Ingredients · Woods · dry-down
Sclarene
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Strong dry wood with camphor and warm metallic undertones, like steam rising from a hot iron.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- sold as an 80% solution in dipropylene glycol
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: what stays.
- What perfumers do with it
- Used below 1% to give warm, metallic facets to musks and ambers such as Ambrofix; can be overdosed as a signature.
- Worth knowing
- Despite its name, Sclarene does not smell of clary sage; a seller likens it to steam rising from a hot iron.
- Known in
- H24 (Hermès, 2021)
- Also called
- Sclarene 80%/DPG (Givaudan); decahydrocyclododeca[d]oxazole; sold by Fraterworks as Metal Oxazole
Named by the house, not on the label, in 1
