Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Woods · dry-down
Kephalis
Say itKEF-uh-lis
Woody-ambery tobacco with dry leathery, vetiver-like and violet facets.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Long-lasting woody-amber heart and base; pairs with florals, tobacco, suede and ambery masculine accords.
- Worth knowing
- Unusually for a woody material it shows from the first spray, giving leather-wood character from top to base.
- Also called
- 4-(1-ethoxyvinyl)-3,3,5,5-tetramethylcyclohexanone; Tetrambrone
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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