The drawing: liquoriceThe drawing: liquorice
Liquorice

Ingredients · Sweet · Made in a lab

Liquorice

Liquorice root is extracted for its sweet taste, not its smell; perfumers build the black, sweet note from anise materials.

What it is
Something that grows but gives no oil worth extracting, so perfumers rebuild its smell from other materials.
How perfumers build it
AnetholeStar anise oilMethyl chavicol (estragole), not in Ingredients yetToscanol, not in Ingredients yetCyclotene
Known in
Lolita Lempicka (Lolita Lempicka, 1997)
Worth knowing
The root's sweetness comes from glycyrrhizin, which makes up 7 to 10 percent of it.

Named by the house in 11 of the 932 perfumes read so far

Oud for HappinessInitio · “Liquorice”Imitation WomanAmouage · “Liquorice”Opus XIV Royal TobaccoAmouage · “Liquorice Root”SauvageDior · “licorice note”Tobacco 01Swiss Arabian · “Liquorice”Ambery VanillaDossier · “Liquorice”

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