Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down
Ambroxan
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Dry, radiant ambergris: woody, mineral, skin-warm and faintly sweet, like clean laundry.
- What it is
- A molecule made from a natural raw material.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- The modern ambergris note; adds diffusion, skin-like warmth and long-lasting radiance, from trace to heavy overdose.
- Worth knowing
- Firmenich chemists first made it in 1950 from clary sage, recreating ambergris's key odorant without the whale.
- Known in
- Molecule 02 (Escentric Molecules, 2008)
- Also called
- Ambroxide; ambrafuran; Ambrox and Ambrox Super (dsm-firmenich); Ambroxan (Kao); Orcanox (Mane)
Named by the house, not on the label, in 4
