In short
A bright, dewy rose that turns grey and dry: rose petals, pepper and pencil lead over a pale smoky wood.
Concept
A rose drawn in pencil. The Glass Rose accord gives a cold, metallic flower; pink and black pepper, cedar shavings and vetiveryl acetate give the graphite; a thread of birch tar and suede is the smudge left by the side of the hand.
- Family. Floral — Metallic rose, woody
- Main accords. Metallic rose, Graphite woods, Pepper, Faint smoke
- Intended for. Gender-neutral, Evening, Luxury niche
- Season and occasion. All year; best in cool weather
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals · one of the RUŌOD House Creations
How it develops
- Opening. Pink pepper, black pepper and the cold geranium-metal of rose oxide.
- Heart. Glass Rose with Rosa damascena absolute and a violet-ionone softness.
- Base. Cedar, cedrol and vetiveryl acetate, guaiac and cypriol smoke, a suede-birch shadow and patchouli.
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 | 150.00 | — | 15.00% |
| Citronellol | 84.00 | — | 8.40% |
| Phenylethyl Alcohol | 83.60 | — | 8.36% |
| Habanolide | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Cedarwood Oil (Virginia)As written: Virginian cedarwood oil | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Cedrol | 55.00 | — | 5.50% |
| Tetrahydrogeraniol | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Vetiveryl Acetate | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Guaiac Wood Oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Patchouli Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Pink Pepper Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Rose Acetate | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Phenoxanol | 26.40 | — | 2.64% |
| alpha-Ionone | 25.00 | — | 2.50% |
| Rose Absolute (Rosa damascena)As written: Bulgarian rose absolute | 25.00 | — | 2.50% |
| Suederal | 25.00 | — | 2.50% |
| Cypriol Oil (Nagarmotha) | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Elemi Oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Geranium Oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Muscenone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Geraniol | 17.60 | — | 1.76% |
| Birch Tar Oil (Rectified)As written: Birch Tar Oil (Rectified) 10% DPG | 15.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.50% |
| Black Pepper Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Rosaphen | 11.00 | — | 1.10% |
| Rose OxideAs written: Rose Oxide 10% DPG | 8.80 | 10% in DPG | 0.88% |
| Citronellyl NitrileAs written: Citronellyl Nitrile 10% DPG | 6.60 | 10% in DPG | 0.66% |
| OzofleurAs written: Ozofleur 10% DPG | 6.60 | 10% in DPG | 0.66% |
| Diphenyl Oxide | 4.40 | — | 0.44% |
| Aldehyde C-12 Lauric (Dodecanal)As written: Aldehyde C-12 Lauric (Dodecanal) 10% DPG | 4.40 | 10% in DPG | 0.44% |
| Aldehyde C-9 (Nonanal)As written: Aldehyde C-9 (Nonanal) 10% DPG | 4.40 | 10% in DPG | 0.44% |
| beta-DamascenoneAs written: beta-Damascenone 10% DPG | 2.20 | 10% in DPG | 0.22% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Accords inside. This formula contains Glass Rose 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), Rose Absolute (Rosa damascena), Vetiveryl Acetate, Citronellol
- What makes it distinctive. Brightness against darkness: a transparent rose set against dry graphite woods rather than the usual oud or patchouli-chocolate.
- Character. Unisex and contemporary, with a clear rose identity and a long, dry woody tail.
- Concentration. 15–18% (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); Citronellol (Restriction: Citronellol, Amendment 49); Vetiveryl Acetate (Restriction: Acetylated Vetiver oil, Amendment 49); Geraniol (Restriction: Geraniol, Amendment 51); Birch Tar Oil (Rectified) (Birch wood pyrolysate, Amendment 47); beta-Damascenone (Restriction: Rose ketones, Amendment 49).
- Skin sensitisation. EU-labelled fragrance allergens present as ingredients: Citronellol, Geraniol. 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.
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