Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Cabreuva oil

Say itkab-ray-OO-vuh oil

Sweet floral-woody with rosy, neroli and lily-like facets and a faint metallic glint.

What it is

Natural oil from wood of Myrocarpus frondosus and M. fastigiatus.

Where it comes from

Brazil and Paraguay

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Natural nerolidol source that naturalises florals, especially neroli and orange blossom, and blends with cedar.

Worth knowing

Its oil is mostly nerolidol, a floral-woody alcohol named after neroli, the orange-blossom oil.

Also called

Myrocarpus frondosus / M. fastigiatus; Brazilian cabreuva