Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Woods · dry-down
Boisiris
Say itbwah-ZEE-ris
Woody-orris with powdery iris, warm amber and tobacco undertones.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds volume and orris-wood depth to masculine bases, from traces to heavy overdoses.
- Worth knowing
- In Creed's Royal Oud it reportedly makes up about 12% of the whole fragrance.
- Known in
- Royal Oud (Creed, 2011)
- Also called
- Woody nonane; 2-ethoxy-2,6,6-trimethyl-9-methylenebicyclo[3.3.1]nonane
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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