INCI name
Ambroxide
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A powerful synthetic analog of natural ambergris. Warm, radiant, and highly skin-substantive; it amplifies everything around it.
A bicyclic terpenoid derived from ambergris via sclareol, a labdane diterpenol found in clary sage (Salvia sclarea). First synthesized by Firmenich in 1950. Characterized by an intense, warm, woody-ambery odor with strong radiance and excellent skin-substantivity. A major component of modern ambergris accords and widely considered one of the most impactful aroma chemicals in contemporary perfumery. Its unusual persistence and its habit of amplifying the materials around it are what give it a skin-forward, almost tactile quality.
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