No drawing: it is there to carry or keep the perfume.

Water

Ingredients · Not for the smell

Water (aqua)

Odorless.

What it is
There to carry, keep or colour the perfume, not for its smell.
What perfumers do with it
Softens the alcohol's sting and lowers cost; too much clouds the oils
Worth knowing
Named on 94 of 101 alcohol-based perfume labels sampled from Open Beauty Facts in 2026.
Known in
Twilly d'Hermès (Hermès, 2017); La Vie est Belle (Lancôme, 2012)
Also called
aqua; deionized water

On the label of 175 of the 232 perfumes read so far

No. 5Chanel · printed “Aqua (water)”SauvageDior · printed “Aqua (water)”ShalimarGuerlain · printed “Aqua (water)”MitsoukoGuerlain · printed “Aqua (water)”Eau SauvageDior · printed “Aqua (water)”AngelMugler · printed “Aqua/water/eau”

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