Not drawn yet: a drawing of what it smells like.
Ingredients · Sweet · dry-down
Whisky lactone
Say itWhisky LAK-tohn
Coconut, celery and fresh oak with a sweet, toasted woodiness.
- What it is
- A molecule made in a lab.
- Where it comes from
- also made synthetically
- When you smell it
- Dry-down: hours later.
- What perfumers do with it
- Gives barrel-aged whisky and cognac character to boozy, woody and tobacco accords.
- Worth knowing
- Identified in whisky in 1970; spirits pull it out of oak barrel wood while they age.
- Also called
- Oak lactone; beta-methyl-gamma-octalactone; quercus lactone
Not on the label of any of the 232 perfumes read so far.
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