The plate: agarwood / oud
Planche VII · Bois d’agarDrawn as what it smells like: oud.

Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Akigalawood

Say itah-kee-GAH-luh-wuud

Peppery, spicy-woody, clean patchouli with agarwood-like and faintly smoky facets.

What it is
A molecule made by fermentation.
When you smell it
Dry-down: what stays.
What perfumers do with it
Adds spicy, clean woody lift and an oud-like shimmer; versatile across masculine and feminine scents.
Worth knowing
It upcycles leftovers from patchouli oil production, which Givaudan transforms with enzymes into a new woody note.
Known in
Miu Miu (Miu Miu, 2015); Bois Impérial (Essential Parfums, 2019); Guidance (Amouage, 2023)
Also called
Enzymatically modified patchouli fraction

Named by the house, not on the label, in 19

GuidanceAmouage · “Akigalawood”PurposeAmouage · “Akigalawood”Guidance 46Amouage · “Akigalawood”Purpose 50Amouage · “Akigalawood”ValayaParfums de Marly · “Akigalawood”KhamrahLattafa · “Akigalawood”

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