Healingwood
Note Profile
About
Healingwood is IFF's trade name for purified patchouli alcohol, sold through LMR Naturals. IFF's own compendium calls it "the very heart of patchouli". It is a powerful woody note with an earthy, humid body, a clean camphoraceous top and a mossy background. It is the heavy fraction of patchouli oil isolated and cleaned up, so it reads as patchouli with the crude oil's muddiness taken out.
Scent Profile
Healingwood smells like the heart of patchouli, purified and cleaned up. A powerful woody note leads, with an earthy, humid body underneath. A clean, camphor-like top sits over it, and a mossy background runs beneath everything. It reads as patchouli with the crude oil's muddiness taken out.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
ScentArt
Materials That Can Make This Note
Perfumers can use this material directly to make Healingwood.
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Patchoulialcohol camphoreous · earthy · powdery
Smell words come from published sources.
A given perfume with this note may use this material, or something else.
Origin
Made from Indonesian Pogostemon cablin stems and leaves. The route is hydro-distillation, then fractional distillation and crystallisation, which isolates patchoulol, CAS 5986-55-0. IFF lists it as an essential oil rather than a synthetic, because every molecule in it came off the plant.
Usage in Perfumery
Use it where a composition needs patchouli's weight without the crude oil's dirt. It is a base material and it holds through the drydown. Clearwood, dsm-firmenich's biotech patchoulol, is the nearest published note and it is not the same smell. Clearwood's own sheet drops the earthy and mossy language for "soft", "clean" and "the creamy warmth of amber".
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Perfumes featuring Healingwood
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