Woody familyBase note
Cedar
Cedar is a base note from the woody family: the dry, sharp, pencil-shaving wood that gives most modern woody scents their clean backbone.
- 01Family
- Woody
- 02Pyramid
- Base
- 03Best seasons
- Autumn, Winter
- 04Type
- Note
What does cedar smell like?
Cedar: the dry, sharp, pencil-shaving wood that gives most modern woody scents their clean backbone.
From our page: Woody fragrance familyIs cedar a top, heart or base note?
Cedar is a base note.
- Top15 minutes to 2 hours
- HeartHour 1 to hour 5
- Base4 to 12+ hours
Woods almost always sit in the base of a composition rather than the heart, so the family is defined less by a loud opening than by how it settles after the first hour.
From our page: Woody fragrance familyBase notes are the memory: they are what lingers on a coat hours after you took it off.
From our page: Top, Middle, Base: How the Notes Pyramid Actually WorksWhat does cedar pair with?
Iso E Super, a widely used synthetic molecule, has a soft, woody, ambery, slightly cedar-like character.
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