Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down
Sclareolide
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Faint, dry amber-tobacco with hay-like, slightly woody sweetness.
- What it is
- A molecule made from a natural raw material.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Fixative for amber and tobacco accords; also the classic intermediate on the route to Ambrox.
- Worth knowing
- It is the stepping stone in the classic sclareol-to-Ambrox synthesis Firmenich developed around 1950.
- Also called
- Norambreinolide
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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