Note Profile
Ebanol is a Givaudan sandalwood molecule, CAS 67801-20-1. It is a secondary alcohol, 3-methyl-5-(2,2,3-trimethyl-3-cyclopenten-1-yl)-4-penten-2-ol and its isomers. Givaudan sells it on being a substitute for natural sandalwood oil that is stronger and lasts longer.
Creamy_woody leads. Givaudan's own sentence is the whole basis: Ebanol has "a very rich, natural sandalwood odour" and gives "a diffusive sandalwood effect to compositions". Dry_woody is the other half of the manufacturer's tag set, which reads Woody / Sandalwood / Musky / Powerful, so plain woodiness is named separately from the sandalwood character. Clean_musk rests on the word "Musky" in that tag list and nothing else. No prose on the page says what that musk registers as, so the spread on it is 0.22, the widest in this vector. Sweet_vanillic, amber_resinous, lactonic and floral are held near zero with wide spreads rather than at zero, because no source denies them and the other published sandalwood synthetics carry them.
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
CAS 67801-20-1
The note IS the molecule. Its description states CAS 67801-20-1, which is this row.
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A perfume that names Ebanol® can use a different extract, a reformulated version, or a synthetic reconstruction. It can also hold less than the amount that requires a declaration. We cannot tell which applies. These rows cover only the substances we hold a link for.
Synthetic. Made by Givaudan and sold under the Ebanol trade name. It is one of a group of campholenic-aldehyde-derived sandalwood alcohols that includes Javanol, Polysantol and Sandalore.
Used at 0.5% to 5% of the fragrance concentrate. Givaudan says it brings volume and elegance to woody accords and a diffusive sandalwood effect. It is highly substantive on all supports and holds three weeks on a blotter, so it is used as a base fixative as well as a sandalwood body.
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