What are the 3 most beautiful captives released in recent years?

[Geco]

I start:

Clearwood
Splendione
Symroxane (or hivernal neo? i'm in doubt...)

and in your experience?

[Fede Fratti]

old post but I agree !!!

[Agonhoun]

Akigalawood

[Bill Roberts]

Who is selling this?

Neither Vigon nor Ventos distribute it, that I can find.

[pkiler]

Cascalone is great to me...

[Bill Roberts]

I guess I only have three -- Edenolide, Clearwood, and Cascalone -- so can only say those three.

If I had Dreamwood Base than I might have to kick one of those out. (Though really Dreamwood itself is not so much a captive, as santalol itself in good purity is available elsewhere. The special thing is that it's an inexpensive santalol.)

EDIT: Wow, my memory is bad, I had seen the top post but forgot the details already. I do also have Hivernal Neo and Splendione but don't use either or at least not as yet, I can see they could have uses. But personally I was not inspired by either.

[mnitabach]

I have some splendione, too, and also have found it pretty uninspiring. It smells very faint to me & in limited testing haven't seen substantial impacts on blends.

[Kacper Kafel]

Clearwood was captive? I'm surprised.
But yes, cascalone and clearwood definately and edenolide.
Hivernal neo is not my favorite but is good for rubbery white flowers like narcissus ( but para-cresol and quaiacol is more potent rubberines for this).

[Bill Roberts]

I guess it depends on the definition of "captive."

It's not a particular molecule, and I am fairly sure there have been other biotechnology largely-patchoulol products, but I think Firmenich's process is particular to them.

Whether they were using it commercially in a proprietary way prior to releasing it for sale I don't know. If not, then certainly not a captive.