Gifts for the Friend Who Wants to Smell Good (and Slightly Odd…But Mostly Good)

Our favorite fragrances for smelling like a pile of wood, an intergalactic bubble bath, and a dinosaur-exterminating meteor.

Gift Guide

Wonderwood (Comme des Garçons) ($103/50 ml)

The standard against which all wood fragrances should be judged. I got into this years ago, and it sent me on a journey to find something even better, woodier, and nothing does it short of shoving two pine twigs up your nose. If I could choose the chemical makeup of my pheromones, it would be this.

Notes: Madagascan pepper, bergamot, Somalian incense, nutmeg, cristalon, cashmeran, gaïac wood, cedarwood, carvi graines, javanol, sandalwood, vetiver, oud (agarwood)

Fragrantica says: “A lumberjack’s wet dream”—scentific

Buy at Dover Street Market

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