Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Ebanol

Say itEB-uh-nawl

Diffusive, natural sandalwood, creamy yet dry, with long-lasting woody tenacity.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Givaudan in 1986.

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Gives volume, diffusion and tenacity to sandalwood accords; pairs well with Okoumal and cedar notes.

Worth knowing

It is a blend of four stereoisomers and differs from Sandalore by a single carbon-carbon double bond.

Also called

Sandal pentenol; 3-methyl-5-(2,2,3-trimethylcyclopent-3-enyl)pent-4-en-2-ol; trimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol; trimethylcyclopentenyl methyl isopentenol

On the label of 69 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Good GirlCarolina Herrera · printed “Trimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol”Bleu de ChanelChanel · printed “Trimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol”Side EffectInitio · printed “Trimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol”Can't Get EnoughInitio · printed “Trimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol”Magnetic Blend 7Initio · printed “Trimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol”Overture 41Amouage · printed “Trimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol”

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