Ingredients · Musks · dry-down

Nirvanolide

Say itnur-VAH-nuh-lyde

Musky with white-floral, jasmine-like and slightly metallic facets.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab, first made by Givaudan in 1997.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Among the most powerful musks; adds clean, floral-tinged musky volume and long tenacity.

Worth knowing

Its odor comes mainly from one of its two mirror-image forms, the R-enantiomer.

Known in

Bleu de Chanel (Chanel, 2010)

Also called

13-Methyl-oxacyclopentadec-10-en-2-one