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Ingredients · Earth & moss · dry-down
Geosmin
Say itjee-OZ-min
Petrichor: wet soil after rain, beetroot, muddy and mineral-earthy.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- perfumery grade is synthesised
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Trace-only accent giving rain-on-earth realism to vetiver, patchouli and green-earthy accords.
- Worth knowing
- Human noses detect it at about five parts per trillion, a sensitivity that may have evolved to help find water.
- Also called
- trans-1,10-dimethyl-trans-9-decalol; 'earth smell' molecule
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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