Ingredients · Earth & moss · dry-down

Evernyl

Say itEV-er-nil

Dry, clean mossy-woody, earthy and faintly phenolic-sweet.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Givaudan in 1968.

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Main modern oakmoss substitute, rebuilding chypre and fougère moss accords within IFRA rules.

Worth knowing

Methyl atrarate can be extracted from oakmoss itself, but that route drags the allergenic atranols along.

Also called

Veramoss (IFF); methyl atrarate; methyl 2,4-dihydroxy-3,6-dimethylbenzoate

On the label of 1 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

11 11 AzureLake & Skye · printed “Methyl atrarate”

Named by the house, not on the label, in 1

LegendMontblanc · “evernyl”