In short
Dry, mineral, smoky frankincense with a waxy candle note and a dusty cedar-iris base.
Concept
A Romanesque nave in winter: cold limestone, candles just snuffed out, frankincense ground into the floor over centuries. Austere, grey and still — nothing sweet, nothing bright.
- Family. Incense — Cold church incense
- Main accords. Cold limestone, Frankincense, Snuffed candle, Dust
- Intended for. Gender-neutral, Luxury niche, Mature, Contemplative
- Season and occasion. Winter
- Collection. RUŌOD House Originals
How it develops
- Opening. Elemi, black pepper and MNA aldehyde with a cool fenchyl acetate.
- Heart. Olibanum resinoid, frankincense oil and absolute, myrrh, beeswax and a waxy ester.
- Base. Iso E Super, cedrol, cypriol, vetiver, spirambrene, ambroxan and iris over cosmone and Velvione.
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 | 130.00 | — | 13.00% |
| Iso E Super | 100.00 | — | 10.00% |
| Cedrol | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Frankincense Oil (Olibanum) | 60.00 | — | 6.00% |
| Amyris Oil | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Exaltolide | 50.00 | — | 5.00% |
| Cedarwood Oil (Atlas)As written: Cedrus atlantica oil | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Copaiba Balsam | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Aldehyde C-12 MNAAs written: Aldehyde C-12 MNA 10% DPG | 40.00 | 10% in DPG | 4.00% |
| Spirambrene | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Velvione | 40.00 | — | 4.00% |
| Ambroxan | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Dihydromyrcenol | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Elemi Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Frankincense Absolute | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Labdanum Resinoid | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Vetiver Oil | 30.00 | — | 3.00% |
| Cypriol Oil (Nagarmotha) | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Fenchyl Acetate | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| GuaiacolAs written: Guaiacol 1% DPG | 20.00 | 1% in DPG | 2.00% |
| alpha-Irone | 20.00 | — | 2.00% |
| Cosmone | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Ethyl Undecylenate | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Methyl Atrarate | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Myrrh Oil | 15.00 | — | 1.50% |
| Beeswax Absolute | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Black Pepper Oil | 10.00 | — | 1.00% |
| Cade Oil (Rectified)As written: Juniper tar 10% DPG | 10.00 | 10% in DPG | 1.00% |
| Total | 1000.00 parts | 100.00% |
Every material links to its page in the Material Encyclopedia.
Composition notes
- Key materials. Olibanum Resinoid Vulcain, Iso E Super, Frankincense Oil (Olibanum), Cedrol, Exaltolide
- What makes it distinctive. Incense defined by cold stone and dust rather than by sweet resins or citrus.
- Character. Meditative and refined.
- 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 3 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); Exaltolide (Restriction: Cyclopentadecanolide, Amendment 49); Cade Oil (Rectified) (Cade oil, Amendment 47).
- Skin sensitisation. None of the EU’s long-standing named fragrance allergens is an ingredient in its own right. 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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