Ingredients · Herbs & lavender · dry-down

Sclareol

Say itSKLAIR-ee-awl

Faint, sweet balsamic-ambery with hay, tobacco and dry herbal hints.

What it is

Natural material from waxy diterpene diol solvent-extracted from clary sage.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Gentle fixative with ambery warmth; above all, the starting material for Ambroxan-type ambers.

Worth knowing

Ambroxan, the ambergris molecule behind many modern bestsellers, has traditionally been semi-synthesized from sclareol.

Rules

Limited. Only high-purity grades allowed (IFRA specification)

Also called

Labd-14-ene-8,13-diol

On the label of 5 of the 232 perfumes read so far

ParagonInitio · printed “Sclareol”Oud for Greatness NeoInitio · printed “Sclareol”Le Male ElixirJean Paul Gaultier · printed “Sclareol”Grand SoirMaison Francis Kurkdjian · printed “Sclareol”L'Eau d'Issey Pour HommeIssey Miyake · printed “Sclareol”