Splendid Wood (Le Vestiaire des Parfums)
Splendid Wood opens with incense and cardamom — a dry, slightly smoky combination that signals intent before the rose heart enters.
The scent fingerprint
Weighted by intensity across 10 accords.
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- Aromatic50
- Warm Spicy50
- White Floral50
- Rose
The note pyramid
- Incense
- Cardamom
- Jasmine Sambac
- Rose
- Cypriol Oil or Nagarmotha
By the editors · 2 min readSplendid Wood opens with incense and cardamom — a dry, slightly smoky combination that signals intent before the rose heart enters. The rose here is unshowy, positioned more as a grounding element than a focal point, with jasmine sambac adding a quietly tropical edge.
The base belongs to oud and cypriol, which brings an earthy, almost muddy richness held in check by cedar's clean linearity. This is among the more restrained Le Vestiaire entries — no sweetness, no brightness, just the slow dark of good wood and resin. It projects close and lasts with quiet persistence.
Scent twins
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