LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY FOR
                        SECTION 16 REPORTING OBLIGATIONS

        Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby makes,
constitutes and appoints each Charles Osborne and Eileen Pruette as the
undersigned's true and lawful attorney-in-fact, with full power and authority as
hereinafter described on behalf of and in the name, place and stead of the
undersigned to:

        (1)     prepare, execute, acknowledge, deliver and file Forms 3, 4, and
        5 (including any amendments thereto) with respect to the securities of
        Scynexis, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), with the SEC,
        any national securities exchanges and the Company, as considered
        necessary or advisable under Section 16(a) of the Exchange Act and the
        rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to
        time;

        (2)     seek or obtain, as the undersigned's representative and on the
        undersigned's behalf, information on transactions in the Company's
        securities from any third party, including brokers, employee benefit
        plan administrators and trustees, and the undersigned hereby authorizes
        any such person to release any such information to the undersigned and
        approves and ratifies any such release of information; and

        (3)     perform any and all other acts which in the discretion of each
        such attorney-in-fact are necessary or desirable for and on behalf of
        the undersigned in connection with the foregoing.

        The undersigned acknowledges that:

        (1)     this Limited Power of Attorney authorizes, but does not require,
        each such attorney-in-fact to act in their discretion on information
        provided to each such attorney-in-fact without independent verification
        of such information;

        (2)     any documents prepared and/or executed by each such
        attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Limited
        Power of Attorney will be in such form and will contain such information
        and disclosure as each such attorney-in-fact, in his or her discretion,
        deems necessary or desirable;

        (3)     neither the Company nor such attorneys-in-fact assumes (i) any
        liability for the undersigned's responsibility to comply with the
        requirement of the Exchange Act, (ii) any liability of the undersigned
        for any failure to comply with such requirements, or (iii) any
        obligation or liability of the undersigned for profit disgorgement under
        Section 16(b) of the Exchange Act; and

        (4)     this Limited Power of Attorney does not relieve the undersigned
        from responsibility for compliance with the undersigned's obligations
        under the Exchange Act, including without limitation the reporting
        requirements under Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

        The undersigned hereby gives and grants the foregoing attorneys-in-fact
full power and authority to do and perform all and every act and thing
whatsoever requisite, necessary or appropriate to be done in and about the
foregoing matters as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might
or could do if present, hereby ratifying all that each such attorney-in-fact of,
for and on behalf of the undersigned, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by
virtue of this Limited Power of Attorney.

        This Limited Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect
until revoked by the undersigned in a signed writing delivered to each such
attorney-in-fact.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Limited Power of
Attorney to be executed as of this 27th day of March, 2014.

                                        /s/ Mounia Chaoui
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                                        Mounia Chaoui, Ph.D.