Ingredients · Musks · dry-down
Musk ketone
Say itMusk KEE-tohn
Sweet, powdery, warm animalic musk; the closest nitro musk to deer musk.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- a dinitro acetophenone derivative
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Classic powdery-musk fixative still used, within limits, in traditional and vintage-style formulas.
- Worth knowing
- It is the only nitro musk still legally used in EU perfumery, at capped levels.
- Rules
- Limited. EU and IFRA caps; musk xylene impurity must stay under 0.1%.
- Also called
- 4-tert-Butyl-2,6-dimethyl-3,5-dinitroacetophenone
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.