Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Citrus · top note
Dihydromyrcenol
Say itdye-hye-droh-MUR-suh-nawl
Fresh, metallic lime-lavender with a clean, soapy citrus freshness.
- What it is
- A molecule made from a natural raw material.
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- The 'fresh' in 1980s–90s masculines; clean citrus-lavender power at high doses, cheap and stable.
- Worth knowing
- Critic Chandler Burr reports Cool Water contains about 20% dihydromyrcenol and Drakkar Noir about 10%.
- Known in
- Drakkar Noir (Guy Laroche, 1982); Cool Water (Davidoff, 1988)
- Also called
- 2,6-Dimethyl-7-octen-2-ol; DHM
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.