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