He Wood Ocean Wet Wood
Tarragon opens He Wood Ocean Wet Wood with an unexpected herbaceous-anisic quality — slightly green and sharp, more aromatic kitchen garden than the marine fragrance the name implies.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 13 accords.
Every perfume in Sillage is represented as a distribution across canonical accord slugs — a lingua franca for scent. Two fragrances with overlapping fingerprints are scent-twins, even if they share no literal note.
- Fresh50
- Aquatic50
- Woody45
- Amber
The note pyramid
- Tarragon
- Ambergris
- Amber
- Violet Leaf
- Violet
- Musk
By the editors · 2 min readTarragon opens He Wood Ocean Wet Wood with an unexpected herbaceous-anisic quality — slightly green and sharp, more aromatic kitchen garden than the marine fragrance the name implies. Ambergris and amber warm the opening quickly, and the brief tension between herbal and animalic is memorable.
Violet leaf and violet form the heart: the leaf adds a cool, watery-green quality; violet contributes powdery-sweet softness. Musk threads beneath, pulling the heart skin-close.
The base is earthy and woody: tonka bean and vetiver together form a grassy-warm foundation; patchouli adds dark depth; Virginia cedar provides dry structure. He Wood Ocean Wet Wood finishes far warmer and more complex than its aquatic branding would suggest — a masculine with genuine character under a misleading name.
Scent twins
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