Terranol

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About

Terranol is a Symrise aroma molecule that smells of damp ground. The maker lists its odour as earthy, mossy, camphorous, patchouli and beetroot, in that order. It gives a fragrance the humid-earth side of patchouli and the root side of vetiver without being either material. A retailer who formulates with it describes a damp cave with water running through it, and uses it under a salt accord to supply wet stone rather than sea air.

Scent Profile

Terranol smells of damp ground, humid earth with a patchouli-like earthiness and a beetroot note, close to a cave floor. A mossy quality sits right behind it, green ground-growing moss with a hint of mushroom. A dry, woody, vetiver-root character runs through it too. A bright camphorous coolness shows on top. Used under a salt accord, it reads as wet stone, a mineral note rather than sea air, with green moss threaded through the whole thing.

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Breadthmedium

EnvelopeBase · ~40h lasting

Family Woody & Earthy

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Materials That Can Make This Note

Perfumers can use this material directly to make Terranol.

Terranol 2,2,8,8-tetramethyl-octahydro-1H-2,4a-methanonapthalen-9-ol patchouli · mossy · balsamic

Smell words come from published sources.

A given perfume with this note may use this material, or something else.

Origin

Terranol is synthetic. Symrise gives the chemistry as an alcohol, C15H26O, named 1,1,5,5-tetramethyl-octahydro-2,4a-methanonaphthalene-8a-ol, under CAS 57566-26-4 and 88644-30-8, and states plainly that it does not occur in nature. It ships as a solid. The Good Scents Company lists the same molecule, under CAS 88644-30-8, as balsamic, fir needle, green, mossy, patchouli and woody.

Usage in Perfumery

A base note. Symrise gives a recommended use level of 0.1 to 3 percent and a blotter tenacity running into months. It is used to build wet-stone, moss and root effects, to connect marine notes to vetiver, woods and ambergris materials, and to make marine and mineral accords read as a damp place rather than as clean water.