In short
A papery-woody marine: salty seaweed and ambergris around a dry, powdery-ink paper and a faint leather.
Concept
An old seaside library at low tide: foxed paper and cracked leather bindings, ink, and the smell of seaweed and wet salt drifting in through an open window. Dry paper against wet brine.
- Family. Aquatic — Marine, papery, woody
- Main accords. Old paper, Seaweed and brine, Book leather, Ink, Driftwood
- Intended for. Gender-neutral, Luxury niche, Office, Experimental
- Season and occasion. Autumn
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals · one of the RUŌOD House Creations
How it develops
- Opening. Bergamot and lemon with violet leaf and a marine calone-maritima spray.
- Heart. Paper Light, red seaweed, oceanol and ambergris tincture.
- Base. Cedar, vetiver, suede and a trace of birch tar, methyl atrarate and oakmoss for ink, tonka and vanillin for old paper.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cedarwood Oil (Virginia)As written: Virginian cedarwood oil | 62.00 | — | 6.20% |
| Dihydromyrcenol | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Ethylene Brassylate | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Iso E Super | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Bergamot Oil FCF | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Cedrol | 41.00 | — | 4.10% |
| Linalool | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Red Seaweed CO2 ExtractAs written: Red Seaweed CO2 Extract 1% DPG | 40.00 | 1% in DPG | 4.00% |
| Ambrettolide | 36.60 | — | 3.66% |
| Galaxolide | 33.00 | — | 3.30% |
| Ambergris Tincture | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Ambroxan | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| CaloneAs written: Calone 1% DPG | 30.00 | 1% in DPG | 3.00% |
| MaritimaAs written: Maritima 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| OceanolAs written: Oceanol 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Tetrahydrolinalool | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| alpha-Isomethyl Ionone | 26.40 | — | 2.64% |
| Suederal | 25.00 | — | 2.50% |
| Cedryl Acetate | 22.00 | — | 2.20% |
| Vertenex | 22.00 | — | 2.20% |
| Benzyl Salicylate | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Vetiver Oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Heliotropin | 18.80 | — | 1.88% |
| Labdanum Resinoid | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Ethyl Linalool | 13.20 | — | 1.32% |
| Phenoxanol | 13.20 | — | 1.32% |
| Methyl Atrarate | 12.20 | — | 1.22% |
| Phenylethyl Alcohol | 11.00 | — | 1.10% |
| Birch Tar Oil (Rectified)As written: Birch Tar Oil (Rectified) 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| cis-3-HexenolAs written: cis-3-Hexenol 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| GuaiacolAs written: Guaiacol 1% DPG | 10.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Oakmoss AbsoluteAs written: Oakmoss Absolute 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Tonka Bean Absolute | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Vanillin | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Violet Leaf AbsoluteAs written: Violet Leaf Absolute 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| alpha-Irone | 8.80 | — | 0.88% |
| Aldehyde C-11 Undecylenic (10-Undecenal)As written: Aldehyde C-11 Undecylenic (10-Undecenal) 10% DPG | 8.80 | 10% in DPG | 0.88% |
| Aldehyde C-12 Lauric (Dodecanal)As written: Aldehyde C-12 Lauric (Dodecanal) 10% DPG | 6.60 | 10% in DPG | 0.66% |
| Aldehyde C-10 (Decanal)As written: Aldehyde C-10 (Decanal) 10% DPG | 4.40 | 10% in DPG | 0.44% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Accords inside. This formula contains Paper Light Accord at 220 parts. It is already expanded into the lines above — each material appears once, with the accord's share merged into it — so an accord is never weighed or counted twice.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Iso E Super, Cedarwood Oil (Virginia), Dihydromyrcenol, Ethylene Brassylate, Bergamot Oil FCF
- What makes it distinctive. Marine notes used to describe a place and an atmosphere — wet air in a dry room — rather than freshness.
- Character. Evocative and unusual while staying wearable and office-appropriate.
- Concentration. 15% (eau de parfum)
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 7 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); Linalool (Specification: Linalool, Amendment 38); alpha-Isomethyl Ionone (Methyl ionone, mixed isomers, Amendment 49); Benzyl Salicylate (Restriction: Benzyl salicylate, Amendment 49); Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) (Restriction: Lemon oil cold pressed, Amendment 49); Birch Tar Oil (Rectified) (Birch wood pyrolysate, Amendment 47); Oakmoss Absolute (Oakmoss extracts, Amendment 49).
- Phototoxicity. Lemon Oil (Cold-Pressed) is phototoxic; IFRA limits phototoxic materials in products left on skin exposed to sunlight.
- Skin sensitisation. EU-labelled fragrance allergens present as ingredients: Benzyl salicylate, Evernia prunastri extract, Linalool, alpha-Isomethyl ionone. 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.
Rights holders: if you believe this page uses something you own, or that it is inaccurate, contact us (info@ruood.com) and we will review it, and correct or remove it where that is warranted.