Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Animal notes · dry-down
Skatole
Say itSKAT-ohl
Fecal and mothball-like neat; warm, animal and floral in extreme dilution.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- occurs in feces, civet, jasmine and orange blossom
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Used in traces to add animal realism to civet reconstructions and indolic white florals.
- Worth knowing
- Its name comes from the Greek skatos, 'dung', yet traces occur naturally in jasmine and orange blossom.
- Also called
- 3-Methylindole
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.