Le Labo · 2024

Osmanthus 19

VersionEau de Parfum

Le Labo says

You’ll smell incense, aromatic lavender, osmanthus flower and woody, resinous tonalities.

The house’s page

The drawn Osmanthus 19 bottle

Top notesthe first minutes

Heartthe first hours

Dry-downhours later

Osmanthus 19’s scent picture, a draft: frankincense, lavender, osmanthus, virginia-cedar, patchouli, galaxolide drawn so far; dashed outlines where nothing is drawn yet

Top notesthe first minutes

Osmanthus 19, top notes: Frankincense, Lavender

Dry-downhours later

Osmanthus 19, dry-down: osmanthus, virginia-cedar, Patchouli, Galaxolide, Vanillin

On the label

What’s inside it

10 scent ingredients on the label, familiar names first.

1 citrus5 herbs & lavender2 woods1 sweet1 musks

Citrus1

Limonene

Herbs & lavender5

Lavender oilCamphorLinaloolLinalyl acetateTerpineol

Woods2

Cedarwood oilPatchouli oil

Sweet1

Vanillin (vanilla)

Musks1

Galaxolide (clean linen)

Not in Ingredients yet3

Hexadecanolactone, not in Ingredients yetPinene, not in Ingredients yetBeta-caryophyllene, not in Ingredients yet

Not for the smell2

AlcoholWater

Named by Le Labo, never on a label

IncenseOsmanthus flower

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