She Wood Velvet Forest Wood
Dsquared2 (2009)

Darvant's review very accurately captures this fragrance. It is an appealing, vaguely aquatic woody floral. There is a touch of bitter galbanum but sweetened with a juicy grassy/cucumbery note. A delicate cool violet peeks in and out. It has a very sheer breezy aspect, with diffusive woody notes and a touch of something aquatic. The overall effect is walking barefoot through a sylvan glade, in the cool mist of morning with dew drenched mosses and violets underfoot. Very pleasant and refreshing.

She Wood Velvet Forest Wood is a sharply spicy woody/floral "slightly balsamic" (the DSquared2's trademark) accord focused on a combination of green silvan notes, mineral hidden elements (a Rocky Mountain's landmark conjuration) floral patterns (violet leaves in particular), conifers and musky galbanum. There is a quite notable (vaguely "cologney") hesperidic presence since the beginning paired by this dominant raw earthiness provided by earthy violet, dry spices, earthy vetiver and rooty patchouli. Honestly I don't see violet as a so heady presence, on the contrary there is a silent humid/stoney melancholic violet apparently (silently) leading the floral trail. There is a freshly aromatic/hesperidic approach (I get mostly neroli, in a quite classical "dimension"), a piney woodsy muskiness and a sort of orangy/cedary/peppery/rooty olfactory backbone conjuring ne more than vaguely the Terre d'Herme's aqueous earthy/orangy really sharp spiciness (actually this juice could be ideally assessed as a sort of TDH's younger famale relative with a gracious feminine floral spark and a less stout earthy "complicacy"). On the complex I see this juice as a quite honest silvan-aromatic experiment despite I'm not usually attracted by this type of yet runned olfactory fields. Galbanum darkens finally the ambience (providing a less believable sort of "Chanel N. 19-like" humid/camphoraceous floral mossiness) but dry down is mostly woody (cedarwood) under my misere nose. Versatile and refreshing, with a moderate synthetic "welcome". A breezy "solitary" juice of the mountain's halleys. Best to be worn for a quiet winter day out for the mountain's green/white fields.