Coconut Palmwood
Note Profile
About
Dry, salt-tinged wood with a coconut shadow
Scent Profile
Coconut palmwood is a dry, salt-tinged wood, closer to bamboo or palm trunk than to a sweet coconut. A tropical coconut shadow sits behind it, more like the dry shell than the sweet flesh, since there is little sugar here. A salty, mineral edge runs through it, softened by a creamy woody note that keeps it from reading as bare timber.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Origin
Coconut palmwood is the timber of the coconut palm, Cocos nucifera, rather than the flesh, water or blossom. No manufacturer, trade or encyclopaedic source could be found that treats it as an isolated perfumery raw material. There is no Givaudan, Firmenich, IFF, Symrise, ScenTree, Eden Botanicals or Hermitage Oils listing for it, and no PubChem or Wikipedia entry for it as a material. The term may therefore name a composed woody accord rather than an extract of the trunk. Nothing found confirms or rules that out.
Usage in Perfumery
Parfumo tracks the term across 9 placements and 9 brands, filed under Coconut, Tree and Woods. The one composition examined in depth prints it as the opening note over frankincense, salt and seaweed at the heart and amber, musk and sandalwood at the base. That is how the note is reached for: a dry woody way into a tropical theme, in place of the creamy coconut a reader expects.
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