Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Boisambrene Forte

Say itbwah-zam-BREEN FOR-tay

Dry woody-amber with cedar, mossy and faint tobacco-earthy facets.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Henkel in 1974.

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Stable dry amber-wood for soaps, detergents and fine fragrance woody accords.

Worth knowing

Alkali-stable, it keeps its woody-amber character in bar soaps and detergents.

Rules

Limited. IFRA 51st Amendment limits for sensitisation and systemic toxicity.

Also called

Ethoxymethoxycyclododecane; Amberwood F; amber decane