Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Amber & resins · dry-down
Grisalva
Say itgrih-SAL-vuh
Strong ambergris: animalic, dry and leathery with a fresh metallic edge.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Adds a more animalic, leathery ambergris than Ambroxan; effective even in traces.
- Worth knowing
- Swapping one methyl group of ambroxide for an ethyl group gives this stronger, more animalic cousin.
- Also called
- Amber furan; ethyl analogue of ambroxide
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.