Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Akigalawood

Say itah-kee-GAH-luh-wuud

Peppery, spicy-woody, clean patchouli with agarwood-like and faintly smoky facets.

What it is

A molecule made by fermentation.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Adds spicy, clean woody lift and an oud-like shimmer; versatile across masculine and feminine scents.

Worth knowing

It upcycles leftovers from patchouli oil production, which Givaudan transforms with enzymes into a new woody note.

Known in

Miu Miu (Miu Miu, 2015); Bois Impérial (Essential Parfums, 2019); Guidance (Amouage, 2023)

Also called

Enzymatically modified patchouli fraction

Named by the house, not on the label, in 5

GuidanceAmouage · “Akigalawood”PurposeAmouage · “Akigalawood”Guidance 46Amouage · “Akigalawood”Purpose 50Amouage · “Akigalawood”ValayaParfums de Marly · “Akigalawood”