In short
It opens on roasted, buttery popcorn and orange, then becomes salted caramel and vanilla over clean musk.
Concept
Popcorn at an open-air cinema: roasted corn and butter, salted caramel, warm vanilla — and the cool night air around it, given by a clean musk and a mineral salt. A playful gourmand that is savoury before it is sweet.
- Family. Gourmand — Salted caramel, roasted
- Main accords. Buttered popcorn, Salted caramel, Vanilla, Night air
- Intended for. Gender-neutral, Youthful, Everyday, Date night
- Season and occasion. All year
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Mandarin and sweet orange with acetylpyrazine popcorn and butter.
- Heart. Ethyl maltol caramel, cyclotene, lactones and a salt-mineral maritima note.
- Base. Vanillin, ethyl vanillin, benzoin, tonka and heliotropin over clean 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ethyl MaltolAs written: Ethyl Maltol 10% DPG | 100.00 | 10% in DPG | 10.00% |
| Benzyl Salicylate | 90.00 | — | 9.00% |
| Galaxolide | 80.00 | — | 8.00% |
| Benzoin Resinoid (Siam) | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Mandarin Oil | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Sandalore | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Ethylene Brassylate | 55.00 | — | 5.50% |
| Vanillin | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Habanolide | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Sweet Orange Oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| 2-AcetylpyrazineAs written: 2-Acetylpyrazine 1% DPG | 30.00 | 1% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Butter CO2 ExtractAs written: Butter CO2 Extract 10% DPG | 30.00 | 10% in DPG | 3.00% |
| Cyclohexyl Salicylate | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Heliotropin | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Linalool | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| 2-AcetylpyridineAs written: 2-Acetylpyridine 1% DPG | 20.00 | 1% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Ambroxan | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Cashmeran | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Coumarin | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| CycloteneAs written: Cyclotene 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| delta-Decalactone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| gamma-Nonalactone (Aldehyde C-18)As written: gamma-Nonalactone (Aldehyde C-18) 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| 5-HydroxymethylfurfuralAs written: 5-Hydroxymethylfurfural 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| MaritimaAs written: Maritima 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Tonka Bean Absolute | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Ethyl Vanillin | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Ethyl Maltol, Galaxolide, Vanillin, Benzoin Resinoid (Siam), Benzyl Salicylate
- What makes it distinctive. The roasted, savoury pyrazine-butter opening — rare in fine fragrance — sets it apart from cotton-candy gourmands.
- Character. Fun, memorable and immediately legible.
- 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 5 of its materials: Benzyl Salicylate (Restriction: Benzyl salicylate, Amendment 49); Sandalore (Restriction: 5-(2,2,3-Trimethyl-3-cyclopentenyl)-3-methylpentan-2-ol, Amendment 49); Linalool (Specification: Linalool, Amendment 38); Cashmeran (Restriction: 6,7-Dihydro-1,1,2,3,3-pentamethyl-4(5H)-indanone (DPMI), Amendment 49); Coumarin (Restriction: Coumarin, 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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