AMBRINOL 95 (IFF)

This is the chemical you will want if you are REALLY needing to impart an oceanic, marine "sea" note to your blend. It is not, I don't think, an intimate animalic musk smell, so much as it is an "environmental" note, smelling untamed, poignant and wild as the ocean itself. This is by no means a calone-like, melon-like trendy men's aftershave marine note; rather it smells cold, untamed, briny, mineralic, wet and wild... like a salt-laden wind, far out upon a northern clime sea. I picture being on a craggy coast in Ireland or Scotland or Maine. The woody, tobacco-like notes suggest sea vegetation. There is never a "fish" quality at all. A curious lime-peel quality is afoot, not dissimilar to frankincense. I suspect you'd never want this chemical as a focal note, but blended skillfully with citrus, tropical fruit, balsams, dark florals, animalics and patchouly, it will bestow a bracingly outdoorsy, pleasantly moody, environmental wildness. It will never give you a cozy, sedate, indoorsy library quality-- this is Jack London or Herman Melville, far out upon a blustery jade-green sea. Emotion-arousing.