Forest Accord

Note Profile

Abstract

About

Forest accord is a perfumers' blend, not a material, and it is scored as the finished blend. Parfumo files it under three of its own headings at once: Green notes, Nature accords and Woody notes. That is a classification rather than a smell, but it does say the note is not filed as purely green, which is how forest-foliage and green-forest read. The one first-hand account found of somebody building a forest accord is a Basenotes hobbyist who worked through pine, spruce, cedar, moss and resin materials over many attempts. He describes his result as 'The woods are there, the incense too, a little sweet but mature'. He also reports that raw pine and spruce pushed the blend toward 'urinal sour off notes', so green is a hazard in the build rather than the goal. The vector follows that: wood first, green second, resin and smoke close behind.

Scent Profile

Dry_woody leads. It is the only facet a source names as present in a finished result, and the source names it first: 'The woods are there'. Green is well under green-forest and forest-foliage, and the gap is deliberate. Parfumo files the note as woody as well as green, and the one perfumer who described building it reported that pushing the green materials broke the blend. Amber_resinous and smoky are both the incense the same account names, split between the balsamic weight and the burnt edge, and they are supported by the company the note keeps in real formulas: frankincense in two of the four, amber in three. Earthy and mossy_chypre are the floor of the forest rather than its trees, held under forest-floor's 0.70 and chypre-accord's 0.80 because no source for this note names soil or oakmoss directly. Cooling_mentholic is the conifer lift that any forest reconstruction carries. Below the level worth naming: sweet_vanillic for 'a little sweet but mature'; aromatic_herbal, fresh_spice and creamy_woody; mineral; and thin citrus, aquatic_ozonic, leather, tobacco_hay, animalic, powdery, clean_musk, warm_spice, fruity and sour. The spreads are on the six largest facets because one hobbyist's finished blend cannot stand in for every house's version.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeHeart · ~7h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy, Green & Aromatic, Amber · Musk · Leather

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

An accord name. No supplier sells it, no datasheet exists, and no two perfumers build it the same way. Every use is a house formula. The published notes it borders on are conifer, green-forest, forest-foliage and forest-floor, and it overlaps all four without matching any of them.

Usage in Perfumery

Measured 2026-08-23 against the local Parfumo snapshot: 4 placements across 4 brands, and none on Fragrantica. Parfumo's own live page for the note reports a much larger figure, 230 perfumes, so treat the 4 as a floor. The placements sit in all three positions, two top, one heart, one base, which matches Parfumo's statement that the note 'often occurs throughout the entire fragrance'. What it is blended with is the useful part: frankincense, patchouli, amber, cedarwood, sandalwood, cypress, cedar leaf, birch, tar and crystallised moss. In Tiziana Terenzi Ecstasy it appears alongside Spruce and Pine in the same list, so perfumers do not treat it as a conifer note. Use it as an atmosphere under real trees, not as a substitute for one.