Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
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.
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