In short
A dark, almondy black cherry with plum and rose over smoky balsamic resins and woods.
Concept
A black-cherry lacquered chest. Sour-sweet cherry and bitter almond lie under a glossy black lacquer of styrax, Peru balsam, cinnamyl cinnamate and tonka, with a thread of smoke. Almost edible, decidedly dark — glossy fruit against smoky resin.
- Family. Fruity — Dark cherry, resinous
- Main accords. Black cherry, Bitter almond, Black lacquer, Smoke
- Intended for. Feminine, Evening, Date night, Luxury niche
- Season and occasion. Winter
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals · one of the RUŌOD House Creations
How it develops
- Opening. Blood orange and mandarin with benzaldehyde, Cerezoate, anisylacetone and a black pepper glint.
- Heart. Cherry-almond (benzaldehyde diethyl acetal), maltyl isobutyrate, plum, beta-ionone and rose.
- Base. Styrax, Peru balsam, cinnamyl cinnamate, tonka, coumarin, vanilla absolute and labdanum with birch tar, guaiacol, Clearwood 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hedione HC | 90.00 | — | 9.00% |
| Ambrettolide | 70.00 | — | 7.00% |
| Clearwood | 70.00 | — | 7.00% |
| Galaxolide | 70.00 | — | 7.00% |
| Labdanum Absolute | 45.00 | — | 4.50% |
| BenzaldehydeAs written: Benzaldehyde 10% DPG | 40.00 | 10% in DPG | 4.00% |
| Blood Orange Oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Cedarwood Oil (Himalayan)As written: Deodar cedarwood oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Patchouli Oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Phenylethyl Alcohol | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Guaiac Wood Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Mandarin Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Vanilla AbsoluteAs written: Vanilla Absolute 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Amber Core | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| beta-Ionone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Cinnamyl Cinnamate | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Coumarin | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Maltyl IsobutyrateAs written: Maltyl Isobutyrate 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Muscenone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| PyroprunatAs written: Pyroprunat 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Tonka Bean Absolute | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Vanillin Isobutyrate | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Anisylacetone | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Benzaldehyde Diethyl Acetal | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Black Pepper AbsoluteAs written: Black Pepper Absolute 10% DPG | 15.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.50% |
| Cerezoate | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Ethyl Cinnamate | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Exaltone | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Polysantol | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Rose Absolute (Rosa centifolia)As written: Rose de mai absolute | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Styrax Resinoid | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Birch Tar Oil (Rectified)As written: Birch Tar Oil (Rectified) 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Ethyl BenzoateAs written: Ethyl Benzoate 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| GuaiacolAs written: Guaiacol 1% DPG | 10.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.00% |
| HomofuraneolAs written: Homofuraneol 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Peru Balsam Oil | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Hedione HC, Galaxolide, Ambrettolide, Clearwood, Benzaldehyde
- What makes it distinctive. Cherry is made dark and resinous — lacquer and smoke — instead of candied.
- Character. For seductive evening wear with a strong, glossy signature.
- Concentration. 18%
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 8 of its materials: Benzaldehyde (Restriction: Benzaldehyde, Amendment 49); Amber Core (Restriction: 1-(2-tert.-Butyl cyclohexyloxy)-2-butanol, Amendment 51); Coumarin (Restriction: Coumarin, Amendment 49); Polysantol (Restriction: 3,3-Dimethyl-5-(2,2,3-trimethyl-3-cyclopenten-1-yl)-4-penten-2-ol, Amendment 49); Styrax Resinoid (Restriction: Styrax, Amendment 49); Birch Tar Oil (Rectified) (Birch wood pyrolysate, Amendment 47); Homofuraneol (Restriction: Ethyl and Methyl furaneol, Amendment 51); Peru Balsam Oil (Peru balsam, Amendment 49).
- Skin sensitisation. EU-labelled fragrance allergens present as ingredients: Coumarin. 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 Creation — 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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