Aged Wood
Note Profile
About
Old timber rather than a species. Dry, dusty wood with an earthy mustiness from lignin breaking down over years, and no char.
Scent Profile
Aged wood smells like old timber rather than any one tree, dry and dusty with a musty earthiness from years of ageing. A sun-bleached, mineral dust sits over it, powdery rather than damp. Underneath is a soft sweet vanilla note from the wood itself, and a resinous, almost amber warmth. The drydown keeps a faint leather and tobacco backnote, with a trace of aged cask and moss.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Not one material. Two things are sold under the phrase. Olfactive Aesthetics ties it to Karanal (amber dioxane), a synthetic whose effect it calls "bone-dry, dusty-woody, resinous, earthy" and an "aged wood" or "fossilized ambergris" impression. Eden Botanicals grounds the same idea in a natural: an oakwood absolute made in France from oak chips left over from barrel-making, wood that is "dried and aged for over a year before barrel production begins". WoodRio gives the general mechanism for old wood in furniture and buildings, the slow breakdown of lignin releasing compounds read as "earthy, musty, or slightly sweet".
Usage in Perfumery
A base note and a fixative. Three Parfumo listings across two brands, no Fragrantica attestation. It is used to age a woody base, in modern amber-woody accords.
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