

Ingredients · Leather & smoke · dry-down
Cade oil (rectified)
Say itKAYD oil
Campfire smoke, charred wood and tar, with a dry phenolic, leathery edge.
- What it is
- Natural oil from destructively distilled Juniperus oxycedrus wood, then rectified.
- Where it comes from
- Spain, Mediterranean
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Smoky-tarry note for leather, incense and fougère accords; adds realistic burnt-wood character.
- Worth knowing
- Dermatologists have long used cade oil in shampoos and ointments for dandruff and psoriasis.
- Rules
- Limited. IFRA bans crude cade; distillates must meet PAH limits.
- Also called
- Juniper tar; oil of cade
Named by the house, not on the label, in 3
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