The Character Archive
Guaiacwood
The Smoked Cathedral
Old wood warmed by fire, rose-tinged and slow to leave.
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Guaiacwood is the rarest kind of wood note — softly smoked, faintly rose-tinted, with a creamy almost tarry undertow. She smells like the inside of a beam after decades of woodsmoke and prayer.
A dense base note, she lends a violet-leather warmth that makes florals deeper and gourmands stranger.
- Role
- Smoky base note
- Smells like
- Soft smoke, dry rose, warm tar, polished wood
- Used in
- Velvet Sugar
- Pairs well with
- Rose, violet, labdanum, vanilla, tonka
