Le Labo · 2017 · Daphné Bugey

Mousse de Chêne 30

VersionEau de Parfum

Le Labo says

You’ll smell moss, patchouli, crystal moss, clearwood, cinnamon, pimento bay oil and pink pepper.

The house’s page

The drawn Mousse de Chêne 30 bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Mousse de Chêne 30’s scent picture, a draft: oakmoss, patchouli, cinnamon, allspice, pink pepper, cedar drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Mousse de Chêne 30, top notes: Pink pepper, Sweet orange, Bergamot

Heartthe first hours

Mousse de Chêne 30, heart: cinnamon, allspice, clove

Dry-downhours later

Mousse de Chêne 30, dry-down: Oakmoss, Patchouli, Cedar, virginia-cedar, Iso E Super, Vanillin

On the label

What’s inside it

22 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

4 citrus3 herbs & lavender4 florals4 woods1 sweet4 spices1 powder1 earth & moss

Citrus4

LimoneneBitter orange oilBergamot oilCitral

Herbs & lavender3

LinaloolLinalyl acetateTerpineol

Florals4

HydroxycitronellalFarnesolGeranyl acetateRose ketones

Woods4

Cedarwood oilPatchouli oilCedarwood oilIso E Super (pencil shavings)

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Spices4

EugenolClove bud oilCinnamon bark oilCinnamal

Powder1

alpha-Isomethyl ionone (powder puff)

Earth & moss1

Oakmoss absolute

Not in Ingredients yet4

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

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

Named by Le Labo, never on a label

Pimento bay oilPink pepper

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

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Counted from the printed lists: 22 scent ingredients on this label. A shared name, not a shared smell.