Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Florals · dry-down
Indole
Say itIN-dohl
Mothball-like and fecal neat; heady, narcotic white flower when diluted.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- natural in jasmine, orange blossom and narcissus
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- The narcotic, animalic heart of jasmine, orange-blossom and tuberose accords; used in traces.
- Worth knowing
- The same molecule scents both jasmine and human feces; concentration decides which you smell.
- Also called
- 2,3-Benzopyrrole
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.