lifted by bergamot, lemon, and a dewy water lily note — a classic mid-century feminine opening that reads as soapy brightness rather than heavy floral.

O Boticário

214 Musk & Cedro strips its construction down to a precise, spice-led masculine.

Zara

From the Ocean Collection Jo Malone created for Zara, Salty Ocean Bouquet is the freshest and most aquatic of the trio.

Zara

Saffron & Orange Flowers, from Zara's 2022 Ocean Collection by Jo Malone, opens with saffron and citrus set against green notes — the saffron warm and slightly ferrous, the bergamot and orange providing brightness, the green notes adding leafy lift that keeps the spice from dominating.

Zara

Part of Zara's Silent Flowers collection composed by Jo Malone, Balade De Figuer evokes sun-dried Provençal fig groves with unusual specificity.

Zara

Queen Plumrose opens with a mineral sand accord — dry, slightly salty, like warm stone — before giving way to a centered rose heart.

Bath & Body Works

White Citrus leads with a familiar trio of sunlit fruits — sharp Amalfi lemon, slightly bitter grapefruit, and the gentler sweetness of tangerine.

Zara

The opening reads as generic sweetness — a soft, slightly sugary haze without any specific fruit or note announcing itself.