Ingredients · Leather & smoke · dry-down

Creosol

Say itKREE-uh-sawl

Smoky-spicy phenol with charred vanilla-pod and clove-like warmth.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

Where it comes from

a component of beechwood creosote

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Adds smoke to gourmands and depth to leather accords; suggests a charred vanilla pod.

Worth knowing

It is named for creosote, the smoky wood-tar preservative in which it occurs.

Also called

4-Methylguaiacol; 2-methoxy-4-methylphenol