Ingredients · Woods · Made in a lab
Mahogany
Mahogany wood has no smell of its own to distil; the accord stands for a dark, polished, red-brown wood.
- What it is
- Something that grows but gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Euphoria (Calvin Klein, 2005)
- Worth knowing
- 'Acajou', the French word for mahogany on some note lists, is also a French name for the cashew.
Named by the house in 4 of the 1080 perfumes read so far
