Ingredients · Sweet · Made in a lab

Liqueur

No spirit goes into a perfume as itself; the boozy warmth is built from wine-lees oil, fruity esters and cask wood.

What it is

A food or a drink, not something extracted: perfumers build its smell from other materials.

How perfumers build it

Cognac oilDavana oilEthyl heptanoateRum CO2 extract, not in Ingredients yetOakwood CO2 extract

Known in

Royal Blend Sequoia (French Avenue, 2025)

Worth knowing

Cognac oil holds no cognac: it is distilled from wine lees, the yeast sediment left when wine is made.

Named by the house in 2 of the 1080 perfumes read so far

Royal Blend SequoiaFrench Avenue · “Liquor”Althaïr ExclusifParfums de Marly · “Amaretto”