Electric Wood Extrait de Parfum is Room 1015's tenth-anniversary reworking of its very first fragrance, composed by Jérôme di Marino, and it is a woody-spicy extrait built on only three materials.
What it smells like
The note list is unusually short — nutmeg over oakmoss over vanilla — and the composition is better for it. Each material gets room to be itself, which is rare.
Nutmeg opens it, warm and a little dusty, with a fresh-spicy lift that stops the vanilla taking charge immediately. Then oakmoss arrives, and this is the element that makes the fragrance interesting: earthy, green and faintly bitter, it gives the middle a damp forest-floor quality that works against the sweetness rather than alongside it.
The vanilla underneath is powdery rather than edible — closer to vanilla absolute than to custard — and it never reaches the bakery. Community accords confirm the balance: vanilla at full weight, then fresh spicy, mossy, powdery and earthy.
The original Electric Wood was born from founder Dr. Mike's first Gibson guitar, and the extrait is the house returning to where it started. The silver cap is how you tell the extraits from the black-capped eaux de parfum.
Who it's for
For anyone who wants a vanilla that behaves like a woody fragrance. If vanillas usually read as too sweet or too edible to you, the oakmoss here solves precisely that problem.
It also suits people who miss proper mossy structures, which have become scarce since oakmoss restrictions tightened. Within the Room 1015 line this is the warmest and most classical thing the house makes — Wasabi Klub and Wavechild sit at the opposite end entirely.
On performance: this is the extrait concentration and it behaves like one. Expect it to last the full day and to still be detectable on a scarf the following morning. Projection is moderate rather than enormous — it is dense rather than loud.
Cold weather, evenings and dinners. It is restrained enough for everyday wear if you like, but it rewards cool air.
How it sits in the line
Electric Wood matters more than most releases because it is where the house began. Room 1015's first fragrance, launched in 2015 by founder Michael Partouche, took its brief from his first Gibson guitar — the smell of lacquered wood, electronics and a case that has been opened a thousand times. The extrait is the tenth-anniversary return to that idea, reworked and concentrated.
The original eau de parfum remains a separate fragrance with its own Fragrantica entry, so if you have read about Electric Wood before, check which one you were reading about. This extrait is the newer and denser of the two.
Within the current line it is the warmest and most traditional thing the house makes. Cherry Punk and Hollyrose are darker and more confrontational; Wasabi Klub and Wavechild are brighter and sharper. Electric Wood Extrait is the one you would hand to someone who likes classical perfumery and is suspicious of a brand named after a hotel room.
The full note breakdown is on the Room 1015 Electric Wood Extrait de Parfum product page, the rest of the house is in the Room 1015 collection, and you can find comparable scents under Woody Spicy. It is also on the scent bar at our Somerville boutique — worth trying on skin before you commit, because this is a house whose fragrances change a good deal between the first spray and the drydown.