Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down

Cetalox

Say itSET-uh-loks

Creamy, softer ambergris; dry woody-musky warmth, less sparkling than Ambroxan.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Firmenich in 1993.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Smooth ambergris-musk base note; gives creamy, skin-close warmth and tenacity.

Worth knowing

Juliette Has a Gun's Not a Perfume consists of Cetalox alone, sold as a single-ingredient fragrance.

Known in

Not a Perfume (Juliette Has a Gun, 2010)

Also called

Racemic ambroxide; (±)-Ambrox