Metallic & blood

Ingredients · Aldehydes · Made in a lab

Metallic & blood

Metal and blood have no extract; perfumers suggest the coppery tang with aldehydes and marine notes.

What it is
An idea of a smell that perfumers build: there is nothing to extract it from.
How perfumers build it
Known in
Sécrétions Magnifiques (État Libre d'Orange, 2006)
Worth knowing
Iron itself is odorless; the 'metal' smell of coins is 1-octen-3-one, formed when skin oils react with the metal.

Named by the house in 1 of the 632 perfumes read so far