Lorenox
Note Profile
About
Lorenox is a Mane captive. Two sources sixteen years apart give the same three words for it: woody, ambery and leathery. The leather is clean and worn, closer to aged calfskin than to birch tar. The amber is dry and mineral, like heated sandstone, rather than sweet and resinous. The fuller of the two sources calls it the smell of warm stone and old leather in a locked room.
Scent Profile
Leather leads. It is dry, clean and worn in, like aged calfskin or the inside of an old saddlebag, and it is neither tarry nor animalic. A strong mineral warmth sits with it, the smell of heated sandstone or of warm stone. Dry wood runs underneath and gives the note its angular, textured shape. Amber is present as warmth rather than as resin. Both sources call the material ambery, and the fuller one says the amber dimension lacks sweetness and reads as warmth without resin, so the amber facet is scored moderate rather than high. A faint aromatic-herbal undertone, close to dried sage, keeps the leather and the amber from going flat.
ScentWheel
Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.
Origin
A captive aromatic molecule designed by Mane's research and development department in 2009. It first appeared in commercial fragrances around 2010, when Etat Libre d'Orange used it. No CAS number, molecular formula or chemical structure has been publicly disclosed. Premiere Peau gives the origin as Le Bar-sur-Loup near Grasse, which is Mane's own headquarters town, but this dossier could not confirm that Lorenox in particular is made there.
Usage in Perfumery
A base note in dry amber, leather and woody structures. It is opaque and close to the skin rather than projecting, which is the stated difference from ambroxan. Mane lists it in the bases of its own fine-fragrance pyramids, in one case alongside Orcanox and Santamanol.
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