Wood species
Each wood has its own particularities: its color, its grain, its texture, but also its own origin and uses. Throughout my work as a cabinetmaker, I have learned to recognize them and to work with their differences. This page allows you to discover the species I work with, their history and characteristics, and to better understand the woods I use in my creations.
Amaranth
Amaranth wood is a wood with an extraordinary natural purple color. This wood takes its purple color under the influence of air, it oxidizes!
Suitable for all skin and hair types.
Wood scraps recovered from Hervé Guiraud, restorer of antique furniture.
Love affair
The color of this wood is absolutely fantastic, it looks like a tiger skin or even a snake skin. It is a very rare and highly sought-after wood. It is also called "letter wood" or "tiger wood". It comes from South America (mainly Guyana and Suriname).
Suitable for all skin types, perfect for light and very dark hair.
Wood scraps recovered from Hervé Guiraud, restorer of antique furniture.
Rosewood
Rosewood has pinkish hues, its veins are salmon-colored and it has a slight yellow tint. Its color and exceptional smell are the origin of its name.
Suitable for all skin and hair types.
Wood scraps recovered from Hervé Guiraud, restorer of antique furniture.
Violet wood
Violet wood has a naturally dark purple color. Its sapwood is white, yellowish. It is called Kingwood in English which means the King's wood. In the 17th century, it was reserved for nobles and the aristocracy, hence its name.
Suitable for all skin and hair types.
Wood scraps recovered from Hervé Guiraud, restorer of antique furniture.
Smoke bush
The cotinus has a powerful yellow color, and brown veins. Nicknamed "the wig tree", this bushy shrub owes its name to its flowering, where its pedicels form a light hair reminiscent of a wig.
Suitable for all skin and hair types.
Wood scraps recovered from a luthier in Tarn-et-Garonne.
Cherry tree
Cherry wood has a fine and uniform grain, its color is light and it has pinkish reflections. All cultivated cherry trees descend from a single wild species: the cherry tree!
Perfect for tanned, dark or black skin. Perfect with dark hair.
Wood scraps recovered from Hervé Guiraud, restorer of antique furniture.
Walnut
Walnut wood has a chocolate or even dark brown color. The common European walnut can live for over 100 years.
Suitable for all light and dark skin tones, perfectly suited for light hair.
Wood scraps recovered from a cabinetmaker, sculptor.
Oliver
Olive wood has a yellow color and slightly black veins. The oldest olive tree in the world is said to be over 3000 years old.
Perfect for tanned, dark or black skin. Perfect with dark hair.
Wood scraps recovered from Hervé Guiraud, restorer of antique furniture.
Padauk
Padouk wood has a natural bright red color. Padouk is a large tree from the dense rainforests of tropical and equatorial Africa.
Suitable for all skin and hair types.
Wood scraps recovered from Quentin Lemasson, luthier.
Rosewood
Rosewood wood has a brown, orange color and black veins, its sapwood is white, yellowish. The tree reaches a height of 25 to 30 meters.
Suitable for all skin types, perfect for light and very dark hair.
Wood scraps recovered from Hervé Guiraud, restorer of antique furniture.
Ziricote
The color varies from medium brown to dark brown, sometimes tinged with green. Ziricote is a small tree native to southern Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
Suitable for all light and dark skin tones, perfectly suited for light hair.
Wood scraps recovered from Quentin Lemasson, luthier.