Lenga Wood
Note Profile
About
A pale Patagonian timber known almost entirely through cooperage. It reads as a soft, sweet wood rather than a dry or resinous one, with red-fruit and honeyed facets and a light toast behind.
Scent Profile
Lenga Wood smells soft and sweet rather than dry or resinous, a mild timber with only a touch of cedar. A red-fruit note runs through it, with a honeyed warmth and a light toast behind. It reads gentle rather than astringent.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Nothofagus pumilio, the lenga southern beech, from Chilean and Argentine Patagonia. It is not a perfumery raw material. Every reachable description comes from TN Coopers, a Patagonian barrel maker that sells lenga barrels for ageing wine and spirits, so the recorded character is what a toasted lenga barrel gives to a liquid over months, not the smell of the standing tree or the sawn plank.
Usage in Perfumery
No perfumery use is documented. Where the note appears it is an evocation of the barrel: a light, sweet, fruit-tinged wood for a boozy or gourmand base, in the same territory as chestnut-wood and oaken-barrel but softer and less tannic.
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