Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.

Karanal

Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down

Karanal

Say itKAR-uh-nal

Powerful, radiant dry woody-amber with incense-candle and fruity nuances.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab, first made by Quest International in 1987.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Once used for dry, diffusive amber-wood radiance; perfumers are now reformulating it out.
Worth knowing
It is named after its discoverer, Quest chemist Karen Rossiter.
Known in
Gucci pour Homme (Gucci, 2003); Une Rose (Frédéric Malle, 2003)
Rules
Not allowed. EU REACH authorisation list; supply ended 2022, sales until 2023.
Also called
Amber dioxane

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