In short
Humid, earthy and green-woody, with a bitter citrus top and a soft musky-sandalwood finish.
Concept
A woodland after a downpour: soaked bark, exposed vetiver roots, crushed leaves and mushroom earth. Built almost entirely from the Wet Bark accord, with grapefruit and violet leaf to let light in.
- Family. Woody — Wet woods, earthy
- Main accords. Wet bark, Vetiver root, Crushed leaves, Grapefruit
- Intended for. Gender-neutral, Everyday, Luxury niche, Mature
- Season and occasion. Autumn
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Grapefruit and bergamot with violet leaf and galbanum.
- Heart. Wet Bark — cedar, vetiver, geosmin, octenol, calone — with cis-3-hexenyl salicylate and cypress.
- Base. Vetiver, patchouli and moss over Sandalore, ambrettolide and ambroxan.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| cis-3-Hexenyl Salicylate | 90.00 | — | 9.00% |
| Cedarwood Oil (Virginia)As written: Virginian cedarwood oil | 87.50 | — | 8.75% |
| Vetiver Oil | 82.00 | — | 8.20% |
| Iso E Super | 80.00 | — | 8.00% |
| Cedramber | 68.00 | — | 6.80% |
| Bergamot Oil FCF | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Grapefruit Oil (Expressed) | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Patchouli Oil | 48.00 | — | 4.80% |
| Ambrettolide | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Hexyl Salicylate | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Linalool | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Sandalore | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Amyris Oil | 35.00 | — | 3.50% |
| Cedryl Acetate | 35.00 | — | 3.50% |
| Cypress Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Guaiac Wood Oil | 21.00 | — | 2.10% |
| Methyl Atrarate | 20.50 | — | 2.05% |
| Ambroxan | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Violet Leaf AbsoluteAs written: Violet Leaf Absolute 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Clary Sage Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| cis-3-HexenolAs written: cis-3-Hexenol 10% DPG | 14.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.40% |
| Cypriol Oil (Nagarmotha) | 14.00 | — | 1.40% |
| Terrasol | 14.00 | — | 1.40% |
| CaloneAs written: Calone 1% DPG | 10.50 | 1% in DPG | 1.05% |
| Galbanum Oil | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| 1-Octen-3-olAs written: 1-Octen-3-ol 1% DPG | 7.00 | 1% in DPG | 0.70% |
| Angelica Root Oil | 5.00 | — | 0.50% |
| GeosminAs written: Geosmin 0.1% DPG | 3.50 | 0.1% in DPG | 0.35% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Accords inside. This formula contains Wet Bark Accord at 350 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, Vetiver Oil, Patchouli Oil, cis-3-Hexenyl Salicylate, Cedarwood Oil (Virginia)
- What makes it distinctive. A literal, slightly raw rain-forest smell — mushroom and wet soil included — that most woody perfumes avoid.
- Character. Atmospheric and natural-feeling, a quiet signature for people who dislike sweet perfumes.
- 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 6 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); Grapefruit Oil (Expressed) (Restriction: Grapefruit oil expressed, Amendment 49); Hexyl Salicylate (Restriction: Hexyl salicylate, Amendment 49); Linalool (Specification: Linalool, Amendment 38); Sandalore (Restriction: 5-(2,2,3-Trimethyl-3-cyclopentenyl)-3-methylpentan-2-ol, Amendment 49); Angelica Root Oil (Restriction: Angelica root oil, Amendment 49).
- Phototoxicity. Grapefruit Oil (Expressed), Angelica Root Oil are phototoxic; IFRA limits phototoxic materials in products left on skin exposed to sunlight.
- Skin sensitisation. EU-labelled fragrance allergens present as ingredients: 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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