Note
Birch Tar
Birch tar smells intensely smoky and leathery, like charred bark with a sharp phenolic edge. Used sparingly, it adds persistent leather and smoke effects to the base alongside woods, resins, and tobacco notes.
In 30 perfumes. Usually found in the drydown.
- Opening
- 17%
- Heart
- 17%
- Drydown
- 67%
Most popular with birch tar
The best-known perfumes carrying it anywhere in the pyramid.
Oud Ulya
Amouage
Opus XIV Royal Tobacco
Amouage
Dubai Jade
Bond No 9
Domus Numeni
Toskovat'
Fôm
Lorenzo Pazzaglia
Terror & Magnificence
BeauFort London
Coeur De Noir
BeauFort London
Tobacco Of The Royals 14
The Dua Brand
Leather For Falcon
The Dua Brand
Maximum Oud 2020
The Dua Brand
Dolce = Sweet
The Dua Brand
Oud Of Ulya
The Dua Brand
Poseidon’s Citron Wood
The Dua Brand
Timeless Cologne
The Dua Brand
Often paired with
Notes that show up next to birch tar more often than chance would predict.
How it reads
Woody and sweet above all. Reaches for smoky, leather and balsamic far more often than the catalogue as a whole.
- woody
- sweet
- balsamic
- fruity
- smoky
- leather
- animalic
- citrus