Ingredients · Sea & water · heart note

Calone

Say itKAL-ohn

Watermelon rind, sea spray, oyster shell; cool and airy.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Pfizer in 1966.

When you smell it

Heart: the first hours.

What perfumers do with it

The founding 'sea breeze' molecule of 1990s aquatics; at traces it lifts and freshens florals

Worth knowing

Found by Pfizer chemists during tranquilizer research; the name is a company code: Camilli, Albert & Laloue plus ketONE.

Known in

Escape (Calvin Klein, 1991); L'Eau d'Issey (Issey Miyake, 1992)

Also called

Calone 1951 (Firmenich trade name); watermelon ketone; methylbenzodioxepinone