Plum in Cognac Scents of Wood 2020

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8.4 / 10 211 Ratings

A popular perfume by Scents of Wood for women and men, released in 2020. The scent is sweet-spicy. The longevity is above-average. It is still in production.
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Main accords

Sweet

Spicy

Fruity

Woody

Gourmand

Fragrance Notes

Plum

Rum absolute

Cinnamon

Peru balsam Cistus

Cistus

Vanilla

Haitian vetiver

Immortelle absolute

Osmanthus

Perfumer

Pascal Gaurin

Ratings

Scent

8.4211 Ratings

Longevity

8.0180 Ratings

Sillage

7.5174 Ratings

Bottle

8.6158 Ratings

Value for money

6.8110 Ratings

Submitted by Psotka, last update on 06/28/2025.

Interesting Facts

The fragrance won the "Perfume Extraordinaire 2021" award, presented by The Fragrance Foundation.

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What the fragrance is similar to

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Reviews

9 in-depth fragrance descriptions

03/19/2023

6
Sillage 7
Longevity 9.5
Scent

RisingChaos
109 Reviews

RisingChaos

Helpful Review 4

Well balanced plum gourmand

Warm, resinous peru balsam mixed with freshly muddled plums, a splash of rum, and a healthy dusting of cinnamon. The osmanthus gives it a floral touch, the base a very dry, brushy woods. Thick and syrupy with a nice balance of sweetness, astringency, and spice. Sadly, the drydown is mostly just woods with a touch of remaining warm spice as the plums and rum fade away. Moderate projection for 2-3hr, longevity 8-10hr.

I get Herod's tobacco note quite strongly, so they smell nothing alike to me. The plum makes it dissimilar to Angels' Share beyond both being boozy cinnamon scents at their core. Yes, the juice is a very deep purple that stained the heck out of my shirt collar just rubbing on the back of my neck.

08/22/2023

6
Pricing 4
Bottle 6
Sillage 9
Longevity 9.5
Scent

Belletrist
31 Reviews

Belletrist

2

Spiced Woody Plum

The opening of this fragrance is a bit rough on my skin with a lot of discordant sharp edges until everything settles down but once it settles it's a stunning cinnamon plum with soaring osmanthus/vetiver and woody vanillic base. It really is so pretty.

On me, it wore somewhat close to the skin but I can tell it will have nearly eternal longevity, comparatively.

I don't think it couldn't be worn in the warmer months but I think it would really shine in the fall and winter. I disagree with the consensus and think that it leans femme, but do think it's easily unisex.

Sprayed from the tester at Ministry of Scent in SF on a 75F day. Worn about 10hrs at time of writing.

06/29/2023

7
Pricing 8
Bottle 8
Sillage 8
Longevity 8
Scent

Landshark321
708 Reviews

Landshark321

3

Boozy, sweet, spicy plum, very well done

Scents of Wood Plum in Cognac is overwhelmingly the house’s highest-selling and best-known scent, an aptly-named boozy mix featuring plum. It’s plentifully sweet, spicy, boozy, dark, and deep, a fulfilling, rich experience for those like me that enjoy this class of gourmand-like fragrances featuring inspirations from liquor, liqueur, and wine. It does not fully feel like a fitting flagship fragrance for the line because it’s sweeter and boozier and less centered on wood notes, but it’s dazzling enough that it’s appeal is obvious, emblematic of the rise of the plum note in perfumery the past decade, and how lovely it fits in with fragrances inspired by alcoholic beverages. It’s slightly reminiscent of Rania J Ambre Loup, which has a similarly sweet and spicy cinnamon/resin note, but pivoted toward the feature plum note.

Like most of the line, Plum in Cognac is priced at $240/38 for 75/10ml, sold at great boutiques like Perfumology, and it performs very well, being anchored in resins and other long-lasting accords.

8 out of 10

11/02/2024

7.5
Scent

DogiCoco
621 Reviews

DogiCoco

1

A plum for cold nights

Now this perfume lives up to its name.
It starts very boozy. The plum is noticeable immediately and continues to be the star of the show over the whole duration of the scent, but in the opening, the rum and cognac notes are on par with it. Actually I'm not 100% sure if I smell the listed rum or the titular cognac, I THINK it's more of the latter, but I'm really not a connoisseur of either, so I could be wrong. What I know is that this is a dry, transparent booze note, not a thick liquer-ish one, with untertones of the wooden barrel I imagine it has been stored in.

The opening is not quite to my taste, as I prefer sweeter scents, but in the drydown this turns into something truly blissful. There is still some booze lingering on the plums, but the peru balsam and cinnamon come out more and make the scent very warming and cozy. There is just enough vanilla in this to create a beautiful amber accord with the cistus (labdanum), but not even a little more, so it's not overtly gourmand.
I can't smell the immortelle note at all, which is fine with me.

To me this is is perfectly suited to rainy, grey autumn days and nights, Christmas markets, date nights in winter... Basically any occasion where you want to smell warm with a little mysterious twist. I have to substract a few points from my rating because the opening doesn't quite do it for me, but this is definitely a beautiful scent all in all.

04/13/2024

6
Pricing 8
Bottle 6
Sillage 7
Longevity 7.5
Scent

Omnipotato
276 Reviews

Omnipotato

1

Slightly sweet dusty woods

Plum in Cognac has two words in its name that conjure up olfactory images: plum, which is juicy and sweet yet a bit sour and tart; cognac, heady and smooth with a slightly sweet and bitter grape note. This fragrance doesn't really have either of these two scent profiles. Any sweet fruitiness is distant and very tame. It does have a booziness but not really that of cognac.

So what does it actually smell like? Of course, I know that the "cognac" in the name doesn't actually refer to a note in the fragrance but the type of barrel that the fragrance was aged in - this is Scents of Wood's whole shtick. To me, this fragrance is dusty and woody with some hints of sweetness and booziness, kind of the smell I'd actually imagine being in an old distillery where they are aging some kind of spirit in vintage casks. Unfortunately the drydown is a bit boring with some slightly-sweetened vetiver. Overall, a good scent but nothing extraordinary.

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