Dsquared²
A unique visual signature based on accords, character, and seasonality
The seawater note erupts with impressive immediacy, saline and slightly metallic, whilst tarragon provides an herbal snap that feels almost green-bitter. Within moments, you're caught between ocean spray and herbaceous sharpness—the fragrance hasn't yet settled into a coherent identity.
As the aquatic effervescence calms, violet leaf emerges with subtle insistence, its green, slightly astringent character threading through the remaining saltiness. The composition finds its footing here, the violet's crushed-stem quality preventing any sweetness from taking hold, maintaining the fresh, slightly austere aesthetic that dominated the opening.
Cedarwood and vetiver establish a woody foundation whilst patchouli introduces a drier, subtly earthy character; tonka bean remains almost imperceptible, a whisper rather than a declaration. The fragrance settles into a restrained woody-aquatic quietly, the initial maritime drama mellowed into something more contemplative and withdrawn.
He Wood Ocean Wet Wood arrives as a peculiar contradiction—a fragrance that attempts to marry maritime saltiness with dense woodland, yet never quite reconciles the two. The seawater accord announces itself with genuine briny conviction, that ozonic-mineral quality that catches the back of your throat, whilst tarragon adds a herbal bite that prevents this from descending into generic aquatic territory. There's something almost uncomfortable about this opening dissonance, as though you've stepped from a cedar forest directly into a North Atlantic squall.
What distinguishes this scent is its violet leaf prominence in the heart. Rather than the powdery sweetness often associated with violet, Bugey's iteration here reads green and slightly astringent—a crushed-stem quality that amplifies the fragrance's fresh, slightly botanical character. The violet leaf plays counterpoint to the aquatic top notes, creating a liminal space between floral and oceanic that feels genuinely uncertain.
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