Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down

Ambrinol

Say itAM-brih-nawl

Strong animalic ambergris with musky, leathery and earthy-woody facets.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Adds the raw animal side of natural ambergris to Ambrox-based accords, in traces.

Worth knowing

Chemists identified it among the odorants that form as ambrein in whale ambergris slowly oxidizes.

Also called

alpha-Ambrinol; Ambrinol (dsm-firmenich); Ambrinol S (Symrise)