The plate: cedar (atlas cedar)
Planche XXVIII · Cèdre de l’AtlasCedar (Atlas cedar) · Cedrus atlantica (Commons and some floras: Cedrus libani subsp. atlantica)

Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Cedarwood oil (Atlas)

Warm, sweet-balsamic wood with honeyed, leathery and slightly camphoraceous notes.

What it is
Natural oil from wood chips and sawdust of Cedrus atlantica.
Where it comes from
Morocco and Algeria
When you smell it
Dry-down: what stays.
What perfumers do with it
Gives warm, honeyed, resinous cedar character to orientals, chypres and woody florals.
Worth knowing
A true cedar, it contains no cedrol—unlike the juniper 'cedars'—and the species is listed as Endangered by the IUCN.
Also called
Cedrus atlantica; Moroccan cedar

On the label of 42 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Santal 33Le Labo · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/extract”Side EffectInitio · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/extract”Mystic ExperienceInitio · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/ extract”DecisionAmouage · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/ extract”Decision 42Amouage · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/ extract”LustreAmouage · printed “Cedrus atlantica oil/ extract”

Named by the house, not on the label, in 9

Dia ManAmouage · “Atlas Cedarwood”Jubilation XXV ManAmouage · “Atlas Cedarwood”Crimson RocksAmouage · “Cedarwood Atlas Oil”ErosVersace · “cedarwood from Atlas”Oud 27Le Labo · “cedar Atlas”ÉbèneBalmain · “Cedarwood Atlas Oil”

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