In short
Rich, polished woods with leather, tobacco, boozy fruit and a dry papery edge.
Concept
A private library panelled in mahogany: polished dark wood, leather chairs, old paper, a cold pipe on the desk and a decanter of brandy. Built on Mahagonate and the Paper Light accord, with leather, tobacco and cognac.
- Family. Woody — Polished woods, leather
- Main accords. Mahogany panelling, Leather chairs, Old paper, Pipe tobacco, Brandy
- Intended for. Masculine, Mature, Evening, Luxury niche
- Season and occasion. Winter
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Bitter orange, cardamom and black pepper with green cognac and davana.
- Heart. Mahagonate, Paper Light, tobacco absolute, Tabanon, beeswax and oak.
- Base. Atlas and Virginia cedar, guaiac, cedramber, Iso E Super, suede, castoreum, labdanum, benzoin 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iso E Super | 100.00 | — | 10.00% |
| Cedarwood Oil (Atlas)As written: Cedrus atlantica oil | 72.00 | — | 7.20% |
| Mahagonate | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Cedarwood Oil (Virginia)As written: Virginian cedarwood oil | 52.00 | — | 5.20% |
| Benzoin Resinoid (Siam) | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Cedramber | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Guaiac Wood Oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Suederal | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Tobacco AbsoluteAs written: Tobacco Absolute 10% DPG | 40.00 | 10% in DPG | 4.00% |
| Bitter Orange Oil (Expressed) | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Exaltone | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Oakwood CO2 ExtractAs written: Oakwood CO2 Extract 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Patchouli Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Vetiveryl Acetate | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Labdanum Absolute | 25.00 | — | 2.50% |
| Amber Core | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Cognac Oil (Green)As written: Wine lees oil 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| TabanonAs written: Tabanon 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Galaxolide | 18.00 | — | 1.80% |
| Castoreum AbsoluteAs written: Castoreum Absolute 10% DPG | 15.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.50% |
| Clary Sage Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Cosmone | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Cypriol Oil (Nagarmotha) | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Muscenone | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Polysantol | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Tonka Bean Absolute | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| alpha-Isomethyl Ionone | 14.40 | — | 1.44% |
| Cedryl Acetate | 12.00 | — | 1.20% |
| Vertenex | 12.00 | — | 1.20% |
| Beeswax Absolute | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Black Pepper Oil | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Coumarin | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Isobutyl QuinolineAs written: Isobutyl Quinoline 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Vanillin | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Cardamom Oil | 8.00 | — | 0.80% |
| Ethyl Linalool | 7.20 | — | 0.72% |
| Phenoxanol | 7.20 | — | 0.72% |
| Cedrol | 6.00 | — | 0.60% |
| Phenylethyl Alcohol | 6.00 | — | 0.60% |
| Davana Oil | 5.00 | — | 0.50% |
| Whisky Lactone | 5.00 | — | 0.50% |
| Heliotropin | 4.80 | — | 0.48% |
| alpha-Irone | 4.80 | — | 0.48% |
| Aldehyde C-11 Undecylenic (10-Undecenal)As written: Aldehyde C-11 Undecylenic (10-Undecenal) 10% DPG | 4.80 | 10% in DPG | 0.48% |
| Ambrettolide | 3.60 | — | 0.36% |
| Aldehyde C-12 Lauric (Dodecanal)As written: Aldehyde C-12 Lauric (Dodecanal) 10% DPG | 3.60 | 10% in DPG | 0.36% |
| Aldehyde C-10 (Decanal)As written: Aldehyde C-10 (Decanal) 10% DPG | 2.40 | 10% in DPG | 0.24% |
| Methyl Atrarate | 1.20 | — | 0.12% |
| 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 120 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 (Atlas), Mahagonate, Cedarwood Oil (Virginia), Suederal
- What makes it distinctive. Mahogany — a wood rarely named in perfumery — at the centre, with paper and brandy as its room.
- Character. Grave and polished.
- 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 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); Bitter Orange Oil (Expressed) (Restriction: Bitter orange peel oil expressed, Amendment 49); Vetiveryl Acetate (Restriction: Acetylated Vetiver oil, Amendment 49); Amber Core (Restriction: 1-(2-tert.-Butyl cyclohexyloxy)-2-butanol, Amendment 51); Polysantol (Restriction: 3,3-Dimethyl-5-(2,2,3-trimethyl-3-cyclopenten-1-yl)-4-penten-2-ol, Amendment 49); alpha-Isomethyl Ionone (Methyl ionone, mixed isomers, Amendment 49); Coumarin (Restriction: Coumarin, Amendment 49).
- Phototoxicity. Bitter Orange Oil (Expressed) is phototoxic; IFRA limits phototoxic materials in products left on skin exposed to sunlight.
- Skin sensitisation. EU-labelled fragrance allergens present as ingredients: Coumarin, 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 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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