In short
Salty, fibrous and slightly tarry, with a dry ambery-woody base.
Concept
A hemp mooring rope drying on a granite quay: salty wet fibre, a coat of tar, seaweed and cold stone. A marine with grit — the fibre comes from hay and mate, the tar from rectified cade and birch.
- Family. Aquatic — Marine woody, tarry
- Main accords. Wet hemp rope, Salt and seaweed, Tar, Cold granite
- Intended for. Masculine, Everyday, Mature, Autumn
- Season and occasion. Autumn
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Bitter orange, lemon and petitgrain with cypress, juniper and black pepper.
- Heart. Maritima, oceanol, red seaweed, calone and ambergris tincture with hay, mate and rosemary.
- Base. Vertofix, cedramber, Georgywood, Iso E Super, Z11, cetalox and sclareolide with a faint tar.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iso E Super | 115.00 | — | 11.50% |
| Vertofix | 70.00 | — | 7.00% |
| Cedramber | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Tetrahydrolinalool | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Exaltolide | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Georgywood | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| MaritimaAs written: Maritima 10% DPG | 40.00 | 10% in DPG | 4.00% |
| Romandolide | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Ambergris Tincture | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Bitter Orange Oil (Expressed) | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Cade Oil (Rectified)As written: Juniper tar 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| CaloneAs written: Calone 1% DPG | 30.00 | 1% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Cetalox | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Cypress Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Hay AbsoluteAs written: Hay Absolute 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| OceanolAs written: Oceanol 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Red Seaweed CO2 ExtractAs written: Red Seaweed CO2 Extract 1% DPG | 30.00 | 1% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Vetikol Acetate | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Juniper Berry Oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Labdanum Resinoid | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Mate AbsoluteAs written: Mate Absolute 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Muscenone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Patchouli Oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Petitgrain Bigarade Oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| PinoacetaldehydeAs written: Pinoacetaldehyde 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Sclareolide | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Z11 | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Black Pepper Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Clary Sage Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Rosemary Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Birch Tar Oil (Rectified)As written: Birch Tar Oil (Rectified) 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Iso E Super, Vertofix, Cedramber, Georgywood, Ambergris Tincture
- What makes it distinctive. The rope — dry plant fibre made of hay and mate — gives a marine an unusual tactile texture.
- Character. Rugged, natural-feeling and versatile.
- Concentration. 12–15%
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 6 of its materials: Iso E Super (Restriction: 1-(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8 Octahydro-2,3,8,8-tetramethyl-2-naphthalenyl) ethanone (OTNE), Amendment 49); Exaltolide (Restriction: Cyclopentadecanolide, Amendment 49); Bitter Orange Oil (Expressed) (Restriction: Bitter orange peel oil expressed, Amendment 49); Cade Oil (Rectified) (Cade oil, Amendment 47); Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) (Restriction: Lemon oil cold pressed, Amendment 49); Birch Tar Oil (Rectified) (Birch wood pyrolysate, Amendment 47).
- Phototoxicity. Bitter Orange Oil (Expressed), Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) are phototoxic; IFRA limits phototoxic materials in products left on skin exposed to sunlight.
- Skin sensitisation. None of the EU’s long-standing named fragrance allergens is an ingredient in its own right. 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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