Ingredients · Amber & resins · Made in a lab
Whisky & cognac
Spirits are mostly ethanol and water; the barrel-and-fruit warmth is rebuilt.
- What it is
- An idea of a smell that perfumers build: there is nothing to extract it from.
- How perfumers build it
- Known in
- Angels' Share (Kilian, 2020)
- Worth knowing
- Cognac oil isn't made from cognac; it's distilled from wine lees, the yeasty sediment left in the vat.
Named by the house in 4 of the 452 perfumes read so far
