Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Cedarwood oil (Atlas)

Warm, sweet-balsamic wood with honeyed, leathery and slightly camphoraceous notes.

What it is

Natural oil from wood chips and sawdust of Cedrus atlantica.

Where it comes from

Morocco and Algeria

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Gives warm, honeyed, resinous cedar character to orientals, chypres and woody florals.

Worth knowing

A true cedar, it contains no cedrol—unlike the juniper 'cedars'—and the species is listed as Endangered by the IUCN.

Also called

Cedrus atlantica; Moroccan cedar

On the label of 12 of the 232 perfumes read so far

Santal 33Le Labo · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/extract”Side EffectInitio · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/extract”Mystic ExperienceInitio · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/ extract”DecisionAmouage · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/ extract”Decision 42Amouage · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/ extract”LustreAmouage · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/ extract”

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Named by the house, not on the label, in 5

Dia ManAmouage · “Atlas Cedarwood”Jubilation XXV ManAmouage · “Atlas Cedarwood”Crimson RocksAmouage · “Cedarwood Atlas Oil”ErosVersace · “cedarwood from Atlas”Oud 27Le Labo · “cedar Atlas”