Cedarwood oil (Alaska)

Dry wood-chips note with a soft, fatty-creamy facet.

What it is: Natural oil from wood of Callitropsis nootkatensis.
Where it comes from: Pacific Northwest, Canada and Alaska
When you smell it: Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it: Adds dry woodiness and a fatty, creamy side to sandalwood and woody-floral accords.
Worth knowing: Nootkatone, the grapefruit molecule, is named after this tree, in whose heartwood it was first found.
Also called: Yellow cedar; Nootka cypress; Callitropsis (Chamaecyparis) nootkatensis

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.

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