4-Ethyl Guaiacol
Used in 3 formulas
About this material
4-Ethyl Guaiacol is the smell of oak barrels, smoked meat, and aged whisky. It occurs naturally in all of those things — formed when heat breaks down the lignin in wood — and it brings that same warm, smoky, cured quality to perfume compositions. The clove note is prominent but not sharp; it sits underneath a layer of soft vanilla warmth and dry woodsmoke. Use it in leather accords where you want genuine smokiness without the heaviness of birch tar. A trace alongside castoreum or Suederal and you have a smoked leather that smells like it has been sitting in a tannery, not a laboratory. In tobacco compositions it provides the cured, pipe-smoke facet that dried tobacco leaf alone cannot delive… — Fraterworks
Usage in formulas
The 683rd most used material of 1414 in the catalogue, present in 3 of 806 formulas. A signature material: whoever uses it means to.
Where it actually lives
The share of each family's formulas that contain it. Not how often it appears, but how indispensable it is inside that family.
- Amberin 2% of 45 formulas
