Ingredients · Musks · dry-down

Musk tibetene

Say itMusk TIB-uh-teen

Sweet, powdery nitro musk.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

Where it comes from

a dinitro trimethyl tert-butylbenzene

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Minor historic nitro musk; no longer used.

Rules

Not allowed. Prohibited in EU cosmetics (Annex II).

Also called

1-tert-Butyl-3,4,5-trimethyl-2,6-dinitrobenzene