Woody and earthy notes
258 notesWoody notes smell of timber, roots, moss, smoke and soil. They are the frame of a perfume, tend to sit underneath the other notes, and last the longest. This list is the notes that lean on woody more than on any other scent family.
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Botanical
173 notesAbout botanical notes
Plants, and what is pressed, distilled or extracted straight from them - peel, petal, resin, root, wood, leaf.
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Sandalwood
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Patchouli
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Cedar
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Vetiver
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Oakmoss
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Oud
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Guaiac Wood
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Woody Notes
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Cypress
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Cypriol Oil or Nagarmotha
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Moss
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Birch
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Prepared
32 notesAbout prepared notes
Materials that only exist because something was done to them: roasted, burnt, tanned, fermented, cured, cooked.
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Smoke
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Birch Tar
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Cade
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Paper
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Pine Tar
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Lapsang Souchong Tea
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Burning Wood
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Asphalt
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Choya Loban
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Mitti Attar
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Choya Nakh
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Choya Ral
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Molecule
32 notesAbout molecule notes
Single aroma chemicals, named as themselves. Some occur in nature and some do not; all of them behave predictably.
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Akigalawood
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Iso E Super
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Georgywood
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Clearwood
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Dreamwood
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Evernyl
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Javanol
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Geosmin
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Wolfwood
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Norlimbanol
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Sclarene
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Goldenwood
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Abstract
16 notesAbout abstract notes
Notes that name a sensation rather than a substance. Nothing is distilled to make them - they are an effect the perfumer builds.
Animal
1 noteAbout animal notes
Materials of animal origin, and the modern reconstructions that stand in for them.
Mineral
4 notesAbout mineral notes
Stone, salt, metal and earth - the inorganic end of the vocabulary.
