Fougère, fu.ʒɛʁ, meaning "fern-like", is one of the main families into which modern perfume

Perfume

Perfume is a mixture of fragrant essential oils and/or aroma compounds, fixatives, and solvents used to give the human body, animals, objects, and living spaces "a pleasant scent"...

s are classified, with the name derived from the perfume Fougère Royale for Houbigant

Houbigant (perfume)

Houbigant was a perfume manufacturer founded in Paris, France in 1775 by Jean-François Houbigant of Grasse , originally selling gloves, perfumes, and bridal bouquets. The original shop, called "A la Corbeille de Fleurs", was in the rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré. Over the centuries, the House of...

 formulated by the perfumer Paul Parquet

Paul Parquet

Paul Parquet was an influential French perfumer and joint owner of Houbigant.- Career :Paul Parquet joined the perfume house of Houbigant as a part owner in 1880, and was the nose behind their most famous early creations, such as...

. The class of fragrances have the basic accord with a top-note of lavender

Lavender

The lavenders are a genus of 39 species of flowering plants in the mint family, Lamiaceae. An Old World genus, distributed from Macaronesia across Africa, the Mediterranean, South-West Asia, Arabia, Western Iran and South-East India...

 and base-notes of oakmoss

Oakmoss

Evernia prunastri, also known as Oakmoss, is a species of lichen. It can be found in many mountainous temperate forests throughout the Northern Hemisphere, including parts of France, Portugal, Spain, North America, and much of Central Europe...

 and coumarin

Coumarin

Coumarin is a fragrant chemical compound in the benzopyrone chemical class, found in many plants, notably in high concentration in the tonka bean , vanilla grass , sweet woodruff , mullein , sweet grass , cassia cinnamon and sweet clover...

. Aromatic fougère, a derivative of this class contain additional notes of spice and wood.

Members of the family are especially popular as fragrances for men.

Style

Many modern fougère perfumes have various citrus, herbaceous, green, floral and animalic notes included. They all tend to have a sweet/bitter and woody accord, which consists of a base accord of:

• Oak moss
• Coumarin
  Coumarin
  Coumarin is a fragrant chemical compound in the benzopyrone chemical class, found in many plants, notably in high concentration in the tonka bean , vanilla grass , sweet woodruff , mullein , sweet grass , cassia cinnamon and sweet clover...
  
   (Tonka bean
  Tonka bean
  Dipteryx odorata is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Orinoco region of northern South America. Its seeds are known as Tonka Beans. They are black and wrinkled and have a smooth brown interior...
  
  )

The most common modifiers to this basic accord include vetiver

Vetiver

Chrysopogon zizanioides, commonly known as vetiver , is a perennial grass of the Poaceae family, native to India. In western and northern India, it is popularly known as khus. Vetiver can grow up to 1.5 metres high and form clumps as wide. The stems are tall and the leaves are long, thin, and...

 and geranium

Pelargonium

Pelargonium is a genus of flowering plants which includes about 200 species of perennials, succulents, and shrubs, commonly known as scented geraniums or storksbills. Confusingly, Geranium is the correct botanical name of a separate genus of related plants often called Cranesbills. Both Geranium...

. Bergamot

Bergamot

Bergamot may refer to:*The Bergamot orange*Monarda, genus of herbs of similar odor to the Bergamot orange; in particular**Monarda didyma, called Bergamot, Scarlet Beebalm, Scarlet Monarda, Oswego Tea, or Crimson Beebalm...

is often present to add sharpness to the lavender top-note.