Ingredients · Sea & water · dry-down

Oceanol

Say itOH-shuh-nawl

Briny seaweed, iodine, crystalline salt, mossy-woody dry-down.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Salty mineral sea note that also fixes; modernizes chypres and 'deep ocean' blues

Worth knowing

IFF kept it for in-house use until 2024, when it went on open sale (supplier report).

Also called

methyl 2,4-dihydroxy-3-methylbenzoate