Ingredients · Musks · dry-down

Velvione

Say itVEL-vee-ohn

Powerful, powdery macrocyclic musk with slightly animalic warmth.

What it is

A molecule made in a lab.

When you smell it

Dry-down: hours later.

What perfumers do with it

Adds powdery volume and musky softness; serves as a replacer for the powder of nitro musks.

Worth knowing

Givaudan reports it lasts over a month on a smelling strip.

Also called

5-Cyclohexadecen-1-one