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Driftwood™ (Mane)

A base — a blend, so no CAS number  ·  Synthetic  ·  Base note  ·  Salty amber wood

Impact

5 of 10

Working dilution

Neat or 10% both are common on the bench
Woody 50%Amber 25%Ambergris 17%Aquatic 8%
driftwood 50%amber 25%salty 17%marine 8%

What does Driftwood smell like?

Mane describes a sophisticated, salty and woody profile with luminous ambery nuances, inspired by sun-bleached wood and built around the Ambramone captive; the supplier reads the same material as a soft cedar quality with the faintest hint of suede and ambergris, and Mane's own trade copy calls it an ambery woody note with salty and marine facets reminiscent of white woods. It carries over 44 hours on a smelling strip. Used in overdose it is an elegant wood note in place of common bases such as Vertofix or Iso E Super; in small amounts it nuances a formula, and blending it with green or fruity notes pushes those facets forward. It contains nothing harsh, which is what lets it be dosed heavily as a foundational wood.

woodydryamberwarmdiffusivetenacious

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What else is Driftwood called?

M_0063658

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What can replace Driftwood?

Computed, not collected from forums. A pair covers together what one cannot. The number is how much of this material's character a bottle carries, not a promise that it is the same thing.

  • Ambramone 51% + Absolute Ambergris 49%
    carries amber, Cedar woody, Salty ambergris, Marine ambergris. Driftwood woody; Salty aquatic; Ambramone brings the amber side (51%); Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (49%)
    66%
  • Verdenix 10% + Absolute Ambergris 45% + Ambramone 45%
    carries amber, Cedar woody, Salty ambergris, Marine ambergris. Driftwood woody; Salty aquatic; Verdenix brings the Cedar woody side (10%); Absolute Ambergris brings the Salty ambergris side (45%); Ambramone brings the amber side (45%)
    66%
  • Ambramone 47% + Ambergris Tincture 53%
    carries amber, Cedar woody, Salty ambergris, Marine ambergris. Driftwood woody; Salty aquatic; Ambramone brings the amber side (47%); Ambergris Tincture brings the Salty ambergris side (53%); a natural standing in for a molecule: it brings more than the note you are replacing
    60%

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Which materials are closest to Driftwood?

Ranked by shared olfactive sub-categories, not alphabetically.

How much does PerfuMate know about one material?

Counted from the file the app ships, the moment this page was built.

Driftwood

A written odor description
yes
Olfactive families, in dominance order
4
Sub-categories under them
4
Impact, out of 10
5
Hours on a blotter
estimated from family and band
CAS number
not on file
Supplier and trade synonyms
1
Constituent breakdown
not on file

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Described in words
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Impact rating out of 10
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Classified into an olfactive family
2,172
Carrying several families, in order
2,070
Sub-category assignments
9,899 across 229 pairs
A top / heart / base band
2,157
Hours on a blotter
898
CAS number
1,642
Supplier synonyms
5,888 names
Constituent breakdowns
739

Every regulatory join - IFRA, GHS, allergens - is by CAS number, and a material can supply one through its constituents as well as its own row, so of the 569 materials carrying no CAS number the 244 without a constituent table are the ones that return "nothing known" rather than "nothing applies". The blotter hours are sourced rather than measured by us, and the app labels every one of them an estimate. There is no physical chemistry on a row: no molecular weight, no vapour pressure, no boiling point. The longer answer, or the whole catalog counted.