Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Musks · dry-down
Phantolide
Say itFAN-tuh-lyde
Sweet, soft powdery musk.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Early polycyclic musk used for soft musky fixation; now rarely used.
- Worth knowing
- It reached the market before chemists had worked out its exact molecular structure.
- Also called
- AHMI; 5-acetyl-1,1,2,3,3,6-hexamethylindane
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.