Ingredients · Aldehydes · Made in a lab

Champagne

A drink, not a botanical; perfumers suggest bubbles with aldehydes and the wine with fruity esters.

What it is

An idea of a smell that perfumers build: there is nothing to extract it from.

How perfumers build it

Aldehyde C-10 (aldehydes)Aldehyde C-11, not in Ingredients yetCognac oilHexyl acetateAldehyde C-14 (aldehydes)

Known in

Champagne (Yves Saint Laurent, 1993)

Worth knowing

After champagne producers sued over the name, YSL's Champagne was renamed Yvresse.