In short
A milky, softly spiced nutmeg with an icy aldehydic sparkle and a soft musky-woody base.
Concept
Nutmeg grated over hot milk on a snowy night. Warm spice made cold: nutmeg and a little clove over milky lactones, a sparkle of aldehyde, pale woods, white musks and a little vanilla.
- Family. Spicy — Cold spice, milky
- Main accords. Nutmeg, Hot milk, Cold aldehydes, White musk, Pale woods
- Intended for. Feminine, Winter, Evening, Mature
- Season and occasion. Winter
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Sweet orange, distilled lime, pink pepper and cardamom with cold aldehydes.
- Heart. Nutmeg oil and CO2, a trace of clove, milk lactone, methyl laitone, decalactone and heliotropin.
- Base. Habanolide, isoambrettolide, muscone and cosmone over sandalwood oils, Javanol, amyris, Himalayan cedar, cedrol and benzoin.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Habanolide | 90.00 | — | 9.00% |
| Amyris Oil | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Australian Sandalwood Oil | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Benzyl Salicylate | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Isoambrettolide | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Benzoin Resinoid (Siam) | 57.00 | — | 5.70% |
| Cedarwood Oil (Himalayan)As written: Deodar cedarwood oil | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Linalool | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Cedrol | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| JavanolAs written: Javanol 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Milk LactoneAs written: Milk Lactone 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Sandalwood Oil (Santalum album) | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Sweet Orange Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Vanillin | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Heliotropin | 25.00 | — | 2.50% |
| Rose Acetate | 25.00 | — | 2.50% |
| Aldehyde C-11 Undecylenic (10-Undecenal)As written: Aldehyde C-11 Undecylenic (10-Undecenal) 10% DPG | 25.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.50% |
| Cosmone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Lime Oil (Distilled)As written: Distilled lime oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Methyl LaitoneAs written: Methyl Laitone 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Nerolidol | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Cardamom Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Cetalox | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Coumarin | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| delta-Decalactone | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Ho Leaf Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Muscone | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Pink Pepper Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Tonka Bean Absolute | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Nutmeg Oil | 12.00 | — | 1.20% |
| Aldehyde C-12 Lauric (Dodecanal)As written: Aldehyde C-12 Lauric (Dodecanal) 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Jasmine Sambac Absolute | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Aldehyde C-12 MNAAs written: Aldehyde C-12 MNA 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Orris Butter (Orris Concrete) | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| gamma-Octalactone | 5.00 | — | 0.50% |
| Orange Flower Absolute | 5.00 | — | 0.50% |
| Clove Bud Oil | 3.00 | — | 0.30% |
| Nutmeg CO2 Extract | 3.00 | — | 0.30% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Habanolide, Australian Sandalwood Oil, Nutmeg Oil, Isoambrettolide, Milk Lactone
- What makes it distinctive. A winter spice that is cold and milky rather than hot and festive.
- Character. Comforting, elegant and unusual.
- Concentration. 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: Benzyl Salicylate (Restriction: Benzyl salicylate, Amendment 49); Linalool (Specification: Linalool, Amendment 38); Coumarin (Restriction: Coumarin, Amendment 49); Jasmine Sambac Absolute (Restriction: Jasmine absolute (sambac), Amendment 49).
- Skin sensitisation. EU-labelled fragrance allergens present as ingredients: Benzyl salicylate, Coumarin, Linalool. 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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