Synthetics
Kohinool (iff) smells like a dry, woody amber.
Luebke, William tgsc, (1991): Woody amber dry fatty soapy raisin
IFF: Exquisite floral, woody odor with dry, ambery, vetivert and raisin nuances
Taytonn ASCC: Amber/ ambery, dry, floral, raisin, vetivert, woody
Pell Wall Perfumes: Woody, amber, dry, floral, vetiver
An exceptionally high quality woody-amber material with floral aspects and great potential for blending. here’s arcadi boix camps writing in 1999: kohinool “has a woody, floral, amber note with an unsurpassable beauty that combines extrememly well with ISO e super, making what i believe is a dream accord. in the past i used to say that nothing was comparable to vetyveryl acetate or vetyverol, but, upon seeing mixtures of ISO e super, kohinool, cedroxyde, nor limbanol, boisanol, trimofix and amber ketal, my mind changed. they are as great as the previously mentioned old and classical products. the best well-known use of kohinool is herrera for men (around 5%).”
Lluch Essence: Exquisite floral, woody odor with dry, ambery, vetivert and raisin nuances
Perfumery Laboratory: Exquisite floral, woody, dry, amber, vetiver with a touch of raisin