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The sea notes take some time to reveal themselves—you’ll first notice smoky styrax and rich oud, which gives the fragrance an earthy and almost gasoline-like aroma.
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Emily Orofino, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2025
At the base, the fragrance is rounded out by sweet vanilla bean, smoky tobacco leaf absolute, and woody styrax resin.
—Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
Part of the Heritage collection, the new woodsy-fresh Aventus Cologne combines base notes of styrax, birch, musk and tonka bean to bring out your inner emperor. $325 for 50 milliliters.
—Kevin Smothers, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
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Emily Orofino, Vogue, 5 Mar. 2025
At the base, the fragrance is rounded out by sweet vanilla bean, smoky tobacco leaf absolute, and woody styrax resin.
—Dallas News, 30 Nov. 2022
Part of the Heritage collection, the new woodsy-fresh Aventus Cologne combines base notes of styrax, birch, musk and tonka bean to bring out your inner emperor. $325 for 50 milliliters.
—Kevin Smothers, latimes.com, 6 June 2019
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“Styrax.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/styrax. Accessed 15 May. 2025.
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styrax
noun
sty·rax
ˈstī-ˌraks 
1
: storax
2
capitalized
: a large genus (the type genus of the family Styracaceae) of shrubs and trees including forms yielding commercially important resins (as benzoin)
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