Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Florals · top note
Rose oxide
Sharp, green-metallic rose-geranium with lychee-like fruitiness.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab, first made by Firmenich in 1959.
- When you smell it
- Top notes: the first minutes.
- What perfumers do with it
- Tiny doses give rose and geranium accords a fresh, green, dewy-metallic opening.
- Worth knowing
- It also flavours lychee and Gewürztraminer wine; only one of its four forms carries the true rose smell.
- Known in
- Comme des Garçons 3 (Comme des Garçons, 2001)
- Also called
- cis-Rose oxide; tetrahydro-4-methyl-2-(2-methylpropenyl)pyran
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.