Ambrocenide

What Ambrocenide smells like

Ambrocenide (Symrise) is ambery and woody in Symrise's data sheet, lending power to woody and ambery accords. Vendors describe a radiant, dry, ambergris-like character with musky-woody facets; a dense, dry material with a mineral quality, sometimes compared to oud; or a very sharp, dry woody scent with ambergris and subtle smoky agarwood and musky facets. Descriptions vary between sources.

Leading note

Dry ambergris-wood

Supporting facets

Mineral, musky

Faint facets

Smoky, oud-like

Character

Powerful, dry, sharp, radiant

• amber
• woody
• dry
• powerful

What makes Ambrocenide distinctive

A sharp, mineral ambergris with an oud-like smoky edge — power for woody ambers.

How Ambrocenide is used

Used in small amounts to add power to woody and ambery accords.

Typical role: modifier (used in small amounts to change the character of a blend); fixative (slow to evaporate; helps a blend last and holds lighter notes).

How Ambrocenide differs from similar materials

Ambroxan

Ambroxan is the cleaner, polished ambergris; Ambrocenide is sharper, more mineral and woody, with smoky facets.

Timberol

Timberol is drier and more powdery, sawdust-like; Ambrocenide is a sharper, mineral ambergris.

Agarwood Oil (Oud)*

Oud is the darker, animalic natural wood; Ambrocenide is a mineral ambergris sometimes compared to it. (compared directly by a cited source)

Amber Xtreme

Amber Xtreme, another trace-level woody-amber, is described as drier, with a musky, slightly animalic undertone.

An asterisk marks a difference that a cited source states directly. The others compare the published descriptions of each material. Smell varies with grade, supplier and dilution; compare them side by side on blotters before substituting one for another.

Formulation considerations

Extremely strong; dose from dilution. A solid.

Identity and classification

Type

Aroma chemical

Origin

Synthetic

Odour family

Amber / Woody

Note position

Base note

Physical form at room temperature

Solid

CAS number

211299-54-6

Molecular formula

C18H30O2

Molecular weight

278.4 g/mol

IUPAC name

(1R,8R,10S,13R)-5,5,7,9,9,13-hexamethyl-4,6-dioxatetracyclo[6.5.1.01,10.03,7]tetradecane

The CAS number, formula and molecular weight are taken from PubChem compound 66731260, whose own record lists this CAS number; checked 19 October 2026.

Safety and compliance

Hazard classification of the neat substance, as PubChem summarises it, read 26 October 2026. Companies notifying the ECHA C&L Inventory classify it (93 reports): H315 causes skin irritation (100% of reports); H319 causes serious eye irritation (55.9% of reports). Unless it is harmonised, this is the notifiers' own classification, not a binding one.

This page is general information, not a safety assessment or a specification. Confirm identity, composition, IFRA status and allergen content from your supplier's documents for the lot you hold.

Materials it works with

• Ambroxan

  Aroma chemical · Amber / Woody — amber, ambergris, woody, mineral

• Iso E Super

  Aroma chemical · Woody / Amber — woody, velvety, amber, cedar

• Cedramber

  Aroma chemical · Woody / Amber — woody, amber, dry, cedar

Used in formulas and accords

Used in 17 published formulas

Ambrocenide is an ingredient in 11 perfume formulas and 6 accords in the Formula & Accord Library.

Community formulas

• Dragon Fruit Accord

  Community Formula · Accord · listed as “Ambrocenide (211299-54-6)”

• Freesia Accord

  Community Formula · Accord

• Paper Accord

  Community Formula · Accord · listed as “Ambrocenide 10%”, at 10%

• Sea Salt Accord

  Community Formula · Accord · listed as “Ambrocenide (211299-54-6)”

• Solar Accord

  Community Formula · Accord · listed as “Ambrocenide (211299-54-6)”

RUŌOD House Originals

Original compositions by RUŌOD House.

• Agar Lantern

  RUŌOD House Creation · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Black Pepper Sail

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Bleached Driftwood

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Bracken Moon

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Ember Tea House

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Iron Rain

  RUŌOD House Creation · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Juniper Chapel

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Pith & Pepper

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Slate Chypre

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Snowlight Amber

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Tea Ember Accord

  RUŌOD House Accord · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

• Tuberose Under Neon

  RUŌOD House Original · listed as “Ambrocenide 10% DPG”, at 10% in DPG

Further reading

• Building an Amber Accord: Labdanum, Balsams and Vanilla

  What amber means in perfumery (not ambergris, not fossil amber), its building blocks, an illustrative accord, and practical issues of color and sweetness.

Questions about Ambrocenide

Sources

• PubChem — compound 66731260, checked 19 October 2026.
• PubChem — GHS classification (the ECHA C&L Inventory notifications and any harmonised EU entry), read 26 October 2026.
• Symrise — Ambrocenide crystals (data sheet) — manufacturer's description.
• Scentspiracy — Ambrocenide crystals — distributor's description.
• Bioshop — Ambrocenide — distributor's description.
• Olfactory profile: the RUŌOD Lab team's synthesis of the published descriptions above, reviewed 24 October 2026. Evidence: more than one published description. Classification and the short description: revision 1. Descriptions of odour are judgement, not measurement.