fougère

• fougere

Borrowed from French fougère (literally “fern”), from the perfume Fougère Royale (“Royal Fern”) launched in 1882 by Houbigant.

fougère (countable and uncountable, plural fougères)

1. (perfumery) One of the main olfactive families of perfumes, based on the compound coumarin; (countable) a perfume of that family.
   • 2010, Luca Turin, Tania Sanchez, Perfumes: The A–Z Guide, Profile Books, →ISBN, page 22:

     Fougères are built on an accord between lavender and coumarin, with every conceivable variation and elaboration.

   • 2011 November 3, Ta-Nehisi Coates, quoting shamu1 (Il Mondo di Odore), “Marketing to the Maxim Set, Cont.”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], archived from the original on 4 November 2011:

     Drakkar Noir, however, was not the kind of fragrance you would want to douse yourself with. It was one of the early aromatic fougeres, and a stonking powerhouse.

   • 2022, Elise Vernon Pearlstine, Scent: A Natural History of Fragrance, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 217:

     In this example, a fougère type of perfume is inspired by the idea of what a fern would smell like (fougère is the French word for fern). Although some ferns have a light fragrance, the scent of a fougère perfume is an imaginary concept created by the perfumer using the unique scent of coumarin.

• fougère on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Inherited from Old French fulgiere, from Vulgar Latin *filicāria (“thicket of ferns”), from Latin filix (“fern”). Compare Catalan falguera, Occitan falguièra, Galician folgueira.

• IPA^(key): /fu.ʒɛʁ/

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• Rhymes: -ɛʁ
• Homophones: fougères, Fougères

fougère f (plural fougères)

1. fern

   La fougère pousse souvent dans les forêts humides et ombragées.

   The fern often grows in moist, shady forests.

• crosse de fougère (“fiddlehead”)

• ⇒ Belarusian: фужэ́р (fužér)
• ⇒ Russian: фуже́р (fužér)
• ⇒ Ukrainian: фуже́р (fužér)
• ⇒ Yiddish: פֿוזשער (fuzher)

• “fougère”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.