In short
Crisp, resinous juniper and citrus peel over cold incense and dry conifer woods.
Concept
A glass of gin carried into a cold stone chapel. The gin botanicals — juniper, coriander, angelica, orris, citrus peel — meet frankincense smoke, fir and old pine pews, so a bar note and a church note become one.
- Family. Aromatic — Gin botanicals, incense
- Main accords. Juniper gin, Cold incense, Fir, Old pine pews
- Intended for. Masculine, Evening, Luxury niche, Mature
- Season and occasion. Winter
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Juniper berry, lemon, distilled lime, coriander and black pepper.
- Heart. Frankincense oil and olibanum resinoid with fir, spruce, cypress and a little orris.
- Base. Himalayan cedar, vetiver, Timbersilk and amyris, ambrocenide, cetalox and musks with a trace of cade.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Juniper Berry Oil | 100.00 | — | 10.00% |
| Frankincense Oil (Olibanum) | 80.00 | — | 8.00% |
| Timbersilk | 71.00 | — | 7.10% |
| Ethylene Brassylate | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Hedione | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Cedarwood Oil (Himalayan)As written: Deodar cedarwood oil | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Amyris Oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Dihydromyrcenol | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Exaltolide | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Isobornyl Acetate | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Olibanum Resinoid Vulcain | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Black Spruce Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Coriander Seed Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Cypress Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Lime Oil (Distilled)As written: Distilled lime oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Siberian Fir Needle Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Vetiver Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| AmbrocenideAs written: Ambrocenide 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Cetalox | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Cosmone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Elemi Oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Labdanum Resinoid | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Black Pepper Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Myrrh Resinoid | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Cade Oil (Rectified)As written: Juniper tar 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Cardamom Oil | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Orris Absolute | 5.00 | — | 0.50% |
| Angelica Root Oil | 4.00 | — | 0.40% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Juniper Berry Oil, Frankincense Oil (Olibanum), Timbersilk, Hedione, Ethylene Brassylate
- What makes it distinctive. A gin accord used as a doorway into incense, rather than as a cocktail novelty.
- Character. Clean, crisp and contemplative, with a natural, botanical feel.
- 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 4 of its materials: Exaltolide (Restriction: Cyclopentadecanolide, Amendment 49); Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) (Restriction: Lemon oil cold pressed, Amendment 49); Cade Oil (Rectified) (Cade oil, Amendment 47); Angelica Root Oil (Restriction: Angelica root oil, Amendment 49).
- Phototoxicity. Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed), Angelica Root Oil 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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