Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Woods · dry-down
Okoumal
Say itoh-KOO-mal
Dry woody-amber with tobacco leaf, soft leather and musky velvet.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab, first made by Givaudan in 1989.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds warmth, volume and richness to woody, amber and oriental bases; long-lasting fixative.
- Worth knowing
- It is named after okoumé, a West African timber used for plywood and boats.
- Also called
- Woody dioxolane; 2,4-dimethyl-2-(tetramethyltetralinyl)-1,3-dioxolane
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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