In short
Fresh green cardamom over roasted coffee and milky foam, with a soft rose-sandalwood finish.
Concept
Coffee brewed with cardamom and poured into frothed milk. Green cardamom and its own terpinyl acetate lead; coffee CO2 and a trace of furfuryl disulfide give the roast; milk lactone and buttermilk give the foam; a little rose and sandalwood finish it. More spice than sugar.
- Family. Gourmand — Spiced coffee
- Main accords. Green cardamom, Coffee, Steamed milk, Rose
- Intended for. Gender-neutral, Office, Young adult, Everyday
- Season and occasion. Autumn and winter
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Cardamom oil and absolute with blood orange, mandarin and terpinyl acetate.
- Heart. Coffee CO2, difurfuryl disulfide, milk lactone, buttermilk and a little rose.
- Base. Sandalore, Javanol, guaiac wood and amyris with vanillin, benzoin, tonka and musks.
Ingredients
Quantities are parts by weight of a 1,000-part fragrance concentrate — the weight put on the balance. Where a dilution is given, the line is weighed as that solution in dipropylene glycol, and its share is of the weighed amount.
| Material | Quantity | Dilution | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Benzyl Salicylate | 80.00 | — | 8.00% |
| Sandalore | 80.00 | — | 8.00% |
| Cardamom Oil | 70.00 | — | 7.00% |
| Exaltolide | 65.00 | — | 6.50% |
| Coffee CO2 ExtractAs written: Coffee CO2 Extract 10% DPG | 60.00 | 10% in DPG | 6.00% |
| Ethylene Brassylate | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Amyris Oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Benzoin Resinoid (Siam) | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Blood Orange Oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Guaiac Wood Oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Phenylethyl Alcohol | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Cardamom AbsoluteAs written: Cardamom Absolute 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Cashmeran | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Cedrol | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Globanone | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Mandarin Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Milk LactoneAs written: Milk Lactone 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Vanillin | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Butyl ButyryllactateAs written: Butyl Butyryllactate 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| delta-Decalactone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| JavanolAs written: Javanol 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Methyl LaitoneAs written: Methyl Laitone 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| 5-Methyl-2-phenyl-2-hexenalAs written: 5-Methyl-2-phenyl-2-hexenal 1% DPG | 20.00 | 1% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Terpinyl Acetate | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Tonka Bean Absolute | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Difurfuryl DisulfideAs written: Difurfuryl Disulfide 1% DPG | 10.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Ethyl Vanillin | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Rose Oil (Rosa damascena) | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Nutmeg CO2 Extract | 5.00 | — | 0.50% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Cardamom Oil, Benzyl Salicylate, Sandalore, Exaltolide, Coffee CO2 Extract
- What makes it distinctive. Cardamom is the lead and the coffee a supporting roast — the reverse of most coffee gourmands.
- Character. Comforting yet office-appropriate, with an uncommon spice-led gourmand profile.
- Concentration. 15%
Safety and compliance
- Status. Regulatory assessment pending. No formula-level safety assessment is documented yet, so this page does not say the formula is compliant for any use.
- IFRA Standards. The IFRA Standards Library covers 5 of its materials: Benzyl Salicylate (Restriction: Benzyl salicylate, Amendment 49); Sandalore (Restriction: 5-(2,2,3-Trimethyl-3-cyclopentenyl)-3-methylpentan-2-ol, Amendment 49); Exaltolide (Restriction: Cyclopentadecanolide, Amendment 49); Cashmeran (Restriction: 6,7-Dihydro-1,1,2,3,3-pentamethyl-4(5H)-indanone (DPMI), Amendment 49); Globanone (Restriction: Cyclohexadecenone, Amendment 51).
- Skin sensitisation. EU-labelled fragrance allergens present as ingredients: Benzyl salicylate. Natural materials carry further allergens as constituents, declared from the supplier’s data, and Regulation (EU) 2023/1545 extends the list to be labelled on products placed on the EU market from 31 July 2026.
- Product category. Limits depend on the product: fine fragrance, leave-on and rinse-off products have different IFRA categories, and each Standard sets its own figure for each.
Related formulas and accords
Source and attribution
RUŌOD House Original — an original composition by RUŌOD House. Published as the house’s own work, as attested by the owner of RUOOD Lab on 26 October 2026. The name is the collection’s own and has not been through a trademark search; it needs a formal clearance before any commercial use.
Reuse. Under the permission it is published with, you may read it here, study it, modify it for your own experiments, import it into RUŌOD Lab. Conditions: Keep the attribution “RUŌOD House”. Regulatory assessment pending: check each formula against the current IFRA Standards and the rules for the product and market before use on skin or in a product. Anything else needs the rights holder's own permission.
Import readiness
Every ingredient resolves to a material in the RUŌOD Material Library, with its dilution as printed or as supplied, so this formula can be imported faithfully.
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