I recently bought a little sample set of Glossier You and flankers when I saw a box at TJ Maxx. I haven’t really bought any non-indie perfumes unless I see them at a discount. I am in no rush to try them when I have so many indie places I want to try from first, but since it was discounted and small, I thought why not try something different. Plus, I wanted to use an edp today since I don’t like putting on oil perfume when I feel like my skin isn’t clean or has residue from another perfume. I am on a woody scent kick currently so I decided to try Glossier You Doux, a woody edition of Glossier You. I have never tried the original and I think it has been reformulated a few times as well so I wouldn’t even know what I tried, but I know this fragrance is known for having a wooden pencil shaving smell that can be quite divisive. I just tried a perfume recently that reminded me of that and I don’t know how I feel about it. It IS woody I guess so I can’t complain.

The notes for Glossier You Doux are: Sweet Violet, Palo Santo, Frankincense, Myrrh, Ambrette, and Ambrox.

I am a little shocked looking at the notes now because I didn’t really get much of the heart notes. Frankincense tends to be such a lemony, bright note, and then myrrh and palo santo as well, those are all so strong and bright.

This fragrance opens up with a woody and violet note. Wood and violet pair so nicely together and the violet is so airy. The wood kinda reminds me of that Iso E Super that is in a lot of non-indie perfumes, I would be really surprised if that wasn’t a big component of this. I see they listed Ambrox which doesn’t surprise me as well. I get a lot of musk from this perfume. Besides that woody violet note and perhaps a bit of pepper (possibly the palo santo?), all I get is white musk. It is a creamy, warm musk. Almost in a sweet, foody way. I do champion indie fragrances for this reason, they don’t put so many musks in perfumes that it takes up the majority of the scent profile. However, this is a skin scent so it makes sense it doesn’t really have much else going on. I didn’t really notice the fragrance shifting with the notes, just staying linear but it stayed on all day pretty well and I could smell it on me the whole time. I don’t think it projected much which is okay because I think it is meant to wear close. I wonder if it lasted so long because it definitely got on my clothes when spraying since I hear some people say it didn’t last long on them. This reminded me of something that someone with like clean girl make-up aesthetic would wear. I am glad I tried it and will probably wear my sample on days where I feel like I would want my scent to calm me or if I felt like I would be working close with other people.