Ho Wood

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Ho wood is a wood that smells like a flower. Steam distilled from the bark and wood of the linalool chemotype of Cinnamomum camphora, it is 75 to 98 per cent linalool, so ScenTree files it under Floral rather than Woody. It is a natural replacement for Brazilian rosewood, which is now virtually impossible to obtain because of CITES regulations.

Scent Profile

Ho wood smells soft and floral first, close to lavender and to rosewood, with a zesty citrus edge on top. A woody warmth sits underneath, somewhere between a dry wood and a creamy one. A clean, mildly camphor-like cooling lift keeps it from turning cloying, and a sweet, aromatic herbal roundness holds the middle together.

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can make Ho Wood from this natural extract.

Natural extract Ho wood oil woody · camphoraceous · clean

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Origin

Cinnamomum camphora (L.) J.Presl, the linalool chemotype. The bark is cut from the trunk and dried to develop its odour, then steam distilled. Unlike other chemotypes of the same tree, this one contains almost no camphor. The leaf of the same tree is distilled separately.

Usage in Perfumery

A core heart note for florals, fougeres and woody compositions, and the working substitute for rosewood. Perfumers use it to give an aromatic accord a floral nuance and a clean lift, and it appears in men's cosmetics for that clean facet.