Blodwode

Blodwode is Middle English for blood wood, and in the scents Heretic's founder and perfumer Douglas Little composed for Robert Eggers' Werwulf it is the memory: the forest recalling what it witnessed once the man became a wolf, told through the aftermath rather than the gore. Cinnamon bark, mastic and a copper-bright iron accord open onto jasmine and Turkish rose; patchouli, vetiver, benzoin and a flesh musk lay the metal against soft woods until it reads as skin.