Clearwood

Clearwood is a proprietary woody aromatic molecule developed by Symrise, one of the world's leading fragrance and flavour companies. Launched in the early 2010s, it was designed as a sustainable, high-performance woody ingredient — offering the warmth and smoothness of cedarwood with a cleaner, more modern character that integrates seamlessly into contemporary fragrance compositions. As a fragrance note, Clearwood is clean, warm, and cedar-like — with a smooth, slightly creamy woodiness that lacks the rough edges of natural cedar or the sharpness of some synthetic woods. Its profile is understated and refined: a dry, warm woody warmth that reads as natural and elegant, with excellent tenacity and a skin-like quality that makes it supremely wearable. It functions both as a standalone woody note and as a blender and fixative, enhancing and prolonging other woody, musky, and amber accords. It pairs naturally with musks, vetiver, sandalwood, ambers, and light florals. Clearwood has been rapidly adopted by perfumers worldwide for its exceptional versatility, naturalistic quality, and sustainability profile. It represents the best of modern aroma chemistry: precise, beautiful, and responsibly produced. At Fragrenza, our Clearwood note collections showcase the smooth, modern woody elegance this molecule delivers — offering high-quality, contemporary fragrance dupes at prices that make sophisticated woody perfumery accessible to all.

Often paired with these notes

Musk10 Sandalwood8 Bergamot7 Jasmine7 Patchouli7 lavender7 Mandarin7 Violet6 Freesia6 Geranium5 Pink pepper5 Cardamom5

Fragrances featuring this note

Clearwood

Often paired with these notes

Fragrances featuring this note

As heart note

Living Coral

As base note

Celebes Wood

Clean Reserve Avant Garden - Galbanum & Rain

Clean Reserve Avant Garden - Muguet & Skin

Clean Reserve Avant Garden - Nude Santal & Heliotrope

JV x NJ - John Varvatos x Nick Jonas (blue)

Man Glacial Essence

Integrity

pour Femme Dylan Turquoise

Authentic Man

Oscar Blue Velvet

Maritime Journey

Extreme Sky