Woody Aromatic Perfume

Broken Cricket Bat sits alongside independent woody-aromatic houses like Jorum Studio, Perfumer H and Haeckels — small British and Scottish perfumers building around real sandalwood, oud and cypress rather than a marketing brief.

It opens with pink pepper, juniper berry and cardamom, moves through a resinous, faintly smoky heart of blue cypress and clary sage, and settles into a sandalwood, oud and oakmoss base built to last 7–10 hours. It's drawn from a single memory rather than a reference bottle: the smell of a well-used cricket bat on a British summer evening.

If you're shopping for a woody perfume rather than one specific note, this is the drier end of the family. Cedarwood and sandalwood do the structural work, oakmoss keeps it green rather than sweet, and there's no vanilla underneath to round the edges off. Woody fragrances built this way tend to wear closer to the skin than amber or gourmand scents, and they hold better on a cool day than a hot one. It's unisex by construction — sandalwood, oud and cypress behave the same on any skin, so it works as a woody fragrance for women and for men without being reformulated for either.

Want to understand the notes before you commit? Read what sandalwood smells like, what cedarwood smells like, and how oud differs from sandalwood.

Curious how it compares to the fragrance that made sandalwood famous? Read our Santal 33 alternatives guide, or start with a 1.5ml sample before committing to the full 50ml bottle.

Prefer something warmer and spicier? Peppery Amber sits in our spicy amber perfume collection. Testing both is the cheapest way to decide — see all 1.5ml perfume samples.