Why is real oakmoss so restricted?

The oakmoss page goes through it and it's two sets of rules, the EU law on one side and the industry's own standards on the other, and the EU banned two of its natural components, atranol and chloroatranol, from cosmetics.

maeve.moss wrote:

the industry's own standards

Who writes those?

That's IFRA, the International Fragrance Association: their page on how the IFRA Standards work says a standard is a ban, a cap on how much you can use, or a purity rule. We had the same with dyes at the factory, you should have seen the paperwork.

So the old mossy ones my da wore don't smell the same now?

The oakmoss page says many scents have been reformulated because of it. We get old bottles in the shop that smell darker and mossier than anything new I've smelled.

Studio notes: it's like the old glazes my teacher won't let near the kiln anymore. Lovely color, but you learn to get there another way. Anyone else?

ambrose_leather wrote:

a ban, a cap on how much you can use, or a purity rule

That helps. So the two components are simply out, and the rest of the oakmoss is capped?

Here's a thing. That's how I read the page and I'd not swear to the detail, only that it's highly restricted. The Osmothèque is the other side of it: their page on the collection says a lost perfume isn't remade if a raw material is missing.

Kia ora, learning heaps here. I thought moss was just moss, turns out it's a whole saga.

Went out and smelled the lichen on our white oak after all this. Damp, a little sharp, like a cellar step. I'll leave it on the branch.