Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · Made in a lab

Fougère

French for 'fern', though ferns barely smell: an imagined forest-floor accord of lavender and hay.

What it is

A classic blend perfumers build from several materials.

How perfumers build it

Lavender oilCoumarin (new-mown hay)Oakmoss absoluteGeranium oilBergamot oil

Known in

Fougère Royale (Houbigant, 1882)

Worth knowing

Fougère Royale was among the first perfumes to use a synthetic molecule, coumarin, first made in 1868.

Named by the house in 2 of the 632 perfumes read so far

JickyGuerlain · “Fougère accord (aromatic bergamot, lavender and rosemary notes with woody notes)”Pasha de Cartier Noir AbsoluCartier · “accord of fern”