Ambrinol

Note Profile

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About

Ambrinol is a synthetic that reproduces the animalic end of aged ambergris, not the clean end. It smells of amber first, then tobacco, leather, earth and a faecal edge. Next to Ambroxan it is rawer, more textured and less crystalline.

Scent Profile

Ambrinol smells of raw, powerful amber, warm and resinous rather than crystalline. Underneath sits a strong animalic streak, musky and touched with a faecal edge, with tobacco and leather running alongside it. A damp, earthy warmth sits under that, and the drydown turns dry and woody. A faint smoky trace and a dense muskiness round it out, both reading as part of the animal warmth rather than a clean white musk.

ScentWheel

Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~36h lasting

Family Amber · Musk · Leather

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can use this material directly to make Ambrinol.

Ambrinol 2,5,5-trimethyl-1,3,4,4a,6,7-hexahydronaphthalen-2-ol animal · earthy · ambre

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use this material, or something else.

Origin

A synthetic aroma chemical, sold in dilution as Ambrinol 95 and Ambrinol S because the neat material is very powerful. It is one of the molecules used to rebuild the smell of natural ambergris. The three descriptions behind this row are independent trade copy, not analytical work, and none of them separates the odour of the isolated molecule from that of the commercial dilutions.

Usage in Perfumery

Used as a base fixative and an animalic amber accent. ScenTree names the fixative effect outright. Attested on 7 Fragrantica entries and none on Parfumo, filed by Fragrantica under 'Natural and synthetic, popular and weird'.