Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down

Labdanum oil

Say itLAB-duh-num oil

Warm, ambery and woody with a dry, almost ambergris-like, faintly animal glow.

What it is

Natural oil from steam-distilled rockrose gum (Cistus ladanifer).

Where it comes from

Spain

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Brings a lighter, more diffusive labdanum note to amber and woody accords than the heavy extracts.

Also called

Labdanum gum oil; labdanum essential oil