Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.

l-Muscone

Ingredients · Musks · dry-down

l-Muscone

Say itLEE-voh-MUS-kohn

Richer, more animalic and fur-like than racemic muscone.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
Luxury musk for deep, natural deer-musk effects and outstanding fixation.
Worth knowing
It is the same mirror-image form of muscone that the musk deer itself produces.
Also called
Muscone Laevo (dsm-firmenich); (R)-(−)-muscone

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.