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Hindinol

Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Hindinol

Say itHIN-dih-nawl

Radiant, sweet-creamy sandalwood with milky facets and an unusually natural top.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Gives sandalwood accords a natural-seeming top note and long, creamy woody depth.
Worth knowing
Unlike most sandalwood synthetics it reads from the top note, which perfumers otherwise have to build separately.
Also called
Santaliff; Sandal Mysore Core; Sandacore; 2-methyl-4-(2,2,3-trimethylcyclopent-3-enyl)but-2-en-1-ol

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