Dsquared²
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The lemon arrives bright and nervy, immediately joined by that bourbon pepper's warm burn—the two create a discordant, almost confrontational opening that commands attention. Within five minutes, the initial citrus begins its retreat whilst the pepper deepens into something more savoury and spiced.
The cedar emerges gradually, dry and architectural, while the resinous notes add a sticky, almost tacky quality that prevents the composition from floating away. The vetiver tethers everything down with a subtle grassiness, and the fragrance settles into its true character: a mineral-green woody composition with surprising depth, though still maintaining that cool distance from the skin.
The base reveals itself as distinctly understated—the cypriol adds earthiness whilst the musk and ambrox become increasingly nebulous, almost abstract. By the fourth hour, Green Wood has become a skin scent, woody and vaguely mineral, leaving behind something more felt than smelled, a suggestion of dry timber and distant vetiver rather than a declaration.
Green Wood is a study in restrained woody austerity that rejects sweetness in favour of architectural precision. Daphné Bugey has constructed something deliberately unsentimental—a fragrance that smells less like a forest walk and more like the interior of a modernist timber building, all clean grain and mineral dust.
The lemon opening provides brightness, but it's the bourbon pepper that immediately signals this isn't a cheerful citrus affair. That pepper carries an almost medicinal bite, peppery in the way black cardamom is peppery—warming rather than sharp. It sits uneasily alongside the citrus, creating tension rather than harmony. This is the fragrance's most compelling moment: that friction between brightness and spice.
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