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Safraleine

Ingredients · Spices · dry-down

Safraleine

Say itSAF-ruh-leen

Warm leathery saffron with tobacco, spice and a floral touch.

What it is
A molecule made in a lab.
Where it comes from
Givaudan specialty molecule
When you smell it
Dry-down: hours later.
What perfumers do with it
The go-to saffron-leather molecule of modern oud, leather and rose-spice perfumes.
Worth knowing
Givaudan rates it as lasting about a week on a smelling strip.
Also called
2,3,3-Trimethylindan-1-one

Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.