Hiba

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Hiba is the steam-distilled wood oil of Thujopsis dolabrata, a Japanese conifer. It is a dry, smoky wood with an earthy body and a clean balsamic finish.

Scent Profile

Hiba smells of dry wood first, cedar-like in shape and holding the whole note together. A real smoky character runs alongside it rather than behind it, deep and pronounced. Underneath sits a balsamic, resinous sweetness that stops the smoke from reading as burnt, and a plain earthy floor beneath that. A faint cooling, creamy softness shows at the very edge.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~14h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can make Hiba from this natural extract.

Natural extract Hibawood oil dry · earthy · resinous

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Origin

Thujopsis dolabrata is an evergreen conifer native to Japan, where it is called hiba or asunaro. It is not a true thuja and not the hinoki cypress, though it sits in the same cypress family.

Usage in Perfumery

Perfumers use hiba as a base wood where cedarwood alone reads too thin. It carries smoke without tar and holds a composition down under incense, vetiver, cypress and dry spice. Two trade suppliers both reach for cedarwood as the comparison and then name smoke as the thing that separates it.