Shavings & Chips: The Cedarwood Edit

In this edit, we invite you to explore the discreet, light, woody nuance that is cedarwood. It can be a fresh, almost camphorous woody note, or styled in a much warmer amber way, or it can even become a silky flowing background for a marine or floral.
There are several cedarwood varieties in perfumery: the most common ones are Texas, Virginia and Atlas with the rarer varieties being Himalyan and the Japanese Hinoki.
They are not the same plant coming from different locations though.
North American cedarwood varieties are actually junipers, the Texan Juniperus Mexicana and Virginian Juniperus Virgiana. You are likely to smell their dusty fresh and balsamic aroma each time you sharpen a wooden pencil. Indeed, the best pencils are made from Texas cedarwood.
Moroccan Atlas cedarwood, Cedrus Atlantica, is a pine not a cypress like its North American namesakes. It has a smoother ambery olfactive profile and is more expensive.
Irrespective of the origin and variety, cedarwood is perhaps the lightest woody note at the perfumers’ disposal.
You will find cedarwood supporting gentle florals, serving as a translucent driftwood element in marines, occasionally it’s part of soft approachable amber or it can lend its wild coniferous potential to a green woody perfume.
In this edit you will find a variety of perfumes with a distinct cedarwood element.