Le Labo · 2006 · Maurice Roucel

Labdanum 18

VersionEau de Parfum

Le Labo says

You’ll smell ambery notes and musky notes.

The house’s page

The drawn Labdanum 18 bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Labdanum 18’s scent picture, a draft: musky notes, lemon, sweet orange, patchouli, oakmoss drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Labdanum 18, top notes: Lemon, Sweet orange

Heartthe first hours

Labdanum 18, heart: Musky notes

Dry-downhours later

Labdanum 18, dry-down: Patchouli, Oakmoss

On the label

What’s inside it

20 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

4 citrus4 herbs & lavender7 florals2 woods1 spices1 powder1 earth & moss

Citrus4

Lemon oilLimoneneBitter orange oilCitral

Herbs & lavender4

CamphorLinalyl acetateLinaloolTerpineol

Florals7

GeraniolCitronellolHydroxycitronellalGeranyl acetateAmyl cinnamalBenzyl salicylateHexyl cinnamal

Woods2

Patchouli oilVertofix

Spices1

Eugenol

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Earth & moss1

Oakmoss absolute

Not in Ingredients yet5

Pinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yetCarvone, not in Ingredients yetTerpinolene, not in Ingredients yetAlpha terpinene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell3

AlcoholWaterBenzyl benzoate

Named by Le Labo, never on a label

Musky notes, not in Ingredients yet

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: 20 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.