Ingredients · Leather & smoke · dry-down
Birch tar oil (rectified)
Smoky, tarry and phenolic, turning to sweet, oily Russian leather.
- What it is
- Natural oil from dry-distilled birch bark and wood (Betula pendula), redistilled.
- Where it comes from
- Russia, Eastern Europe
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- The historic Russian-leather note; smoky tar for leather, tobacco and campfire accords.
- Worth knowing
- Russia leather got its famous smell from birch-tar oil used to waterproof and finish the hides.
- Rules
- Limited. Only PAH-cleaned rectified grades allowed; crude tar carries carcinogens.
- Also called
- Birch wood pyrolysate; oleum rusci
Named by the house, not on the label, in 17
AventusCreed · “Birch”
OutlandsAmouage · “Birch”
Opus XIII Silver OudAmouage · “Birch Essence”
Opus XIV Royal TobaccoAmouage · “Birch Tar”
Oud UlyaAmouage · “Birch Tar”
DaisyMarc Jacobs · “birch”
FahrenheitDior · “birch”
Patchouli 24Le Labo · “birch”
Club de Nuit Intense ManArmaf · “Birch”
Supremacy Collector's EditionAfnan · “Birch”
Musk MubakharArabian Oud · “Birchwood”
Aventus for HerCreed · “Birch”
Black LacquerTom Ford · “birch”
Aventus CologneCreed · “Birch”
Bottled NightHugo Boss · “birch leaves”
Parfum Pour HommeMissoni · “Birch”TerraRayhaan · “Birch”