Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.

Azurone

Ingredients · Sea & water · dry-down

Azurone

Say itAZH-uh-rohn

Intense, diffusive sea air with an aldehydic marine edge.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Far stronger than Calone; a trace pushes a marine note across a room
Worth knowing
Fragrantica reports Sécrétions Magnifiques uses just 0.025% of it, and the sea note still dominates.
Known in
Sécrétions Magnifiques (État Libre d'Orange, 2006)
Also called
7-(3-methylbutyl)-1,5-benzodioxepin-3-one

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.