Cognac Barrel
Note Profile
About
Toasted Limousin oak that has held brandy for years: vanillin and oak lactone, dried fruit, a sour rancio floor.
Scent Profile
Dry_woody leads because the referent is the cask and every source puts the oak first. Perfumestars names 'mature oak barrels' and 'oakwood extracts'. Premiere Peau names oak tannin. It sits under oaken-barrel at 0.78, because the Nejma reviewer calls this a light wood, not a heavy one. Boozy and sweet_vanillic sit level. Boozy is Premiere Peau's 'warm, rounded burn of aged grape brandy'. Sweet_vanillic is two claims landing in one place: the vanillin the toasting releases, and the 'vanilla and caramel' Scents of Wood names in the finished spirit. Fruity is the number that separates this note from oaken-barrel, where fruity. Dried fruit is the first thing Premiere Peau names and the second thing Perfumestars names, and Premiere Peau's direct comparison is that cognac is 'more fruity than whiskey'. Lactonic is the oak lactone Premiere Peau names by compound. Warm_spice is the eugenol in that same list, plus Perfumestars' 'touch of spices' and the reviewer's 'pleasantly spicy'. Smoky is Perfumestars' 'boozy, slightly smoky effect', held lower than oaken-barrel's 0.30 because cognac casks are toasted rather than charred. Below the line, sour and earthy are the rancio Premiere Peau describes as 'mushroom-like, slightly sour depth', and leather follows the compositions it says the note works in.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
A concept note rather than an extracted material. It names the cask, not the drink. Premiere Peau splits the two cleanly and credits the oak with vanillin, eugenol and oak lactone, while the dried fruit and the rancio come out of the spirit itself. Perfumestars makes the same split in different words, naming 'mature oak barrels' and 'oakwood extracts to represent the aging barrels' alongside dried fruits and caramel. No manufacturer datasheet names cognac barrel as a raw material.
Usage in Perfumery
It is used as a boozy woody base. Premiere Peau calls cognac 'a clean boozy-gourmand base note' that works in amber, leather and luxury-gourmand builds. Nejma's Le Parfum d'Alice prints Cognac barrel, and the one reviewer reads it as 'light wood with a pleasantly spicy cognac scent', which is the wood leading and the spirit qualifying it.
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