In short
A soft, milky incense — warm, creamy and smoky — over sandalwood and gentle musk.
Concept
A monastery kitchen at dawn: a pan of milk warming on the stove beside the ashes of last night's incense. Creamy milk lactones and butter, a trace of rice, olibanum smoke and sandalwood, a little honey.
- Family. Incense — Milky incense
- Main accords. Warm milk, Olibanum smoke, Sandalwood, Honey
- Intended for. Masculine, Winter, Evening, Luxury niche
- Season and occasion. Winter
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Mandarin, yuzu and pink pepper with elemi and a little nutmeg.
- Heart. Milk lactone, methyl laitone, decalactone, butter CO2 and acetylpyrazine with honey and olibanum.
- Base. Olibanum resinoid, frankincense oil and absolute, guaiacol, syringol and cade over sandalwood oils, Javanol, Ebanol, Polysantol 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Olibanum Resinoid Vulcain | 90.00 | — | 9.00% |
| Hedione | 80.00 | — | 8.00% |
| Ambrettolide | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Australian Sandalwood Oil | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Benzoin Resinoid (Siam) | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Benzyl Salicylate | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Cyclohexyl Salicylate | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Isoambrettolide | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Linalool | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Milk LactoneAs written: Milk Lactone 10% DPG | 40.00 | 10% in DPG | 4.00% |
| Cedramber | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Frankincense Absolute | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Frankincense Oil (Olibanum) | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Mandarin Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Okoumal | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Sandalwood Oil (Santalum album) | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Methyl LaitoneAs written: Methyl Laitone 10% DPG | 25.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.50% |
| delta-Decalactone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| JavanolAs written: Javanol 10% DPG | 20.00 | 10% in DPG | 2.00% |
| Labdanum Absolute | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Muscenone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Yuzu Oil | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Butter CO2 ExtractAs written: Butter CO2 Extract 10% DPG | 15.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.50% |
| Ebanol | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Elemi Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Exaltone | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| GuaiacolAs written: Guaiacol 1% DPG | 15.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.50% |
| Phenylethyl Phenylacetate | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| SyringolAs written: Syringol 1% DPG | 15.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.50% |
| Vanillin Isobutyrate | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| 2-AcetylpyrazineAs written: 2-Acetylpyrazine 1% DPG | 10.00 | 1% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Cade Oil (Rectified)As written: Juniper tar 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Pink Pepper Oil | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Polysantol | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Nutmeg CO2 Extract | 5.00 | — | 0.50% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Olibanum Resinoid Vulcain, Hedione, Australian Sandalwood Oil, Ambrettolide, Milk Lactone
- What makes it distinctive. Incense paired with milk — softness against smoke — instead of with resins or citrus.
- Character. Comforting and contemplative.
- Concentration. 15–18%
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 4 of its materials: Benzyl Salicylate (Restriction: Benzyl salicylate, Amendment 49); Linalool (Specification: Linalool, Amendment 38); Cade Oil (Rectified) (Cade oil, Amendment 47); Polysantol (Restriction: 3,3-Dimethyl-5-(2,2,3-trimethyl-3-cyclopenten-1-yl)-4-penten-2-ol, Amendment 49).
- Skin sensitisation. EU-labelled fragrance allergens present as ingredients: Benzyl salicylate, 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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