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Kohinool

A dry woody alcohol with a dried-fruit shadow.

Place in the wear
Base
What remains. Woods, resins, roots, musks.
Office
Blender
A quiet mass that lets the others sit together.
Family
Wood
Type
Synthetic (trade name)
CAS
87118-95-4
Origin
Synthetic, IFF trade name
Span
Stays in the drydown. A measured span on blotter and skin is not yet recorded.
Odor
Dry woody floral, ambery, a vetiver and raisin undertone
Also called
3,4,5,6,6-pentamethyl-2-heptanol, Tetramethyl-4-methylene-2-heptanol
IUPAC
3,4,5,6,6-pentamethylheptan-2-ol
Formula
C12H26O
Owner
IFF

Kohinool sits between wood and flower: dry and ambery at first, then a vetiver-like rootiness with a faint raisin sweetness underneath. It rounds sharp woody accords and gives florals a dry, fibrous floor without the weight of a full vetiver.

Kohinool is a synthetic material; PubChem gives its IUPAC name as 3,4,5,6,6-pentamethylheptan-2-ol. Formula C12H26O, molecular weight 186.33. The atlas files it under Wood; its office is blender and its place is the drydown.

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