Initio · 2016

Side Effect

VersionEau de Parfum

Initio says

You’ll smell cinnamon, rum, tobacco, saffron, sandalwood and Hedione.

The house’s page

The drawn Side Effect bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Side Effect’s scent picture, a draft: cinnamon, rum, tobacco, saffron, sandalwood, hedione drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Side Effect, top notes: Bergamot, Geranium, Lavender

Heartthe first hours

Side Effect, heart: cinnamon, rum, Hedione, Ylang-ylang, Rose

Dry-downhours later

Side Effect, dry-down: tobacco, saffron, Sandalwood, virginia-cedar, Patchouli, Cedar, Iso E Super, Vanillin, Galaxolide, Coumarin

On the label

What’s inside it

32 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

3 citrus4 herbs & lavender9 florals7 woods3 sweet4 spices1 musks1 powder

Citrus3

Bergamot oilLimoneneCitral

Herbs & lavender4

Lavender oilLinaloolLinalyl acetateTerpineol

Florals9

Geranium oilYlang-ylang oilRose oilCitronellolGeraniolRose ketonesGeranyl acetateFarnesolMethyl benzoate

Woods7

Cedarwood oilSandalwood oilPatchouli oilCedarwood oilSantalolIso E Super (pencil shavings)Vertofix

Sweet3

Vanillin (vanilla)Coumarin (tonka)Benzaldehyde

Spices4

Cinnamon bark oilEugenolCinnamalIsoeugenol

Musks1

Galaxolide (clean linen)

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Not in Ingredients yet7

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetTrimethylcyclopentenyl methylisopentenol, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetIsoeugenyl acetate, not in Ingredients yetBenzoic acid, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha-terpinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell4

AlcoholWaterBHT (keeps it fresh)Benzyl benzoate

Named by Initio, never on a label

Rum, not in Ingredients yetTobaccoSaffronHedione (jasmine)

The label, as printed on the house’s page

Wearers say

How far it carries

Perfumers call it sillage.

Close to the skin

An arm’s length

Across a room

Not researched yet. We gather wearers’ reports for the most popular perfumes first.

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Counted from the printed lists: 32 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.