In short
Fresh, soapy lavender with a minty chill, drying to sweet coumarin powder and clean woods.
Concept
A hot-towel shave: steam, lavender shaving soap, a cold splash of mint and sweet tonka powder. The barbershop fougère made young and clean — soapy aldehydes and mint where the old ones had heavy moss.
- Family. Fougère — Barbershop fougère
- Main accords. Lavender soap, Hot towel steam, Cold mint, Tonka powder
- Intended for. Masculine, Youthful, Everyday, Young adult
- Season and occasion. All year
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Lavender, lavandin, lemon and distilled lime with spearmint and peppermint.
- Heart. Lavender absolute, geranium, linalyl and terpinyl acetates, soapy C-11 and C-12 aldehydes and Florol.
- Base. Coumarin, tonka, heliotropin and vanillin with Galaxolide, Musk R1, Tonalide, Iso E Super and vertofix.
Ingredients
Quantities are parts by weight of a 1,000-part fragrance concentrate — the weight put on the balance. Where a dilution is given, the line is weighed as that solution in dipropylene glycol, and its share is of the weighed amount.
| Material | Quantity | Dilution | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lavender Oil | 100.00 | — | 10.00% |
| Iso E Super | 80.00 | — | 8.00% |
| Galaxolide | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Linalyl Acetate | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Coumarin | 45.00 | — | 4.50% |
| Cedramber | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Cedryl Acetate | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Cyclohexyl Salicylate | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Lavandin Oil (Grosso) | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Musk R1 | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Vertofix | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Florol | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Geranium Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Lime Oil (Distilled)As written: Distilled lime oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Terpinyl Acetate | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Amber Xtreme | 25.00 | — | 2.50% |
| Heliotropin | 25.00 | — | 2.50% |
| Tetrahydrolinalool | 25.00 | — | 2.50% |
| Lavender AbsoluteAs written: Lavender Absolute 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Petitgrain Bigarade Oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Tonalide | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Tonka Bean Absolute | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Aldehyde C-11 Undecylic (Undecanal)As written: Aldehyde C-11 Undecylic (Undecanal) 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Clary Sage Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Aldehyde C-12 Lauric (Dodecanal)As written: Aldehyde C-12 Lauric (Dodecanal) 10% DPG | 15.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.50% |
| Rosemary Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Spearmint Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Vanillin | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Methyl Atrarate | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Peppermint Oil | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Anisaldehyde | 5.00 | — | 0.50% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Lavender Oil, Iso E Super, Galaxolide, Linalyl Acetate, Coumarin
- What makes it distinctive. The fougère's moss is replaced by steam, soap and mint, which should feel modern without losing the barbershop.
- Character. Broad in appeal and very easy to wear.
- Concentration. 12%
Safety and compliance
- Status. Regulatory assessment pending. No formula-level safety assessment is documented yet, so this page does not say the formula is compliant for any use.
- IFRA Standards. The IFRA Standards Library covers 4 of its materials: Iso E Super (Restriction: 1-(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Octahydro-2,3,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphthalenyl) ethanone (OTNE), Amendment 49); Coumarin (Restriction: Coumarin, Amendment 49); Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) (Restriction: Lemon oil cold pressed, Amendment 49); Anisaldehyde (Restriction: p-Methoxybenzaldehyde, Amendment 51).
- Phototoxicity. Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) is phototoxic; IFRA limits phototoxic materials in products left on skin exposed to sunlight.
- Skin sensitisation. EU-labelled fragrance allergens present as ingredients: Coumarin. Natural materials carry further allergens as constituents, declared from the supplier’s data, and Regulation (EU) 2023/1545 extends the list to be labelled on products placed on the EU market from 31 July 2026.
- Product category. Limits depend on the product: fine fragrance, leave-on and rinse-off products have different IFRA categories, and each Standard sets its own figure for each.
Related formulas and accords
Source and attribution
RUŌOD House Original — an original composition by RUŌOD House. Published as the house’s own work, as attested by the owner of RUOOD Lab on 26 October 2026. The name is the collection’s own and has not been through a trademark search; it needs a formal clearance before any commercial use.
Reuse. Under the permission it is published with, you may read it here, study it, modify it for your own experiments, import it into RUŌOD Lab. Conditions: Keep the attribution “RUŌOD House”. Regulatory assessment pending: check each formula against the current IFRA Standards and the rules for the product and market before use on skin or in a product. Anything else needs the rights holder's own permission.
Import readiness
Every ingredient resolves to a material in the RUŌOD Material Library, with its dilution as printed or as supplied, so this formula can be imported faithfully.
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