Smoke

Ingredients · Leather & smoke · Made in a lab

Smoke (campfire)

Smoke is combustion, not a plant; perfumers borrow wood tars and phenols.

What it is
An effect perfumers build from a few materials.
How perfumers build it
Birch tar, not in Ingredients yetCade oilGuaiacolGuaiacwood oil, not in Ingredients yetIsobutyl quinoline
Known in
By the Fireplace (Maison Margiela, 2015)
Worth knowing
Guaiacol, a key smoke molecule, also flavors smoked foods and peaty whisky.

Named by the house in 1 of the 502 perfumes read so far