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Quick answers
What is Woody?
Cedar, iso-woods and dry timber — the architecture under most modern bottles.
EDP vs EDT — what changes?
Concentration is oil in alcohol, not a quality score. EDT (about 5–15%) shows more top; EDP (about 15–20%) shows more heart and base. Houses vary; this is not a lab assay.
How should I wear Woody?
One or two sprays on skin or cloth — sternum or hair, not a cloud in a lift. Let it turn an hour before you add more.
Which season fits?
Day to night, all year. Very dry skin can read woods as sawdust.
Does skin chemistry change it?
Yes. Warm, moist skin amplifies sweet and spice; dry or cool skin can turn the same juice woody, soapy or short. Test on your skin, not only a blotter.
What about IFRA and oakmoss?
IFRA sets industry limits on some naturals and synthetics. A reformulation is usually a legal edit, not a betrayal. This atlas is not a safety sheet.
An accord is a geometry. Woody is rose, jasmine, sandalwood, oud, vetiver, musk or amber stacked on purpose.
Naturals and molecules share the same pyramid; IFRA draws some of the lines.
Accords
- Aldehydic wood — Bois des Îles.
- Cedar-plum — Féminité du Bois.
- Flint-cedar — Terre d’Hermès.
- Iso E haze — Molecule 01 and its copies.
- Temple woods — Sandal-cedar-incense.
Materials
- Virginia cedar — Juniperus virginiana; pencil.
- Atlas / Himalayan cedar — Cedrus spp.; resinous wood.
- Iso E Super — Woody-amber, transparent, persistent.
- Cashmeran — Musky wood, IFF.
- Ambrox / Ambroxan — Mineral-amber wood hold.
- Sandal / vetiver — Neighbor woods that steal the brief if overdosed.
Smell the materials before you trust a note list on a box of Woody.
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