Mango Wood

Note Profile

Botanical

About

Mango wood is the timber of Mangifera indica. The one timber reference found says it has 'no characteristic odor' as dry, worked lumber. What the term carries in perfumery comes from the other half of the record: burning or smoking the wood gives a sweet, tropical-fruit aroma. So the vector is a low wood with a fruity-tropical lift, and every lead facet has a spread of roughly half its value.

Scent Profile

Dry_woody leads, and it is capped low on purpose. The primary timber source says the worked wood has no characteristic odour at all, which is the same ceiling that holds arbutus-wood and amaranth-wood. Tropical and fruity come from the only source that reports an actual smell, the firewood retailer describing 'tropical fruits and flowers' and a 'delicate, fruity essence'. Both carry spreads to 0.26 because that smell is pyrolysis, not the timber, and it may not transfer to how a perfumer would use the term. Smoky is the same mechanism seen honestly: the source is a grilling wood. Sweet_vanillic, creamy_woody, green, floral(the source says flowers as well as fruit), earthy and amber_resinous are trace.

ScentWheel

Breadthbroad

EnvelopeBase · ~10h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy

Read off the wheel, not a label applied to the note.

Origin

The wood of the mango tree, an Anacardiaceae grown across South Asia, Southeast Asia and tropical America. It is a furniture and barbecue timber, not a perfumery raw material. No supplier lists a mango wood oil, absolute or CO2 extract. The Wood Database records 'No characteristic odor'. A Hawaiian firewood retailer describes the smoke as 'enticing, reminiscent of tropical fruits and flowers' with a 'delicate, fruity essence'. The one perfume named for it, Olakala's Mango Wooud, is a fantasy pairing of mango fruit with oud and sandalwood, not a description of the timber.

Usage in Perfumery

Used as a soft, fruit-tinted wood rather than a structural one. It sits under tropical fruit accords and gives them a base without the dryness of cedar or the sweetness of sandalwood. It is not the mango-tree note, which is the leaf, and not the mango note, which is the fruit.