Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Georgywood

Say itJOR-jee-wuud

Woody-amber with floral, violet-like softness; smoother than Iso E Super.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Adds diffusive woody-amber warmth and velvety texture in modern woody and floral scents.

Worth knowing

It was created in the late 1990s as an alternative to Arborone, the potent hidden isomer of Iso E Super.

Also called

1-(1,2,8,8-tetramethyl-hexahydronaphthalen-2-yl)ethanone

Named by the house, not on the label, in 4

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