Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Javanol

Say itJAH-vuh-nawl

Potent, creamy-milky sandalwood with rosy, slightly fruity and fresh facets.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Givaudan in 1996.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Trace-dose sandalwood booster adding creamy radiance and lift; works below 0.1% in many formulas.

Worth knowing

Swapping a double bond for a cyclopropane ring made it one of the most powerful sandalwood odorants known.

Known in

Molecule 04 (Escentric Molecules, 2017)

Also called

Javanol Super (purified grade)