Ingredients · Sea & water · heart note

Algenone

Say itAL-juh-nohn

Seaweed, wet sand, shells, faintly animal.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

Where it comes from

composition undisclosed

When you smell it

Heart: the first hours.

What perfumers do with it

Old-school, natural-feeling marine note with an iodine-seaweed character

Worth knowing

Often cited as one of the first marine bases, created before Calone existed.

Also called

Algenone SP / PB