Materia Secunda Fougere Composte Perfume

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notes: hay, animal fur, farmlandkey ingredients: hay, wool absolute, patchoulyHistorical Inspiration: Fougère Royale (1882), by Paul Parquet The iconic Fougère Royale (royal fern) was the first fragrance to incorporate a synthetically produced material: coumarin, known for its hay-like scent. Named by its creator for what he thought ferns might smell like if they had a scent, it gave rise to an entire fragrance category known as "fougère." However, today this style has reached something of a dead end. Fougère today are pigeonholed into clean, derivative men’s fragrances. Examples include Old Spice, Sauvage, and Axe body spray. Fougère Composté can then be understood as a "pre-historic" fougère. Digging into the dirt to unearth the roots of Parquet’s 1882 invention and going temporally backwards beyond it, it is a fully natural and genderless blend. Green, earthy, animalic, agrestic, and deeply evocative. It incorporates ethical animal musks hyraceum & wool (entirely harmless) Show more