Smoky

What it smells like

Guaiacol and cresols, the products of burning. The facet runs from the gentle incense smoke of a church through to the creosote and tar of birch tar. Birch tar is also the origin of most leather accords.

Notes that load on it

Notes from our catalogue whose position on this facet is 0.40 or higher, strongest first. A note is not filed under one facet: it carries a value on all 34 at once, and these are the ones where this axis is doing real work.

• Lapsang Souchong Tea Leather Heart · ~8h Prepared 5
• Charred Wood Dry Wood Leather Base · ~30h Prepared
• BBQ Vanilla Animalic Base · ~12h Animal
• Choya Ral Amber Leather Creamy Wood Base · ~28h Prepared
• Cigarette Tobacco & Hay Mineral Base · ~24h Prepared
• Mezcal Dry Wood Citrus Heart · ~6h Prepared
• Pine Tar Amber Base · ~30h Prepared
• Smoked Leather Leather Base · ~36h Prepared
• Smoke Dry Wood Base · ~48h Prepared 226
• Burning Wood Dry Wood Base · ~48h Prepared 5
• Choya Nakh Aquatic Animalic Mineral Base · ~36h Prepared
• Fossilised Amber Amber Leather Dry Wood Base · ~36h Mineral
• Grass Tree Amber Dry Wood Honey Base · ~24h Botanical
• Inkstick Animalic Mineral Base · ~9h Abstract
• Peaty Whisky Boozy Earthy Base · ~22h Prepared
• Smoked Wine Phenolic Fruity Heart · ~8h Prepared 1
• Choya Loban Phenolic Amber Base · ~24h Prepared
• Paprika Warm Spice Heart · ~6h Botanical 16
• Bacon Base · ~14h Prepared
• Fire Phenolic Amber Dry Wood Base · ~24h Abstract

Materials that carry it

Real substances, each keyed by its CAS registry number, that an external perfumery vocabulary publishes with a term meaning this facet outright. This is the layer that makes a facet checkable against something outside our own database.

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Anchor terms

A facet on its own is just a word we chose. An anchor is what makes it checkable: a term in an external, independently maintained vocabulary of odour descriptions, built for perfumery materials rather than for us. The material list above is drawn from the direct terms only, because a partial term corroborates too weakly to stand as evidence on its own.

The rest of Woody & Earthy

The other facets in this family. A note can load on any of them at the same time as this one, so they are neighbours rather than alternatives.

Keep going

• Woody & Earthy The family this facet belongs to, and the others in it
• The 34 facets What each one covers, where it stops, and the substances that carry it
• What we have measured The numbers behind the model, and what they do not prove