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Fougere Fragrances for Men

Fougere Fragrances for Men are all about the masculine side of nature and bringing it into your olfactory senses. This is a classic scent family that is typically herbal with woody notes and that are enhanced with lavender, oakmoss and coumarin and bring to mind being deep within a forest but feeling safe and very natural in it (if this was a romance novel of course). Fougere are clean, woody and fresh, but sometimes smoldering.

Teakwood which is now called Mahogany Teakwood is one of the Fougere scents that I offer with notes of mahogany, black teakwood and lavender. They describe it as “borrowing their flannel for a hike in the woods” seeing as their target customers are women who are more than likely to be buying a gift for their husbands or significant others. This in my opinion is a very romantic, but everyday scent. The reviews of this one are pretty good, and they are mostly from women who have purchased it for the men in their lives.

Fougere has been around for a very long time and is one of the oldest and most classic fragrance families for men with scent categories typically falling under woods, mossy woods, and dry woods as it is a very woodsy scent overall, but this can vary. I can’t say this enough because for a while I thought when they described it as the “greenest” they meant like grass but that’s a whole other note, so I stress that here.

Of course, due to sub-categories there are always some overlaps among the fragrance families, but it is the top, middle and base notes that make all the difference. In this you will find leather Fougere, Citrus Fougere and Woody Fougere the most. These will smell vastly different but be of the same fragrance family.

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