Ambrinol

Note Profile

Molecule

About

Ambrinol is a synthetic that reproduces the animalic end of aged ambergris, not the clean end. All three trade sources fetched lead with amber and then immediately qualify it with tobacco, leather, earth and a faecal edge. Premiere Peau sets it against Ambroxan directly and calls it rawer, more textured and less crystalline. So it is scored as an amber note whose second half is animalic, not as a transparent woody-amber.

Scent Profile

Amber_resinous leads and it is the word all three sources use first: 'raw amber blast', 'an exceptionally powerful amber signature', 'an animalic, sensual and ambery note'. Animalic is the second pillar and not a trace. ScenTree files the material under Animalic before Ambergris, Scentspiracy names 'warm animalic, musky undertones' and adds 'slightly fecal nuances', and Premiere Peau calls it more animalic than Ambroxan. Tobacco_hay and leather are named by two sources independently and always in the same breath, which is why they sit together. Earthy comes from ScenTree's classification chain and from Premiere Peau's 'deep earthy-animalic warmth'. Dry_woody is the dryness both Premiere Peau and Scentspiracy report in the drydown, held low because no source calls the material woody outright. Smoky rests on one phrase, 'persistent smoky-amber trace'. Clean_musk is the musky density all three sources name, kept under animalic because every mention of musk here is qualified as animalic musk rather than white musk.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~36h lasting

Family Amber · Musk · Leather

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

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, which is scarce and restricted in several markets. No manufacturer olfactive description was reachable: IFF's ingredient compendium page returned HTTP 403 on two fetch attempts. 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'. It is reached for where Ambroxan reads too clean, so it turns up in ambergris reconstructions and in leather-tobacco bases rather than in transparent woody-ambers.