L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Wood & Wood
L'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Wood & Wood opens with a bright, almost medicinal grapefruit sharpness tempered by warm cardamom.
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.
- Woody75
- Fresh50
- Soft Spicy50
- Aromatic
The note pyramid
- Grapefruit
- Cardamom
- Sandalwood
- Ambroxan
- Apricot
- Virginia Cedar
By the editors · 2 min readL'Eau d'Issey pour Homme Wood & Wood opens with a bright, almost medicinal grapefruit sharpness tempered by warm cardamom. The citrus doesn't linger long—within minutes, it yields to a creamy sandalwood that dominates the heart. The apricot note adds a subtle, lactonic sweetness that softens the wood without turning fruity, while ambroxan lends a diffuse, slightly saline quality that keeps everything from feeling too dense.
As it settles, the composition becomes quieter and more linear. Tonka bean and patchouli provide a gentle earthiness beneath the sandalwood, which remains the central focus throughout. The musk in the base is clean rather than animalic, maintaining the fragrance's polished, modern character.
This is a streamlined woody scent for someone who wants sandalwood front and center without baroque ornamentation. It suits office environments and temperate weather—present but not intrusive, familiar without being forgettable.
Scent twins
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