Ingredients · Woods · dry-down

Siam wood oil

Say itsye-AM wood oil

Sweet, soft woody-balsamic with rosy, slightly smoky and cedar-like tones.

What it is

Natural oil from wood and roots of the conifer Fokienia hodginsii.

Where it comes from

Laos and Vietnam

When you smell it

Dry-down: what stays.

What perfumers do with it

Gentle woody-balsamic blender for sandalwood, rose and oriental accords.

Worth knowing

Fokienia, a cypress-family conifer named after Fujian (Fokien) province, is listed by the IUCN as Vulnerable.

Also called

Fokienia hodginsii; pơ mu