Charred Wood
Note Profile
About
The blackened solid rather than the fire: charcoal, tar and a hard burnt edge on dry wood.
Scent Profile
Smoky is the note and dominates it, but in one specific register: the carbonised solid, blackened wood and charcoal and tar, not the flame or the drifting smoke. Dry_woody is the timber underneath, still readable as wood after the burning. Leather is the third real facet and is what most separates this from other smoke terms. The trade description reaches for black leather directly, the hard tarry kind. Mineral is the charcoal itself, dry and stony and slightly metallic. Below the line, sweet_vanillic holds the burnt-sugar edge that keeps the accord from turning purely acrid, earthy grounds it, and a small amber_resinous is kept because resin is what the same source uses to mark incense smoke off from this one, so the low value is a stated contrast rather than a guess.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
Not a material. It is an accord a perfumer builds, and a note term reviewers use. Trade writing on accord-building treats wood smoke as several registers, not one, and puts charred smoke apart from dry smoke and incense smoke. Parfumo files the term under two categories at once, Smoky notes and Woods, which matches a treatment applied to wood rather than a wood species.
Usage in Perfumery
19 Fragrantica placements and 12 Parfumo placements across 10 brands. Parfumo records that it usually runs through the whole fragrance rather than sitting in one phase. It is used as the dark end of a woody base, and in leather and oud compositions.
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