Ingredients · Musks · dry-down

Habanolide

Say ithuh-BAN-uh-lyde

Clean, radiant musk with a hot-iron metallic edge and orange-blossom nuance.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Firmenich in 1969.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Radiant musk for freshness and diffusion in white florals, ambers and marine fragrances.

Worth knowing

Its orange-blossom facet needs several weeks of maceration in the finished perfume to fully appear.

Also called

Globalide (Symrise); oxacyclohexadec-12-en-2-one