Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Cedroxyde

Say itsed-ROK-syde

Powerful dry wood, cedar-amber with minty, metallic-mineral facets.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Firmenich in 1973.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Adds dry woody-amber lift with a fresh mineral edge to fougères, chypres and woody accords.

Worth knowing

It smells of cedar yet contains nothing from cedar trees; Firmenich launched it the year IFF patented Iso E Super.

Also called

Trimethyl-13-oxabicyclo[10.1.0]trideca-4,8-diene; woody epoxide